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Welcome to Waterloo Brain Day

Why a Brain Day?

The brain is a horrendously complex and poorly understood system that poses both an immense challenge -- and possibly rich rewards -- to neuroscientists, psychologists, philosophers, and computer scientists. To celebrate Waterloo's recent establishment of the Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience, which integrates these approaches to the brain, and to highlight the already established Cognitive Science Program, we have invited four internationally renowned speakers to present generally accessible lectures from each of these perspectives.

Past brain day lecturers include David van Essen, Patricia Churchland, William Bechtel, Geoff Hinton, Jack Gallant, Ned Block, Carl Craver, Terry Sejnowski, Keith Holyoak, Peter Strick, Jay McLelland, Tony Movshon, Jonathan Cohen, Larry Barsalou, Sebastien Seung, Mel Goodale, John Hopfield, Jesse Prinz, and David Sheinberg.

Feel free to print off and distribute a copy of our poster.

We have now confirmed our speakers for Brain Day 2012. For previous year's speakers, see here. As with last year, we will have the lectures posted, if available, on this website shortly after Brain Day.

Date: Wed April 4, 2012
Place: Room: PAS 2083, University of Waterloo (directions to UW and PAS, the psychology building)

Speakers:

Neuroscience - Gyorgy Buzsaki (Rutgers)
Computation - Michael Hasselmo (Boston)
Psychology - Michael Tarr (CMU)
Philosophy - Ian Gold (McGill)

Schedule:

8:30 Refreshments

9:00 Welcome

9:15 Gyorgy Buzsaki (Rutgers) [Video of Lecture]
Title: Oscillatory Organization of Cell Assembly Sequences

10:30 Refreshments Provided

10:45 Michael Hasselmo (Boston) [Video of Lecture]
Title: Oscillations and Grid Cells in Entorhinal Cortex

12:00 Lunch (not provided)

1:30 Michael Tarr (CMU) [Video of Lecture]
Title: Unraveling the Neural Architecture of Human Face Recognition

2:45 Refreshments Provided

3:00 Ian Gold (McGill) [Video of Lecture]
Title: Knowing Other Minds

4:15 Reception (PAS 2464) - Cash Bar

5:30 Speaker dinner

Sponsored by: University of Waterloo Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience, Cognitive Science Program, and Faculty of Arts.