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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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Next Semester

TBA

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
    or
    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