Wednesday | June 29
08:30
Welcome speech by AANL director A. Aprahamian, R. Aroutiounian, Academican-secretary of the division of natural sciences of NAS RA, the chairman of the conference, E. Koonin.
09:00
N. Goldenfeld, UC San Diego, USA, Topological scaling laws and the statistical mechanics of evolution.
09:30
N. Takeuchi, University of Auckland, New Zealand, Universal biology and the generalized central dogma
10:00
J. Ispolatov, University of Santiago Chile, Emergence of predation.
10:30
A. Kolchinsky, Tokyo University, Thermodynamics of Darwinian evolution.
11:15
A.S. Bratus ( Moscow Transport University), I. Samokhin, T. Yakushkina (HSE).
Evolution adaptation of replicator system with multiple phenotypes and mutation to death rate variation.
11:45
M. Burtsev, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Learning drives evolution of complexity.
12:15
A. I. Panov, P. Kuderov, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Hierarchical Intrinsically Motivated Agent based on Free Energy Principles
12:45
V. G. Red’ko, Z. B. Sokhova, Scientific Research Institute for System Analysis, Russian Academy of Sciences (SRISA RAS)., Multilevel cognitive processes.
13:15
A. Melkikh, Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia, Viruses, immunity and evolution
13:45
R. Jafari, Shahid Beheshti University, Higher-order genetic interactions and their contribution to cancerous cells.
15:30
O. Rivoire, Sex as information processing.
16:00
D. Wolpert, Santa Fe Institite, USA, The stochastic thermodynamics of distributed Systems
Thursday | June 30
13:30
Qi Wu, pan-genome based genotyping illustrates qualitative and quantitative genetic diversity of structural variation in Bakers yeast
14:00
M. Gelfand, Skoltech, Evolutionary dynamics of bacteria.
14:30
S. Suweis, University of Padova, Dynamic metabolic adaptation and species coexistence in competitive microbial communities
15:00
B. Waclaw, Institute of Physical Chemistry PAN, Warsaw, Phenotypic switching as a mechanism to circumvent fitness valleys
16:00
V. Vanchurin, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda USA, Biological evolution as learning and a thermodynamic origin of life.
16:30
M. Marsili, ICTP, Italy, REM approach to learning
17:00
D. Czégel, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary, From selection to sentience and back
17:30
D. B. Saakian, AANL, Armenia, Solution of evolutionary dynamics in case of two level selection
18:00
Ricard Sole,Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Liquid Brains: searching the cognition space
Friday | July 01
15:00
Round table "Looking for international level advanced science and advanced technologies for the progress of Armenia.”
15:00
Optimizing the scientific politics: the priorities, the grant versions choice, the refereeing system.
16:15
Optimizing the science- industry-new technologies relations
17:30
P. Hogeweg, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, Evolution of individual and/or ecosystem based complexity
18:00
M. Lassig, University of Cologne, Germany, Adaptive ratchets and the evolution of molecular complexity.
18:30
E. Koonin, NCBI, NLM,NIH, USA, Evolution of complexity
Saturday | July 02
12:30
A. Allahverdyan, AANL, Armenia, Thermodynamic selection: mechanisms and scenarios
13:00
A. Oganov, The evolution as a method to predict the structure of crystals and molecules
13:30
T. Coolen, Radboud University, The Netherlands, Evolution and replicas.
14:15
K. Kaneko, Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark, Harnessing Complexity through Evolutionary Dimensional Reduction
14:45
M. M. Katsnelson, Radboud University, The Netherlands, Origin of complexity in physics and biology: Similarities and dissimilarities
15:45
M. Kardar,MIT, USA, Competitive growth on a rugged front.
16:30
F. Fontanari, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, The threat of disinformation to epistemic security: an exactly solvable model.
17:00
S. Gavrilets, University of Tennessee, USA, Coevolution of actions, personal norms, and beliefs about others in social dilemmas.
17:30
S. G. Inge-Vechtomov, Institute of Genetics, Sankt Peterburg, Timofeev-Ressovsky, a scientist and supervisor.
17:50
Klaus Rajewsky, On memory of Timofeev-Ressovsky
18:10
E. Koonin, the concluding remarks