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Ph.D. Track in Cognitive Science

Ph.D. study of Cognitive Science at the University at Buffalo consists of a special Cognitive Science Track in the Ph.D. program of each of the participating departments. This chapter contains basic information on this program. Current and detailed information is available at the web site: http://wings.buffalo.edu/cogsci/Academic/ph.d.track.program.htm.

Participation in the track consists of five steps:

  • Admission as a Graduate Student Member of the Center for Cognitive Science
  • Taking the prescribed set of Cognitive Science courses
  • Attendance at colloquia of the Center for Cognitive Science
  • Having an interdisciplinary, Cognitive Science dissertation committee
  • Writing a Cognitive Science-related dissertation
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    New Building SW elevation

    This concept scheme shows the new $75M Engineering building viewed from the southwest. A bridge connects the western face of the building to Ketter Hall. Jarvis Hall is seen on the right. In 2008, UB demolished the trailers that had occupied this site.

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    Grants for research

    CSE faculty averages some $4.5 million annually in grants for research in areas that range from high-performance computing to data mining.

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    Cutting-edge research facilities

    CSE faculty are major participants in the new $200 million Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics.

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    High-performance

    CSE's MultiStore Research Group is funded by a $1 million NSF grant for the development of high-performance online data-storage systems.

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    Automated mail

    A CSE-affiliated research center developed the systems that postal agencies around the world use for automatically sorting hand-addressed mail.

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    New Building NE elevation

    This concept scheme shows the new $75M Engineering building viewed from the northeast. Ketter and Furnas Halls can be seen on the left, just south of the new building. Ground-breaking is scheduled for 2009.

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    Working together

    CSE faculty work with researchers in chemistry, the life sciences, the pharmaceutical sciences, media study, geography, and many other disciplines.

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    Supercomputing

    The CSE-affiliated Center for Computational Research is one of the leading academic supercomputing centers in the U.S.

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    Award-winning faculty

    The CSE faculty includes NSF CAREER award holders and ACM, IEEE, and AAAI fellows.

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    Algorithm therapy

    A geometric algorithm developed by CSE professor Jinhui Xu configures a set of radiation beams to destroy brain tumors in a form of computer-aided surgery.

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    New Building NW elevation

    This concept scheme shows the new $75M Engineering building viewed from the northwest. The edge of Ketter Hall is visible on the right, just east of the new building. Ribbon-cutting is scheduled for 2011.

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    Image analysis

    CSE professor Aidong Zhang is developing intelligent content-analysis programs to automatically analyze images, replacing human coding of semantic content.

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    Structural determination

    CSE professor Russ Miller is one of the authors of a program that can determine the structure of molecules as large as 2,000 atoms from X-ray diffraction patterns.

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    Handwriting recognition

    Pursuing work on document verification and identification, CSE researchers use machine-learning algorithms to study handwriting variability.

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    Crystal clear

    CSE Professor Russ Miller, along with Nobel Laureate Herbert Hauptman, developed an algorithm for crystal structure determination which is considered one of the top 10 algorithms of the 20th century by Computing in Science and Engineering Magazine.

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