This is the second annual all-hands meeting of the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center (TDLC), which investigates time as a crucial element in the learning process and integrates the study of learning dynamics across multiple time scales - from milliseconds, to life-long learning.

This new science of the temporal dynamics of learning...

BEYOND BELIEF DVDs are now available! Purchase them here.

As you watch the conversation in Beyond Belief: Enlightenment 2.0, it might help to know about one of the sources that was helpful to me in formulating the agenda, assembling the cast of characters, and setting...

In this second annual summit, presented by the San Diego Consortium for Regenerative Medicine (SDCRM), scientists, business executives, and government officials come together to share emerging innovations in stem cell research and discuss the various scientific, ethical, and business challenges facing the industry today.

The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network hosts this first Summit on Pancreatic Cancer. Leading pancreatic cancer investigators and other luminaries of the biological sciences engage in an interactive discussion of opportunities and challenges facing pancreatic cancer research over the next five years.

Professor: Gary Cottrell

Cognitive Science 200 is an interdisciplinary seminar of changing topics used as a mechanism for Ph.D. students in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program and the Cognitive Science Department to achieve breadth. This quarter, the topic is based on our new NSF-sponsored Science of Learning Center, The Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center (TDLC). The...

Can sleeping on a problem create overnight insights? Will naps make you smarter? Are you getting enough? How much IS enough? For the answers to these and other pillow problems, join a group of wide-awake researchers for a conversation on the science of sleep.

Professor: Patricia Churchland

Neuro Enigmas II: Large-Scale Problems in Neuroscience

Spectacular progress notwithstanding, many fundamental problems in neuroscience remain unsolved. Neuroscience remains very much a young science, in the sense that it has not yet discovered the general principles governing its target phenomena. Although fruitful ideas of a...

Immigration Today: What is the status of our huddled masses, our tired and tempest-tost*? A presentation of The National Academies Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education.

*From Emma Lazarus' poem The New Colossus on the Statue of Liberty.