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Smale@95: A Conference in Honor of Steve Smale
Location
Calvin Lab auditorium
Date
Monday, July 21
–
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
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Monday, July 21, 2025
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
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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
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
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
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5 p.m.
Reception at Simons Institute sponsored by Mineral Friends (Rob Lavinsky, Stuart Wilensky, Sandor Fuss, and Gene Meieran)
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