MindCORE hosts a weekly seminar series that bridges various disciplines of mind and brain research.
MindCORE Seminar Series
Fridays, 12:00pm – 1:15pm ET
All seminars will be held in room 111 NBS, 425 S. University Avenue, unless otherwise indicated.
Pizza will be served – please bring your own beverage.
Graduate students and postdocs are encouraged to register for the post-seminar lunch with the speaker. Space is limited – to sign up for a spot, please email: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu
Click here for individual seminar listings, including abstracts and calendar addition links.
Click here for seminar recordings on the MindCORE YouTube channel.
Spring 2026
Jan 16 Beyond Academia 2026
Jan 23 MindCORE/Vision Seminar: Roozbeh Kiani, NYU
Jan 30 MindCORE/ILST Seminar: Aaron White, Rochester
Feb 6 Nadia Brashier, UCSD
Feb 13 MindCORE/CNI seminar: Olga Troyanskaya, Princeton University
Feb 20 MindCORE/PcFN seminar: Adam Green, Georgetown
Feb 27 Ege Yumuşak, Penn Philosophy
Mar 6 2026 Khodadad Lecture: Joseph Henrich, Harvard
Mar 13 no seminar – Spring break
Mar 20 MindCORE/brainSTIM Seminar: Flavio Frohlich, UNC
Mar 27 Murat Aydede, University of British Columbia
Apr 3 Francisco Valero-Cuevas, USC
Apr 10 TBA
Apr 17 Melissa Berthet, University of Zurich
Fall 2025
Sep 5 Nicole Rust, UPenn
Sep 12 Percival Mathews, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Sep 19 Nanthia Suthana, Duke University
Sep 26 Leyla Isik, Johns Hopkins
Oct 3 Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Oct 10 no seminar – Fall break
Oct 17 Robb Rutledge, Yale University
Oct 24 MindCORE Fellows Short Talks: Maggie Kandel and Dunigan Folk
Oct 31 Allie Sinclair, Annenberg Public Policy Center
Nov 7 CANCELLED: Simon DeDeo, Carnegie Mellon University
Nov 14 Paloma Jeretič, UPenn
Nov 21 Sarah McAnulty, Skype A Scientist
Nov 28 no seminar – Thanksgiving break
Dec 5 MindCORE/CNI seminar: William Bialek, Princeton University