Monday Seminars
8/29/05
No seminar- GMU first day of classes
9/5/05
No seminar- Labor Day
09/12/05
Competitive dynamics in cortical responses to conflicting stimuli [abstract]
Carson Chow, Laboratory of Biological Modeling, NIDDK, NIH
Extra Lecture - 09/19/05 beginning at 2:30pm details
Sleep: from Mechanism to Function [abstract]
Chiara Cirelli , Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin
09/19/05
An information integration theory of consciousness [abstract]
Giulio Tononi, Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin
09/26/05
Genomic analysis of retinal and hypothalamic development
Seth Blackshaw, Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University
10/3/05
No Seminar-Rosh Hashana
10/10/05
No Seminar - Columbas Day Observed
10/17/05
Functional Roles for short-term synaptic plasticity [abstract]
Amitabha Bose, Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology
10/24/05
Analysis and control of non-synaptic epileptiform activity
Dominique Durand, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Neural Engineering Center, Case Western Reserve University
10/31/05
Intention and attention: beyond the activation models of attentional guidance [abstract]
Matthew Peterson, Department of Psychology, George Mason University
11/7/05
The life and work of Donald O. Hebb [abstract]
Richard Brown,Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
11/14/05
No Seminar - 35th Annual Meeting Society for Neuroscience
11/21/05
What further information about human brain function and physiology can we obtain with fMRI? [abstract]
Peter Bandettini, Chief, Section on Functional Imaging Methods and Director of the Functional MRI Facility, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH.
11/28/05
Fun and Excitement with Inhibition
John Rinzel,Center for Neural Science and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University [abstract]
12/5/05
A novel bidirectional plasticity at mossy-fiber-interneuron synapses
Chris McBain, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH
1/23/06
No seminar- GMU first day of classes
1/30/06
Synchrony-dependent Propagation of Neural Signals in In Vitro Networks [abstract]
Alex Reyes, Center for Neural Science, New York University
2/6/06
In vivo cellular imaging and spectroscopy
Stanley Thomas Fricke, Georgetown University
02/13/06
Olfactory coding in the behaving mouse [abstract]
Dima Rinberg, Monell Chemical Senses Center
02/20/06
No seminar - President's Day
02/27/06
Hunch Engine [abstract]
Eric Bonabeau, Icosystem Corporation
03/06/06
Dietary Neurohormesis and Brain Aging
Mark Mattson, NIH
03/13/06
No Seminar - Spring Break
03/20/06
Interneurons and electrical synapses in hippocampus
Gianmaria Maccaferri, Northwestern University
03/27/06
A phase-transition model for general anesthesia [abstract]
Assoc Prof Moira Steyn-Ross & Dr Alistair Steyn-Ross Physics Department, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
04/3/06
The Geometry of Feature Maps in Primate Striate and Extrastriate Cortex: What optical imaging reveals about connections and function
Vivien Casagrande, Departments of Cell & Developmental Biology, Psychology, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences and
Hearing and Vocal Plasticity in Birds: Some parallels with human speech
Robert Dooling, Psychology Departement, University of Maryland College Park
04/17/06
Pattern Formation in the Brain: Spirals, Irises, and Seizures
Steven J. Schiff Director, Center for Neural Dynamics Krasnow Institute
04/24/06
Embryonic generation of cellular diversity in the mammalian telencephalon
Joshua Corbin, Department of Neuroscience, Georgetown University
05/1/06
A Cognitive Architecture for Intelligent Systems
James S. Albus, Intelligent Systems Division, National Institute of Standards & Technology