2000 HEARING RESEARCH SEMINARS

January 14, 2000
Reinier Kortekaas, Ph.D.
Visiting Scientist
Communication Research Lab
Institute for Speech, Language, and Hearing
Northeastern University
"Perceptual channel weights in level discrimination"

Feb. 4 - NO HRC SEMINAR
CNS seminar at 2 pm (677 Beacon Street):
Prof. James Simmons
Department of Neuroscience
Brown University
"Sonar performance and processing in echolocating bats:
How coarse, sparse neural arrays lead to high-resolution imaging"

February 11, 2000
Ram Naidu
Graduate Student
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Hearing Research Center
Boston University
"Basilar Membrane Tension"

March 3, 2000
Clint Baldwin, Ph.D.
Department of Otolaryngology
Boston University Medical School
"Understanding the Genetic Basis of Age-Related Disease"

March 10, 2000
Hannes Muesch, Ph.D. Cand.
Center for Communication and Digital Signal Processing
Institute for Hearing, Speech and Language
Northeastern University
"A Model of Speech Recognition Based on Statistical Decision Theory"
(abstract available upon request agreen@bu.edu)

March 24, 2000
Kenneth Grundfast, M.D.
Dept. of Otolaryngology
Boston University School of Medicine
"Molecular Biology of the Ear"

March 31, 2000 - NO SEMINAR - BME DAY

April 7, 2000
Ariel Salomon
Speech Communication Lab
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Boston University
"Using an auditory model for detection of dynamic acoustic events in a speech signal"

April 12, 2000 - SPECIAL SEMINAR - 2:00 PM WEDNESDAY
Elizabeth Olson, Ph.D.
Princeton University
"Adding a dimension to cochlear mechanics"

April 14, 2000
Ruth Litovsky, Ph.D.
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Hearing Research Center
Boston University
"Physiological Studies and Neural Mechanisms of Echo Suppression in the Inferior Colliculus of the Cat"

April 21, 2000
Michael McKenna, M.D.
Department of Otolaryngology
Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary
"Etiology of Otosclerosis"

April 28, 2000
William Peake, Ph.D.
Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
"Structural variations among skulls and middle ears of Felid species and their acoustic consequences" (topic area)

May 5, 2000 - NO SEMINAR - BME Senior Project Presentations

May 12, 2000
Susan Voss, Ph.D.
Eaton Peabody Laborartory
Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary
"Effects of tympanic-membrane perforations on middle-ear sound transmission: measurements, mechanisms, and models"

May 19, 2000
Ian Bruce, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Neural Encoding Laboratory and Center for Hearing Sciences
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
"Physiological experiments and modeling for hearing aid design"

May 26, 2000 - ASA Practice Session

June 2, 2000 - No seminar - ASA

June 9, 2000 -- 1 pm -- Room 113 in 5 Cummington St.-- NOTE TIME AND PLACE
Volker Hohmann, Ph.D.
Visiting Scientist
Boston University Hearing Research Center
and
Medical Physics Group
University of Oldenburg, Germany
"Technical Possibilities for Digital Signal Processing in Hearing Aids"

June 16, 2000
Rhona Hellman, Ph.D.
Northeastern University
"Loudness growth at high frequencies: Implications for modeling loudness"

June 26, 2000 - NOTE SPECIAL DAY
Birger Kollmeier, Ph.D.,M.D.
University of Oldenburg, Germany
"Application of auditory models to speech technology: Do speech recognizers need hearing aids?"

June 30, 2000
Clarke Cox, Ph.D.
Dept. of Otolaryngology
Boston University School of Medicine
"Auditory Neuropathy"

July 7, 2000
Diana Ma
Doctoral Candidate
Boston University Marine Program
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
"The Neural Basis of Directional Hearing in the Goldfish, Carassius auratus"

July 20, 2000 - 2 pm
Madhavi Vedula
M.S. Candidate
Boston University
"Localization of sources in the horizontal plane using ITD"

July 28, 2000 -- NO SEMINAR

NO SEMINARS IN AUGUST

September 8, 2000
Ken Hancock, Ph.D. Candidate
Biomedical Engineering
Hearing Research Center
Boston University
"Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus projection neurons studied using in vivo intracellular recordings and theoretical techniques"

September 22, 2000
Oded Ghitza, Ph.D.
Lucent Technologies
Bell Labs
"On modulation transfer functions and the bandwidth of the auditory critical-band envelope detectors"

September 29, 2000
Jelle Atema, Ph.D.
Professor and Director
Marine Program
Boston University
"Smelling or Hearing the Reef From a Distance?"

October 6-7, 2000
BINAURAL BASH
Send email if you want information about Bash 2001.

October 13, 2000
Ruth Litovsky, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate
Hearing Research Center
Boston University
"Binaural Hearing in Infants and Children"

October 27, 2000
Andrew Oxenham, Ph.D.
Research Laboratory of Electronics
MIT
"Behavioral measures of the phase response of the human auditory system"

November 3, 2000
Andrew Oxenham, Ph.D.
Research Laboratory of Electronics
MIT
"Behavioral measures of the phase response of the human auditory system - Part II"

November 9, 2000 (THURSDAY 10:30 am)
Egbert de Boer, Ph.D.
Academic Medical Center
University of Amsterdam
The Netherlands
"From measurement to model - and back"

(No seminar on Friday, November 10 - Veteran's Day)

November 17, 2000
William Hellman, Ph.D.
Hearing Research Center
Boston University
"Loudness and intensity JNDs revisited"

(No seminar on Friday, November 24 - Thanksgiving)

December 1, 2000 - 11:30 am - !! NOTE SPECIAL TIME !!
Jean Krause and Louis Braida, Ph.D.
Research Laboratory of Electronics
MIT
"Cued Speech: An Effective Tool for Language Acquisition and Prospects for Its Automatic Generation"

December 8, 2000
Laurel H. Carney, Ph.D.(click for web page)
Hearing Research Center
Boston University
"Auditory Phase Opponency: A Neural Mechanism for Sensitivity to Low-Frequency Signals in Noise"

December 15, 2000
Peter Cariani, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Otology
Harvard Medical School
and
Research Associate
Eaton Peabody Laboratory
Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary
"Neural timing nets for forming and separating auditory objects"