Tentative Schedule Spring 2003
Mathematics and Cognition Seminar

  Tuesdays 12:15 pm
GWC 604

Supported in part by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering

"Whenever there is chaos,it creates wonderful thinking."
- Septima Clark
About this seminar

Note:1) ?represents wild guesses havingbeen made with regards to dates, titles or speakers, 2) *represents a short presentation followed by a round table discussion.
 

  Date Speaker Title
January  21 Organizational Meeting
January  28
Eugene M. Izhikevich
The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego
"Bursts as a unit of neural information: selective communication via resonance"  Abstract
February 4 *
Tom Taylor
Department of Mathematics
"Gaussian random fields and Occam's razor" Abstract
             11
Kevin Dooley
Dept of Industrial Engineering
"The dynamics of a societal response to a terrorist event: Reuters, 9-11, and anthrax"   Abstract
             18
Douglas Kenrick
Department of Psychology
"Dynamical evolutionary psychology: How societal norms emerge from individual decision rules" Abstract
            25 *
Dieter Armbruster
Department of Mathematics
"Human elements in traffic and production"
March   4 * Sue Bertram
Department of Biology
"Leaders versus followers: explaining variation in male calling behavior in the Texas field cricket, Gryllus texensis" Abstract
             11* Kevin Gluck
Williams Research Lab
"Overview of Computational Cognitive Process Modeling Research at the Air Force's Mesa Research Site" Abstract
             25 *
Mark Reilly
Department of Psychology
"Symbolic communication in pigeons" Abstract
April     1 *
Steve Odewahn
Department of Physics
"Neural net automated galaxy image classification" Abstract
              8
William Griffin
Department of Family and Human Development.
"A multi-agent computational model of the evolution in children's playgroup formation"Abstract
            15 * Root Gorelick
Department of Biology
"Quantifying division of labor" Abstract
             22*
Chitta Baral
Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
"Declarative Knowledge Representation" Abstract
             29*
Tom Taylor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
"Finite Bandwidth Control"Abstract
May      6* Owen Jones
 Professor of Law, Professor of Biology &
Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar, College of Law
"The Biologically Literate Lawyer" Abstract

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