Life, Structure and Cognition (LSC) 2023: Evolution & Learning

Jun 26, 2023, 9:00 AM → Jun 30, 2023, 6:00 PM Europe/Paris

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

The scope of this in-person week-long meeting that will take place at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) in Bures-sur-Yvette, is to bring together scientists from the LSC Committee with invited experts and the IHES scientists to present the latest progress in understanding evolution as a process of learning, and conversely, evolution of learning, in the context of their respective disciplines, to fuel discussion of the challenges and brainstorm on synergistic solutions.

INVITED SPEAKERS:

INVITED SENIOR GUESTS:

INVITED JUNIOR GUESTS:

More details in the Profiles section.

 

ORGANIZERS:

• Yves Barral, ETH Zurich
• Eugene Koonin, NIH
• Mikhail Gromov, IHES & NYU
• Bob Penner, IHES & UCLA

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:

• Yann LeCun, NYU & Meta AI
• Nicolas Minc, U. Paris Cité/CNRS
• Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, INRIA Bordeaux
• Yukiko Yamashita, MIT

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

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Monday, June 26

9:00 AM → 9:30 AM Welcome coffee

9:30 AM → 10:45 AM Natural Selection, Adaptation and Rationality: an Evolutionary Framework for Thinking of Cognition and Agency

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

10:45 AM → 11:15 AM Coffee break

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

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

12:30 PM → 1:45 PM Lunch break

1:45 PM → 3:00 PM 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"

3:00 PM → 6:00 PM Informal Discussion / Unstructured Time

Tuesday, June 27

9:00 AM → 9:30 AM Welcome coffee

9:30 AM → 10:45 AM Scaffolding and the Evolution of Individuality

Speaker: Prof. Paul Rainey (ESPCI Paris)

10:45 AM → 11:15 AM Coffee break

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

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

12:30 PM → 1:45 PM Lunch break

1:45 PM → 3:00 PM 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"

3:00 PM → 6:00 PM Informal Discussion / Unstructured Time

Wednesday, June 28

9:30 AM → 10:45 AM Yin and Yang: Learning in Evolution, Evolution in Learning

Speaker: Prof. Eörs Szathmáry (Eötvös University)

10:45 AM → 11:15 AM Coffee break

11:15 AM → 12:30 PM Robustness and Complexity

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

12:30 PM → 1:45 PM Lunch break

1:45 PM → 3:00 PM Informal Discussion & Closing Remarks

3:00 PM → 6:00 PM Future of LSC & LSC 2024 Organization

Thursday, June 29

9:00 AM → 9:30 AM Welcome coffee

9:30 AM → 10:45 AM The Free Energy Principle, a Neurobiological AI?

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

10:45 AM → 11:15 AM Coffee break

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

Speaker: Prof. Dan Jarosz (Stanford University)

12:30 PM → 1:45 PM Lunch break

1:45 PM → 3:00 PM Informal Discussion & Closing Remarks

5:00 PM → 6:30 PM 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.

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

Friday, June 30

9:30 AM → 12:00 PM Informal Discussion / Unstructured Time