Lost and Found: A Science Symposium about Navigation
The 2014 science symposium will focus on the important and challenging topic of navigation and way-finding. By bringing together experts in human cognitive neuroscience and neural computation, animal life science, anthropology and culture, space science, current and future technology, and emergency management, the Radcliffe Institute will conduct a broad, cross-disciplinary investigation about what it means to find our way.
This event is free and open to the public.
Animal Navigation
WELCOMING REMARKS
Lizabeth Cohen, Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Howard Mumford Jones, Professor of American Studies, Department of History, Harvard University
John Huth Donner, Professor of Science, Codirector of the Science Program, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
ANIMAL NAVIGATION
Susanne Åkesson, Professor and Principal Investigator, Centre for Animal Movement Research, Lund University (Sweden)
Introduced by Scott Edwards, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Curator of Ornithology
Alexander Agassiz, Professor of Zoology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
Human Culture and Navigation
Richard Feinberg, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Kent State University
Introduced by Silvia Benedito, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Lost Person Behavior
Robert Koester, Technical Instructor at Virginia Department of Emergency Management , Visiting Fellow, Kingston University (United Kingdom)
Introduced by Alyssa A. Goodman, Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University
Technology and the Future
Hiawatha Bray, Technology Writer, Boston Globe
George Hobbs, Research Scientist, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (Austalia)
Introduced by Margo I. Seltzer, Herchel Smith Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University
