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Past Events

April
17
Date
Fri April 17th 2026, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
room 050

Dr. Will Turner, postdoc advised by Assistant Professor Laura Gwilliams

April
10
Date
Fri April 10th 2026, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Building 420, room 050

Professor Kalanit Grill-Spector, Department of Psychology, Stanford University 

April
8
Date
Wed April 8th 2026, 3:45pm - 5:00pm
Location
Building 420, Room 040

Melanie Mitchell, Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and inaugural Fractal Faculty member

April
3
Date
Fri April 3rd 2026, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Building 420, room 050

Ben Prystawski, a fifth-year PhD student in Professor Noah Goodman's lab

March
11
Date
Wed March 11th 2026, 3:45pm - 5:00pm
Location
Building 420, Room 040

Alexander Huth, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience & Statistics with the Vision Science Graduate Group, University of California, Berkeley

March
6
Date
Fri March 6th 2026, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Building 420, room 050

Professor Russell Poldrack, Department of Psychology, Stanford University

Title: The promise and perils of AI-assisted coding in science

February
27
Date
Fri February 27th 2026, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Building 420, room 050

Kate Petrova, 5th year graduate student with Professor James Gross and Assistant Professor Tobias Gerstenberg, Department of Psychology, Stanford University 

February
20
Date
Fri February 20th 2026, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Building 420, room 050

Dr. Kushin Mukherjee, Postdoc advised by Assistant Professor Judy Fan, Stanford University

February
11
Date
Wed February 11th 2026, 3:45pm - 5:00pm
Location
Building 420, Room 040

Inbal Ravreby, Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, Cornell University

Title: Emotional connection through self-other blurring

February
6
Date
Fri February 6th 2026, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Buliding 420, room 050

Associate Professor Rav Suri, San Francisco State University, and Professor Jay McClelland, Stanford University 

February
4
Date
Wed February 4th 2026, 3:45pm - 5:00pm
Location
Building 420, Room 040

Joseph Heffner, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Psychology, Yale University

January
30
Date
Fri January 30th 2026, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Building 420, room 040

Professor Matt Jones, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado

Title: Inductive bias for temporal structure in humans and AI

January
28
Date
Wed January 28th 2026, 3:45pm - 5:00pm
Location
Building 420, Room 041

Micaela Rodriguez, PhD Candidate in Social Psychology, University of Michigan

Title: When Being Alone Doesn't Hurt: Demystifying the Puzzle of Solitude

January
23
Date
Fri January 23rd 2026, 3:15pm
Location
Building 420, room 041

Lio Wong, postdoc advised by Assistant Professor Judy Fan, Department of Psychology

January
16
Date
Fri January 16th 2026, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Building 420, room 041

Josh Wilson, fifth year PhD student with Associate Professor Justin Gardner, Department of Psychology, Stanford University

January
5
Date
Mon January 5th 2026, 12:15pm - 2:15pm
Location
Chaffee Room on the 4th Floor of McClatchy Hall

Joseph Jay Williams, Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto in Computer Science

December
5
Date
Fri December 5th 2025, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Building 420, Room 050

Qiyuan Feng, PhD Student advised by Justin Gardner, Department of Psychology, Stanford University

November
21
Date
Fri November 21st 2025, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Building 420, Room 051

Linas Nasvytis, PhD student advised by Assistant Professor Judith Fan at the Cognitive Tools Lab, Stanford University

November
21
Date
Fri November 21st 2025, 3:15am - 4:30am
Location
Building 420, Room 050

Linas Nasvytis, PhD Student in Psychology

November
7
Date
Fri November 7th 2025, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Location
Building 420, Room 041

Caroline Kaicher, PhD student in Psychology with Assistant Professor Laura Gwilliams and Professor Ellen Markman, will be presenting her FYP