Life, Structure and Cognition (LSC) 2024: A Multitude of Times

Europe/Paris
Centre de conférences Marilyn et James Simons (Le Bois-Marie)

Centre de conférences Marilyn et James Simons

Le Bois-Marie

35, route de Chartres 91440 Bures-sur-Yvette
Description

The 2024 edition of the LSC Meeting, “A Multitude of Times,” will focus on time and its declinations within social, biological, and physical systems. The scope of this in-person 4 day-long meeting is to bring together scientists from the LSC Committee with invited experts and the IHES scientists to present the latest progress in understanding time as a multifaceted concept and its many implications on different aspects of life. The idea is to fuel discussions, brainstorm, and explore alternative paths toward understanding how the multitude of ways we can conceive time contribute together to the richness of Biology and Cognitive processes.

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INVITED SPEAKERS:
Yves Barral, Cellular Biology, ETH Zurich (CH)
Lera Boroditsky, Relationships between mind, world and language (UC San Diego, US)
Julien d’Huy, Evolution and spreading of myths (Collège de France, FR)
Margarete Diaz Cuadros, Species-specific developmental rates (Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard University, US)
Thomas Michaels, Theoretical Biological Physics, ETH Zurich (CH)
Leon Peshkin, Aging clocks (Harvard Medical School, US)
Joe Thornton, Molecular mechanisms of evolution (University of Chicago, US)
Warrick Roseboom, Time perception, perceived causality, and memory (University of Sussex, UK)
Cédric Villani, Application of Mathematics to Physics (IHES & Université de Lyon, FR)

More details in the Profiles sections.

ORGANIZERS:

  • Yves Barral, ETH Zurich
  • Eugene Koonin, NIH
  • Mikhail Gromov, IHES/Univ. Paris-Saclay & NYU
  • Nicolas Minc, Univ. Paris Cité/CNRS
  • Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, INRIA Bordeaux
  • Bob Penner, IHES/Univ. Paris-Saclay & UCLA
  • Yukiko Yamashita, MIT

EXECUTIVE ORGANIZATION: Grazia Gonella, ETH Zurich
CONTACT: lsc@biol.ethz.ch

    • 9:00 AM 9:25 AM
      Registration & Welcome coffee 25m
    • 9:25 AM 9:30 AM
      Welcoming words 5m
    • 9:30 AM 10:45 AM
      Aging: Traces of Time 1h 15m
      Speaker: Prof. Yves Barral (ETH Zurich)
    • 10:45 AM 11:15 AM
      Coffee break 30m
    • 11:15 AM 12:30 PM
      Can your Biological Clock Tick Bachwards? 1h 15m
      Speaker: Prof. Leon Peshkin (Harvard Mediccal School)
    • 12:30 PM 1:45 PM
      Lunch break & Posters 1h 15m
    • 1:45 PM 2:30 PM
      Structured Discussion 45m
    • 2:30 PM 7:00 PM
      Informal Discussion / Unstructured Time 4h 30m
    • 7:00 PM 7:30 PM
      Junior Flash-Talks 30m

      Julia Apiki (Massachussetts Institute of Technology)
      Role of protamine mRNA localization during spermatocyte development in drosophila melanogaster

      Aliaksandr Damenikan (ETH Zurich)
      The subtle art of not responding: Habituation to mating signals in budding yeast

      Kseniya Petrova (Harvard Medical School)
      Resetting the Clock: The Unique Germline Ability

      Gabriel Valdebenito (Massachusetts General Hospital)
      Role of the NADH/NAD+ ratio in defining the segmentation clock period

      Nicolas Yax (INRIA Bordeaux & ENS Paris)
      Inferring the phylogeny of large language models and predicting their performances in benchmarks

    • 9:00 AM 9:30 AM
      Welcome coffee 30m
    • 9:30 AM 10:45 AM
      Time Perception and Experience 1h 15m
      Speaker: Prof. Warrick Roseboom (University of Sussex)
    • 10:45 AM 11:15 AM
      Coffee break 30m
    • 11:15 AM 12:30 PM
      How Languages and Cultures Construct Time from Space 1h 15m
      Speaker: Prof. Lera Boroditsky (University of California in San Diego)
    • 12:30 PM 2:00 PM
      Lunch break & Posters 1h 30m
    • 2:00 PM 3:15 PM
      TBA 1h 15m
      Speaker: Prof. Cédric Villani (IHES & Université Lyon 1)
    • 3:15 PM 4:00 PM
      Structured Discussion 45m
    • 4:00 PM 7:00 PM
      Informal Discussion / Unstructured Time 3h
    • 9:00 AM 9:30 AM
      Welcome coffee 30m
    • 9:30 AM 10:45 AM
      Historical Memory in Molecular Evolution: Experimental Studies of Ancient Proteins 1h 15m
      Speaker: Prof. Joseph Thornton (University of Chicago)
    • 10:45 AM 11:15 AM
      Coffee break 30m
    • 11:15 AM 12:30 PM
      Evolution of Myth through Time 1h 15m
      Speaker: Prof. Julien D'Huy (Collège de France)
    • 12:30 PM 1:45 PM
      Lunch break & Posters 1h 15m
    • 1:45 PM 2:30 PM
      Structured Discussion 45m
    • 2:30 PM 4:30 PM
      Informal Discussion / Unstructured Time 2h
    • 6:00 PM 8:30 PM
      PUBLIC LECTURE: How Languages and Cultures Construct Time 2h 30m
      Speaker: Prof. Lera Boroditsky (University of California in San Diego)
    • 9:00 AM 9:30 AM
      Welcome coffee 30m
    • 9:30 AM 10:45 AM
      Metabolic Regulation of Developmental Speed in Mouse and Human Cells 1h 15m
      Speaker: Prof. Margarete Diaz Cuadros (Massachusetts Gen. Hospital)
    • 10:45 AM 11:15 AM
      Coffee break 30m
    • 11:15 AM 12:30 PM
      Time and Aging in Physics 1h 15m
      Speaker: Prof. Thomas Michaels (ETH Zurich)
    • 12:30 PM 1:45 PM
      Lunch break 1h 15m
    • 1:45 PM 2:30 PM
      Structured Discussion 45m
    • 2:30 PM 3:30 PM
      Future of LSC & LSC 2025 1h
    • 3:30 PM 7:00 PM
      Informal Discussion / Unstructured Time 3h 30m