Program
Monday, July 4
- 9.20 - 9.30: Welcome (Harold de Vladar, Erwin Frey)
- 9.30 - 10.45: Nick Barton,
"What limits the amount of information that can be accumulated and maintained by selection?" - 10.45 - 11.00: Coffee break
- 11.00 - 12.15: Ellen Baake,
"Ancestral processes with selection" - 12.15 - 13.30: Lunch
- 13.30 - 14.45: Joe Peck,
"What is adaptation, and how should it be measured?" - 14.45 - 16.00: Chris Watkins,
"Probability models of evolution: sexual and asexual genetic algorithms that satisfy detailed balance" - 16.00 - 16.15: Coffee break
- 16.15 - 17.30: Reception at Parmenides Foundation and Introduction by Albrecht von Müller
Tuesday, July 5
- 9.20 - 10.30: Mauro Mobilia,
"The influence of environmental noise and demographic fluctuations on evolutionary dynamics" - 10.30 - 10.45: Coffee break
- 10.45 - 11.45: Erwin Frey,
"Evolutionary games of condensates" - 11.45 - 12.00: Walk to LMU
- 12.00 - 13.15: Carey Nadel,
"Spatial structure, cooperation, and competition in biofilms (Talk at the LMU)" - 13.15 - 14.30: Lunch
- 14.30 - 15.45: Dieter Braun,
"Origin of life in thermal gradients" - 15.45 - 17.00: Yuval Simons & Guy Sella,
"A generative model for the genetic architecture of quantitative traits"
Wednesday, July 6
- 9.30 - 10.45: Marc Harper,
"Characterizing finite population dynamics via information theory" - 10.45 - 11.00: Coffee break
- 11.00 - 12.15: Katerina Bodova,
"Do evolving quantitative traits optimize entropy?" - 12.15 - 13.30: Lunch
- 13.30 - 14.45: Omri Tal,
"Typical genotypes: utilizing a core information theoretic notion in population genetics" - 14.45 - 16.00: Torsten Held,
"Survival of the simplest: evolutionary limits to microbial complexity" - 16.00 - 16.15: Coffee break
- 16.15 - 17.30: Harold de Vladar,
"Information enters biology when there is a distinction between genotype and phenotype"
Please also see the Parmenides Foundation website for program and informations.