Announces a...

Decade of the Mind

Symposium

May 21 & 22, 2007

Speaker information/Links

Registration

Directions

Symposium Times


Monday:
May 21, 2007
9:00am-5:00pm

Tuesday:
May 22, 2007
8:30am-1:30pm

Symposium
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Speakers

George Bekey • John Holland • Nancy Kanwisher

Mortimer Mishkin • Dharmendra Modha

Marcus Raichle • Gordon Shepherd

Vernon Smith • Giulio Tononi


Page Updated: 18-May-2007

Symposium Schedule

Monday, May 21, 2007

9:00—9:45am         Opening Greetings: Alan G. Merten, GMU President; James Albus, Senior Fellow, National Institute of Standards & Technology; James Olds, Krasnow Institute, Director

Morning Moderator: Giorgio Ascoli

9:45—10:45am       Speaker:  Gordon Shepherd "The Languages of the Brain and the Mind"

10:45—11:45          Speaker:  Mortimer Mishkin "Cognitive Memory and the Hierarchical Organization of the Hippocampal System"

11:45—12:45          Speaker:  Nancy Kanwisher "Functional Specificity in the Cortex: Selectivity, Experience & Generality"

12:45pm—2:00       Lunch Break

Afternoon Moderator: Avrama Blackwell

2:00—3:00             Speaker:  John Holland "Models of Innovation"  

3:00—4:00             Speaker:  Dharmendra Modha "Towards Engineering the Mind by Reverse Engineering the Brain"

4:00—5:00             Speaker:  Giulio Tononi “Consciousness and the Brain”

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Morning Moderator: Rob Shumaker

8:30—9:30am         Speaker:  George Bekey "The Promise and Problems of Robot Intelligence"

9:30—10:30             Speaker: Marcus Raichle "Image of Mind- An Update "

10:30—11:30           Speaker: Vernon Smith "Neuroeconomics: How Can It Help Us Understand Exchange Systems?"

11:30—12:00pm     Break 

Plenary Session Moderator: George Johnson

12:001:30pm       Media-Friendly Plenary Session: All Speakers


Registration:

The "Decade of the Mind" Symposium is free but registration is required.

Please register via the link above and bring your printed/numbered ticket to the symposium on each day.

Decade of the Mind Symposium events to be held at the:

Johnson Center Cinema

GMU's Fairfax, VA campus. Map
4400 University Drive
Fairfax, VA 22030

Directions to the Fairfax Campus

Any questions? Contact symposium coordinator, Sara Bradley