NeST: Neuromorphic Stochastic Thermodynamics Agenda
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Organizers
David Wolpert, SFI, and Shantanu Chakrabartty, London School of Economics
Working Group Dates
December 10-12, 2025
Agenda
All times are Mountain Daylight Time (MT).
| Tuesday, December 9 | ||
| 6:30-8:30 PM | Opening reception, Hotel Santa Fe | |
| Wednesday, December 10 | ||
| 7:30 AM | Shuttle from Hotel Santa Fe to Santa Fe Institute | |
| 8:00-8:30 AM | Breakfast at Santa Fe Institute | |
| 8:30-8:45 AM | David Wolpert, SFI Welcome and Introduction |
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| 8:45-9:15 AM | SPEAKER TALK TITLE |
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| 9:15-9:30 AM | Discussion | |
| 9:30-10:00 AM | SPEAKER TALK TITLE |
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| 10:00-10:15 AM | Discussion | |
| 10:15-10:30 AM | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30-11:00 PM | SPEAKER TALK TITLE |
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| 11:00-11:15 AM | Discussion | |
| 11:15-11:45 PM | SPEAKER TALK TITLE |
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| 11:45-12:00 PM | Discussion | |
| 12:00-1:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:00-1:30 PM | SPEAKER TALK TITLE |
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| 1:30-1:45 PM | Discussion | |
| 1:45-2:15 PM | SPEAKER TALK TITLE |
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| 2:15-2:30 PM | Discussion | |
| 2:30-3:30 PM | Afternoon Break | |
| 3:30-4:00 PM | SPEAKER TALK TITLE |
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| 4:00-4:30 PM | Discussion | |
| 5:00 PM | Shuttle to Hotel Santa Fe | |
| 6:30 PM | Group dinner at ??? | |
| Thursday, December 11 | ||
| 7:30 AM | Shuttle from Hotel Santa Fe to Santa Fe Institute | |
| 8:00-8:30 AM | Breakfast at Santa Fe Institute | |
| 8:30-8:45 AM | Melanie Mitchell, SFI Welcome and Introduction |
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| 8:45-9:15 AM | Josh Tenenbaum, MIT Scaling AI the Human Way: Building Machines That Understand the World as We Do, and That We Can Understand |
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| 9:15-9:30 AM | Discussion | |
| 9:30-10:00 AM | Anna Rogers, IT University of Copenhagen Machine Reading, Fast and Slow: When Do Models “Understand” Language? |
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| 10:00-10:15 AM | Discussion | |
| 10:15-10:30 AM | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30-11:00 PM | Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Google | |
| 11:00-11:15 AM | Discussion | |
| 11:15-11:45 PM | Anna Ivanova, MIT Language Understanding Goes Beyond Language Processing |
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| 11:45-12:00 PM | Discussion | |
| 12:00-1:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:00-1:30 PM | Tal Linzen, NYU Language models can learn semantics, no matter how you define it |
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| 1:30-1:45 PM | Discussion | |
| 1:45-2:15 PM | Tom McCoy, Princeton Bridging the Divide Between Vectors and Symbols |
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| 2:15-2:30 PM | Discussion | |
| 2:30-3:30 PM | Afternoon Break | |
| 3:30-4:00 PM | Liz Spelke, Harvard Human Intelligence: Insights from Infants |
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| 4:00-4:15 PM | Discussion | |
| 4:15-4:45 PM | Yann LeCun, Meta AI, NYU | |
| 4:45-5:00 PM | Discussion | |
| 5:15 PM | Shuttle to Hotel Santa Fe | |
| 6:30 PM | Group dinner at La Choza | |
| Friday, December 12 | |
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| 7:30 AM | Shuttle from Hotel Santa Fe to Santa Fe Institute | |
| 8:00 - 8:30 AM | Breakfast at Santa Fe Institute | |
| 8:30-9:00 AM | Ida Momennejad, Microsoft Research Cognitive Maps in Large Language Models |
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| 9:00-9:15 PM | Discussion | |
| 9:15-9:45 AM | John Krakauer, Johns Hopkins and SFI What Understanding Adds to Cambrian intelligence |
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| 9:45-10:00 AM | Discussion | |
| 10:00-10:15 AM | Coffee Break | |
| 10:15-10:45 AM | Alison Gopnik, UC Berkeley and SFI Imitation and Innovation in AI and Children: Generative AIs Are Cultural Technologies, Not Agents |
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| 10:45-11:00 AM | Discussion | |
| 11:00-11:30 AM | Sonia Gipson Rankin, University of New Mexico Decoding the Law: What will LLMs Mean Under the Law? |
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| 11:30-11:45 AM | Discussion | |
| 11:45-1:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:00-1:30 PM | Dileep George, DeepMind | |
| 1:30-1:45 PM | Discussion | |
| 1:45-2:15 PM | Zenna Tavares, Columbia University and Basis Research Institute | |
| 2:15-2:30 PM | Discussion | |
| 2:30-3:30 PM | Afternoon Break | |
| 3:30-4:00 PM | Celeste Kidd, UC Berkeley Latent Diversity in Human Concepts |
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| 4:00-4:15 PM | Discussion | |
| 4:15-4:45 PM | Erica Cartmill, UCLA How Do We Know What an Animal Understands? |
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| 4:45-5:00 PM | Discussion | |
| 5:15 PM | Shuttle to Hotel Santa Fe | |
| Dinner on your own |