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  

