A Tribute to the Work of Jean-Claude Falmagne
February 27 & 28, 2014
Social Science Plaza A, Duncan Luce Conference Room
Thursday, February 27
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Time |
Speaker Name |
Title |
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9:30 – 9:45 a.m. |
Don Saari, UC Irvine |
Opening Remarks and Welcome |
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9:45 – 10:45 a.m. |
Louis Narens, UC Irvine |
“Meaningfulness and the Possible Psychophysical Laws Revisited” |
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10:45 – 11:00 a.m. |
Break |
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11:00 – 12 noon |
Fred Roberts, Rutgers University |
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12:00 – 1:30 p.m. |
Lunch |
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1:30 – 1:45 p.m. |
Bif Baker, ALEKS Corporation |
"J.-Cl. and ALEKS" |
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1:45 – 2:45 p.m |
Jean-Claude Falmagne, UC Irvine |
“Deriving meaningful scientific laws from abstract, “gedanken” type, axioms: three examples” |
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2:45 – 3:45 p.m. |
David Eppstein, UC Irvine |
“Structures in solution spaces: three lessons from Jean-Claude” |
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3:45 – 4:00 p.m. |
Break |
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4:00 – 5:00 p.m. |
Ragnar Steingrimsson, UC Irvine |
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5:00 p.m. |
Adjourn for the day |
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Friday, February 28
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Time |
Speaker Name |
Title |
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9:30 – 9:45 a.m. |
Morning Remarks |
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9:45 – 10:45 a.m. |
Geoff Iverson, UC Irvine |
“Jean-Claude Falmagne's Remarkable Career: The Psychophysics Years, 1972-1982” |
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10:45 – 11:00 a.m. |
Break |
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11:00 – 12 noon |
Virginia Richards, UC Irvine |
"Auditory Psychophysics" |
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12:00 – 1:30p.m. |
Lunch |
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1:30 – 2:30 p.m. |
Jean-Paul Doignon, Universite Libre de Bruxelles |
“Polytopes in mathematical psychology”
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2:30 – 3:30 p.m |
Michel Regenwetter, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
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3:30 – 3:45 p.m. |
Break |
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3:45 – 4:45 p.m. |
George Sperling, UC Irvine |
"Formally defining and describing the mechanisms of attention" |
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4:45 – 5:00 p.m. |
Discussion |
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5:00 p.m |
Conference Ends |
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