Past Seminars 2004

January 30, 2004
Ellen Covey, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
"The effect of context on information processing in the auditory system"

February 6, 2004
Socrates Deligeorges
Hearing Research Center
Boston University
"Auditory Biomimetics: A Modeling Study of Temporal Processing in the Auditory System"
Socrates will give a very informal presentation of his dissertation work, which he will be presenting in his thesis defense next week.
Abstract available here

February 13, 2004
Tino Trahiotis, Ph.D.
Department of Neuroscience
University of Connecticut Health Center
"Sounds that are 'not there' can determine how well you can detect sounds that 'are there'" OR
"Binaural detection with spectrally nonoverlapping signals and maskers: Evidence for masking by aural distortion products"

February 20, 2004
Practice Talks for ARO

February 27, 2004 --- NO SEMINAR --- ARO WEEK

March 5, 2004
Rajiv Narayan
Kamal Sen's Lab
Hearing Research Center
Boston University
"Discrimination of Natural Sounds in the Songbird Auditory Forebrain"
Abstract available here

March 12, 2004 --- BU SPRING BREAK! --- NO SEMINAR.

March 19, 2004 --- BME DEPARTMENT CONSTRAINTS --- NO SEMINAR.

March 26, 2004 --- SPECIAL TIME --- 12-1 PM
Alain de Cheveigne', Ph.D.
Ircam -- CNRS
Paris, France
"Correlation network model of auditory processing"
Abstract available here

April 2, 2004
Joby Joseph
Department of Electrical Communication Engineering
India Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
"Why only two ears? Some indicators from the study of source separation using two sensors"

April 9, 2004
Hanfeng Yuan
Communications Biophysics Lab, R.L.E.
M.I.T.
"Tactual display of consonant voicing to supplement lipreading"

April 16, 2004
Nell Cant, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Neurobiology
Duke University
"The Organization of the Mammalian Inferior Colliculus"
Abstract available here

April 23, 2004
John Middlebrooks, Ph.D.
Professor
Kresge Hearing Research Institute
University of Michigan Medical School
"Searching for Auditory Spatial Representation Without a Map"
Abstract available here

April 27, 2004, TUESDAY -- 10:30 AM
Ed Rubel, Ph.D.
Bloedel Center for Hearing Research
University of Washington, Seattle
"Cellular Specializations and Inhibitory Circuitry Associated with Binaural Processing in the Avian Brainstem"

April 30, 2004
Heather Read
Department of Psychology
University of Connecticut
"Functional organization of two thalamocortical and cortico-cortical pathways in the cat lemniscal auditory system"

May 7, 2004
Tony Zador, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
"The Cocktail Party Problem: Computation in the Auditory Cortex"
Abstract available here

May 14, 2004
Ray Goldsworthy
HST Program in Speech, Hearing, and Biosciences
M.I.T.
"Predicting the Intelligibility of Cochlear-Implant Processed Speech"
Abstract available here

October 15, 2004
Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp
Institute of Technical Acoustics
Technical University Berlin
Berlin, Germany
"The Relevance of Soundscape Research to the Assessment of Noise Annoyance at the Community Level"
Abstract available here

October 22, 2004
Bill Hellman
Professor Emeritus
Physics Department
Boston University
"Frequency-time dispersion products revisited"
Abstract available here

October 29-30, 2004
BINAURAL BASH
held at Sargent College Building
Please contact Nancy Maguire for more information

November 12, 2004
Lisa Shatz
Associate Professor
Electrical Engineering Department
Suffolk University
"The effect of hair bundle shape on hair bundle hydrodynamics of non-mammalian inner ear hair cells for the full frequency range"

November 19, 2004
Annette Taberner
M.I.T.
"Auditory Nerve Responses in the Mouse: Normals and Knockouts"

November 26, 2004 NO SEMINAR - Thanksgiving

December 10, 2004 SPECIAL EVENT/LOCATION
* * New Location: Computer Graphics Lab, Room 203, 111 Cummington * *
Glenn Bresnahan
Director, Scientific Computing & Visualization
Information Technology
Boston University
"Distributed Earlab and Deep Vision Display Wall Demonstration"

December 24, 2004 NO SEMINAR

December 31, 2004 NO SEMINAR