Workshops
WORKSHOPS
January 27, 2014
"Why Life?" Workshop January 27-29, 2014
- Date
- January 27, 2014 - January 29, 2014
"Why Life?" Workshop
January 27-29, 2014
| Title | Presenter | |
| 27 Jan | ||
| 10:00 | Welcome and introduction "Life and the Origin(s) of Life: An Attempt to Frame the Problem(s) | Jim Cleaves |
| 10:40 | "Solution-Searching Spatiotemporal Dynamics for Exploring the Origins of Life" | Masashi Aono |
| 11:00 | "Life as a form of stability" | Addy Pross |
| 11:00 | TBA | Nigel Goldenfeld |
| 11:40 | "Are emerging life's initial hurdles fundamentally thermodynamic in character? If so what are they and how might they be surmounted?" | Elbert Branscomb |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Afternoon Session I:"Definitions of Life: How Does Biocentrism Cloud Our View?" | Jon Lindsay |
| 15:30 | coffee/tea break | |
| 15:45 | Afternoon Session II:"The Meaning of Meaning: Information and Semiosis in Biology" | Greg Fournier |
| 28 Jan | ||
| 10:00 | Morning Session: "Can the Origin of Life be Meaningfully Viewed as a Phase Transition?" | Nigel Goldenfeld |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Afternoon Session I:"Modeling the Origins of Life I" | Piet Hut |
| 15:30 | coffee/tea break | |
| 15:45 | Afternoon Session II:"Modeling the Origins of Life II" | Nicholas Guttenberg |
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18:00 |
Dinner | |
| 29 Jan | ||
| 10:00 | Morning Session: "Darwinian Evolution: Essential or Contingent?" | Addy Pross |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 | Afternoon Session I:"Ecogenesis vs. Biogenesis" | Eric Smith |
| 14:45 | coffee/tea break | |
| 16:00 | Afternoon Session II: "The role of digital life studies in astrobiology" Round-Table Discussion |
Nigel Goldenfeld, Piet Hut, Addy Pross, Eric Smith Discussion Leader: Jim Cleaves |
Participants
Elbert Branscomb (University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana);
Jim Cleaves (ELSI/IAS);
Albert Fahrenbach (ELSI/Harvard University);
Greg Fournier (MIT);
Nigel Goldenfeld (University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana);
Nicholas Guttenberg (University of Oregon, Eugene);
Piet Hut (Institute for Advanced Study/ELSI);
Jon Lindsay (UC San Diego);
Addy Pross (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev);
Eric Smith (George Mason University)