April 2013 - Waterloo Brain Day

The 7th Annual Waterloo 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, David Sheinberg, Gyorgy Buzsaki, Ian Gold, Michael Tarr, and Michael Hasselmo.

Feel free to print off and distribute a copy of our poster (email us for a higher quality version).

We have now confirmed our speakers for Brain Day 2013. For previous year's speakers can be found at past events. As with last year, we will have the lectures posted, if available, on this website shortly after Brain Day.

Date:
Tues April 9, 2013

Location:
Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology building (PAS), Room 2083, at the University of Waterloo (directions to University of Waterloo and PAS)

Speakers:
Neuroscience - Paul Glimcher (New York University)
Computation - Wolfgang Maass (Graz University of Technology)
Psychology - Daniel Schacter (Harvard University)
Philosophy - Owen Flanagan (Duke University)

Schedule:
8:30 Refreshments  (PAS 1241)
9:00 Welcome
9:15 Daniel Schacter (Harvard)
       Title: Constructive memory and imagining the future
10:30 Refreshments provided
10:45 Wolfgang Maass (Graz)
      Title: Does the brain play dice? [video]
12:00 Lunch (not provided)

1:30  Paul Glimcher (New York)
       Title: The neurobiology of decision [video]
2:45  Refreshments provided
3:00 Owen Flanagan (Duke)
       Title: Why the hard problem of consciousness is not so hard [video]

4:15 Reception (PAS 2464) - Cash Bar
5:30 Speaker dinner

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