The Cognitive Science Seminar is one of the crown jewels of the Institute. It is both a course offering and a public lecture series.
Each semester's Seminar is organized around a different thematic area and offers seminars by national and international experts in the field.
Talk are held in FIT 405 on Wednesday's from 4 pm to 5 pm and simulcast via Zoom.
Current Semester
Generative Models: Remaking the World with AI
Andrew Olney, Professor, IIS and Psychology
| Date | Speaker |
| Jan 17 | Andrew Olney (Memphis) |
| Jan 24 | David Arps (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) |
| Jan 31 | Andrew Olney (Memphis) |
| Feb 7 | Vasile Rus (Memphis) |
| Feb 14 |
Laura Weidinger (DeepMind and Cambridge)
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| Feb 21 | Deepak Venugopal (Memphis) |
| Feb 28 | Yuling Gu (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence) |
| Mar 6 | Spring Break - No Seminar |
| Mar 13 | Nathaniel Ruiz (Google) |
| Mar 20 | Anna Ivanova (GeorgiaTech) |
| Mar 27 | Kevin Yang (Scaled Cognition) |
| Apr 3 | Xiaolei Huang (Memphis) |
| Apr 10 | Javier Snaider (Google Research) |
| Apr 17 | Alex Mallen (EleutherAI) |
| Apr 24 |
Morten Christiansen (Cornell)
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The readings associated with each week's speaker can be found here
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Next Semester
Large Language Models and Large Learner Models
Vasile Rus (IIS and Computer Science)
Previous Semesters
Previous semester's Seminar themes:
- Fall 2023 Embodied Cognition
Shaun Gallagher, Philosophy
Schedule - Spring 2023 Agents: Why should they act?
Bonny Banerjee, IIS and Electrical and Computer Engineering
Schedule - Fall 2022 Educational Assessment and Validity
Leigh Harrell-Williams, Counseling, Educational Psychology & Research
Schedule - Spring 2022 The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
David Gray, Philosophy
Schedule - Fall 2021 Computational Linguistics for the Social Sciences and Humanities
Leah Windsor, IIS and English (Applied Linguistics) and Alistair Windsor, Mathematical Sciences
Schedule - Spring 2021 Emotion and Cognition
Ulrike Griebel, IIS, and Kim Oller, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Schedule - Fall 2020 Reading Literacy, Foundational Skills, Comprehension, Knowledge, Assessment, and EdTech
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How cognitive science on reading literacy and assessment is transforming research and development (or if it isn’t, how it ought to).
John Sabatini, IIS and Psychology
Schedule - Spring 2020 The Brain Basis of Human Behavior
Gavin Bidelman, IIS and Communication Sciences and Disorders
Schedule - Fall 2019 Language Across Modalities
Leah Windsor, IIS and English (Applied Linguistics)
Schedule - Spring 2019 Models of Human Learning
Philip Pavlik, IIS and Psychology (Cognitive)
Schedule - Fall 2018 Harnessing the Data Revolution:Science in the Age of AI
Andrew Olney, IIS and Psychology (Cognitive)
Schedule - Spring 2018 The Evolution and Development of Neurodiversity
D. Kimbrouh Oller, Communication Scieces and Disorder, and Ulrike Griebel