Event Category: MindCORE Seminar Series

We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the link, please email: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu   Sarah McAnulty Science Communicator Executive Director, Skype a Scientist   Weaving Science into Philly Neighborhoods   Science communication exists within an ecosystem of messaging. Every day, people experience messages from social media, traditional news sources, and conversations with their fellow […]

William Bialek John Archibald Wheeler/Battelle Professor in Physics Princeton University   Optimization principles, revisited   On a dark night, our visual system can count single photons, a sound we can barely hear vibrates the eardrum by the diameter of an atom, and the resolution of many eyes is set by diffraction. In these and other […]

Aaron White Department of Linguistics University of Rochester   The Conceptual and Contextual Correlates of Argument Structure: A case study of intentional events and states   This talk explores how intentional events and states are expressed in natural language, focusing on the linguistic realization of their participants. It provides an overview of recent research that […]