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Agenda



TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2008
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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