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Center for Vision Research

Seminar Series   2008-2009

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lectures & events!

Interdisciplinary Lecture Series

We are pleased to announce an interdisciplinary lecture series in 2008-2009

to commemorate the 300th anniversary of George Berkeley's New Theory of

Vision.

Confirmed speakers are:  Margaret Atherton, Martha Brandt Bolton, Gary Hatfield,

Jessica Riskin, Robert Schwartz, Peter U. Tse, Michael Turvey, James Van Cleve,

Nicholas Wade, and Kenneth Winkler.

Sponsored by the Center for Vision Research, the Committee for Science and

Technology Studies, the Department of Cognitive Science and Linguistics, the

Departments of History, Philosophy, and Psychology, and the Charles K. Colver

Lectureship Fund.

Contact Katherine Dunlop at  Katherine_Dunlop@brown.edu

Coming to Center for Vision Research in November 2008

Roger T. Hanlon, PhD

Marine Biologist, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole

November 11,  2008 

 

CVR News

Carlos Aizenman

Assistant Professor of Neuroscience,

received an NSF Career Award for his

project entitled "Cellular determinants of

visual system function and

development" (March 2008)

Michael J. Black

Professor of Computer Science,

received a Rhode Island Science and

Technology Advisory Council (STAC)

grant for collaboration with the Rhode

State Police on forensic computer vision

(March 2008)

Odest Chadwicke (Chad) Jenkins

Assistant Professor of Computer

Science, received a Presidential Early

Career Award for Scientists and

Engineers (PECASE) for outstanding

contributions to his field. Chad received

his award during a White House

ceremony (November 2007).