Frontiers of Evolutionary Computation - Agenda
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Agenda (Subject to Change)
All times are Mountain Daylight Time (MDT). Each speaker slot includes a 30-minute talk followed by 20 minutes of discussion, followed by a 10-minute break.
| TIME | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| Wednesday, July 21 Session chair: Tyler Millhouse |
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| 9:00 - 9:30 AM | Stephanie Forrest and Risto Miikkulainen | Welcome and Introduction |
| 9:30 - 10:20 AM | Rod Brooks | Does Computation Make Us Blind to Essentials of Biological Evolution? |
| 10:30 - 11:20 AM | Steve Frank | The Evolutionary Paradox of Robustness, Genome Overwiring, and Analogies with Deep Learning |
| 11:30 - 12:20 AM | Ken Stanley | Open-Endedness, Quality Diversity, Deep Learning, and the Future of Evolutionary Computation |
| 12:30 - 1:00 PM | Dave Ackley, Discussant | Response and Group Discussion |
| Thursday, July 22 Session chair: Stephanie Forrest |
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| 9:00 - 9:50 AM | Josh Bongard | Evol2sim2real: Embodying the Products of Evolutionary Computation |
| 10:00 - 10:50 AM | Mike Lynch | Evolutionary Biology and Random Drift |
| 11:00 - 11:50 AM | Darrell Whitley | Simulated Evolution on Static Functions with Bounded Nonlinearity |
| 12:00 - 12:30 PM | Michael Hochberg, Discussant | Response and Group Discussion |
| Friday, July 23 Session chair: Risto Miikkulainen |
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| 9:00 - 9:50 AM | David Ha | World Models and Attention for Reinforcement Learning |
| 10:00 - 10:50 AM | David Krakauer | TBD |
| 11:00 - 11:50 AM | Una-May O'Reilly | Using Coevolutionary Algorithms to Study Adversarial Behavior |
| 12:00 - 12:30 PM | Aleksandra Faust, Discussant | Response and Group Discussion |
| 12:30 - 1:00 PM | All | Wrap-Up Discussion |