Monday Seminars
Topics and Speakers in the 2000-2001 Academic Year
08-28-00
No seminar -- GMU first day of classes
09-04-00
No seminar -- Labor Day
09-11-00
Current Status of the Orang utan Language Project: Data on Quantity
Judgment by Orang utans [abstract]
Robert W. Shumaker, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study and Orang
utan Language Project, National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institute
09-18-00
Cellular and Molecular Substrates of Cerebellar Motor Learning
David Linden, Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
09-25-00
Aliens: From Science to the Extremely Strange, and Back Again
Joel Achenbach, Writer, Washington Post
10-02-00
Anterior Cingulate Cortex: The Evolution of an Interface between Emotion
and Cognition [abstract]
John Allman, Franklin Hixon Professor of Neurobiology, California Institute
of Technology
10-09-00
No seminar -- Yom Kippur & Columbus Day observed
10-16-00
The Krasnow Institute within George Mason University: Opportunities
for Collaboration and Partnerships [abstract]
James L. Olds, Krasnow Institute, Director, and Department of Psychology,
George Mason University
10-23-00
The Use of fMRI to Identify Language Networks in Children
William Gaillard, Children's National Medical Center and Epilepsy Research
Branch, NINDS
10-30-00 special time: 2:30pm
Decoherence and Why the Brain is Probably Not a Quantum Computer
Max Tegmark, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania
11-06-00
No seminar -- Society For Neuroscience 30th Annual Meeting, Nov. 4-9
11-13-00
The Algorithmic Beauty of Neurons
Giorgio Ascoli, Computational Neuroanatomy Group, Krasnow Institute
for Advanced Study
11-20-00
Fixing Broken Epileptic Brains - From Destructive Resection
to Adaptive Control
Steven Schiff, Professor of Neurobiology and Psychology, Krasnow Institute
for Advanced Study at George Mason University
11-27-00
Consciousness: A Biochemical Perspective [abstract]
Thomas J. Nelson, Blanchette Rockefeller Research Institute, Johns
Hopkins University, Montgomery County Center
12-04-00
How Complex Brains Evolve
Ann B. Butler, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study and Department
of Psychology, George Mason University
12-14-00 Extra lecture! --Daniel Dennett
01-15-01
No seminar -- Martin Luther King Day holiday
01-22-01
Seizure Detection and Prediction [abstract]
Kristen Jerger, Research Assistant Professor, Krasnow Institute for
Advanced Study, George Mason University and George Washington University
01-29-01
What more is there to learn about learning?[abstract]
Avrama Blackwell, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study and School of
Computational Sciences, George Mason University
02-05-01
Cognitive Research: A Look at the Policy Issues[abstract]
James Olds, CEO, Krasnow Institute and Shelley Krasnow University
Professor, George Mason University
02-12-01
New Experience, New Neurons, New Spines, New Memories
Tracey J. Shors, Department of Psychology and Center for Collaborative
Neuroscience, Rutgers University
02-19-01 CANCELLED
Spatiotemporal patterns of neural oscillators
G. Bard Ermentrout, Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburg
There was no seminar on 2-19-01
02-26-01
Why Does A Monkey Draw at Constant Affine Velocity?
Amir A. Handzel, University of Maryland
03-05-01
No seminar -- GMU Spring Break
03-12-01
Classes of network connectivity and dynamics [abstract]
Olaf Sporns, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Indiana
University
03-19-01
Normal and aberrant facilitation of connections in the human motor
cortex
Eric M. Wassermann, M.D., Chief, Brain Stimulation Unit National Institute
of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health
03-26-01
Drugs, Minds & Brains: Challenges for the 21st Century
Alan I. Leshner, Ph.D., Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse,
NIH
04-02-01
Machine psychology: Studying behavior and the brain with devices that
explore a real world environment [abstract]
Jeff Krichmar, Ph.D., The Neurosciences Institute
04-09-01
Event-Related Electrocorticographic Spectral Analysis
Nathan E. Crone, M.D., Assistant Professor of Neurology, Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine
04-16-01
Pharmacogenomics of Cystic Fibrosis [abstract]
Harvey B. Pollard, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of
Anatomy, Physiology and Genetics, U.S.U. School of Medicine
04-20-01
Extra Lecture
04-23-01
Regulation of axon guidance and terminal arbor formation in the developing
CNS [abstract]
Barry Condron, Assistant Professor, Associate Director Neuroscience
Program, Department of Biology, University of Virginia