The Stony Brook Mind/Brain Lecture Series
In our approach to supporting brain research, the Swartz Foundation operates from the philosophical and scientific perspective that properties of the mind, from sensory perception to learning to thinking to consciousness, are a direct product of the intrinsic physical properties of the brain. The mind is the brain at work.
Results from brain research are converging to show that much of what the brain does can be understood computationally. Understanding the relation between neural computation and mental function is now the work at hand. We believe that this goal is achievable. Getting there will require the collaboration of investigators from many disciplines, and perhaps it will require principles and technology not yet conceived.
Understanding the mind/brain relationship is an Everest of science, as well as one of the enduring conundrums of philosophy. This lecture series is presented by the Swartz Foundation and the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook to acquaint the University community and the public with current research and thought on this topic.
20th Annual Stony Brook Mind/Brain Lecture - April 4, 2016
Featuring Alan Alda, Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel and renowned mathematician Jim Simons
Previous Lectures:
2015:
William Bialek, PhD, Princeton University
2014:
William Newsome, PhD, Stanford Univ. School of Medicine
2013:
Michael Wigler, PhD, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
2012:
John Donoghue, PhD, MS, Brown University
2011:
Allison J. Doupe, MD, PhD, University of California, San Francisco
2010:
Nicholas D. Schiff, MD, Weill-Cornell Medical Center
2009:
Larry F. Abbott, PhD, Columbia University
2008:
Patricia Churchland, Chair of Philosophy, UCSD
2007:
Michael N. Shadlen, MD, PhD
2006 - 10th Anniversary Lecture:
Helen Fisher, PhD
2005:
Daniel Wolpert, PhD
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2004:
Charles F. Stevens, PhD
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2003
Joseph E. LeDoux, PhD
Professor of Neural Science and Psychology and Director, Center for the Neuroscience of Fear and Anxiety
New York University
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2002
Vilanyur Ramachandran MD, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience
University of California at San Diego
2001
Michael Merzenich PhD
Professor of Neuroscience
University of California at San Francisco
2000
Paul Churchland PhD
Professor of Philosophy
University of California at San Diego
1999
Michael Gazzaniga PhD
Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience
Dartmouth College
1998
Terence Sejnowski MD, PhD
Professor of Computational Biology
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
1997
Antonio Damasio MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology
University of Iowa
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