Upcoming Language Science Talks – February 2014
Every week there are talks and events in language science all across the university. Here is a sampling of what’s coming up. Please drop us a line to let us know about other talks to include in these mailings (ckajtar@umd.edu).
Thursday, February 6
12:30pm – 1:30pm
Language Science Lunch Talk: Alix Kowalski (HESP) – Cognitive Control and Verb Production in Aphasia
St Mary’s Multipurpose Room
1:00pm – 2:00pm
HESP Colloquium: Craig Formby (U of Alabama) – Clinical trials of sound-therapy-based interventions for tinnitus and reduced sound tolerance
Maryland Room
3:30pm – 5:30pm
Cognitive Science Colloquium: Joan Maling (Linguistics, NSF & Brandeis) – Syntactic Change in Progress: The New Impersonal Construction in Icelandic
1103 Bioscience Research Building
Friday, February 7
9:00am – 12:00pm
Outreach event: Paint Branch High School Visit to UMD
Various Labs at UMD
10:15am – 11:30am
NACS Seminar: Nina Kraus (Northwestern) · Music and language: Reading, rhythm and neural synchrony
1103 Bioscience Research Building
Monday, February 10
10:30am – 11:30am
SyntaxTalk: Laura Kalin · Aspect and Argument Licensing in Neo-Aramaic
TBA
Tuesday, February 11
Practice job talk: Dave Kush (Yale University)
Tue, February 11, 5:00pm – 6:30pm
MMH 1108B
Wednesday, February 12
12:30pm – 1:30pm
Education Talk: Dr. Ioulia Kovelman (U of Michigan) – “Shining light on bilingual language, reading and cognitive development with fNIRS optical brain imaging”
1121 Benjamin Building
2:00pm – 3:30pm
Practice job talk: Alexis Wellwood (Linguistics)
Wed, February 12, 2:00pm – 3:30pm
MMH 1108B
Friday, February 14 and Saturday, February 15
9:00am – 5:00pm
PHLINC 2 Conference: Language and Other Minds
Maryland Room, MMH
Wednesday, February 19
11:00am – 12:00pm
CLIP Talk: Mohamed Yahya (Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Saarland University) – Question Answering over the Web of Linked Data
3258 A.V. Williams Building (AVW)
Thursday, February 20
12:30pm – 1:30pm
Language Science Lunch Talk: Katie Leech (HDQM)
St Mary’s Multipurpose Room (map)
3:30pm – 5:30pm
Cognitive Science Colloquium: Gary Lupyan (Psychology, Illinois) – Is Human Cognition Language-Augmented Cognition?
Biology-Psychology (BPS) 1208
Wednesday, February 26
11:00am – 12:00pm
CLIP Talk: David Graus (University of Amsterdam)
3258 A.V. Williams Building (AVW)
Thursday, February 27
12:30pm – 1:30pm
Language Science Lunch Talk: Yuichi Suzuki (SLA)
St Mary’s Multipurpose room
3:30pm – 4:30pm
Talk: John Baugh (Washington U in St Louis) – Linguistic Profiling and the Law
2212B Benjamin Building (map)
Friday, February 28
10:15am – 11:30am
NACS Seminar: Melissa Coleman (Claremont Mckenna) · Wired to cooperate: Neural basis of cooperative behavior in a neotropical wren
1103 Bioscience Research Building