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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 and a 10-minute break.

TIME SPEAKER TITLE

Tuesday, August 31st
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 Open-Endedness, Quality Diversity, Deep Learning, and the Future of Evolutionary Computation

Wednesday, September 1st
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

Thursday, September 2nd
Session chair: TBD

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