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

17 juin 2024, 09:00 → 20 juin 2024, 18:00 Europe/Paris

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

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:
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)
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)

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

lundi 17 juin

09:00 → 09:30 Welcome coffee

09:30 → 10:45 Natural Selection, Adaptation and Rationality: an Evolutionary Framework for Thinking of Cognition and Agency

Orateur: Prof. Philippe Huneman (CNRS/Université Paris 1 Sorbonne)

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 → 12:30 Order and Chaos in Biological Evolution

Orateur: Prof. Purificación López-García (CNRS & Université Paris-Saclay)

12:30 → 13:45 Lunch break

13:45 → 15:00 Posters

Michael BARNETT "How Blind Evolution Evolves Foresight"
Anjali BHAT "Psychedelics and Hierarchical Organisation in the Brain"
Dániel CZÉGEL "Emergence of Darwinian Evolution in Bayesian Collectives"
Aliaksandr DAMENIKAN "Learning to Ignore Deceptive Signals: Pheromone Habituation in Budding Yeast"
Agathe DU CREST DE VILLENEUVE “The Ontological and Epistemological Stakes of Generalizations of Darwinism in Social Sciences, Especially Regarding the Evolution of Sexual and Gender Characteristics”
Solange HAAS “How Uncertainties in Mathematical Models Influence Public Decisions for Biodiversity Conservation”
Gautier HAMON "Learning Sensorimotor Agency in Cellular Automata"
Grégoire SERGEANT-PERTHUIS "Optimization over Presheaves"
Adam YANAI "Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Creative Problem Solving"

15:00 → 18:00 Informal Discussion / Unstructured Time

mardi 18 juin

09:00 → 09:30 Welcome coffee

09:30 → 10:45 Scaffolding and the Evolution of Individuality

Orateur: Prof. Paul Rainey (ESPCI Paris)

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 → 12:30 Evolution and Learning in Cancer

Orateur: Prof. Itai Yanai (New York University Langone Health)

12:30 → 13:45 Lunch break

13:45 → 15:00 Posters

Michael BARNETT "How Blind Evolution Evolves Foresight"
Anjali BHAT "Psychedelics and Hierarchical Organisation in the Brain"
Dániel CZÉGEL "Emergence of Darwinian Evolution in Bayesian Collectives"
Aliaksandr DAMENIKAN "Learning to Ignore Deceptive Signals: Pheromone Habituation in Budding Yeast"
Agathe DU CREST DE VILLENEUVE “The Ontological and Epistemological Stakes of Generalizations of Darwinism in Social Sciences, Especially Regarding the Evolution of Sexual and Gender Characteristics”
Solange HAAS “How Uncertainties in Mathematical Models Influence Public Decisions for Biodiversity Conservation”
Gautier HAMON "Learning Sensorimotor Agency in Cellular Automata"
Grégoire SERGEANT-PERTHUIS "Optimization over Presheaves"
Adam YANAI "Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Creative Problem Solving"

15:00 → 18:00 Informal Discussion / Unstructured Time

mercredi 19 juin

09:30 → 10:45 Yin and Yang: Learning in Evolution, Evolution in Learning

Orateur: Prof. Eörs Szathmáry (Eötvös University)

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 → 12:30 Robustness and Complexity

Orateur: Prof. Steven A. Frank (UC Irvine)

12:30 → 13:45 Lunch break

13:45 → 15:00 Informal Discussion & Closing Remarks

15:00 → 18:00 Future of LSC & LSC 2024 Organization

jeudi 20 juin

09:00 → 09:30 Welcome coffee

09:30 → 10:45 The Free Energy Principle, a Neurobiological AI?

Orateur: Prof. Rosalyn Moran (King’s College London)

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 → 12:30 Epigenetics Beyond the Chromosome: From Molecules to Ecosystems

Orateur: Prof. Dan Jarosz (Stanford University)

12:30 → 13:45 Lunch break

13:45 → 15:00 Informal Discussion & Closing Remarks

15:00 → 16:30 Public Lecture (in French) & Apero (at IJM - Central Paris) - La curiosité : apprentissage, évolution et intelligence artificielle

Qu’est-ce-que la curiosité ? Quelle est son rôle dans l’apprentissage, et quelle peut être son origine au cours de l’évolution ? Je présenterai un programme de recherche qui vise à répondre à ces questions en construisant des modèles basés sur l’intelligence artificielle. Je discuterai aussi comment cela ouvre de nouvelles perspectives en intelligence artificielle, avec la mise au point de machines « autotéliques », c’est à dire de machines qui peuvent apprendre à représenter et à sélectionner leurs propres buts. Je discuterai enfin comment ces machines peuvent potentiellement s’intégrer à la culture humaine, et comment elles pourraient être des outils pour aider les enfants à apprendre,et aider les scientifiques à explorer des systèmes complexes en biologie ou en physique.

Orateur: Prof. Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (Directeur de l'équipe Flowers à l'INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest et à l'Université de Bordeaux)