MMUF-SSRC New York Regional Lecture

This year's speaker for the New York Regional Lecture will be MMUF PhD Dr. Calandra Tate Moore, Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the City University of New York's College of Staten Island. Calandra was selected as an MMUF fellow at Xavier University and earned her PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Maryland at College Park. Her research interests in applied statistics are linked to a wide range of interdisciplinary applications including but not limited to health, psychology, biology, text processing, and artificial intelligence tasks. The title of her talk will be "Using Statistical Techniques to Study Infant Motor Development in the Context of Sleep." This talk will reflect on the nature of how sleep functions to consolidate newly learned information and skills into memory. She will outline details of her longitudinal case study and discuss the role of statistical methods in data-mining, relationship discovery, and time-series analysis to appropriately address the correspondence of sleep experiences and motor skills. Fellows at all levels of the program, including current undergraduates, are welcome to attend, as are coordinators.

For more information or to RSVP, contact Margaret Deason-Coughlin at deason-coughlin@ssrc.org. Please note that if you are not living in the New York City area but would like to attend, you must RSVP to ensure a spot at the lecture.