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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0F243E'>Some of you might be interested in this Sage Center talk on Thursday:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0F243E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> sage-center-bounces@psych.ucsb.edu [mailto:sage-center-bounces@psych.ucsb.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Sage Center for the Study of the Mind<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, January 06, 2013 7:35 AM<br><b>To:</b> sage-center@psych.ucsb.edu; tribune@psych.ucsb.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> [Sage-center] Sage Center lecture by Sebastian Seung: Thursday, January 10, 4 p.m., Mosher Alumni House, 2nd floor<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b>Sebastian Seung</b><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b>Sage Center Lecture</b><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b>“Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are”</b><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b>Thursday, January 10</b><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b>4 p.m., Mosher Alumni House, 2nd floor</b><o:p></o:p></p><p><span lang=EN style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'><img width=81 height=81 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:part1.06020205.09090609@sagecenter.ucsb.edu"></span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span lang=EN>Sebastian Seung is Professor of Computational Neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the Department of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He studied theoretical physics with David Nelson at Harvard University and completed postdoctoral training with Haim Sompolinsky at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Before joining the MIT faculty, he was a member of the Theoretical Physics Department at Bell Laboratories. He has been a Packard Fellow, Sloan Fellow, McKnight Scholar, and PopTech Science Fellow.<br><br>Dr. Seung directs the scientific programs of WiredDifferently, an organization that supports “citizen neuroscience.” Its first project is EyeWire, which mobilizes volunteers to map the retinal connectome. The ultimate goal of WiredDifferently is to test the hypothesis that the uniqueness of a person, from memories to mental disorders, lies in his or her connectome. His research has been communicated to the general public by the TED talk “I am my connectome” and book <em>Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are</em>.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p>Dr. Seung’s Sage Center lecture is Thursday, January 10 at 4 p.m. in the Mosher Alumni House, 2nd floor. His description of this talk follows:<br>---<br>Every person is unique. You know this, of course, but it has been surprisingly difficult to pinpoint where, precisely, your uniqueness resides. Scientists have speculated that the properties of your mind, from memories to mental disorders, are encoded in the unique pattern of connections between your brain’s neurons. This hypothesis is plausible, but solid evidence has been lacking, because we have never been able to see the brain’s "wiring" clearly. Sebastian Seung will explain how anyone, anywhere, can help test the hypothesis by joining EyeWire.org, the first online community for mapping neural connections.<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'> <o:p></o:p></p><pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Sage Center for the Study of the Mind<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>University of California, Santa Barbara<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9660<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Phone: 805-893-5006<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Fax: 805-893-3228<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:sagecenter@psych.ucsb.edu">sagecenter@psych.ucsb.edu</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://www.sagecenter.ucsb.edu/">http://www.sagecenter.ucsb.edu/</a><o:p></o:p></pre></div></body></html>