November 12
Public Lectures

09:30 – 17:00

09:30 – 09:40 Mayor’s opening address
09:40 – 09:50 Israel Rosenfield Introduction

09:50 – 10:30 Tay Kheng Soon “Bridge the Gap”
10:30 – 11:10 Kazuo Okanoya “Biological Pre-adaptions to Language: From Birdsong to Human Language”

Coffee break

11:25 – 12:05 Israel Rosenfield “Evolution: Big Surprise”
12:05 – 12:35 Huang YongPing “On work”

LUNCH

13:50 – 14:30 Gu Chun “Net Communities and the Recombination of Chinese Societies”
14:30 – 15:10 R. Beau Lotto “Coloring in the Brain: Illusion of Illusion”

coffee break

15:25 – 16:05 Rafael Nunez “Time and the mind: A view from Cognitive Science”
16:05 – 16:45 Ma QingYun “In-Frontier”