Mellon Senior Forum Spring 2009 Schedule:
Mellon Senior Forum Spring Semester 2009
February 9
Ian Rose
Meg Holden
Ben Bokser
Rachel Bayefsky
February 23
Justin Kim
Sarah Mishkin
Ned Waller
Mia Crager
March 2
Dan Marks
Mitchell Ji
Jesse Day
Rachel Butler
March 30
Robert Kruse
Alison Gillmeister
Maria Spiegel
Sara Greenberg
April 6
Sharmi Das
Keneisha Sinclair
Kara Weisman
Eric Purlington
April 13
Esteban Tapetillo
Lisa Shull
Jonathan Larson
Nicole Villeneue
Eliza Kelley-Swift
April 27
Laura Strittmatter
Minh Tran
Venya De Silva
David Meunzer
Ashley Miles
Douglas Hofstadter
This Friday , April 17th, at 4:00PM, we will be hosting for a Morse Master's Tea Douglas Hofstadter, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of “Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid” and “I Am a Strange Loop”, among many other books, articles and essays.
Hofstadter is College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science at Indiana University in Bloomington. Hofstadter's many interests include music, analogy, visual art, creativity, consciousness, self-reference, translation and mathematics..
Hofstadter has inspired several generations of scholars to pursue the interdisciplinary study of Cognitive Science by showing how some of the most profound questions about the mind can be best understood by approaching those questions not from the narrow vantage point of one traditional discipline, but in ways that can effortlessly cut across computer science, philosophy, psychology and neuroscience, among other areas. This ability to integrate across the disciplines stems in part from Hoftstadter’s own diverse background as a undergraduate mathematics major, a graduate student in physics, and as a professor in departments of computer science, psychology, philosophy, history and philosophy of Science, and even comparative literature. This tremendous breadth, combined with his compelling writing style, has arguably made him the single most influential person in cognitive science.
If you would like to attend this tea, which starts at 4:00PM, we suggest that you arrive at least 15 minutes early. It is likely to be crowded and fill up rapidly. Mr. Hofstadter will talk about some of his current views of issues in cognitive science.
If you would like to have dinner with Mr. Hofstadter at Zinc at 6:00 PM (done by around 8:00PM and at Morse College's expense) , please respond to Mary Powers via this e-mail by Thursday at 12:00noon. We'll notify you later on Thursday if you are part of the dinner group. Because the number of seats is quite limited, be sure to respond by the deadline. If you are especially interested in attending, it may be helpful in selecting students for dinner to have a brief statement included with your response e-mail indicating why you would like to attend. Remember that, if you sign up for dinner it is expected that you will attend the tea as well. In addition, do not sign up unless you are sure you can make it; no-shows will deprive fellow Morsels from attending.