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"Why Life?" Workshop January 27-29, 2014

日付
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

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)