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Reminder - Today’s Workshop: Exploring the Basis of Human Knowledge and Creativity - Help Guide UC San Diego Research

We are thrilled to see the turnout in registrations for all four of the Research Initiative Workshops! Yesterday’s Workshop was a great success. We are pleased to share the program for TODAY’s workshop:

EXPLORING THE BASIS OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE AND CREATIVITY Wednesday, February 5th, 2:30 to 6:00 pm Medical Education Telemedicine (MET) Auditorium at School of Medicine

AGENDA
Moderator: Sheldon Brown – Framing Questions segment:
2:35 – 2:45 pm: Ralph Greenspan and Nick Spitzer, “How does the brain
really work?”
2:45 – 2:55 pm: Pascal Gagneux, “Anthropogeny: Where did we come from
and how did we get here?”
2:55 – 3:05 pm: Ayse Saygin “My Robot Friend: Using Neuroscience to
Create New Social Agents”
3:05 – 3:15 pm: Subha Sivagnanam and Amit Majuday “Neuroscience Gateway
– Enabling cyberinfrastructure for computational neuroscience”
3:15 – 3:30 pm: Group Discussion and Q/A

Moderator: Nick Spitzer – Creativity, Imagination, and Identity:
3:30 – 3:40 pm: Shlomo Dubnov “Tracing Narratives - understanding
patterns of tension and surprise in Music, Myth and Film”
3:40 – 3:50 pm: Bill Mobley, UCSD Center for Science and Education of
Empathy and Compassion
3:50 – 4:00 pm: Craig McKenzie, “Can Creativity be Increased”
4:00 – 4:10 pm: Kim Rubstein, “Embodying the Creative Mind”
4:10 – 4:25: Group Discussion/Q & A

Moderator: Stefan Tanaka – Knowledge:
4:45 – 4:55 pm: Lera Boroditsky, “How the languages we speak shape the
ways we think”
4:55 – 5:05 pm: Ben Bergen, “Language and the creation of new knowledge”
5:05 - 5:15 pm: Gert Cauwenberghs, “Reverse engineering the cognitive
brain”
5:15 – 5:25 pm: David Pedersen, “Making Sense of Systemic Change:
Transdisciplinary Approaches to Interaction, Boundaries and Agency”
5:25 – 5:40 pm: Group Discussion/Q & A

Information on registering for those workshops that remain open and the Agendas for all four Workshops are posted at http://researchinitiatives.ucsd.edu/.

As stated in the original announcement:
A key outcome of the campus strategic planning effort is the identification of four broad themes that provide opportunities for interdisciplinary research and education to complement the outstanding individual efforts which will continue to be campus priorities. The themes provide opportunities to leverage the remarkable research on our campus to address several of society's most pressing challenges. We are hosting workshops to enable broad participation in the development of these areas and identify new collaborative opportunities.

We look forward to seeing you at today’s workshop, and any of the others.

Sandra A. Brown Vice Chancellor for Research Kit Pogliano Chair UC San Diego Division, Academic Senate

The two remaining Workshops:
ENRICHING HUMAN LIFE AND HEALTH
Thursday, February 6th, 2:30 to 6:00 pm
Beyster Auditorium at Rady School of Management

UNDERSTANDING CULTURES AND ADDRESSING DISPARITIES IN SOCIAL JUSTICE, ACCESS EQUITY AND INCLUSION Tuesday, February 11th, 2:00 to 5:30 (note slightly different time) Faculty Club Atkinson Pavilion