Midwest Undergraduate Cognitive Science Conference

The 11^th Annual Midwest Undergraduate Cognitive Science Conference (MUCSC) is almost here! This day-long event in Luddy Hall on April 20^th will feature undergraduate speakers from a variety of disciplines, a poster session, two fantastic keynote talks, and lunch with a graduate student panel. Please RSVP here and encourage your friends to attend.

Keynote speakers:

Simon DeDeo (9:30 am, Luddy Hall Auditorium)

Simon DeDeo is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Social and Decision Science, and external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. He leads the Laboratory for Social Minds, which studies the cognitive origins of human culture from the Axial Age to the 21st Century.

Douglas Eck (2:00 pm, Luddy Hall Auditorium)

Douglas Eck is a research scientist at Google working on Magenta, a project exploring the role of machine learning in the process of creating art and music. His research involves creating smart tools to help artists with their processes and designing machine learning algorithms to generate media.

The full schedule can be found on our website along with the link to RSVP or submit a poster. If you have any further questions, please contact iu.mucsc@gmail.com.