Symbolic Systems Forum - Senior Honors Students, Symbolic Systems Program

Senior Honors Students, Symbolic Systems Program, Annual

Presentations of Honors Theses

4:15 Jamie Kamel Fitzgerald, "Control of Competitive Interactions in

Visual Cortex by Microstimulation of the Frontal Eye Field" (Honors

Advisor: Tirin Moore, Neurobiology; Second Reader: Eric Knudsen,

Neurobiology)

4:27 Matt Kaufman, "When Inhibitory Neurons Inhibit Themselves: Simulating

Rhythms in the Brain" (Honors Advisor: John Huguenard, Neurology and

Neuroological Sciences; Second Reader: Shaul Hestrin, Electrical

Engineering)

4:39 Brendan O'Connor, "Group Selection and Conflict Explanations for the

Evolution of Large-Scale Human Cooperation" (Honors Advisor: Noah Mark,

Sociology; Second Reader: James Fearon, Political Science)

4:51 Mahesh Srinivasan, "Nominal Classification and Conceptual

Organization: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective from English and Mandarin and

Chinese" (Honors Advisor: Herb Clark, Psychology; Second Reader: Teenie

Matlock, Psychology)

5:03 Tony Tulathimutte, "Controller Mediation in Human-Computer Play"

(Honors Advisor: Henry Lowood, German Department and Humanities Resource

Group; Second Reader: Jeffrey Schnapp, French and Italian and Comparative

Literature)

5:15 Gregory Wayne, "Order and Word Order: How the Information Content of

a Word in a Sentence Helps Explain a Linguistic Universal" (Honors

Advisor: David Beaver, Linguistics; Second Reader: Tom Wasow,

Linguistics)

REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED AFTERWARD

This will be the last SSP Forum of the 2004-2005 academic year. The Forum

will resume at beginning of Autumn Quarter, 2005-2006.