Constructing and Deconstructing Collectives: Signals to Space to Society - Agenda

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Working Group Dates

January 19-21, 2022

Agenda

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TIME	SPEAKER	TITLE
	Wednesday, January 19 Session chair: Michael Hochberg
9:00 - 9:10 AM	Michael Hochberg	Welcome
9:10 - 9:50 AM	Orit Peleg (University of Colorado)	The physics of firefly communications: Principles and predictions
9:50 - 10:30 AM	Noa Pinter-Wollman (University of California, Los Angeles)	The impact of architecture on collective outcomes
10:30 - 11:10 AM	Corina Tarnita (Princeton University)	Self-organization at the origin of biological construction
11:10 – 11:50 AM	Simon Garnier (New Jersey Institute of Technology)	On collective stupidity and the (de)regulation mechanisms of social systems
11:50 – 12:30 PM	General Discussion
	Thursday, January 20 Session chair: Jeremy Van Cleve
9:10 - 9:50 AM	Chaitanya Gokhale (Max Planck Institute, Plön, Germany)	Collective convictions catalyze cooperation
9:50 - 10:30 AM	Joshua Plotkin (University of Pennsylvania)	Emergence of behavioral norms within and between populations
10:30 - 11:10 AM	Alma Dal Co (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)	Spatial interaction networks inside microbial communities
11:10 – 11:50 AM	Will Ratacliff (Georgia Institute of Technology)	How physics scaffolds the origin of multicellularity: the non-adaptive origins of life cycles, development, and collective-level heritability
11:50 – 12:30 PM	General Discussion
	Friday, January 21 Session chair: Mirta Galesic
9:10 - 9:50 AM	Ralf Kurvers (Max Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany)	Understanding collective dynamics from individual-level cognitive processes, the social drift diffusion model
9:50 - 10:30 AM	Anne Kandler (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany)	The role of individual and collective memory in the human adaption process
10:30 - 11:10 AM	Sara Mathew (Arizona State University)	Cultural evolution of cooperative norms: insights from Kenyan pastoralists
11:10 - 11:50 AM	Paul Smaldino (University of California, Merced)	How social identity influences social dynamics
11:50 – 12:30 PM	General Discussion and Close