Penn grad students, postdocs and RAs are invited to lunch with interesting guests. Not a seminar – they’ll take 10 minutes to introduce their work, then it’s pure conversation. Sandwiches and drinks served. Paul Mitchell is a doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology. He will be discussing scientific racism in the study of the […]
Events
Luciano Marraffini Howard Hughes Medical Institute The Rockefeller University CRISPR-Cas: acquired immunity in prokaryotes Location: Tedori Family Auditorium, Levin Building lower level
Location: Room 357 Levin Building Enrique Fatas School of Business and Economics Loughborough University Democracy fights in darkness It is an empirical regularity that democratic countries go to war with each other less than pairs of dictatorships (the so called dyadic interaction). The question is whether this relation is causal: do democracies […]
Catherine Hartley Department of Psychology NYU Developmental tuning of action selection Computational reinforcement learning models provide a framework for understanding how individuals can evaluate which actions are beneficial and which are best avoided. To date, these models have primarily been leveraged to understand learning and decision-making in adults. In this talk, I will […]
Charles Yang Department of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania The Linguistic Basis of Natural Number Only humans learn language and only humans develop the concept of natural number: How are these two abilities related? We propose that the Successor Function, which provides the infinity of natural numbers, becomes available to children through learning the […]