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

17 juin 2024, 09:00 → 20 juin 2024, 19:00 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:
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

lundi 17 juin

09:00 Registration & Welcome coffee

1 Welcoming words

2 Aging: Traces of Time

Orateur: Prof. Yves Barral (ETH Zurich)

10:45 Coffee break

3 Can your Biological Clock Tick Bachwards?

Orateur: Prof. Leon Peshkin (Harvard Mediccal School)

12:30 Lunch break & Posters

4 Structured Discussion

14:30 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

mardi 18 juin

09:00 Welcome coffee

6 Time Perception and Experience

Orateur: Prof. Warrick Roseboom (University of Sussex)

10:45 Coffee break

7 How Languages and Cultures Construct Time from Space

Orateur: Prof. Lera Boroditsky (University of California in San Diego)

12:30 Lunch break & Posters

8 TBA

Orateur: Prof. Cédric Villani (IHES & Université Lyon 1)

9 Structured Discussion

10 Informal Discussion / Unstructured Time

mercredi 19 juin

09:00 Welcome coffee

11 Historical Memory in Molecular Evolution: Experimental Studies of Ancient Proteins

Orateur: Prof. Joseph Thornton (University of Chicago)

10:45 Coffee break

12 Evolution of Myth through Time

Orateur: Prof. Julien D'Huy (Collège de France)

12:30 Lunch break & Posters

13 Structured Discussion

14 Informal Discussion / Unstructured Time

15 PUBLIC LECTURE: How Languages and Cultures Construct Time

Orateur: Prof. Lera Boroditsky (University of California in San Diego)

jeudi 20 juin

09:00 Welcome coffee

16 Metabolic Regulation of Developmental Speed in Mouse and Human Cells

Orateur: Prof. Margarete Diaz Cuadros (Massachusetts Gen. Hospital)

10:45 Coffee break

17 Time and Aging in Physics

Orateur: Prof. Thomas Michaels (ETH Zurich)

12:30 Lunch break

18 Structured Discussion

19 Future of LSC & LSC 2025

20 Informal Discussion / Unstructured Time