Krasnow Institute

Monday Seminars

Topics and Speakers in the 1999-2000 Academic Year

09-06-99
No Meeting--Labor Day

09-13-99
Using Response Models to Study the Neural Code
[abstract]
Matt Wiener, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health

09-20-99
No Meeting--Yom Kipur

09-27-99
Informatics and the Origin of Metabolism
[abstract]
Harold Morowitz, The Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, Robinson Professor of Biology and Natural Philosophy , George Mason University

10-04-99
Neuroanatomy from Physics
Christopher Cherniak, Committee on History and Philosophy of Science, Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland

10-11-99
No meeting--GMU Columbus Day Break

10-18-99
Mechanical Models for Cortical Growth [abstract]
Raghu Raghavan, Vice President Analysis, Modeling and Software, IG-Neurologics, Baltimore

10-25-99
No Meeting--Neuroscience Annual Meeting

11-01-99
Evolutionary Antecedents of the Human Mind: Evidence from Primate Bioacoustics and Neuroethology
[abstract]
John D. Newman, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health

11-08-99
Substance Abuse, Plasticity, and the Adolescent Brain

Robert F. Smith, Department of Psychology, George Mason University

11-15-99
Decoding Sensorimotor Maps in the Brain

Robert H. Wurtz, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health

11-22-99
Phonological Awareness Training for Adolescents: Is It Too Late?
[abstract]
Barbara Given, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study and the Graduate School of Education, George Mason University

11-29-99
What Gestures Reveal about the Scientist's Mind: Data Analyses of Data Analysis

Christian Schunn, Department of Psychology, George Mason University

12-06-99
Investigations of the Role of Alpha-Synuclein in the Pathogenesis of Parkinson's Disease [abstract]
Catherine Bennett, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health

01-24-00
No seminar--GMU's First day of class

01-31-00
Electric Field Modulation of Neuronal Dynamics [abstract]
Bruce Gluckman, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study and Department of Physicsand Astronomy, George Mason University

02-07-00
Functional Imaging, Neurotransmitter Activity and Mind [abstract]
Robert Shulman, Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University

02-14-00
Self-Representing Information Processing and the Relationship of the Material to the Mental [abstract]
Kathryn Blackmond Laskey, Systems Engineering and Operations Research Department, George Mason University and Former Career Development Fellow, Krasnow Institute

02-21-00
Building Forebrains in a Dish: a Central Pacemaker of the Basal Ganglia
Dietmar Plenz, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health

02-28-00
Swiss Army Knife and Ockham's Razor [abstract]
Yan M.Yufik, Institute of Medical Cybernetics, Inc.

03-06-00
Evolving Intelligence: A Computation Approach [abstract]
Ken De Jong, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study and Department of Computer Science, George Mason University

03-13-00
No seminar--GMU Spring Break

03-20-00
Resource Allocation Analysis of Stochastic Division Search [abstract]
Slawek Nasuto, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University

03-27-00  CANCELLED
Thalamocortical Rhythms and Their Relation to Global Brain Function
Rodolfo Llinas, Department of Physiology & Neuroscience, NewYork University School of Medicine
Regretfully, the seminar for 3-27-00 was cancelled. No meeting was held.

04-03-00
Magnetic Resonance Imaging Microscopy: An Innovative Approach for Monitoring Neuropathology [abstract]
David Lester, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration

04-10-00
Stochastic Computing of Fractal Models of Neural Systems [abstract]
Mohammed Habib, Department of Applied and Engineering Statistics, School of Information Technology and Engineering, George Mason Univeristy

04-17-00
Perceived Continutity in Space and Time: Implications for Attention and Perceptual Organization
Steven Yantis, Department of Psychology, Johns Hopkins University

04-24-00
Parsing Sentences According to Rules about Thoughts [abstract]
Douglas E. Brash, Therapeutic Radiology and Genetics, School of Medicine, Yale University

05-01-00
Auditory Scene Analysis and Spatially-Guided Behavior in the Echolocating Bat [abstract]
Cynthia Moss, Department of Psychology Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, University of Maryland

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