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The first is on Wednesday, February 6:

Actions, habits and episodes: Model-based, model free and memory-based decision-making

Peter Dayan
University College London

12:00pm Wednesday February 6
EH 4448 (colloquium room)

A wealth of behavioral neuroscience experiments has provided many constraints on the nature and neural underpinnings of distinct systems involved in animal and human decision-making. I will argue that one account for this diversity is a set of semi-quantifiable trade-offs between the statistical efficiency of the learning of the information required to make good decisions, and the computational efficiency of the methods for using this information in practice. An extra controller, associated with Pavlovian predictions, evades this normative analysis, and chooses mildly or wildly unfortunate responses.

Joint work with Nathaniel Daw, Mate Lengyel, Yael Niv, Ben Seymour


This talk is sponsored by the Center for Cognitive Architecture and the Psychology Department.

P.R.O.F.S. Lecture: Professor James Hansell

Time:
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location:
Michigan Union
Room:
U-Club
Type:
Lecture/Discussion

James Hansell is a Psychology professor with a focus on psychopathology and gender development. More information about his lecture coming soon!

Sponsor:
University Unions Arts & Programs

Additional Sponsors:
Mortar Board Society

Tech talks

Hip Hop Congress Midwest Summit

The University of Michigan Union is located at: 530 S. State St. in Ann Arbor, MI

Registration for U of M students is Free
Registration Fee for non-U of M students is: $10 (includes admission to all events)

Sustainability Fair + Climate Change Panel: "Focus the Nation" Events, Union Ballroom, 2-6 and 8-10 in Rackham-
The U of M's part of the largest Teach-In in U.S. History! At the Fair, get in touch with over 40 awesome environmental groups, win prizes, and eat free food! The panel at 8 pm will feature State Representatives, environmental scientists, and even some of the oil industry's highest profile businessmen.

The President's Ethics in Public Life Initiative would like you to be aware of the upcoming forum, "You've Been Poked: Privacy and Boundaries Online." Please join us on Wednesday, January 30, 7:00-9:00 PM in the Michigan Union - Pendleton Room. The Forum is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided.

This Forum is the third in a series of public forums for 2007-08 and will examine questions of privacy and information sharing on social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, and Friendster. The U-M Educational Theatre Company, a student theater troupe, will offer a realistic presentation of how information is seen and how it travels, followed by a panel that will discuss the policies and practices surrounding social networking sites. There will be opportunities for questions and audience discussion.

The panel will be moderated by Derek Collins, Co-Chair of the Ethics in Public Life Initiative. Confirmed panelists are: Jack Bernard, Adjunct Professor of Law, Education, Information, and Public Policy, and Assistant General Counsel, Office of General Counsel; Kerin Borland, Career Center Senior Associate Director; Paul Conway, Associate Professor, School of Information; and Judy Van Horn, Associate Director, Department of Athletics.

For additional information please visit: www.umich.edu/pres/ethics or contact Lisa Connolly (734) 615-6275, or EPL@umich.edu

SOLE's Mass Meeting in Room Wolverine B - Michigan Union Building, UM - 9-10 pm

RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/login.php

Lecture: CCS Noon Lecture Series

Revolutionary Alchemy

The January Revolution in Shanghai in early 1967 remains one of the most important events in the Cultural Revolution. Based on both existing and newly available materials, Professor Wu will seek to reconstruct the key sequence of events, and will argue that a different interpretation of the events in Shanghai is possible.

Speaker/Performer: Yiching Wu

Date: January 29, 2008, noon-1 p.m.

Cost: Free

Location: School of Social Work Building, Room 1636 (more info)

Sponsored by: Center for Chinese Studies

we would like your input as we
develop important tools for engaging visitors when the University of
Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) reopens in early 2009.

Each focus group will be presented with two entirely different
strategies - one a high tech multi-user interactive table called the
Dialogtable, and the other a low tech approach which will take the
form of a series of different print-based tools available to visitors
in the galleries.

If you participated in our November focus groups, please note that
there will be substantially new information to consider. In addition
to new topics and questions, the focus groups this time combine
discussion of both tools into one longer session.

Please join us on Monday, January 28 or Tuesday, January 29 for the
opportunity to shape UMMA's interpretive strategies as they evolve.

Food and refreshments will be served!



Tue, Jan 29
12:00 – 2:00, lunch will be served
4:30 – 6:30, light dinner will be served

All sessions will be held at UMMA's office in Rackham Graduate
Building, 915 E. Washington, Suite 0540 on the lower level.

Please feel free to forward this invitation to friends and colleagues
you think would be interested in participating.

Email lherbert@umich.edu and let her know which session you'd like to
attend.