Workshops

Spring 2014

Computational Theories of Evolution

Mar 17, 2014 to Mar 21, 2014

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Click on the titles of individual talks for abstract, slides and archived video.

All events take place in the Calvin Lab Auditorium.

Monday, March 17th, 2014
8:30 am–8:50 am		Coffee and Check-In
8:50 am–9:00 am		Opening Remarks
9:00 am–11:00 am		Presentation of Evolvability Leslie Valiant, Harvard University, Vitaly Feldman, IBM Almaden, Varun Kanade, UC Berkeley, and Elaine Angelino, Harvard University
11:00 am–11:30 am		Break
11:30 am–12:15 pm		Molecular Errors, Cryptic Sequences, and Evolvability Joanna Masel, University of Arizona
12:15 pm–1:45 pm		Lunch
1:45 pm–2:30 pm		Autocatalytic Sets and Models of Early Life Mike Steel, University of Canterbury
2:30 pm–3:15 pm		The Evolution of Evolvability Lee Altenberg, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research
3:15 pm–4:00 pm		Break
4:00 pm–5:00 pm		Discussion of Evolvability

Tuesday, March 18th, 2014
8:30 am–9:00 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:00 am–10:00 am		Presentation of Evolution and Algorithms Christos Papadimitriou, UC Berkeley and Umesh Vazirani, UC Berkeley
10:00 am–10:30 am		Break
10:30 am–11:15 am		What Limits the Efficiency of Natural Selection? Nick Barton, IST Austria
11:15 am–12:00 pm		Interaction-based Evolution: How Natural Selection and Non-accidental Mutation Work Together Adi Livnat, Virginia Tech
12:00 pm–1:30 pm		Lunch
1:30 pm–2:15 pm		Variation in Regulatory Information Within and Between Species Mike Snyder, Stanford University
2:15 pm–3:15 pm		Break
3:15 pm–4:15 pm		Discussion of Evolution and Algorithms
4:15 pm–5:00 pm		Birth and Death of Fragile Chromosomal Regions in Mammalian Evolution Pavel Pevzner, UC San Diego

Wednesday, March 19th, 2014
8:30 am–9:00 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:00 am–9:45 am		Evolution of Dynamic Models for Embryonic Patterning and Their Geometric Representation Eric Siggia, Rockefeller University
9:45 am–10:30 am		Break
10:30 am–11:15 am		How to Treat Evolutionary Algorithms as Ordinary Randomized Algorithms Carsten Witt, Technical University of Denmark
11:15 am–12:00 pm		Measurement Scale and the Dissipation of Information Shape Biological Pattern Steve Frank, UC Irvine
12:00 pm–1:30 pm		Lunch
1:30 pm–2:15 pm		A New Research Program: Evolutionary Neurodynamics Chrisantha Fernando, Queen Mary University of London
2:15 pm–3:00 pm		New Hypothesis About the Evolution of Human Brain Size David Haussler, UC Santa Cruz
3:00 pm–3:30 pm		Break
3:30 pm–4:15 pm		Generalization of the Central Models of Evolutionary Biology in the (post)Genomic Era Eugene Koonin, National Center for Biotechnology Information
4:15 pm–6:00 pm		Reception

Thursday, March 20th, 2014
8:30 am–9:00 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:00 am–9:30 am		Presentation of Evolvability Paul Valiant, Brown University
9:30 am–10:00 am		Break
10:00 am–10:45 am		The Blessing and the Curse of Multiplicative Updates Manfred Warmuth, UC Santa Cruz
10:45 am–11:15 am		Break
11:15 am–12:00 pm		Algorithms for Multityped Branching Processes Mihalis Yannakakis, Columbia University
12:00 pm–1:30 pm		Lunch
1:30 pm–2:15 pm		The Rate of Progress of Evolution Nicholas Pippenger, Harvey Mudd College
2:15 pm–2:30 pm		Break
2:30 pm–3:15 pm		Evolution in Fluctuating Environments Edo Kussell, New York University
3:15 pm–3:30 pm		Break
3:30 pm–5:00 pm		Simons Fellows Session Shishi Luo, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Andrew Wan, Tsinghua University, and Daniel Weissman, IST Austria

Friday, March 21st, 2014
8:30 am–9:00 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:00 am–9:45 am		A Population Genetic Model of Disease Susceptibility and Other Quantitative Traits Guy Sella, Columbia University
9:45 am–10:30 am		Break
10:30 am–11:15 am		Defensive Complexity in Antagonistic Coevolution Carl Bergstrom, University of Washington
11:15 am–12:00 pm		Darwinian Machine Learning: Principles of Machine Learning in Evo-devo, Evo-eco and Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality Richard Watson, University of Southampton
12:00 pm–1:30 pm		Lunch
1:30 pm–5:00 pm		Wrap-up Session and General Discussion Daniel Fisher, Stanford University, Jeff Clune, University of Wyoming, Artem Kaznatcheev, McGill University, Aviv Bergman, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Keki Burjorjee, Zite Inc.