Principles of Biological Computation - Agenda

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Sunday May 18

08:00-09:00 Continental Breakfast: Noyce Conference Room, SFI
09:00-12:15 Session I -- Garrett Kenyon (Chair): 09:00-09:15 Chris Wood, SFI Vice President: Welcome, SFI overview; 09:15-09:45 Melanie Mitchell, Portland State University: Biological Computation: A View from Computer Science; 09:45-10:30 Peter Balsam, Columbia: TBD; 10:30-10:45 Break; 10:45-11:30 James DiCarlo, MIT: TBD; 11:30-12:15 Stephanie Forrest, UNM: TBD
12:15-13:30 Lunch: At the Santa Fe Institute
13:30-17:30 Session II -- Chris Wood (Chair): 13:30-14:15 Atsushi Iriki, RIKEN: Neurobiology of primate intellectual evolution through intentional niche construction; 14:15-15:00 Eugene Izhikevich, Neuroscience Institute: Neural Darwinism; 15:00-15:15 Break; 15:15-16:00 Adam Kepecs, CSHL: Computational algorithms and neural mechanisms for estimating decision confidence; 16:00-16:45 Tom Kepler, Duke: TBD; 16:45-17:30 General discussion on issues sparked by talks
19:00-21:00 Workshop Banquet: (Location to be announced)

8:00-9:00am Continental Breakfast, Noyce Conference Room, SFI

9:00-9:45 Harel Shouval, TMC: TBD

9:45-10:30 David Lubensky, University of Michigan: TBD

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45-11:30 Bruno Olshausen, Berkeley: TBD

11:30-12:15 Liam Paninski, Columbia: TBD

12:15-1:30 Lunch

1:30-2:15 Ila Fiete, Caltech: TBD

2:15-3:00 Jose Principe, U of Florida: TBD

3:00-3:15 Break

3:15-4:00 Aravi Samuel, Harvard

4:00-4:45 James Marshall, Bristol: TBD

4:45-5:30 General discussion on issues sparked by talks

(Participants on their own for dinner & remainder of evening)

8:00-9:00am Continental Breakfast, Noyce Conference Room, SFI

9:00-9:45 Barak Pearlmutter, National University of Ireland, Maynooth: TBD

9:45-10:30 Michael Wall, LANL: TBD

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45-11:15 Garrett Kenyon, LANL: TBD

11:45-12:30 General discussion on issues sparked by talks

12:30-2:00 Lunch

2:00pm Depart