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