Past Events

January
26
Date
Fri January 26th 2024, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Department of Psychology, Building 420, room 050

Russ Poldrack, Professor of Psychology, Stanford University

Title: AI-assisted coding: Experiments with GPT-4

January
24
Date
Wed January 24th 2024, 3:45pm - 5:00pm
Location
Building 420, Room 041

Dr. Erin Westgate, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Florida

Title:  Why Boredom is interesting

January
19
Date
Fri January 19th 2024, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Department of Psychology, Building 420, room 050

Shaunak Bhandarkar, Undergraduate with Professor Jay McClelland

January
17
Date
Wed January 17th 2024, 3:45pm - 5:00pm
Location
Building 420, Room 041

Shankar Vedantam,  Host and creator of Hidden Brain and The Hidden Brain podcast

December
6
Date
Wed December 6th 2023, 3:45pm - 5:00pm
Location
The McCullough Building, Room 115

Evelina (Ev) Fedorenko, Middleton CD Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT

December
1
Date
Fri December 1st 2023, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Department of Psychology, Building 420, room 050

Josh Wilson, a 3rd-year Psychology Student, Department of Psychology, Stanford University

November
17
Date
Fri November 17th 2023, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Department of Psychology, Building 420, room 050

Michael Frank, Professor of Psychology, Stanford University

Title: Large language models as cognitive models? 

November
10
Date
Fri November 10th 2023, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Department of Psychology, Building 420, room 050

Satchel Grant, Ph.D. student with Professor Jay McClelland, Department of Psychology, Stanford University 

November
8
Date
Wed November 8th 2023, 3:45pm - 5:00pm
Location
McCullough Building, Room 115, followed by a reception in Psychology Lounge.

Alex Shaw, Ph.D., Associate Professor, the Department of Psychology, the University of Chicago

November
3
Date
Fri November 3rd 2023, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Department of Psychology, Building 420, Room 041

Steve Piantadosi, Assistant Professor of Psychology at UC Berkeley

Title: Towards a formal foundation for cognitive science

November
1
Date
Wed November 1st 2023, 3:45pm - 5:00pm
Location
McCullough Bldg., Room 115, followed by a reception in Psychology Lounge, Bldg. 420.

Prof. Uri Hasson, Professor of Psychology, Princeton University

October
27
Date
Fri October 27th 2023, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Department of Psychology, Building 420, room 050

Beth Rispoli, Ph.D. Student in Psychology, admitted Autumn 2022

Title: Dynamics and Category-Selectivity in High-Level Visual Processing

October
20
Date
Fri October 20th 2023, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Department of Psychology, Building 420, room 050

Alice Xue, Ph.D. Student in Psychology, admitted Autumn 2022

October
18
Date
Wed October 18th 2023, 3:45pm - 5:00pm
Location
Building 300, Room 300 on the Main Quad, kitty-corner to the Psychology building (next to Pigott Hall which is the corner building adjacent to the…

Ken Koedinger, Professor of Human Computer Interaction and Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University

October
13
Date
Fri October 13th 2023, 3:15pm - 4:30pm

Jewelia Yao, Ph.D. Student in Psychology, admitted Autumn 2022

October
6
Date
Fri October 6th 2023, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Department of Psychology, Building 420, room 050

Hyunwoo Gu, Ph.D., 2nd-year PhD student in Associate Professor Justin Gardner's lab, Department of Psychology, Stanford University 

October
4
Date
Wed October 4th 2023, 3:45pm - 5:00pm
Location
Building 300, Room 300 on the Main Quad, kitty-corner to the Psychology building (next to Pigott Hall which is the corner building adjacent to the…

LIGHTNING TALKS: Our first Colloquium Lightning Talks  for the Academic Year will be from our own graduate students and post-docs: Bryn Bandt-Law, Ben…

September
29
Date
Fri September 29th 2023, 3:15pm - 4:30pm

Introductions

Everyone, hopefully · September 29, 2023

September
27
Date
Wed September 27th 2023, 3:00pm - 6:00pm
Location
The Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden located at 450 Santa Teresa Street and Lomita Drive

Chair's Welcome Reception

June
18
Date
Sun June 18th 2023, 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Location
Reception at Arrillaga Recreation Center followed by ceremony at Ford Center Plaza

Commencement

Sunday, June 18, 2023

We are looking forward to coming together to celebrate the Class of 2023 on Sunday, June 18!