The Cognitive Science Seminar is one of the crown jewels of the Institute. It is both a course offering and a public lecture series.
Each semester's Seminar is organized around a different thematic area and offers seminars by national and international experts in the field.
Talks are on Wednesday's from 4 pm to 5 pm and simulcast via Teams (link in emails).
Location: FIT 405
Current Semester
Large Language Models and Large Learning Models
Vasile Rus, Computer Science and IIS
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Date |
Vasile Rus |
The University of Memphis |
4-Sep |
Andrew Olney |
The University of Memphis |
11-Sep |
Paul Deane |
ETS |
18-Sep |
David Gray |
The University of Memphis |
25-Sep |
Deepak Venugopal |
University of Memphis |
2-Oct |
Shafiq Joty |
Saleforce |
9-Oct |
John Sabatini |
The University of Memphis |
16-Oct |
Xiaolei Huang |
The University of Memphis |
23-Oct |
Scott Crossley |
Vanderbilt University |
30-Oct |
Tom Kocmi |
Microsoft |
6-Nov |
Tom Mitchell |
CMU |
13-Nov |
Sen Lin |
University of Houston |
20-Nov |
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Previous Semesters
Previous semester's Seminar themes:
- Spring 2024 Generative Models: Remaking the World with AI
Andrew Olnery, IIS and Psychology
Schedule - Fall 2023 Embodied Cognition
Shaun Gallagher, Philosophy
Schedule - Spring 2023 Agents: Why should they act?
Bonny Banerjee, IIS and Electrical and Computer Engineering
Schedule - Fall 2022 Educational Assessment and Validity
Leigh Harrell-Williams, Counseling, Educational Psychology & Research
Schedule - Spring 2022 The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
David Gray, Philosophy
Schedule - Fall 2021 Computational Linguistics for the Social Sciences and Humanities
Leah Windsor, IIS and English (Applied Linguistics) and Alistair Windsor, Mathematical Sciences
Schedule - Spring 2021 Emotion and Cognition
Ulrike Griebel, IIS, and Kim Oller, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Schedule - Fall 2020 Reading Literacy, Foundational Skills, Comprehension, Knowledge, Assessment, and EdTech
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How cognitive science on reading literacy and assessment is transforming research and development (or if it isn’t, how it ought to).
John Sabatini, IIS and Psychology
Schedule - Spring 2020 The Brain Basis of Human Behavior
Gavin Bidelman, IIS and Communication Sciences and Disorders
Schedule - Fall 2019 Language Across Modalities
Leah Windsor, IIS and English (Applied Linguistics)
Schedule - Spring 2019 Models of Human Learning
Philip Pavlik, IIS and Psychology (Cognitive)
Schedule - Fall 2018 Harnessing the Data Revolution:Science in the Age of AI
Andrew Olney, IIS and Psychology (Cognitive)
Schedule - Spring 2018 The Evolution and Development of Neurodiversity
D. Kimbrouh Oller, Communication Scieces and Disorder, and Ulrike Griebel