Satoshi Tomioka
The Rutgers Optimality Research Group meets on a biweekly basis to discuss current Optimality Theoretic developments in phonology, syntax, acquisition, processing, and related areas.

Meetings are held on Fridays at 10am, in 18 Seminary Place, Room 108. The current schedule is as follows.

This semester's meetings

Date	Speaker	Reading/title
January 23, 2009	Bruce Tesar (Rutgers)	Programming for Linguistic Research I
February 6, 2009	Bruce Tesar (Rutgers)	Programming for Linguistic Research II
February 20, 2009	Bruce Tesar (Rutgers)	Programming for Linguistic Research III
April 10, 2009	Bruce Tesar (Rutgers)	Programming for Linguistic Research IV
April 13, 2009	Satoshi Tomioka (UDel)	"Topics of Contrast" (Joint SURGE+RORG) (abstract)
April 14, 2009 (Tuesday, 12 noon)	Will Bennett (Rutgers)	The Distribution and Representation of Nasalized Clicks

The Programming for Linguistic Research series has a Sakai site with files used and created in the discussions.  For access to the Sakai site, contact Bruce Tesar.

*Date tentative

Last semester's meetings

Date	Speaker	Reading/title
November 21,  2008	Peter Staroverov (Rutgers) - Part II	More on OT-CC/Harmonic Serialism (title TBA) Read: McCarthy's "Candidate Chains and Phonological Opacity" [pdf] Optional: McCarthy's "Gradual Path to Cluster Simplification" [pdf]
November 7, 2008	Peter Staroverov (Rutgers)	Analyzing the Predictions of OT-CC: Rhythmic Vowel Deletion (Abstract [pdf], Handout [pdf]) Read: McCarthy's "The Serial Interaction of Stress and Syncope" [pdf] Optional reading: McCarthy's "Candidate Chains and Phonological Opacity" [pdf]
October 3, 2008	Crystal Akers (Rutgers)	Mini-meeting: Automating GEN and EVAL

Meetings from Spring 2008

Date	Speaker	Reading/title
March 27, 2008	Jonathan Wright (Rutgers)	Tone in Seoul Korean
April 4, 2008	Paula Houghton (Rutgers)	Variation in OT
April 25, 2008 at 11:30	Gaja Jarosz (Yale)	Statistical Learning of Phonology
May 2, 2008	Alan Prince (Rutgers)	OT by the book