Session: Science, creativity, and human networks
Saturday 9:30am-12pm
Chair: Mihály Szegedy-Maszák
| Name | Affiliation | Title |
| Vizi E., Sylvester | President, Hungarian Academy of Sciences | Science and Conscience (abstract) |
| Barabási, A.L. | Notre Dame | The architecture of Complexity: From the Cell to the World Wide Web and from Budapest to Indiana (abstract) |
| Harnad, Stevan | University of Montréal | Creativity: Method or Magic (abstract) (.ppt file) |
| John-Steiner, Vera | University of New Mexico | Creative Collaborations in Hungarian Mathematics (abstract) |
| Palló, Gábor | Institute for Philosophy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences | Scientific Creativity in Hungarian Context (abstract) (.ppt file) |
LUNCH 12pm to 2pm
Session II: Neuroscience Saturday, 2:00pm-3:45pm
Chair: Csaba Pléh
| Buzsáki, György | Rutgers, Center for Neuroscience | Inhibition, oscillations and self-organization: treasures inherited from Grastyan (abstract) (.ppt file) |
| Gulyás, Balázs | Karolinska Institute | Functional Neuroimaging and Hungary (abstract) |
| Jolesz, Ferenc | Harvard Medical School | Magnetic Resonance Image Guided
Neurosurgery (abstract) (.ppt file) |
Coffee break, 3:45pm-4:00pm
Session III: Humanities 4:00pm-5:45pm
Chair: Csaba Pléh
| Szegedy-Maszák, Mihály | Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University, Indiana University | National or Comparative Literary History (abstract) |
| Szabó, Zoltán | Cornell | The distinction between semantics and pragmatics (abstract) |
| Kiefer, Ferenc | Hungarian Academy of Sciences | A new look at information structure (abstract) |
Sunday, April 3
Session IV: Psychology and cognitive science, 10:00am-12:45pm
Chair: Denis Sinor
| Gergely, György | Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Inst. of Psychology | The
nature of cultural learning in humans: The case for human
'pedagogy' (abstract) (.ppt file) |
| Kovács, Ilona | Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) | Béla
Julesz and "scientific bilingualism" (abstract) (.ppt file) |
| MacWhinney, Brian | Carnegie Mellon | Can we capture linguistic
emergence on the web? (abstract) (.ppt file) |
| Pléh, Csaba | Indiana University, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) | Using Hungarian language as a tool to clarify language-thought relations in impaired populations (abstract) (.ppt file) (accompanying .mpg file) |
| Farrell Ackerman and Jeremy Boyd | UC-San Diego | Hungarian morphology and
Williams Syndrome: A Word-based morphological and neuroconstructivist perspective (abstract) (.ppt file) |
The symposium is free and open to the public. The courtesy of advance registration is requested but not required. Contact: Indiana University Department of Central Eurasian Studies, Goodbody Hall 157, 1011 East Third Street, Bloomington, IN 47405-7005; phone 812-855-2233; fax 812-855-7500; e-mail kniggle@indiana.edu or cpleh@indiana.edu; www.indiana.edu/~ceus.
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