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Prof. Pawan Sinha: Learning to See in Late Childhood
MIT Club of Northern California 100th Anniversary Event

Date: Tuesday, 10/23/2007
Time: 6:00pm
Venue: Google
Location: Seville Tech Talk Room, Building 40,
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA

Cost: Pre-registration: $20 for MITCNC members; $30 for non-members, walk-ins $30
Contact: charleszhou@alum.mit.edu
Register at: http://www.mitcnc.org/Events_Single.asp?eventID=1347

Please join us for the first in our series of MITCNC Centennial celebrations, featuring Pawan Sinha, Associate Professor of Vision and Computational Neuroscience at MIT, and a graduate of IIT Delhi.

Prof. Sinha’s work is inspirational, cutting edge, and internationally acclaimed.

The Sinha Laboratory uses a combination of experimental and mathematical modeling techniques to understanding how the human brain recognizes objects and how this skill is learned through visual experience. Professor Sinha's experimental work involves studying the vision impaired, including children with autism and a unique population of children in India who have recovered sight following prolonged periods of congenital blindness. In this context, Professor Sinha has launched a humanitarian and scientific initiative named Project Prakash. The goal of this project is not only to derive clues regarding the nature and development of high-level visual skills, but also to help blind children get treatment and to create rehabilitation routines to help them overcome visual impairments.

The MITCNC is also honored to present MIT Inspirational Teacher Awards to three Bay Area high school teachers at this event. These award-winning teachers were nominated by current MIT students in recognition of their role in inspiring and encouraging students to pursue careers in science and technology.

Special thank you to Lightspeed Ventures for sponsoring the MIT 100th Anniversary series, and to Google for hosting this event.

Time: 6:00 - 7:00 networking
7:00 - 7:30 MIT Inspirational Teacher Awards
7:30 - 9:00 Prof Sinha presentation and Q&A