Lawson L.S. Wong of MIT will present “Learning The State Of The World Object-based World Modeling For Mobile-Manipulation Robots” Thursday Dec. 3rd from 1:00pm to 2:00pm (Arrive at 12:45 to get pizza) in CS150. An abstract and bio follow. Abstract: Mobile-manipulation robots…

Jon Sprouse (UConn) will give the Linguistics department colloquium at 3:30 on Friday, December 4, in ILC 400. His research focuses on questions about syntactic representations and operations, with a particular focus on experimental approaches to investigating these questions.

Louise Antony of UMass Philosophy will present “In Praise of Loose Talk: on the notion of ‘rule-following’ in cognitive science” in the Cognitive Brown Bag series Wednesday Dec. 12th in Tobin 521B. The abstract follows. Abstract: Philosophers often challenge cognitive scientists to…

David Blei of Columbia University will be giving a talk in Computer Science 150/151 on Thursday 11/19 from 5 to 6 pm on “Scaling and Generalizing Variational Inference”. He will also give a talk to the Computational Social Science Initiative…

Marcus Maia and Aniela Franca of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro will present in the Language Acquisition Research Center this Friday 11/20 at noon in ILC N451. All are welcome! Two talks will be presented: A Computational Efficiency Principle…

A workshop on Turkish linguistics is being held in the Department of Linguistics Saturday and Sunday November 21st – 22nd. All are welcome, and a full program is here.

Laura McPherson (Dartmouth College) will give a Linguistics colloquium this Friday at 3:30 in ILC N400. The title of her talk is “Constraint Interaction and the role of spell-out in Dogon tonosyntax,” and an abstract follows. The Dogon languages of Mali share…

As announced last week, a group of us will meet this Thursday to discuss Boekel et al.’s (2015) Cortex paper that attempts to replicate a set of structural brain-behavior correlations. All are welcome to join us. The meeting will take place…

In a little over a week on Thursday Nov. 19th at 12:45, we will have a discussion of the paper below, linked here, over lunch. We’ll meet in Linguistics, outside of ILC N400, and head over to the Worcester Dining…

Howard Lasnik (University of Maryland) will give a colloquium on Friday at 3:30 in ILC N400. The title of his talk is “Clause-mates, Phases and Two Families of Questions.” An abstract is here.