Each year, the La Jolla Torrey Pines Mesa region leads California in grants and funding from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), making it the ideal location to host the Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa Scientific Symposium – a full-day meeting that draws together pioneers from San Diego and beyond who are responsible for a...

Convergence: A Multidisciplinary Dialogue on Music was a presentation of The Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center (TDLC) and the Department of Music at UC San Diego, in collaboration with

A world-renowned meeting that examines the imminent scientific, ethical and translational challenges facing stem cell research today

This is the seventh 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 is...

Cognitive Rhythms Collaborative

The Rhythmic Dynamics and Cognition Conference is a two-day event sponsored by the Cognitive Rhythms Collaborative (CRC). The CRC is a group of scientists in the Boston area who work together to advance our understanding of the brain dynamics underlying cognitive functions such as sensory processing, attention, learning, memory and motor planning.

CogSci 2013 is the 35th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, to be held in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, July 31 - Saturday, August 3, 2013. We encourage researchers from around the world to submit their best basic and applied work in cognitive science to CogSci 2013, and to attend in order to discuss the latest theories and data from...

A world-renowned meeting that examines the imminent scientific, ethical and translational challenges facing stem cell research today

Unlocking the Next Frontier – Solving the Mystery of the Human Mind

President Obama unveiled his plan to map the active brain with the new initiative Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN). This initiative, considered the next “Human Genome Project”, will bring together scientists from private and public institutions to investigate how the brain’s 100 billion cells interact with ...

This is the seventh 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 is...

Audio quality for these sessions is poor, our apologies.

Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa is a two-day conference aimed at bringing together the scientific research and business development communities in regenerative medicine to advance stem cell science into cures for debilitating diseases and injuries. The meeting features a nationally recognized...

Moores Cancer Center
Thursday March 22, 2012

This is the sixth 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 is meant...

Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa is a two-day conference aimed at bringing together the scientific research and business development communities in regenerative medicine to advance stem cell science into cures for debilitating diseases and injuries. The meeting features a nationally recognized...

The Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Foundation is a non-profit corporation whose purpose is to foster the exchange of research on neural information processing systems in their biological, technological, mathematical, and theoretical aspects. Neural information processing is a field which benefits from a combined view of...

Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science

The Cognitive Science Society, Inc. brings together researchers from many fields who hold a common goal: understanding the nature of the human mind. The Society promotes scientific interchange among researchers in disciplines comprising the field of Cognitive Science, including Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, Anthropology, Psychology,...

Moores Cancer Center
April 21, 2011

A Paul F. Glenn Symposium on the Biology of Aging
Four Seasons Biltmore
Santa Barbara, California
June 13 – 15

7th Annual Life Sciences & Society Series

For several decades now, neuroscientists have used technology to produce images of the brain in action. But what do such pictures tell us? Should they change the way we think about personal identity and free will? Can they reveal whether a person is capable of making moral decisions, or whether a person is telling the truth? If so, brain...

Next Frontier of the Brain Forum

From Monday, May 23 through Wednesday, May 25, 2011, an extraordinary event took place in Boston that brought together researchers, health advocates and politicians to mount a concerted challenge to solving what has been called the final frontier of medicine: the human brain.

The One Mind for...

What does neuroscience tell us about morality? Do we furnish the mind with experience? The Science Network joins Pat Churchland on the road promoting her new book, Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tell Us About Morality.

Rutgers University

On March 24, 2011, a group of scientists gathered to discuss music, the brain, and education at Rutgers University as a part of the NSF-supported Temporal Dynamics of Learning Centers.

Music therapy — the clinical application of music to treat a wide range of diagnoses using physiological and medical approaches — has advanced dramatically over the past decade, proving to be an effective clinical tool for treating medical diagnoses. Music has been effectively applied to treat Alzheimer’s, dementia, stroke and others, inclu...

A series of discussions about emerging research at the intersection of neuroscience and architecture

The ANFA Interface Series was introduced in the Fall of 2009 as a series of discussions about emerging research at the intersection of neuroscience and architecture. The following three lectures are from the 2011 series. Each features both a neuroscientist and architect sharing their expertise on a relevant, interdisciplinary topic. Following the...

UCSD's newly formed Center for Chronobiology (CCB) hosted its 2nd annual chronobiology symposium on February 9-11, 2011. The theme for the symposium was "From Cells to Clinic." A select, stellar group of chronobiologists attended and spoke at the conference. The aims of the conference were to: 1. Provide...

ASU Origins Project

Richard Dawkins, J. Craig Venter, Nobel laureates Sidney Altman and Leland Hartwell, Chris McKay, Paul Davies, Lawrence Krauss, and The Science Network’s Roger Bingham discuss the origins of life, the possibility of finding life elsewhere, and the latest development in synthetic biology. More than 2500 people filled ASU Gammage Auditorium on S...

This is the fifth 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 is meant...

Hosted by the San Diego Natural History Museum

In celebration of the bicentennial of Charles Darwin’s birth [February 12, 1809 – same day and same year as Abraham Lincoln] the San Diego Natural History Museum hosted “The Darwin Symposium”. We reprise this event that featured presentations and a lively panel discussion including questions from an audience made up of students from local univers...

Interviews at the 2010 ASU Education Summit.

Presented by the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine

Each year, the La Jolla Torrey Pines Mesa region leads California in grants and funding from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. What better place to host Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa – an one-day symposium that draws together the San Diego pioneers who are responsible for advancing research into cures for debilitating diseases a...

From November 13-17, over 31,000 attendees at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience swarmed in social networks through the halls of the San Diego Convention Center rehearsing their latest speculations about the gossip of neurons. Since we had just returned from the ASU...

ASU Origins

On November 6th, 2010 a panel of renowned scientists, philosophers, and public intellectuals gathered to discuss what impact evolutionary theory and advances in neuroscience might have on traditional concepts of morality. If human morality is an evolutionary adaptation and if neuroscientists can identify specific brain circuitry governing moral...

Conversations from the 65th annual Lasker Awards ceremony on October 1, 2010 at The Pierre Hotel in New York City. Presented by The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, The Lasker Awards are among the most respected science prizes in the world. Since 1945, the Awards Program has recognized the contributions of scientists, physicians, and public...

These conversations with scientists and educators from the NSF-funded Science of Learning Centers, and the organizers of the Ultimate Block Party (which took place in Central Park, New York City on October 3, 2010) were recorded at the Children's Museum of Manhattan and Rutgers University, Newark.

Cognition in Flux

The Cognitive Science Society, Inc. brings together researchers from many fields who hold a common goal: understanding the nature of the human mind. The Society promotes scientific interchange among researchers in disciplines comprising the field of Cognitive Science, including Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, Anthropology, Psychology,...

Four Seasons Biltmore
Santa Barbara, California
June 7 - 9, 2010

Perspective from Across the Disciplines

The Science and Religious Conflict Project at the University of Oxford is hosting a major conference entitled, Does Religion Lead to Tolerance or Intolerance? Perspectives from Across the Disciplines. The conference runs from 17-19 May.

University of Oxford, Christ Church

Loss of control over some aspects of behavior is usually held to be a defining feature of addiction. But the loss of control envisaged is somewhat mysterious. The series of actions in which addicts engage in order to procure and consume their drug is not reflexive; should it nevertheless be properly seen as uncontrolled? What mechanisms are...

The Royal Society

Research into ageing has been galvanized by the discovery of single-gene mutations that extend healthy lifespan of laboratory animals and that delay multiple, ageing-related diseases. Evolutionary conservation of these genetic effects allows the use of invertebrates to understand human ageing. This meeting will discuss the scientific challenges...

The Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center (TDLC) is a multi-institution group of scientists and educators focused on understanding the critical role of time and timing in learning. Their mission is to create a new science of the temporal dynamics of learning, to use this understanding to transform educational practice, and to create a new...

On Thursday, March 4, 2010 The Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience (SCCN) and its parent Institute for Neural Computation (INC) Swartz Center hosted an opening ceremony and Open House o celebrate their move into new quarters in the recently completed extension of the San Diego Supercomputer Center on the UCSD campus.

The...

On Molecular and Cellular Biology

New Insights into Healthspan and Diseases of Aging: From Molecular to Functional Senescence. January 31-February 5, 2010 Tahoe City, California The Aging meeting was one of 52 in 2010 organized by Keystone Symposia on Molecular & Cellular Biology, a nonprofit that has been convening open, international conferences in the biomedical and life...

This is the fourth 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 is meant...

Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture in partnership with UC San Diego, Salk Institute & NewSchool of Architecture & Design present ANFA INTERFACES: A series of discussions about emerging research at the intersection of Neuroscience and Architecture

Building the future with women's vision

The Harvard Stem Cell Institute marked its fifth anniversary in 2009. These conversations took place during the HSCI Stem Cell Symposium at the Harvard Club on November 6, 2009.

Presented by The Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine

The 4th Annual Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa was an exclusive, one-day symposium which drew together the pioneers responsible for advancing research towards discovering cures for debilitating diseases and injuries. This one-day event featured renowned researchers...

Project Presentations

Sponsored by the NIH Cognitive Neuroscience Training Program for the Institute for Neural Computation and the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind at UC San Diego.

The Origins Symposium inaugurated the new Origins Initiative at ASU. In partnership with The Science Network, this unprecedented event, brought together 70 of the world's leading scientists and scholars, including 8 Nobel Laureates, and the world's pre-eminent scientific public intellectuals, for three days of panels directed at exploring...

This is the third 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...

Presented by the Crick-Jacobs Center

The Crick-Jacobs Center for Theoretical and Computational Biology presents "Reading the Human Genome," a series of three lectures by Nobel Laureate Sydney Brenner.

Wednesday: "Much Ado About Nothing: Systems Biology and Inverse Problems"

Thursday: "Measure for Measure: The GC Shift and the Problem of Isochores"

Friday: "All's...

Visit the Stem Cells on the Mesa website

Taking advantage of the San Diego collaborative spirit, this year’s 3rd annual Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa will assemble brilliant minds from the local region and beyond. Leading investigators from U...

BEYOND BELIEF DVDs are now available! Purchase them here.

Just 40 years after a famous TIME magazine cover asked "Is God Dead?" the answer appears to be a resounding "No!" According to a survey by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life in a recent issue of Foreign...

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...

BEYOND BELIEF DVDs are now available! Purchase them here. Beyond Belief: Candles in the Dark DVDs will be available soon.

Beyond Belief: Candles in the Dark is the third in an annual series of conversations: an ongoing project to foster and promote the use of...

The Days of Molecular Medicine Forum, hosted by Roger Bingham, focuses on “Regulatory and Ethical Issues on the Use of Stem Cells: An International Perceptive”. The forum features keynote speaker Irving Weissman, from Stanford University, and a panel discussion of the regulatory and ethical issues posed by the promise of human stem cell bio...

The Science Network's first public event, this landmark symposium assembles the world's leading experts to explore the contentious issue of stem cell research. Held one month before California voted on Proposition 71, this timely event was - and remains - an essential resource for concerned citizens.

American Friends of the Hebrew University present this conference, commemorating the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein's Annus Mirabilis (Miracle Year).

Join hundreds of skeptics from all over the United States, Canada, and Europe for a lively and memorable tour through inner space at the 2005 Annual Skeptics Society Conference.

Visit the Skeptic website

Out of Africa I: Who, Where, and When

Did we all come Out of Africa? Join famed fossil hunter, Richard Leakey, for this meeting on the making of mankind.

This is the first scientific meeting of The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), established in early 2005 with the passage of Proposition 71, the California Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative.

Visit the CIRM website

The San Diego Consortium for Regenerative Medicine (SDCRM) presents this first annual symposium, drawing together San Diego's pioneers responsible for advancing stem cell research towards discovering cures for debilitating diseases and injuries.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton, Joe Lieberman, and Richard Burr, and former Representative Christopher Cox discuss the continuing threat of bioterrorism and its implications for society. This event was organized by former Ambassador Cynthia P. Schneider of the Georgetown University Public Policy Institute.

This morning, just like any other day in America, more than a quarter of the population of this nation is in classrooms of some kind, going about the business of educating. The business, perhaps – but is there yet a science of educating?

Brains R Us brings together researchers, educators, policymakers, parents, and students in a town h...

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...