Weekly Events
CNL Lab Meetings
The aim for these meetings is to discuss work that is in-progress or not-even-that-far-along-yet. Typically one person will lead discussion each week. The broad remit of the meetings is topics in language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and neurolinguistics. The audience is typically broader than just people working in the CNL lab, often including visitors from outside the lab, the department, and the university. They occur most Fridays at 10am in Marie Mount Hall room 1108B.
IGERT Lunch Talk
The lunchtime IGERT Research Seminar focuses on student research presentations to the broader Maryland Language group. The research seminar alternates background and news weeks, developing students' ability to move comfortably between the details of their specific projects and the broader issues that they bear on. As an antidote to internal parochialism, students periodically present a seminar explaining why their field considers a problem to be important. Presentations also serve as models for students writing their initial IGERT admission or research proposals and develops the skill of pitching a talk to the interests of different fields.
Syntax Lunch
Syntax Lunches provide an opportunity for graduate students and visitors to present their research in syntax and semantics. The papers can be works-in-progress or as polished as conference presentations. Presentations typically last about an hour, and are highly interactive (including many comments and questions). Meetings are typically held in 1108B Marie Mount Hall on Tuesdays at 12:30pm.
Linguistics Colloquium
The linguistics graduate students organize a colloquium series every fall and spring semester. They bring linguists in from all over the world to present their most current work. Often, the Maryland Colloquium Series is the first public presentation of ground-breaking research. Colloquium talks are open to the public, and occur on most Fridays at 2pm in Marie Mount Hall, Room 1304.
NACS Seminar
The Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Seminar brings top researchers from various areas of neuroscience and cognitive science to discuss their current work. Topics range from high-level discussions (e.g. development of memory systems of the human brain) to presentation of specific research (e.g. bi-directional changes in dendritic excitability accompanying LTP and LTD in hippocampal neurons). The seminars typically occur on Fridays at noon in room 1208 of the Biology-Psychology building. The talks last about an hour and are followed by a short discussion period and light luncheon.
Cognitive Science Colloquium
The colloquium series is designed to provide a focus for all those on campus who have interests in the cognitive sciences. The organizing committee consists of Peter Carruthers (Philosophy), Jeff Lidz (Linguistics), and Amanda Woodward (Psychology). Nominations of potential future colloquium speakers are welcome. Support for the colloquium is provided by the Departments of Linguistics, Philosophy, and Psychology, by the Neuroscience and Cognitive Science program (NACS), and by the College of Arts and Humanities.
Meetings are held on alternate Thursdays in Fall and Spring Semesters, 3.30-5.30 pm in Bioscience Research Building 1103. On the Thursday prior to each colloquium there will be a meeting devoted to discussion of some aspect of the speaker's work (same time, same place). All interested faculty and students are invited to attend.