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
      Registration & Welcome coffee
    • 1
      Welcoming words
    • 2
      Aging: Traces of Time
      Speaker: Prof. Yves Barral (ETH Zurich)
    • 10:45 AM
      Coffee break
    • 3
      Can your Biological Clock Tick Bachwards?
      Speaker: Prof. Leon Peshkin (Harvard Mediccal School)
    • 12:30 PM
      Lunch break & Posters
    • 4
      Structured Discussion
    • 2:30 PM
      Informal Discussion / Unstructured Time
    • 5
      Junior Flash-Talks

      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
      Welcome coffee
    • 6
      Time Perception and Experience
      Speaker: Prof. Warrick Roseboom (University of Sussex)
    • 10:45 AM
      Coffee break
    • 7
      How Languages and Cultures Construct Time from Space
      Speaker: Prof. Lera Boroditsky (University of California in San Diego)
    • 12:30 PM
      Lunch break & Posters
    • 8
      TBA
      Speaker: Prof. Cédric Villani (IHES & Université Lyon 1)
    • 9
      Structured Discussion
    • 10
      Informal Discussion / Unstructured Time
    • 9:00 AM
      Welcome coffee
    • 11
      Historical Memory in Molecular Evolution: Experimental Studies of Ancient Proteins
      Speaker: Prof. Joseph Thornton (University of Chicago)
    • 10:45 AM
      Coffee break
    • 12
      Evolution of Myth through Time
      Speaker: Prof. Julien D'Huy (Collège de France)
    • 12:30 PM
      Lunch break & Posters
    • 13
      Structured Discussion
    • 14
      Informal Discussion / Unstructured Time
    • 15
      PUBLIC LECTURE: How Languages and Cultures Construct Time
      Speaker: Prof. Lera Boroditsky (University of California in San Diego)
    • 9:00 AM
      Welcome coffee
    • 16
      Metabolic Regulation of Developmental Speed in Mouse and Human Cells
      Speaker: Prof. Margarete Diaz Cuadros (Massachusetts Gen. Hospital)
    • 10:45 AM
      Coffee break
    • 17
      Time and Aging in Physics
      Speaker: Prof. Thomas Michaels (ETH Zurich)
    • 12:30 PM
      Lunch break
    • 18
      Structured Discussion
    • 19
      Future of LSC & LSC 2025
    • 20
      Informal Discussion / Unstructured Time