CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 7 January 2009, vol. 24:15

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                    CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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7 January 2009                 Stanford                Vol. 24, No. 15
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                     A weekly publication of the
       Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI)
      Stanford University, Cordura Hall, Stanford, CA 94305-4101
                    http://www-csli.stanford.edu/
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         ACTIVITIES FROM 7 JANUARY 2009 TO 16 JANUARY 2009

WEDNESDAY, 7 JANUARY 2009

 3:45pm Psychology Department Colloquium [7-Jan-09]
        Jordan Hall 420:041
        "Statistical learning through communicative inference
         in early language acquisition"
        Michael Frank
        MIT
        Reception to follow at 5:00 in 1st floor Psychology Lounge
        https://www.stanford.edu/dept/psychology/colloquium

THURSDAY, 8 JANUARY 2009

 4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum [8-Jan-09]
        Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
        "Disciplined Projections: Physics, Computing,
         and the Star Wars Debate"
        Rebecca Slayton
        Science, Technology and Society (Stanford)
        http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
        http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_static?page=forum.html

MONDAY, 12 JANUARY 2009

 7:00pm Presidential Lecture in the Humanities and Arts [12-Jan-09]
        Building 320, Room 105 (Geology corner)
        "The Evolution of "Why" as the Key to Free Will"
        Daniel C. Dennett
        Tufts University
        Follow-up discussion at 4pm the next day (below)
        http://shc.stanford.edu/events/DanielDennettSHC2009.htm

TUESDAY, 13 JANUARY 2009

 4:00pm Presidential Discussion [13-Jan-09]
        Humanities Center, 424 Santa Teresa Street
        "The Evolution of "Why" as the Key to Free Will"
        Daniel C. Dennett
        Tufts University
        http://shc.stanford.edu/events/DanielDennettSHC2009.htm

 5:00pm Linguistics Department Colloquium [13-Jan-09]
        "Statistical Independence in Syntactic Change"
        Anthony Kroch
        University of Pennsylvania
        http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kroch/home.html
        http://www.stanford.edu/dept/linguistics/colloq/
        http://www.stanford.edu/dept/linguistics/colloq/thisquarter.html

WEDNESDAY, 14 JANUARY 2009

 3:45pm Psychology Department Colloquium [14-Jan-09]
        Jordan Hall 420:041
        "Seeing Human"
        Nick Epley
        University of Chicago
        https://www.stanford.edu/dept/psychology/colloquium

THURSDAY, 15 JANUARY 2009

 4:15pm SSP10: Symbolic Systems Forum [15-Jan-09]
        Bldg. 380:380C (Math Corner)
        "Computational models of visual processing"
        Gary Cottrell
        University of California, San Diego
        http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_events
        http://symsys.stanford.edu/ssp_static?page=forum.html

FRIDAY, 16 JANUARY 2009

 3:30pm Stanford Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop [16-Jan-09]
        Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
        "Synchronic and diachronic perspectives on the deictification
         of English adjectives"
        Tine Breban
        University of Leuven and Stanford University
        http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/
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                             ANNOUNCEMENT

       Friday and Saturday, March 13-14, ALL DAY, Cordura 100

                      10th Annual Semantics Fest
               (call for abstracts will be coming soon)

The upcoming 10th Semantics Fest will be an expanded event that will
include presentations by current members of the local semantics
community as well as presentations by alumni who participated in
workshops events while they were graduate students.

Please contact one of the workshop organizers if you would like to
present your work in the workshop.  This year's organizers are Scott
Grimm (sgrimm .. stanford.edu), Sven Lauer (sven.lauer .. stanford.edu),
Beth Levin (beth.levin .. stanford.edu), and Uli Sauerland
(yasa .. stanford.edu).

Additional information about Workshop events, including a preliminary
listing of Spring Quarter events is posted on the workshop's web site:

            http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/

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list, semantics@lists.stanford.edu.  To subscribe, unsubscribe, change
your subscription options, or get general information about the mailing
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