Past Events

Videos footage from RuCCS Colloquium Talks can be found on the RuCCS YouTube Channel.

Event Type

Semester

Apr 09 2021

2021 Cognitive Science Honors Thesis Presentation

Information: Friday, April 9, 2021; 12:00 PM; via Zoom; Event Type: Other Events; Event Website

Apr 08 2021

Invitations to Industry - Viviane Callier, Science Writer, Freelancer and Contractor

Information: Thursday, April 8, 2021; 6:00 PM; via Zoom (pre-register); Event Type: Student Events; Event Website

Apr 07 2021

Cognitive Science Club Speaker: Allysa Kemraj

Information: Wednesday, April 7, 2021; 8:30 PM; via Zoom; Event Type: Student Events; Event Website

Apr 05 2021

Invitations to Industry - Karen Akinsanya, Chief Biomedical Scientist at Schrodinger

Information: Monday, April 5, 2021; 6:00 PM; via Zoom (pre-register); Event Type: Student Events; Event Website

Apr 01 2021

Invitations to Industry - Janna Dominick, Senior UX Researcher at Vanguard

Information: Thursday, April 1, 2021; 6:00 PM; via Zoom (pre-register); Event Type: Student Events; Event Website

Mar 31 2021

Cognitive Science Club Speaker: Jai Amanda

Information: Wednesday, March 31, 2021; 8:30 PM; via Zoom; Event Type: Student Events; Event Website

Mar 26 2021

Concluding event with Artist Mimi' Onuoha's Keynote and presentation

Information: Friday, March 26, 2021; 12:00 PM; via Zoom (pre-register); Event Type: Other Events; Event Website

Mar 24 2021

Cognitive Science Club Speaker: Dr. Derrick Darby

Information: Wednesday, March 24, 2021; 8:30 PM; via Zoom; Event Type: Student Events; Event Website

Mar 10 2021

Cognitive Science Club Speaker: Dr. Steve Ramirez

Information: Wednesday, March 10, 2021; 8:30 PM; via Zoom; Event Type: Student Events; Event Website

Mar 09 2021

"Effects of cognitive load on speech perception", Sven Mattys (University of York, Department of Psychology)

Information: Tuesday, March 9, 2021; 1:00 PM; via Zoom EST: Email Jason Geller at jason.geller@ruccs.rutgers.edu for this Zoom link.; Event Type: Talks: RuCCS Colloquia | Semester: Spring 2021; Event Short Description
Check here for the video recording of the talk Sven Mattys' Website Abstract: Improving the validity of speech-perception models requires an understanding of how speech is processed in everyday life.
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Mar 05 2021

Interdisciplinary Thinkpiece Panel II, including Dwaipayan Banerjee, Lily Hu, and Safiya Noble

Information: Friday, March 5, 2021; 12:00 PM; via Zoom; Event Type: Other Events; Event Website

Mar 03 2021

Cognitive Science Club Speaker: Lucie Vleugels

Information: Wednesday, March 3, 2021; 8:30 PM; via Zoom; Event Type: Student Events; Event Website

Feb 28 2021

Inaugural Critical AI Series (FEB-MAR, 2021)

Information: Sunday, February 28, 2021; Event Type: Other Events; Event Website

Feb 26 2021

Sabelo Mhlambi (Carr Center for Human Rights Policy; Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society) in a Keynote Conversation with Alex Guerrero (Philosophy, Rutgers) and Matthew Stone (Computer Science, Rutgers)

Information: Friday, February 26, 2021; 12:00 PM; via Zoom; Event Type: Other Events; Event Website

Feb 24 2021

Cognitive Science Club Speaker: Dr. Adam Aron

Information: Wednesday, February 24, 2021; 8:30 PM; via Zoom; Event Type: Student Events; Event Website

Feb 19 2021

Interdisciplinary Thinkpiece Panel I with Michele Gilman, Katina Michael, and Tae Wan Kim

Information: Friday, February 19, 2021; 11:00 AM; via Zoom; Event Type: Other Events; Event Website

Feb 17 2021

Cognitive Science Club Speaker: Dr. Anthony Tobia

Information: Wednesday, February 17, 2021; 8:30 PM; via Zoom; Event Type: Student Events; Event Website

Feb 12 2021

Keynote Lecture, Meredith Whittaker on "AI and Social Control"

Information: Friday, February 12, 2021; 12:00 PM; via Zoom; Event Type: Other Events; Event Website

Feb 10 2021

Cognitive Science Club Speaker: Dr. David Zald

Information: Wednesday, February 10, 2021; 8:30 PM; via Zoom; Event Type: Student Events; Event Website

Feb 09 2021

"Socially Cognizant Robotics", Kristin Dana (Rutgers University, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department)

Information: Tuesday, February 9, 2021; 1:00 PM; via Zoom: Email Jason Geller at jason.geller@ruccs.rutgers.edu for this Zoom link.; Event Type: Talks: RuCCS Colloquia | Semester: Spring 2021; Event Short Description
Check here for the video recording of the talk Kristin Dana's Website Abstract: Emerging applications of robotics, from telepresence, transportation, elder-care, remote health care, cleaning, to warehouse logistics and delivery,
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Feb 03 2021

Mind Mentoring Network With Keith Perkins

Information: Wednesday, February 3, 2021; 8:30 PM; via Zoom; Event Type: Student Events; Event Website

Feb 02 2021

"The letters of speech: evidence from perceptual learning and selective adaptation" Professor Holger Mitterer (University of Malta, Department of Cognitive Science)

Information: Tuesday, February 2, 2021; 1:00 PM; via Zoom: Email Jason Geller at jason.geller@ruccs.rutgers.edu for this Zoom link.; Event Type: Talks: RuCCS Colloquia | Semester: Spring 2021; Event Short Description
Check here for the video recording of the talk Professor Holger Mitterer's website Abstract: While every model of visual-word recognition for alphabetic scripts assumes that letters play an important role
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Dec 10 2020

3-min Proposal Competition related to AI and Pandemic (includes Monetary Prizes)

Information: Thursday, December 10, 2020; 5:00 PM; Event Type: Other Events; Event Website

Dec 08 2020

"Timely Decisions: What do errors have to do with it?" Fuat Balci (Koç University, Psychology)

Information: Tuesday, December 8, 2020; 1:00 PM; via Zoom; | Semester: Fall 2020; Event Short Description
Lab Website Abstract : Many species of animals can time intervals in seconds-to-minutes range and organize their responses adaptively around temporal contingencies that predict biologically critical outcomes. Although the resultant
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Dec 07 2020

Invitations to Industry - Hui Liu, Associate Director at the Janssen Pharmaceutical

Information: Monday, December 7, 2020; 5:00 PM; Via Zoom; Event Type: Student Events; Event Website

Nov 30 2020

Invitations to Industry - Katie Schafer, Director, AI and Automation at Covail

Information: Monday, November 30, 2020; 5:00 PM; Via Zoom; Event Type: Student Events; Event Website

Nov 23 2020

Invitations to Industry - Max Ehrman, Analyst at Washington Nationals

Information: Monday, November 23, 2020; 5:00 PM; Via Zoom; Event Type: Student Events; Event Website

Nov 16 2020

Invitations to Industry - Nurul T. Islam, Optical Hardware Engineer, SPG at Apple

Information: Monday, November 16, 2020; 5:00 PM; Via Zoom; Event Type: Student Events; Event Website

Nov 09 2020

Invitations to Industry - Sergei Izrailev, Head of Analytics and Data Science at Yieldmo

Information: Monday, November 9, 2020; 5:00 PM; Via Zoom; Event Type: Student Events; Event Website

Nov 02 2020

Invitations to Industry - Michael Catalano-Johnson, Head of Quantitative Research at SIG

Information: Monday, November 2, 2020; 5:00 PM; Via Zoom; Event Type: Student Events; Event Website

Oct 26 2020

Invitations to Industry - Ian Levitt, Mathematician at NASA

Information: Monday, October 26, 2020; 5:00 PM; Via Zoom; Event Type: Student Events; Event Website

Oct 19 2020

Invitations to Industry - Therese Jones, Senior Director of Policy at Satellite Industry Association

Information: Monday, October 19, 2020; 5:00 PM; Via Zoom; Event Type: Student Events; Event Website

Oct 15 2020

Invitations to Industry - Joseph Rossetti, Senior Vice President at AlixPartners

Information: Thursday, October 15, 2020; 5:00 PM; Via Zoom; Event Type: Student Events; Event Website

Oct 12 2020

Invitations to Industry - Hari Ravindran, Data Scientist at EQ Works

Information: Monday, October 12, 2020; 5:00 PM; via Zoom; Event Type: Student Events; Event Website

Apr 17 2020

Undergraduate Research Conference

Information: Friday, April 17, 2020; Academic Building, CAC; Event Type: Other Events; Event Website

Mar 11 2020

Healthcare Career Panel

Information: Wednesday, March 11, 2020; 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM; Room 1125, Academic Building (West Wing), College Avenue Campus; Event Type: Cognitive Science Club; Event Website

Mar 10 2020

"Sensory system neuroplasticity supports memory for the details of events", Kasia Bieszczad (Rutgers, Psychology)

Information: Tuesday, March 10, 2020; 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM; Busch Campus, Psych 105; Event Type: Talks: RuCCS Colloquia | Semester: Spring 2020; Event Website

Mar 09 2020

Invitations to Industry- Steven Nadler (VP and Head of Discovery & Translational Research at Aro Biotherapeutics, Aro Biotherapeutics)

Information: Monday, March 9, 2020; 5:00 PM; Physics and Astronomy Room 330, Busch Campus; Event Type: Student Events; Event Short Description
Steven Nadler Website Aro Biotherapeutics
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Mar 06 2020

Rutgers-Bochum Workshop

Information: Friday, March 6, 2020; 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM; Rutgers University Inn; Event Type: Other Events; Event Short Description
Friday, March 06th Saturday, March 07th, 2020 Organizers: Brian McLaughlin (Rutgers, Department of Philosophy, RuCCS), and Albert Newen (RUB, Institute of Philosophy II) Friday, March 06th, 2020 9.30
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Mar 04 2020

Workshop

Information: Wednesday, March 4, 2020; 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM; Room 1125, Academic Building (West Wing), College Avenue Campus; Event Type: Cognitive Science Club; Event Website

Mar 03 2020

"Predicting value-based choices: a neural population recording approach in nonhuman primates", Vincent McGinty (Rutgers Newark, Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience)

Information: Tuesday, March 3, 2020; 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM; Busch Campus, Psych 105; Event Type: Talks: RuCCS Colloquia | Semester: Spring 2020; Event Short Description
Home page {youtube}Xplut00BrN0|920|518{/youtube} Abstract : A fundamental goal in neuroeconomics is to identify how neural representations of value relate to value-based decisions. Although the value-coding neurons of the primate orbitofrontal

Feb 26 2020

Trivia Night

Information: Wednesday, February 26, 2020; 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM; Room 1125, Academic Building (West Wing), College Avenue Campus; Event Type: Cognitive Science Club; Event Website

Feb 19 2020

Linguistics Talk with Paula Winke

Information: Wednesday, February 19, 2020; 8:30 PM; CAC AB (West) Room 1125; Event Type: Cognitive Science Club; Event Website

Feb 14 2020

Empitical Moral Psychology in the Philosophy Curriculum

Information: Friday, February 14, 2020; 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM; Maeder Hall, Auditorium, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, 86 Olden St, Princeton, NJ; Event Short Description
This symposium brings together representatives of the disciplines that have been most involved in the field's development, philosophy, and psychological science, to discuss and debate how research in moral psychology
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Feb 11 2020

"Analogy-making: A fallible but fertile necessity", Emmanuel Sander (University of Geneva, Psychology and Educational Sciences)

Information: Tuesday, February 11, 2020; 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM; Busch Campus, Psych 105; Event Type: Talks: RuCCS Colloquia | Semester: Spring 2020; Event Website

Feb 04 2020

"The impact of cognitive and indexical variability in the use of prosodic cues in meaning processing", Mariapaola D'Imperio (Rutgers, Linguistics)

Information: Tuesday, February 4, 2020; 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM; Busch Campus, Psych 105; Event Type: Talks: RuCCS Colloquia | Semester: Spring 2020; Event Short Description
Abstract: Speech production and perception are characterized by a great deal of variability, depending on factors such as contextual information and individual differences. Among possible sources of individual variability, socio-indexical
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Feb 03 2020

Invitations to Industry- Haile Owusu (SVP of Analytics, Decisions, and Data Science, Turner Broadcasting Systems)

Information: Monday, February 3, 2020; 5:00 PM; Physics and Astronomy Room 330, Busch Campus; Event Type: Student Events; Event Website

Dec 12 2019

Invitations to Industry - Open

Information: Thursday, December 12, 2019; 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM; Hill Center Room 703, Busch Campus; Event Type: Student Events | Semester:; Event Website

Dec 11 2019

Game Night Destress Event

Information: Wednesday, December 11, 2019; 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM; Room 1125, Academic Building (West Wing), College Avenue Campus; Event Type: Student Events | Semester: Fall 2026

Dec 10 2019

"Strategic reasoning, decision making, and the anti-representationalist agenda: methodological considerations for scaling-up E-cognition", James Grayot (Tilburg Center for Logic, General Ethics, and Philosophy of Science; Philosophy, U of Groningen)

Information: Tuesday, December 10, 2019; 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM; Busch Campus, Psych 105; Event Type: Talks: RuCCS Colloquia | Semester: Fall 2019; Event Short Description
About Me | Personal Website Abstract : Unlike simpler forms of cognition strategic reasoning and decision-making appear to be representation-hungry given that they often involve imagining engaging with
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