Towards a Comprehensive Dynamics of Evolution-
Exploring the Interplay of
Selection, Neutrality, Accident, and Function
Organized by
Jim Crutchfield, Santa Fe Institute
and
Peter Schuster, University of Vienna
Sponsored by
The Santa Fe Institute
Preliminary Schedule
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- Sunday (4 October):
Arrival in Santa Fe. Hotel Check In.
- Monday AM (5 October):
- 8:15: Pickup at Hotel.
- 8:30: Continental Breakfast at SFI
- 9:00: Erica Jen, SFI Vice President: Evolutionary Dynamics at SFI
- 9:15: Organizers' Welcome
- 9:30: Tomoko Ohta: The Nearly Neutral Theory
- 10:30: Break
- 10:45: Manfred Eigen: How to Get from Here to There in Information Space
- 11:45: Break
- Monday PM:
- 12:00: Lunch
- 1:30: Mark Newman: A Rugged Landscape Model with a Tunable Degree of Neutrality
- 2:30: Peter Stadler: The Structure of Landscapes
- 3:30: Break
- 3:45: Christian Reidys: Evolution on Neutral Networks
- Tuesday AM (6 October):
- 8:30: Continental Breakfast at SFI
- 9:00: Martijn Huynen: The Dynamics of Genome Evolution
- 10:00: Lee Altenberg: Genome Growth and the Evolution of Evolvability
- 11:00: Break
- 11:15: Lionel Barnett: Recombination and Bimodality in Finite Population Evolutionary Dynamics
- Tuesday PM:
- 12:15: Lunch
- 1:30: Sergey Gavrilets: Dynamics of Speciation on Holey Adaptive Landscapes
- 2:30: Erik van Nimwegen: Evolution as the Unfolding of Phenotypic State Space
- 3:30: Break
- 3:45: Aviv Bergman: Dynamics of Punctuation
- 7:00: Dinner at Mustang Grill, 319 South Guadalupe Street
- Wednesday AM (7 October):
- 8:30: Continental Breakfast at SFI
- 9:00: Jamie Bacher: Unnatural Selection and Variation: The Road Less Traveled
- 10:00: Stefan Bornholdt: Modeling the Evolution of Genetic Networks
- 11:00: Break
- 11:15: Michael Lachmann: Information Sharing in Colonies: The Evolution of Cellular Information Processing and Intercellular Signalling
- 12:15: Lunch
- ... Afternoon open for sightseeing/discussions
- Thursday AM (8 October):
- 8:30: Continental Breakfast at SFI
- 9:00: Niles Eldredge: What Drives Evolution?
- 10:00: Peter Schuster: Molecular Insights into Evolutionary Optimization
- 11:00: Break
- 11:15: Melanie Mitchell: Evolutionary Design of Collective Computation
- Thursday PM:
- 12:15: Lunch
- 1:30: Kristian Lindgren: Coevolution of Strategies in N-Person Games
- 2:30: Guy Sella: A Principle for the Dynamic Persistence of Cooperation
- 3:30: Break
- 3:45: Andreas Wagner: Evolution of Mutational Robustness
- Friday AM (9 October):
- 8:30: Continental Breakfast at SFI
- 9:00: Stuart Kauffman: Biased Rules Governing Eukaryotic Gene Regulation Suggest Genetic Networks Lie Measurably in the Ordered Regime
- 10:00: Richard Palmer: Dynamical Models of Co-adapting Agents
- 11:00: Break
- 11:15: Gunther Eble: Developmental Spaces and Evolution
- 12:15 PM: Manfred Eigen: Closing Remarks
- 12:25 PM: Lunch
- ... Afternoon open for discussions
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