Agenda |
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| TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2008 | |
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| 8:20 AM | Start of Day 2 Conference Events |
| 8:30 AM | Keynote Address: General Peter W. Chiarelli, Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army (view video online) |
| 9:00 AM | Keynote Address: Dr. Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath, Director, National Brain Research Centre, India - Neuroscience |
| 9:45 AM | Keynote Address: Dr. Eve Marder, Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Neuroscience and Chair of the Biology Department of Brandeis University - Beyond Optimality: How Good Is Enough? |
| 10:30 AM | Break / Army Science and Technology Showcase opens for the day |
| 10:45 AM | Topical Panel: Neuroscience and Its Potential Applications Dr. James DiCarlo, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, McGovern Institute for Brain Research and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Brain Mechanisms Underlying Object Recognition Dr. Raja Parasuraman, University Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Human Factors and Applied Cognition, George Mason University - Neuroergonomics (view video online) (view presentation) Dr. Michelle Sams, Director, U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI) - ARI’s Research Perspectives on Neuroscience (view video online) (view presentation) Dr. Joe Tsien, Professor of Neurology and Co-Director of the Brain Discovery Institute at the Medical College of Georgia - The Memory Code |
| 12:45 PM | Lunch: Guest Speaker - Dr. Robert Walker, Assistant Deputy Minister for Science and Technology, Department of National Defence (Canada) and the Chief Executive Officer of Defence R&D Canada - Improving Coalitions Through Science and Technology (S&T) Cooperation (view video online) (view presentation) |
| 2:00 PM | Posters and Science & Technology Showcase |
| 2:45 PM | Parallel Technical Sessions A: Sensors and Information Processing B: Information Technology/C4ISR J: Behavioral Sciences and Human Performance K: Biomedical Technologies P: Advanced Modeling and Simulation |
| 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM |
Posters and Science & Technology Showcase |
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