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Smale@95: A Conference in Honor of Steve Smale

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Calvin Lab auditorium

Date
Monday, July 21 – Tuesday, July 22, 2025
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9 – 9:20 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
9:20 – 9:30 a.m.
Opening Remarks

Steven Kahn (UC Berkeley),
Martin Olsson (UC Berkeley)
Video
9:30 – 10 a.m.
Oscillating networks from a biological point of view

Nancy Kopell (Boston University)
Video
10 – 10:30 a.m.
Asymptotic Dynamics and Topology

Michael Shub (CUNY Graduate Center)
Video
10:30 – 11 a.m.
Break
11 – 11:30 a.m.
Hodgkin-Huxley, Memristors, and Edge of Chaos

Leon Chua (UC Berkeley)
Video
11:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Dynamical Systems, Linear Programming and the Monge-Kantorovich Problem

Anthony Bloch (University of Michigan)
Video
12 – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch
1:30 – 2 p.m.
Topological and Algebraic Invariants to Classify Types of Singularities of Maps relevant to Inverse Kinematics

Fred Leve (Air Force Office of Scientific Research)
Video
2 – 2:30 p.m.
Emergent Behavior on Flocks

Felipe Cucker (City University of Hong Kong)
Video
2:30 – 3 p.m.
Break
3 – 3:30 p.m.
On Professor Smale's legacy for asymptotic stability theory

Matthew Kvalheim (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Video
3:30 – 4 p.m.
A Metacommunity Model of Interacting Hosts with Microbe Exchange

Mason Porter (UC Los Angeles)
4 – 6 p.m.
Reception at Steve Smale's House at 4:00 PM with dinner at 6:00 PM
8:30 – 9 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
9 – 9:10 a.m.
Talk by

Judy Smale
Video
9:10 – 9:30 a.m.
What is Consciousness and Can Machines have it? Part 1

Lenore Blum (Carnegie Mellon University)
Video
9:30 – 10 a.m.
What is Consciousness and Can Machines have it? Part 2

Manuel Blum (Carnegie Mellon University)
Video
10 – 10:30 a.m.
Linear representations of concepts in modern AI models

Mikhail Belkin (UCSD)
Video
10:30 – 11 a.m.
Break
11 – 11:30 a.m.
Compositional sparsity and learnability

Tomaso Poggio (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Video
11:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Smale’s 18th Problem and Intelligence Science

Michael Xuan,
Brian Athey
Video
12 – 1 p.m.
Lunch
1 – 1:30 p.m.
The Singularity is the Observer

Graciela Chichilnisky (Columbia University)
Video
1:30 – 2 p.m.
Towards Trustworthy AI: Reflections on Learning and Smale's Legacy

Yuan Yao (HKUST)
Video
2 – 2:30 p.m.
Break
2:30 – 3 p.m.
The Enabling of McCarthyism by the University of Michigan

Steve Batterson (Emory University)
Video
3 – 3:30 p.m.
Measures of Perfection

Gene Meieran (Intel Senior Fellow (retired)
Video
3:30 – 4:15 p.m.
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)
Video
4:15 – 5 p.m.
Reception at Simons Institute sponsored by Mineral Friends (Rob Lavinsky, Stuart Wilensky, Sandor Fuss, and Gene Meieran)
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