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Coffee and Check-In
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Opening Remarks

Steven Kahn (UC Berkeley),
Martin Olsson (UC Berkeley)
Video
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Oscillating networks from a biological point of view

Nancy Kopell (Boston University)
Video
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Asymptotic Dynamics and Topology

Michael Shub (CUNY Graduate Center)
Video
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Break
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Hodgkin-Huxley, Memristors, and Edge of Chaos

Leon Chua (UC Berkeley)
Video
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Dynamical Systems, Linear Programming and the Monge-Kantorovich Problem

Anthony Bloch (University of Michigan)
Video
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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)
Video
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Emergent Behavior on Flocks

Felipe Cucker (City University of Hong Kong)
Video
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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)
Video
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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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Talk by

Judy Smale
Video
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What is Consciousness and Can Machines have it? Part 1

Lenore Blum (Carnegie Mellon University)
Video
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What is Consciousness and Can Machines have it? Part 2

Manuel Blum (Carnegie Mellon University)
Video
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Linear representations of concepts in modern AI models

Mikhail Belkin (UCSD)
Video
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Break
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Compositional sparsity and learnability

Tomaso Poggio (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Video
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Smale’s 18th Problem and Intelligence Science

Michael Xuan,
Brian Athey
Video
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Lunch
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The Singularity is the Observer

Graciela Chichilnisky (Columbia University)
Video
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Towards Trustworthy AI: Reflections on Learning and Smale's Legacy

Yuan Yao (HKUST)
Video
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Break
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The Enabling of McCarthyism by the University of Michigan

Steve Batterson (Emory University)
Video
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Measures of Perfection

Gene Meieran (Intel Senior Fellow (retired)
Video
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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)
Video
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Reception at Simons Institute sponsored by Mineral Friends (Rob Lavinsky, Stuart Wilensky, Sandor Fuss, and Gene Meieran)