Decoding Communication in Nonhuman Species IV (co-hosted with Project CETI)

Location

Calvin Lab auditorium

Date

Wednesday, July 30 – Thursday, July 31, 2025

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9 – 9:30 a.m.

Coffee and Check-In

9:30 – 10:30 a.m.

Potential of Echolocation for Communication

Yossi Yovel (Tel-Aviv University)

10:30 – 11:30 a.m.

Validation by Listening

Adam Kalai (OpenAI)

11:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Break

12 – 1 p.m.

WhAM: Towards A Translative Model of Sperm Whale Vocalization

Orr Paradise (UC Berkeley)

1 – 2:30 p.m.

Lunch (provided)

2:30 – 3:30 p.m.

Restoring Coral Reefs at Scale: AI and the Next Generation of Conservation

Rich Williams (Coral Gardeners)

3:30 – 4:30 p.m.

Self-Supervised Learning in Transformer Models for Birdsong

Tim Gardner (University of Oregon)

9 – 9:30 a.m.

Coffee and Check-In

9:30 – 10:30 a.m.

Long-Term Work and Machine Learning Approaches to DolphinGemma

Denise Herzing (Wild Dolphin Project),
Thad E. Starner (Georgia Tech and Google Research)

10:30 – 11 a.m.

Break

11 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Decoding Dolphin Speech

Mark Hamilton (MIT)

12 – 1:30 p.m.

Lunch (provided)

1:30 – 2:30 p.m.

What Makes a Good Language?

David Peterson,
Jessie Peterson

2:30 – 3 p.m.

Break

3 – 4 p.m.

Machine Translation of Human Languages in the Age of LLMs: Is This the End of the Language Barrier?

Markus Freitag (Google),
Hadar Shemtov (Google)

4 – 4:30 p.m.

Overview and Marine Bioacoustics and Perch Model

Tom Denton (DeepMind),
Lauren Harrell (Google)

4:30 – 6 p.m.

Optional Drinks Offsite