Undergraduate Cognitive Science Conference,Spring 2011

The Indiana University Student Organization for Cognitive Science and the Indiana University Cognitive Science Program are pleased to announce the Midwest Undergraduate Cognitive Science Conference on the weekend of April 2-3, 2011 in Bloomington, Indiana.
This conference is organized to provide the next generation of cognitive scientists an opportunity to present their research to their peers from across the Midwest.
We are pleased to have two plenary speakers presenting their research:
Linda Smith, Professor of Psychology at Indiana University, will be delivering her plenary address on Saturday, April 2nd, 2011.
Larry Yaeger, Professor of Informatics at Indiana University, will be delivering his plenary address on Sunday, April 3rd, 2011.

Undergraduate students who wish to present a poster or talk should visit the submissions page on the MUCSC website. Here you will find more information on abstract requirements and the submission form. The deadline for submissions is February 4th, 2011. Abstracts will be peer-reviewed by the program committee and notifications will be sent via e-mail beginning February 28th, 2011.

Posters will be showcased during a 1.5 hour session and presenters must be present to answer questions. New to this year's conference, poster presenters have an opportunity to give a one minute teaser to their poster presentation prior to the poster session. The event, MUCSC RUCKUS (pronounced mʌ•kʌs rʌ•kʌs), will be a fast-paced, fun introduction to the numerous posters that will be presented by students across the Midwest. Participation is optional but encouraged for all poster participants. For more information, visit the MUCSC website or email cogsconf@indiana.edu.

Also new to this year's conference is the MUCSC Question of the Week, where students and faculty can engage in discussing various topics from all areas within cognitive science. In the coming weeks, we will request professors from the Midwest to submit questions that will be posted to our MUCSC Tumblr beginning in January. These questions can be commented on by anyone, but discussion will be moderated by the program committee. The most discussed questions will be featured at the conference on Sunday, April 3rd during a live discussion. ***If you would like to submit a question, we encourage you to reply to to us with your question. Most likely this question will be featured on our Tumblr! Thank you in advance for any submissions!***

Registration is free and required by all attendees. Students may register by visiting the registration page. Submitters of an abstract for a poster presentation or talk will automatically be registered as a conference attendee. Transportation and lodging arrangements will be the responsibility of the participants. Travel information and hotel suggestions are located on the MUCSC website.

Further details will be announced as the conference date grows closer. To be placed on our mailing list, send a message to listserv@indiana.edu with the body "subscribe cogsconf-l". If there are any questions please contact cogsconf@indiana.edu.

Cognitive Science Picnic

This year our annual Cognitive Science Picnic will take place on Sunday, August 29th.
For detailed information, please e-mail: cogsadv@indiana.edu

Cognitive Science Fall2010 Colloquium Series

We have an excellent lineup for this semester’s Cognitive Science Colloquium Series:



9/13/2010: Michael Richardson, Colby College

9/20/2010: Roger Ratcliff, Ohio State University

10/11/2010: Hod Lipson, Cornell University

10/18/2010: Ennio Mingolla, Boston University

11/08/2010: Mark Newman, University of Michigan



As always, you can find up-to-date information, and titles/abstracts for the talks as they come in at: http://www.indiana.edu/~clcl/Q733_WWW/

This week's SRL meeting will feature a talk by lab alumnus Christopher Conway, currently an Assistant Professor of Psychology at St. Louis University. The title and abstract of his talk are given below -- all are invited and welcome to attend.

Friday, July 16
1:30 - 3:00
Psy 128 (conference room)

Experience-Dependent Effects on Sequential Learning and Language
Christopher M. Conway
Dept. of Psychology, Saint Louis University

For most higher organisms, the order in which events occur is of paramount importance (e.g., spoken language; music; motor skills). In our previous research with healthy adults (Conway, Bauernschmidt,
Huang, & Pisoni, 2010) and deaf children with cochlear implants (Conway, Pisoni, Anaya, Karpicke, & Henning, in press), we have shown that domain-general sequential learning abilities -- the cognitive
and neural processes involved in learning about the proper ordering of events and stimuli -- are important for successful language acquisition and processing. Furthermore, a period of auditory deprivation early in development appears to hinder such learning abilities (Conway, Pisoni, & Kronenberger, 2009). Here we present findings from three new research strands that further illustrate the nature of experience-dependent effects on sequential learning and language, including: 1) the impact of deafness on verbal versus non-verbal sequential learning skills; 2) the effectiveness of using computerized sequence training to improve learning and language; 3) and the use of event-related potential recordings to explore the electrophysiological brain mechanisms of sequential learning across development. Overall, these findings both increase our understanding of the role of experience in the development of these fundamental learning abilities as well as suggest new ways to capitalize on neurocognitive plasticity to enhance sequential learning in order to improve language functions.

Dear Cognitive Science Bloggers,
Just a reminder that Monday is our national holiday, and the IUBLA offices will be closed. Advising in Cognitive Science will resume on July 12. With questions, please contact the Office of the Registrar at UBLA, of course after the July 4th Holiday. Have a nice long weekend, happy Fourth!

Green initiatives event on campus

Join other IU students for an outdoor festival on April 11th at Dunn Meadow from 2:00-6:00. to celebrate the launch of 2010's Sustain IU series of events as well as to showcase green initiatives and events on campus.

LIVE MUSIC and FREE FOOD all afternoon!! And we'll be selling some sweet shirts for $5

Musical Acts:

The Olympians
David Campbell II
Alexander the Great
White Roberts
On the House

Sponsored by RHA and Greeks Go Green

Robotics Open House coming up!

The robotics groups led by Professors Randall Beer, Kris Hauser, Selma Sabanovic, and Matthias Scheutz invite you to a Robotics Open House to be held on April 16th 2010 from 4-7pm at the R-House Living Lab (919 E. 13th Street, Bloomington IN 47408). This event showcases work from research education in robotics, human-robot interaction, and cognitive science including live demonstrations and computer simulations. It is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
More information on demos forthcoming!!! For last year’s line-up, check out the Cognitive Science Robotics Open House website.
http://www.indiana.edu/~rhaus/Welcome.html

Have a great safe spring break!

Dear Cognitive Science students,

I wish you a fun and safe spring break.

Here are some "warning" tips from the Washington Post:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/campus-overload/2010/03/spring_break_can_kill_you_so_s.html

Most of all - try to relax and renew your energy for the rest of spring sememster and before fall registration (starting early April).
Izabela Kenney
your undergraduate advisor

Dr. David Kemmerer
Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
and Department of Psychological Sciences
Purdue University

Monday, March 22, 2010
4:00 – 5:00 pm
Speech and Hearing Building, Room C141
To further investigate the neural substrates of lexical and conceptual knowledge of actions, we administered a battery of 6 tasks to 226 brain-damaged patients with widely distributed lesions in the left and right cerebral hemispheres. The tasks probed lexical and conceptual knowledge of actions in a variety of verbal and non-verbal ways, including naming, word-picture matching, attribute judgments involving both words and pictures, and associative comparisons involving both words and pictures.

Summer Jobs Fair-April 7

Summer Jobs Fair will take place this year on April 7, Wednesday, from 1 to 4pm in Alumni Hall, Indiana Memorial Union. The event is sponsored by the Indiana University Career Development Center: IUCareers.com

Harnessing the Power of Social Media- Lecture

Lei Tang

Arizona State University

Tuesday, March 23rd 2010

1:00-2:00 p.m.

IMU Dogwood Room
Harnessing the Power of Social Media
Social media such as blogs, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr enable people of all walks of life to express their thoughts, voice their opinions, and connect to each other anytime and anywhere. The boom of social media has spawned new research to study human interactions and collective behavior on an unprecedented scale. It is reshaping business models, providing trend analysis, aiding counter-terrorism efforts, and acting as grassroots information sources. In this talk, Lei Tang will discuss opportunities and research thrust, as well as future directions of computing with and mining social media

Business Networking Event, Friday, February 26

Want to….

Refine your job seeking skills?

Meet with representatives of Fortune 500 Companies?

Get your resume critiqued?

Gain the latest in business fashions?

Opportunity to network?

Business Networking Event

WHAT: “COMPETING ON A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD: MARKETING YOURSELF”

WHEN: FRIDAY, FEBRUAR 26, 2010

WHERE: WILLKIE AUDITORIUM

TIME: 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Refreshments will be served

Summer Camp Jobs Fair, February 24

Attend the Indiana University SUMMER CAMP JOBS FAIR

The 50th Annual Indiana University Summer Camp Jobs Fair will be held Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at the Indiana Memorial Union's Alumni Hall from
11:30-3pm. OVER 60 different camp representatives from across the
United States will be in attendance to recruit IU students for summer work. Get paid, gain experience and meet new friends. Working at summer camp is great opportunity for college students to enhance their transferable skills in youth work, communication, problem solving, leadership, and event planning. Working at a camp can be an invaluable experience to have on a resume! For more information, please contact Julie Knapp at julknapp@indiana.edu or visit the website at www.indiana.edu/~campfair to see participating camps.

"Check Your Label" symposium -February 5th

The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University presents “Check Your Label: Elements of Conscious Consumerism” on Friday, February 5. This symposium, to be held at the IU Auditorium in the heart of campus, will offer perspectives on the local and global impact of our buying choices.

Speakers will discuss successful business models that offer options for sustainable living for all workers on the supply chain, and will offer inspiring stories of operating a thriving business with a goal of social change.

Please register online for the Check Your Label symposium. The event is free and open to the public. Doors open at IU Auditorium at 1:30pm.
https://kelley.iu.edu/ugrad/secure/precollege/checkyourlabel/

Godel, Escher, Bach reading group on line

There's an online reading group for Godel, Escher, Bach on Tumblr (appropriately called
Godel, Escher, Bach, Tumblr). Thought some people would be interested:

http://godelescherbach.tumblr.com/

Sign up to be a contributor:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform

Call for papers- IU Linguistics Club

Call for Papers
Indiana University Linguistics Club Working Papers Online (vol. 10)
Deadline: February 15, 2010

The IULC will continue to accept submissions for Volume 10 of its Working Papers Online. The deadline for Volume 9 is February 15, 2010.

Undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty members from all departments are encouraged to submit original papers in linguistics.
Submissions resulting from term papers written for classes or as a result of independent studies are welcome.

Students are particularly encouraged to submit manuscripts that they intend to publish in a journal in the future and to use the IULC Working Papers Online as a stepping stone to a full-fledged journal submission through the review and revision process.

We accept both paper submission and electronic submission.
For detailed instructions on submission, please see our website at https://www.indiana.edu/~iulcwp/

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us at iulcwp@indina.edu.

Abbie Hantgan
Associate Editor
IULC Working Papers Online
Department of Linguistics
Indiana University
https://www.indiana.edu/~iulcwp/

New SOCS website

IU SOCS: http://www.indiana.edu/~iusocs/

Student Organization for Cognitive Science
HomePeopleEventsiCogSciMUCSC
What is SOCS?The Student Organization for Cognitive Science (SOCS) aims to provide a community for burgeoning Cognitive Science students at Indiana University. We organize several events throughout the year, including:

movie nights
professor dinners
TED parties
discussion groups
Please check our events page for a constantly updated calendar of SOCS activities and Cognitive Science Program colloquia and lectures.

The Midwest Undergraduate Cognitive Science Conference (MUCSC) is an annual SOCS event. Last year the conference attracted young scholars from several midwestern universities. Professor Douglas Hofstadter presented the keynote address. Planning for MUCSC 2009 is underway, and abstracts must be submitted by February 28, 2010. For more information, see the MUCSC site.

iCogSci is an online resource for undergraduate Cognitive Science students and features the Indiana Undergraduate Journal of Cognitive Science. SOCS members are highly encouraged to participate in the journal review process and to contribute in whatever ways possible.

E-mail ListTo subscribe to our mailing list, please send a message with "subscribe socs-l" to listserv@indiana.edu. We also recommend you subscribe to Cognoscente, the departmental mailing list, by sending "subscribe cognoscente" to listserv@indiana.edu

Conference Opportunity for COGS Undergraduates

The Indiana University Student Organization for Cognitive Science and the Indiana University Cognitive Science Program are pleased to announce the Midwest Undergraduate Cognitive Science Conference on the weekend of April 11-12, 2009 in Bloomington, Indiana.

This conference is organized to provide the next generation of cognitive scientists an opportunity to present their research to their peers from across the Midwest.

Adina Roskies , Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth College, will be delivering the keynote address on topics in neuroethics on Saturday, April 11.

Potential speakers should send a 250-500 word abstract to cogsconf@indiana.edu by March 1, 2010. Applicants should indicate whether they wish to present a talk, poster or either. Talks will be up to 15-minutes in length, followed by a short question and answer session. Posters will be showcased during an one-hour session and presenters must be present to answer questions.

Abstracts will be peer-reviewed by the program committee and notifications will be sent via e-mail by March 11, 2010.

The conference will have no registration fee. However, transportation and lodging arrangements will be the responsibility of the participants.

Further details will be announced as the conference date grows closer. To be placed on our mailing list, send a message to listserv@indiana.edu with the body "subscribe cogsconf-l". If there are any questions please contact cogsconf@indiana.edu. Please forward and distribute this announcement.
Thank you,
Jaimie Murdock
MUCSC Chair
cogsconf@indiana.edu
http://www.indiana.edu/~iusocs/mucsc/

African American Dance, Choral, and IU Soul auditions

This week the African American Arts Institute is holding auditions for the Spring 2010 semester for The African American Dance Company, The African American Choral Ensemble and IU Soul Revue.

Audition details are as follows:

African American Dance Company

January 12, 2010, 7:00 p.m.

Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, Room A217

This company’s repertoire consists of original choreography based on a fusion dance styles including modern, jazz, contemporary, African and Latin American dance forms.
Audition Description:
A short warm-up followed by a dance combination given by the Director. Please do not bring prepared dance routines. Dance specialties will be evaluated at the end of the auditions. No dance experience is required. Audition dress must be dance attire: Leotards, tights, jazz shoes or bare feet. Men may wear sweat-pants. No Street wear, tight pants or shorts.

African American Choral Ensemble

January 13, 2010, 7:00 p.m.

Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, Room A219

The ensemble’s repertoire includes spirituals, folk forms, traditional and contemporary gospel music and formally composed works of African American composers.

Audition Description:
Vocalists are to bring one prepared piece with or without accompaniment.

IU Soul Revue and AAAI Band

January 14, 2010, 7:00 p.m.

Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, Grand Hall
The ensemble delivers the sounds of timeless R&B, Soul, Funk, and contemporary urban black popular music.
Audition Description:
Vocalists
Prepare a one piece a cappella or bring a recording to accompany your solo. You will be asked to match pitches and harmonize.
AAAI Band
Instrumentalists - bring your instrument and be prepared to solo and accompany in a combo setting on an R&B, Soul, or Gospel piece. Drums and Amplifiers provided.

Come try out for one of these great ensembles!
Please visit our website at www.indiana.edu/~aaai or call the AAAI Marketing Office at (812)855-5427

Cognitive Science Spring'10 Colloquium Series

Spring 2010 Schedule- Cognitive Science colloquium series

Selected Mondays @ 4pm

Room 101, Psychological and Brain Sciences



1/25/10 Sian Beilock, University of Chicago
Title: TBA

2/22/10
Mary Hayhoe, University of Texas at Austin

Title: TBA

3/22/10 Lynn Nadel, University of Arizona
Title: TBA

3/29/10 Lawrence Marks, Yale University
Title: TBA

4/5/10 Asif Ghazanfar, Princeton University
Title: TBA

4/19/10 Teenie Matlock, University of California, Merced
Title TBA

A Talk in Bioinformatics

Center for Bioinformatics Research Special Talk

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Dogwood Room, Indiana Memorial Union

3:00-4:00 p.m.

Admission Free



Yaoqi Zhou

IUPUI-School of Informatics

Director & Professor, Bioinformatics





From sequence to structure, to function, and back again: Integrating knowledge-based approaches with physical intuitions for protein folding, binding, and design





Abstract: Most biological activities are directed and/or regulated by proteins made of a gene-specified sequence of 20 amino-acid residue types. As a result, function or malfunction of specific proteins is responsible for almost all diseases. Proteins perform their function through their unique, self-assembled (folded) three-dimensional structures and through their specific binding to small molecules, to DNA/RNA (e.g. transcription factors that regulate gene expressions), or to other proteins (e.g. molecular recognition in signal transduction). Thus, how to predict the structure of a protein from its amino-acid sequence, discover the function from its structure and, then, design the sequence from its function or structure are the most essential problems in structural biology. In this talk, I will illustrate how the coupling of physical intuitions with learning from structural databases can go a long way toward untangling the complex relation between sequence, structure and function of proteins.

Biography: Trained as a theoretical physicist in a chemistry department, Dr. Zhou's research area moved to chemical engineering and computational biophysics during post-doctoral studies, and to bioinformatics when he became an independent researcher as an assistant professor at State University of New York at Buffalo in 2000.

His multidisciplinary training allows him to approach bioinformatic problems from the angle of physics. A recent example is the development of a knowledge-based energy function (called DFIRE) for proteins using the principle of physics rather than pure statistical information of protein structures. His group developed many freely available bioinformatic tools including SPARKS and SP3 for fold recognition and structure prediction, SPEM for multiple sequence alignment, SPINE for secondary and accessible surface area prediction, PINUP for binding-site prediction, MC2 for module identification from network of protein-protein interactions, and THUMBUP for topology prediction of transmembrane helical proteins.

Spring 2010 Internship Fair

Internship Today. Job Tomorrow.
The Career Development will hold their largest career fair of the year, the 2010 Internship Fair, at the end of this month, on Wednesday, January 27th, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Alumni Hall, Indiana Memorial Union. To learn more, visit www.IUCareers.com

Win trip to Africa this spring

Win a Trip with Nick Kristof

Are you a college or university student with a yearning to see the best and worst of the world? Nicholas D. Kristof, Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times, invites students to write an essay and/or make a video to enter to win a reporting trip to Africa in the spring of 2010. Check out Nick's video about the trip and his announcement about the contest. Deadline for contest entries is January 18, 2010.

Find Nick’s regular blog at nytimes.com/ontheground.

Sincerely,

Kandace Rusnak
Education Manager – IN, OH, Western PA
The New York Times
Office: 888.725.3777
Cell: 440.610.5285
Kandace.rusnak@pcfcorp.com