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Emergent Engineering - Foundations Working Group

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Program

Please note - program is subject to change, check back for updates.

Thursday, November 21, 2024

9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

Breakfast at SFI

10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.

Introduction by David Krakauer, “Emergently Engineered Timescales”

10:15 a.m. – 10:35 a.m.

James Holehouse, "Unnecessary Bureaucracy? Understanding the Growth of Rules and Structure in Biological and Social Systems"

10:40 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.

Cris Moore, “AI, Democracy, and Games”

10:55 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.

Sam Zhang, “Minimal Mechanisms for Increasing the Efficiency and Equity of the Scientific Ecosystem”

11:20 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Katrin Schmelz, "Emergent Social Engineering: Mechanism Design Where the Mechanism Itself Affects Citizens' Values and Beliefs"

11:35 a.m. – 11:55 a.m.

Zenna Tavares

Noon – 1:30 p.m.

LUNCH BREAK + SEMINAR - Tadashi Tokieda

1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Discussion

2:30 p.m. – 2:40 p.m.

Kathy Powers, “Emergent Systems and Election Management” (pushed to day 2)

2:45 p.m. – 3:05 p.m.

Nicholas de Monchaux

3:10 p.m. – 3:20 p.m.

Manfred Laubichler (pushed to day 2)

3:25 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.

TEA BREAK

3:45 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Discussion

4:30 p.m.

End of Day One

5:30 p.m.

Dinner Offsite

 

Friday, November 22nd, 2024

9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

Breakfast at SFI

10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.

David Krakauer - Summary of Day One

10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.

Make-up Discussion (Kathy Powers and Manfred Laubichler)

10:45 a.m. – 11:05 a.m.

Dave Ackley, "What Machines Want"

11:10 a.m. – 11:20 a.m.

Chris Kempes

11:25 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.

Andrew Stier, “Engineering Lower Urban Racial Bias”

Noon – 1:00 p.m.

LUNCH BREAK

1:00 p.m. – 1:20 p.m.

John Krakauer

1:25 p.m. – 1:40 p.m.

Ricard Sole, "Emergent Bioengineering Against Ecologica Tipping Points"

1:45 p.m. – 2:05 p.m.

Brandon Ogbunu, “Control = Prediction + Engineering”

2:10 p.m. –  2:30 p.m.

Stephanie Forrest, “The Complex Science of Cybersecurity”

2:35 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.

Melanie Moses, "Embodied Agents Co-evolve with Environments."

2:50 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Geoffrey West, "Random Emergent Afterthoughts on Emergent Engineering"

3:05 p.m. –  3:30 p.m.

TEA BREAK

3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Discussion

4:30 p.m.

End of Day Two