The University of Newcastle's School of Psychology Newsline: New Professors Talk by Simon Dennis: Smartphones can Augment Human Memory

Friday 16 August 2013

New Professors Talk by Simon Dennis: Smartphones can Augment Human Memory

Please join us to hear a talk by the new Head of School of Psychology, Prof Simon Dennis, titled "The quantified self: Harnessing smartphone technology to understand and augment human memory"

Why do we forget things? Professor Simon Dennis' goal is to eliminate forgetting and create technologies that can remember and retrieve information for us.

Professor Dennis was recently appointed Head of the School of Psychology. He holds qualifications in computer science, mathematics and psychology from the University of Queensland and his research expertise is in human memory and language processing.

When: Wednesday, 28 August 2013, 06:15 pm - 07:45pm

Where: Newcastle Museum, Honeysuckle

Cost: Free

RSVP to Corporate Relations at corporate-relations@newcastle.edu.au or +61 2 4921 6699

Refreshments will be served after the lecture.

Add the date to your smartphone! :-)

About the School

The School of Psychology is part of the Faculty of Science at the University of Newcastle, Australia. The University is ranked in the top 1% of universities in the world and in the top 13 of universities in Australia (QS World University Rankings, 2017-18; Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2017-18).

The School is located at the Callaghan campus near Newcastle, about two hours drive north of Sydney, and the Ourimbah campus, about one hour north of Sydney. The School includes over 30 academic staff, over 800 undergraduate students, over 170 Masters students, and over 50 PhD students.

We have a strong record of research performance in four key research groupings: clinical and health psychology, social and organisational psychology, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience. The 2018 Excellence in Research for Australia assessment rated the School’s research as “well above world standard” in the areas of psychology and cognitive science, placing the School in the top third of psychology departments in Australia.

For more information about the School, please visit our webpages or contact us at psyc-admin@newcastle.edu.au

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