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Coffee and Check-In
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Opening Remarks
Steven Kahn (UC Berkeley), Martin Olsson (UC Berkeley)
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Oscillating networks from a biological point of view
Nancy Kopell (Boston University)
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Principal Foliations
John Guckenheimer (Cornell University)
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Break
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Hodgkin-Huxley, Memristors, and Edge of Chaos
Leon Chua (UC Berkeley)
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Dynamical Systems, Linear Programming and the Monge-Kantorovich Problem
Anthony Bloch (University of Michigan)
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Lunch
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Topological and Algebraic Invariants to Classify Types of Singularities of Maps relevant to Inverse Kinematics
Fred Leve (Air Force Office of Scientific Research)
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A Non-Uniformly Hyperbolic Analogue of Smale's Decomposition and Stability Theorems
Enrique Pujals (City University of New York)
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Break
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On Professor Smale's legacy for asymptotic stability theory
Matthew Kvalheim (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
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A Metacommunity Model of Interacting Hosts with Microbe Exchange
Mason Porter (UC Los Angeles)
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Reception at Steve Smale's House at 4:00 PM with dinner at 6:00 PM
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Coffee and Check-In
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Asymptotic Dynamics and Topology
Michael Shub (CUNY Graduate Center)
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What is Consciousness and Can Machines have it?
Lenore Blum (Carnegie Mellon University), Manuel Blum (Carnegie Mellon University)
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Linear representations of concepts in modern AI models
Mikhail Belkin (UCSD)
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Break
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Compositional sparsity and learnability
Tomaso Poggio (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Smale’s 18th Problem and Intelligence Science
Michael Xuan
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Lunch (on your own)
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The Singularity is the Observer
Graciela Chichilnisky (Columbia University)
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Towards Trustworthy AI: Reflections on Learning and Smale's Legacy
Yuan Yao (HKUST)
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Break
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The Enabling of McCarthyism by the University of Michigan
Steve Batterson (Emory University)
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Measures of Perfection
Gene Meieran (Intel Senior Fellow (retired)
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Kuramoto Problem and Smale Institute
Steve Smale (UC Berkeley), Indika Rajapakse (University of Michigan), Michael Xuan (UniDT), Charles Pugh (UC Berkeley), Gregorio Malajovich (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
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Reception at Simons Institute sponsored by Mineral Friends (Rob Lavinsky, Stuart Wilensky, Sandor Fuss, and Gene Meieran)
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