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   <td> Stephanie Forrest and Risto Miikkulainen</td>
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   <td>Welcome and Introduction</td>
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   <td> Rod Brooks</td>
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   <td>Does Computation Make Us Blind to Essentials of Biological Evolution?</td>
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   <td> Steve Frank </td>
   <td> Steve Frank </td>
   <td>The Evolutionary Paradox of Robustness, Genome Overwiring, and Analogies with Deep Learning</td>
   <td>The Evolutionary Paradox of Robustness, Genome Overwiring, and Analogies with Deep Learning</td>
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   <td>11:00 - 11:50 AM</td>
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   <td> Ken Stanley </td>
   <td> Ken Stanley </td>
   <td>Novelty Search in Evolutionary Computation</td>
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   <td>12:00 - 12:30 PM</td>
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   <td>John Miller, Discussant</td>
   <td>John Miller, Discussant</td>
   <td>Response and Group Discussion</td>
   <td>Response and Group Discussion</td>

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Agenda

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: TBD

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 Novelty Search in Evolutionary Computation
12:30 - 1:00 PM John Miller, Discussant Response and Group Discussion

Thursday, July 22
Session chair: TBD

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 Jordan Pollack, Discussant Response and Group Discussion

Friday, July 23
Session chair: TBD

9:00 - 9:50 AM David Ha World Models and Attention for Reinforcement Learning
10:00 - 10:50 AM Eva Jablonka Non-Genetic Evolutionary Mechanisms
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