Monday
Seminars
Each Monday afternoon during the academic year, the Krasnow Institute hosts a seminar at 4:00 p.m. at which an invited guest speaker gives a presentation on a topic in the cognitive sciences. Presentations are finished by 5:00 p.m. and a discussion period follows. All are welcome.
All meetings will be held on the George Mason University Fairfax campus in Lecture Room 229 of the Krasnow Institute building. This link provides driving directions to the Krasnow Institute building. Campus parking options. For more information, leave a message in advance at (703) 993-4333.
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Upcoming Seminars
02/08/10
CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER Rescheduled 3/15/10
A Brief History of Neural Interfaces [abstract]
Joseph J. Pancrazio, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Bioengineering Program Director, Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering, George
Mason University
02/15/10
Presidents' Day - NO SEMINAR
02/22/10
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Ethan Cohen,
FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Silver Spring, MD
03/01/10
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Jeffrey Cooper, SAIC Technical Fellow, VP for Technology, Chief Innovation Officer, Intelligence, Security, and Technology Group, Science Applications International Corporation
03/08/10
GMU Spring Break - NO SEMINAR
03/15/10
A Brief History of Neural Interfaces [abstract]
Joseph J. Pancrazio, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Bioengineering Program Director, Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering, George Mason University
03/22/10
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Dax Hoffman, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
03/29/10
Passover - NO SEMINAR
04/05/10
How Does a Brain Give Rise to a Mind? From Vision to Cognition [abstract]
Stephen Grossberg, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems; Center for Adaptive Systems; Center of Excellence for Learning in Education, Science, and Technology, Boston University
04/12/10
TBA
04/19/10
Genetic and Neural Moderators of Socioemotional Trajectories
Koraly Perez-Edgar, Department of Psychology, George Mason University
04/26/10
TBA
Topics and Speakers in the 2009-10 Academic Year
09/14/09
Genetics and epigenetics of neuropsychiatric disorders [abstract]
Robert Lipsky, Director, Neuroscience Research, Department of Neurosciences, Inova Health System and Krasnow Institute, GMU
09/21/09
State of the Institute [abstract]
James Olds, Director, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study and The Shelley Krasnow University Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, George Mason University
09/28/09
Yom Kippur - NO SEMINAR
10/05/09
Application of Nanoproteomic Technologies at the Bedside: Personalized Therapy and Early Disease Detection
Emanuel F. Petricoin, Co-Director, Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine, George Mason University
10/12/09
Columbus Day Observed -- NO SEMINAR
*Tuesday* 10/13/09
*4:pm*
Extra Lecture
Co-sponsored with the Philosophy Department and Ctr. for Health Policy Research and Ethics, George Mason University
Human cognitive uniqueness in biomedical research: A bridge too far? [abstract]
Jason Scott Robert, Franca Oreffice Dean's Distinguished Professor in the Life Sciences and Lincoln Associate Professor of Ethics in Biotechnology and Medicine, Arizona State University, and Associate Professor of Basic Medical Sciences, The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix in partnership with Arizona State University.
10/19/09
39th Annual Meeting Society for Neuroscience -- NO SEMINAR
10/26/09
NO SEMINAR
11/02/09
Agents in the City: Modeling, Visualizing, and Communicating Emergent Phenomena utilizing GIS and ABM [abstract]
Andrew Crooks, Department of Computational Social Science, Krasnow Institute, GMU
11/09/09
Can We Reduce Strategic Surprise?:
Reflections on Opportunities for Basic and Applied Research at the Intersection of the Human Mind and National Security [abstract]
Margaret Polski, Sr. Advisor ASE and Associate Professor of International Security Affairs College of International Security Affairs National Defense University and Affiliate Research Fellow Krasnow Institute, GMU
11/16/09
On Social Complexity: A Manifesto for Computational Social Science [abstract]
Claudio Cioffi, Department of Computational Social Science and Director, Center for Social Complexity, Krasnow Institute, GMU
11/23/09
Neuronal Arbors and the Capability to Acquire Knowledge [abstract]
Giorgio Ascoli, Department of Molecular Neuroscience, Krasnow Institute, GMU
11/30/09
Detection of neurodegeneration and inflammation in the brain by MRI and PET [abstract]
Vassiliki Ikonomidou, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, GMU
-Extra Lecture-
12/03/07 (Thursday)
Plasticity of dendritic excitability [abstract]
Daniel Johnston, Director, Center for Learning and Memory University of Texas at Austin
12/07/09
Effective connectivity of the multiplication network: A functional MRI and multivariate Granger causality mapping study [abstract]
Frank Krueger, Cognitive Neuroscience Section, NINDS, NIH and Center for the Study of Neuroeconomics, Krasnow Institute, GMU
01/25/10
Gesture and Cognition: What analysis of multimodal communication reveals about the problem of incommensurability in difficult cross-cultural and institutional contexts [abstract]
Beverly Sauer, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
02/01/10
The World's Smallest Robots [abstract]
Harold Morowitz, Robinson Professors and Krasnow Institute, George Mason University
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