Perceptual Science Series

Mondays, Psychology Building 101, 12:00pm

This talk series is sponsored by an IGERT training grant in Interdisciplinary Perceptual Science, funded by the National Science Foundation. For information about the IGERT research and training opportunities for current and prospective graduate students, as well as other sponsored activities, see http://perceptualscience.rutgers.edu.

Spring 2013 Schedule

Feb 4	Dr. Minjoon Kuoh (Drew University, Physics Department) Characterizing Responses of Translation-Invariant Neurons to Natural Stimuli
Feb 11	Dr. Brian Keane (UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science) Conceptual contributions to perceptual completion deficits in schizophrenia
Feb 27	Spring Cognitive Festival (2013) Spring Cognitive Festival Presentations
Mar 11	Graduate Student Talk (Peter Pantelis, Rutgers University, Department of Computer Science) Using autonomous agents to study the inference of intention
Mar 25	Graduate Student Talk-Tarek El-Gaaly (Rutgers University, Department of Computer Science) Learning from visual and depth descriptors for object recognition
Apr 1	Dr. Tao Gao (MIT, Brain & Cognitive Sciences) Visual roots of social cognition: Perceiving animacy and intentionality
Apr 8	Graduate Student Talk-Polina Yanovich (Rutgers University, Department of Computer Science) Real-time co-adaptation of external media and sensory-motor control in closed loop into the hidden potentials of the non-verbal autistic child
Apr 15	Graduate Student Talk-Ari Weinstein (Rutgers University, Department of Computer Science) Local Planning for Continuous Markov Decision Processes
Apr 22	Graduate Student Talk-Mark Dilsizian (Rutgers University, Department of Computer Science) Pose Reconstruction for Activity Recognition
Apr 29	Graduate Student Talk-Vicky Froyen (Rutgers University, Department of Psychology) Perceptual grouping as Bayesian estimation of mixture models
May 6	PerSci Forum, Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jason Corso (SUNY at Buffalo, Computer Science and Engineering) Advances in Segmentation for Video Understanding

Rutgers Series on Perceptual Science

This series on Perceptual Science features weekly talks by researchers spanning all aspects of perceptual science, with particular emphasis on topics that connect human perceptual science to computer modeling. It serves as a forum for presentation and discussion of timely issues in perceptual science, and as a vehicle for introducing graduate students to new research and theoretical developments in the field.

The series is open to all members of the Rutgers community. It is typically attended by faculty and students specializing in a range of disciplines including psychology, computer science, computer engineering and neuroscience. It features talks by faculty and students at Rutgers, as well as outside invited visitors, including prominent national and international scientists.

The talks are Mondays at 12:00 in the Psychology Building, Room 101 on Busch Campus.

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The Rutgers Series on Perceptual Science is sponsored by:

IGERT: Interdisciplinary Training in Perceptual Science

The Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science

IGERT: Interdisciplinary Training in Perceptual Science is a NSF funded program offering graduate fellowships for the study of interdisciplinary perceptual science that integrates perceptual science in human and computers. The IGERT Perceptual Science program also administers an interdisciplinary Core Curriculum in Perceptual Science open to all qualified graduate students.

For further information about the IGERT fellowships, core curriculum and other IGERT activities, see http://perceptualscience.rutgers.edu, or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .