Inaugural Symposium, Dpt. Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Seoul National University, Korea

Inaugural Symposium, Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences 

Seoul National University

BCS Symposium (15, May. 2009)

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The symposium will be held at the International Conference Room, Bldg. 25-1, 

from 10:30-18:00. 

Only the ones who register online prior to the event will be allowed to participate. 

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http://bcs.snu.ac.kr/mediawiki/uploads/8/8b/0515_symposium_schedule.pdf

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Tentative Schedule for the Symposium

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May 15 (Friday)

10:30-noon:
Welcoming and opening speeches + Introduction of the department

1:15-1:20pm
Overview of the symposium
InahLee (U of Iowa)
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Session 1 : 1:20-2:20pm (1hr)
Cognition & Perception -How does the brain "see" the world?
Sang-Hun Lee (SNU)
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1:20-1:35pm
BCS Speaker 1; Sang-Hun Lee (SNU)
Title: Finding cortical traces of visual mind

1:35-1:50pm
BCS Speaker 2; Randolph Blake (Vanderbilt Univ.)
Title: Visual Alchemy: Transforming visual confusion into perceptual harmony

1:50-2:05pm
BCS Speaker 3; Marcus Kaiser (Newcastle Univ.)
Title: Wiring the brain 뻦inking network changes to behavioral deficits

2:05-2:20pm
Guest Speaker 1; Seong-GiKim (U of Pittsburgh)
TBA
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Session 2: 2:40-4:10pm (1.5hr)
Learning & Memory -How does the brain learn to remember?
Bong-KiunKaang(SNU)
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2:40-2:55pm
BCS Speaker 4; Bong-KiunKaang (SNU)
Title: Deciphering learning and memory mechanism

2:55-3:10pm
BCS Speaker 5; Graham Collingridge; (U of Britstol)
Title: Molecules of the mind 뻯he synaptic basis of learning and memory

3:10-3:25pm
BCS Speaker 6; InahLee (U of Iowa)
Title: You Are Your Memory -Neural Bases of Episodic Memory

3:25-3:40pm
BCS Speaker 7; Min Zhuo (U of Toronto)
Title: Anterior cingulatecortex in pain and emotion

3:40-3:55pm
BCS Speaker 8; Sang JeongKim (SNU)
Title: From molecule to memory in the cerebellarneural circuit

3:55-4:10pm
Guest Speaker 2; Kei Cho (U of Britstol)
Title: Synaptic Plasticity: Pathways towards and away from Synaptic Dysfunction

4:10-4:40pm; Coffee break (30 min)
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4:40-5:40pm (1 hr)
Session 3 : Clinical Neuroscience & Neuroimaging-How do we "see" the brain in action and when it goes awry?
Jae Sung Lee (SNU)
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4:40-4:55pm
BCS Speaker 9; Jae Sung Lee (SNU)
Title: Toward the Integrated Brain PET and MR Imaging

4:55-5:10pm
BCS Speaker 10; JungsuS. Oh (SNU)
Title: Clinical implication of multimodal neuroimaging

5:10-5:25pm
BCS Speaker 11; Moo K. Chung (U of Wisconsin-Madison)
Title: Unified computational framework for integrating functional and structural network of brain

5:25-5:40pm
Closing speech; Sebastian Seung (MIT)
TBA

6:00pm -Banquet

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