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   Dagmar Sternad

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Northeastern University
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Boston, MA 02115

Phone : 617.373.5093

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THE BOSTON ACTION CLUB

The Boston Action Club presents a forum of interactive meetings on movement neuroscience for researchers in the Boston area. The series of talks is interdisciplinary bringing together presenters and audience from such disparate fields as Biology, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, Psychology and Cognitive Science, Physics, and Kinesiology. The presentations are held in a highly interactive style, followed by more interactions in social gatherings.

Schedule Spring 2012

Location:    340 Egan Research Center, Northeastern University
Time:          Thursdays, 5 - 6:30pm                                         
                   
                    January 12          Eve Marder
                                                (Biology, Brandeis University)

                                                  
                    February 2          CJ Heckman abstract
                    440 Egan             (Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago)

                    February 23        Cara Stepp
                                                (Biomedical Engineering, Boston University)

                    March 15            Heidi Schambra
                                                (Neurology, Columbia University)

                          
                    April 12               Daniel Corcos
                                                (
Neuroscience, University of Illinois at Chicago)

Schedule Fall 2011


Location:    340 Egan Research Center, Northeastern University
Time:          Thursdays, 5 - 6:30pm                                         

September 8      Tamar Flash
abstract
                            (Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Weizmann Institute, Israel)

September 15    Matthew Tresch abstract
                            (Biomedical Engineering, RIC, Northwestern University)

October 6           Edwin Robertson abstract
                            (Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University)

October 20        Ed Large (Center of Complex Systems and Brain Sciences
                           and Psychology, Florida Atlantic University)
abstract
                          
November 10    Andrew Biewener (Biology, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology,
                           Harvard University)
abstract

December 1       Amy Bastian (Neurology, Kennedy Krieger Institute
                           and Johns Hopkins University)
abstract

December 8      Dinesh Pai (Computer Science,
                          University of British Columbia, Canada)
abstract


Schedule Spring 2011

Location:    340 Egan Research Center, Northeastern University
Time:          Thursdays, 5 - 6:30pm                                         

January 13        Natalia Dounskaia (Life Sciences, Arizona State University)
abstract

February 3        Jack Dennerlein (School of Public Health, Harvard University)
abstract

February 17      Paul Dizio (Psychology and Neuroscience, Brandeis University)
abstract

March 10          Andrew Spence
                           (Royal Veterinary College, University of London, England)
abstract
                            
March 17          Richard Marsh (Biology, Northeastern University) abstract

April 14            Francisco Valero-Cuevas
    (Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California) abstract

May 19            John Krakauer
    (Neurology, Johns Hopkins University) abstract

June 2              Rebecca Spencer abstract
    (Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Massachusetts at Amherst)

June 30           
 Avijit Bakshi abstract
    (Physics and Neuroscience, Brandeis University)





Schedule Fall 2010

Location:    340 Egan Research Center, Northeastern University
Time:          Thursdays, 5 - 6:30pm                                         
 
                      September 16     Dagmar Sternad (Biology, ECE, & Physics, Northeastern University) abstract

                      September 30     Tom Roberts (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Brown University)
abstract

                      October 14          Marco Santello (Bioengineering, Arizona State University)
abstract

                      November 4        Richard Ivry 

                                                 (Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of California at Berkeley ) abstract
                                                                                                                
                      December 9        Vincent Cheung (Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT)
abstract



Schedule Spring 2010
           

Location:    340 Egan Research Center, Northeastern University
Time:         Thursdays, 5 - 6:30pm                                          
 
                     January 21            Cara Lewis (Physical Therapy, Boston University)   abstract

                     February 11           John Jeka (Kinesiology, University of Maryland)  abstract

                     March 18               Simon Giszter (Neurobiology and Anatomy, Drexel University)  abstract
                        
                     March 31 (wed)     Jim Collins (Biomedical Engineering, Boston University) abstract

                     April 29                 Madhu Venkadesan
                                                 (Engineering & Applied Sciences and Human Evolutionary Biology,
                                                  Harvard University) abstract

                     May 13                  William Warren (Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Brown University)
abstract                                                                                                                                                             
                     June 3                   Robert Ajemian (Brain and Cognitive Science, MIT) abstract

                     June 22 (Tue)        Paul Gribble & Jeremy Wong (University of Western Ontario) abstract
                                                                                                                       
                        




         
                 
       
Schedule Fall 2009
                         
Location:    340 or 206 Egan Research Center, Northeastern University
Time:         Thursdays, 5 - 6:30pm                                                    

                      September 3        Ken Holt (Physical Therapy, Boston University)   abstract

                      September 24      Joe Perkell (Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT)  abstract

                      October 15           Jean-Jacques Slotine
                                                  (Mechanical Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT)
abstract

       
              November 5         Simon Giszter (Neurobiology and Anatomy, Drexel University)  
abstract

                      December 3         Daniel Bullock (Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University abstract                                    

                                                    Schedule Spring 2009

                          January 22          Elliot Saltzmann (Physical Therapy, Boston University)  abstract
                                                     'Inter-unit Timing in Speech Production: Pattern, Stability, and Hierarchy'

                          February 12         Joseph Ayers (Biology, Northeastern University)  
abstract
                                                                       'Controlling Biomimetic Underwater Robots with Electronic Nervous Systems'

                          March 5               Igo Krebs (Mechanical Engineering, MIT) 
 abstract
                                                      'Neurorehabilitation and Robotics: What Have We Learned So Far'


                          March 26            
Emilio Bizzi (Brain and Cognitive Science, MIT)
                                                      'My Take on What We Know and What We Do Not Know about the Vertebrate Motor
                                                       System'


                          April 16               Paul Dizio (Psychology, Brandeis University)
  abstract
                                                      'Motor adaptations to limb and object dynamics in human arm movements'

                          May 14               
Maurice Smith (Engineering and Applied Science & Center for Brain Science,
                                                      Harvard University
)   abstract
                                                      'Credit Assignment, Time-scales, and Basic Elements in Motor Learning'
                                                      [Understanding of the Nitty-Gritty Details of Motor Learning and its Practical Import...]


                          June 4               
 Richard Marsh (Biology, Northeastern University)   abstract
                                                      'Mechanics and Energetics of In Vivo Muscle Function'

                          July 2                  Round Table Discussion on
                                                      Falsification as Scientific Stragegy in Movement Neuroscience
                                                     
                                                     
with short presentations by:
                                                       Neville Hogan, Mechanical Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Science, MIT
                                                       Eliot Saltzman, Physical Therapy, Boston University
                                                       Richard Marsh, Biology, Northeastern University
                                                       Paul DiZio, Psychology and Neuroscience, Brandeis University
                                                       Robert Ajemian, Brain and Cognitive Science, MIT
                                                       Alex Byrne, Philosophy, MIT

                                                               Penn State Action Club (1995-2008)

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