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LIFE Spring Academy
Ann Arbor, MI
May 4-10, 2003


Tentative schedule - Locations subject to change

SUNDAY, MAY 4

Location

5 – 7 pm

UM/Berlin Faculty Steering Committee Meeting

Zanzibar


MONDAY, MAY 5

Breakfast on your own

8:45 am

Welcome

6050 ISR

9:00

Jurgen Baumert

6050 ISR

10:30

break

11:00

Susan Nolen-Hoksema

6050 ISR

12:30 pm

Lunch with speakers

Catered at ISR

1:00

Break out session: collaborative research projects/individual meeting with faculty

Various ISR rooms

2:30

Richard Alexander:
The evolutionary background of the human lifetime

6050 ISR

4:00

break

4:30

Gerd Gigerenzer:
Smart heuristics: A Darwinian approach to cognition

6050 ISR

6:00

break

6:30

Dinner: extended conversations with speakers

Gandy Dancer


TUESDAY, MAY 6

Breakfast on your own

9:00 am

Sociocultural panel: Twila Tardif, James Lee, Ram Mahalingam
Cultural Psychology of Gender

6050 ISR

11:30

break

12:00 pm

Lunch with speakers

Michigan Union

12:30

Ulman Lindenberger:
Lifespan differentiation/dedifferentiation theory of intelligence:
Methodological advances and recent findings

2239 Lane Hall

2:00

break

2:30

Evolution panel: Beverly Strassmann, Dan Kruger:
Human mortality patterns in an integrative life course perspective

6050 ISR

5:00

break

5:30

Break out session: collaborative research projects/ individual meeting with faculty

Lane Hall rooms

7:00

Dinner: extended conversations with speakers

Gratzi


WEDNESDAY, MAY 7

Breakfast on your own

9:00 am

Jeff Hutsler, Betsy Lozoff

6050 ISR

11:30

break

12:00 pm

Lunch with speakers

Catered at ISR

1:00

Break out session: dissertation/research proposals

Various ISR rooms

2:30

break

3:00

Biology of Developmental Issues: Thad Polk and Rachael Seidler:
Age-related and experience-dependent changes in the neural organization
of cognition

6050 ISR

5:30

break

6:00

Posters and cocktails

2239 Lane Hall

7:00

break

7:30

Dinner: extended conversations with speakers or individual faculty meetings

Zanzibar


THURSDAY, MAY 8

Breakfast on your own

8:30 am

Karl Ulrich Mayer

6050 ISR

10:00

break

10:30

James Jackson

6050 ISR

12:00 pm

Lunch with speakers

Zingerman's

3:00

Robert Zucker

6050 ISR

4:30

break

5:00

Break out session: dissertation/research proposals

Lane Hall rooms

6:00

Posters and cocktails

2239 Lane Hall

7:30

Dinner: collaborative research groups

Gropus choice


FRIDAY, MAY 9

Breakfast on your own

9:00 am

John Schulenberg:
Transitions and trajectories: Implication for how we think about and study
developmental change

6050 ISR

10:30

break

11:00

Hans Merkens

6050 ISR

12:30pm

Lunch

Catered at ISR

2:00

Robert Zucker

6050 ISR

3:30

break

4:00

Dick Nisbett

6050 ISR

5:30

break

6:00

Meet with faculty of the day and dinner

Common Grill


SATURDAY, MAY 10

Breakfast on your own

9:00 am

Alexandra Freund

6050 ISR

10:30

break

11:00

Jacque Eccles

6050 ISR

12:30pm

Lunch

Catered at ISR

1:00

Poster session

2:30

Collaborative project meetings

6050 ISR

6:00

Dinner

Outdoor barbecue