Bruce McEwen Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology The Rockefeller University Craig McEwen Department of Sociology Bowdoin College Topic: The eminent neuroscientist and his sociologist brother discuss stress, the brain, and inequality Penn grad students, postdocs, and RAs, you are invited to lunch with interesting guests. Not a talk – they’ll take 10 minutes to […]
Events
Ari Juels Computer Science Department Cornell University and Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute
MindCORE & CURF present: Behind the CV: Stories from Faculty A “Growing Up in Science” event “Behind the CV” is a conversation-style event series about becoming and being a scientist. UPenn faculty members share their stories, giving us a peek into the unspoken challenges you don’t get to read on a CV. Thursday, November […]
Simon Eickhoff Institute for Systems Neuroscience Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf From areas and networks to individual predictions The long predominant paradigm in neuroimaging has been to compare (mean) local volume or activity between groups, or to correlate these to behavioral phenotypes. Such approach, however, is intrinsically limited in terms of possible insight into inter-individual […]
Tyler Knowlton Department of Linguistics University of Maryland The psychological treatment of (universal) quantification We often think of quantifiers like “each” and “every” as expressing a relation between two sets. On this view, the meaning of “each/every circle is green” is something like “the circles are a subset of the green things”. This […]