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All events take place in the Calvin Lab Auditorium.

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Coffee and Check-In
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Opening Remarks
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Presentation of Evolvability
Leslie Valiant (Harvard University), Vitaly Feldman (Apple), Varun Kanade (UC Berkeley), Elaine Angelino, Harvard University
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Break
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Molecular Errors, Cryptic Sequences, and Evolvability
Joanna Masel, University of Arizona
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Lunch
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Autocatalytic Sets and Models of Early Life
Mike Steel (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
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The Evolution of Evolvability
Lee Altenberg, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research
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Break
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Discussion of Evolvability
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Coffee and Check-In
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Presentation of Evolution and Algorithms
Christos Papadimitriou (Columbia University), Umesh Vazirani (Simons Institute, UC Berkeley)
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Break
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What Limits the Efficiency of Natural Selection?
Nick Barton (IST Austria)
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Interaction-based Evolution: How Natural Selection and Non-accidental Mutation Work Together
Adi Livnat (University of Haifa)
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Lunch
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Variation in Regulatory Information Within and Between Species
Mike Snyder, Stanford University
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Break
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Discussion of Evolution and Algorithms
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Birth and Death of Fragile Chromosomal Regions in Mammalian Evolution
Pavel Pevzner, UC San Diego
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Coffee and Check-In
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Evolution of Dynamic Models for Embryonic Patterning and Their Geometric Representation
Eric Siggia (The Rockefeller University)
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Break
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How to Treat Evolutionary Algorithms as Ordinary Randomized Algorithms
Carsten Witt, Technical University of Denmark
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Measurement Scale and the Dissipation of Information Shape Biological Pattern
Steve Frank, UC Irvine
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Lunch
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A New Research Program: Evolutionary Neurodynamics
Chrisantha Fernando, Queen Mary University of London
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New Hypothesis About the Evolution of Human Brain Size
David Haussler (UC Santa Cruz)
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Break
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Generalization of the Central Models of Evolutionary Biology in the (post)Genomic Era
Eugene Koonin, National Center for Biotechnology Information
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Reception
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Coffee and Check-In
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Presentation of Evolvability
Paul Valiant (Brown University)
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Break
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The Blessing and the Curse of Multiplicative Updates
Manfred Warmuth, UC Santa Cruz
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Break
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Algorithms for Multityped Branching Processes
Mihalis Yannakakis (Columbia University)
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Lunch
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The Rate of Progress of Evolution
Nicholas Pippenger, Harvey Mudd College
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Break
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Evolution in Fluctuating Environments
Edo Kussell, New York University
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Break
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Simons Fellows Session
Shishi Luo (UC Berkeley), Andrew Wan ( Institute for Defense Analyses), Daniel Weissman (Emory College of Arts and Sciences)
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Coffee and Check-In
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A Population Genetic Model of Disease Susceptibility and Other Quantitative Traits
Guy Sella, Columbia University
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Break
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Defensive Complexity in Antagonistic Coevolution
Carl Bergstrom, University of Washington
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Darwinian Machine Learning: Principles of Machine Learning in Evo-devo, Evo-eco and Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality
Richard Watson, University of Southampton
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Lunch
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Wrap-up Session and General Discussion
Daniel Fisher (Stanford University), Jeff Clune, University of Wyoming, Artem Kaznatcheev, McGill University, Aviv Bergman, Albert Einstein College of Medicine