Engineering Seminars Test Calendar 2.10

CEE scholarship recipients are invited to attend the CEE Awards Convocation, to celebrate achievements and network with donors. By invitation only.

Beckman director finalist Marie Banich will give a technical talk titled “Neural bases of mental control: Insights from neuroimaging and beyond.” Beckman community members are encouraged to attend the live talk in the Beckman Auditorium, although a recording will be shared afterward.

KV Prasanth Lab

Speaker: Kejie Fang, Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Beckman director finalist Marie Banich will give a talk titled “Beckman III: Identity, Inclusion, Integration.” Beckman community members are encouraged to attend the live talk in the Beckman Auditorium, although a recording will be shared afterward.

In this seminar I will discuss our recent work aimed at understaning how behaviorally meaningful stimuli are encoded within ensembles of hippocampal neurons, and how these representations are modified by learning. Specifically, I will present work on how the mouse dentate gyrus discriminates olfactory information through learning, and how the the ventral hippocampus is org

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Join a live presentation about the civil and environmental engineering undergraduate program. Hear from alumni and learn about their experiences and what you can expect as a new CEE student.

Join Beckman Director Jeff Moore for the annual presentation of the Vision and Spirit Award, which recognizes a researcher at the institute who has fostered collaboration in their research and exemplifies founder Arnold Beckman's vision.

Speaker: John Chiaverini, Senior Staff, Quantum Information and Integrated Nanosystems Group, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

It is now recognized that peripheral signals generated during nutrient digestion play a pivotal role in reinforcing past and shaping future behaviors. In this lecture I will present data supporting the primary role of subliminal nutritional signals in driving food reinforcement and discuss implications for current models of reinforcement learning. 

Institute of Molecular Biotechnology

Speaker: Thomas Vidick, Professor, Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology

Animals live in a multisensory world and use different sensory channels to communicate during crucial behavioral contexts. I will discuss how an African cichlid fish uses visual, acoustic, chemosensory, and mechanosensory communication during social interactions, and how these senses may be modulated by an individual's reproductive and hormonal state.