Frontiers of Evolutionary Computation - Agenda

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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
8:30 - 9:00 AM	Stephanie Forrest and Risto Miikkulainen	Welcome and Introduction
9:00 - 9:50 AM	Rod Brooks	Does Computation Make Us Blind to Essentials of Biological Evolution?
10:00 - 10:50 AM	Steve Frank	The Evolutionary Paradox of Robustness, Genome Overwiring, and Analogies with Deep Learning
11:00 - 11:50 AM	Ken Stanley	Novelty Search in Evolutionary Computation
12:00 - 12:30 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