Events

Elika Bergelson Duke University   This talk will be held in 3401 Walnut Street Room 401B, and livestreamed via Zoom.   The Nascent Lexicon: What Infants Know and How They Come to Know It   Within a range of “normal” exposure and “typical” development, all children acquire language from their environment, on relatively similar timescales. At […]

Cynthia Dwork Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science Harvard University   via Zoom   Click here to register!     Fairness, Randomness, and the Crystal Ball   Prediction algorithms score individuals, or individual instances, assigning to each one a number in the range from 0 to 1. That score is often interpreted as a probability: […]

Rebecca Kamen CNI Visiting Artist   via Zoom     Grey Matter   The presentation will discuss a proposed project exploring the intersections of art, neuroscience, and architecture inspired by neuroscience research, theSantiago Ramón y Cajal drawing archives in Madrid, and the Richards Building architectural archives at Penn.

MindCORE & CURF are proud to present: Behind the CV Speaker: Elizabeth (Zab) Johnson, PhD Executive Director & Senior Fellow Wharton Neuroscience Initiative University of Pennsylvania     Date: April 14, 2022, 4pm-5pm Location: Click here for Zoom link   Behind the CV: Stories from Faculty (a “Growing Up in Science” Event) is an event […]

SCEW seminar: Yuta Masuda

April 15, 2022
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Yuta Masuda Senior Sustainable Development and Behavioral Scientist The Nature Conservancy   via Zoom   Using experiments to understand the role of human behavior in conservation programs   Human institutions and behaviors are a critical component of conservation programs. Conservation programs often rely on changing human behaviors or institutions to achieve environmental and human well-being […]