GSO-2022-Program

Tenth International Conference on
Guided Self-Organization (GSO-2022)

Program

Monday: 12 December 2022

Tuesday: 13 December 2022

9:00 - 9:15 Introduction (Mikhail Prokopenko)
9:15 - 10:15 (keynote) Zdenka Kuncic (University of Sydney, Australia): "Neuromorphic dynamics and information processing in self-organised nanowire networks" + video
10:15 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00 Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany): "Emerging criticality in heteroclinic dynamics" (remote)
11:00 - 11:30 Valentina Baccetti (RMIT, Australia): "Memristive circuits: An in-depth analysis of their stochastic dynamics"
11:30 - 12:00 Mikhail Prokopenko (University of Sydney, Australia): "Self-organisation and thermodynamic efficiency: magnets, swarms, cities and contagions"
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch break (self-catered)
13:00 - 14:00 (keynote) Peter R. Wills (University of Auckland, New Zealand): "Emergence of genetic coding through self-guided self-organisation" + video
14:00 - 14:30 Carlos Gershenson (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico): "Towards a general theory of balance"
14:30 - 15:00 Brett Calcott (University of Sydney, Australia): "A minimal model of the evolution of self-organisation"
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00 Nihat Ay (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany): "Can (philosophical) zombies learn?"
16:00 - 16:30 Michael S. Harre (University of Sydney, Australia): "Theory-of-mind as a guide for self-organised AI behaviour"
16:30 - 17:00 Pecha Kucha & demo (Georg Martius, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany)

9:15 - 9:45 Markus Brede (University of Southampton, UK): "Sensing enhancement on social networks: Heterogeneity and optimality" (remote)
9:45 - 10:15 Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany): "Tuning the mean time to extinction in bacteria by the rates of phenotypic switching or the environmental conditions" (remote)
10:15 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30 (keynote) Susan Stepney (University of York, UK): "Automata Chemistry Experiments with Replicators and Parasites" + video
11:30 - 12:00 Matthew D. Egbert (University of Auckland, New Zealand): "Dynamic modulation of boundary conditions: A new method for steering the self-organization of complex media"
12:00 - 12:30 Sheryl L. Chang (University of Sydney, Australia): "Exploration or exploitation? Genome entropy and network centrality delineate pathogen evolution"
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch break (self-catered)
13:30 - 14:30 (keynote) Mike Steel (University of Canterbury, New Zealand): "Modelling evolutionary processes" + video
14:30 - 15:00 Pierre Schumacher (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany): "DEP-RL: Embodied exploration for reinforcement learning in overactuated and musculoskeletal systems"
15:00 - 15:30 Daniel Polani (University of Hertfordshire, UK): "Understanding the informational structure of the past-future bottleneck of a controlled linear system"
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30 Simon Watson (University of Sydney, Australia): "Guided structural organisation of latent variables using Artificial Intelligence"
16:30 - 17:00 Benjamin P. Evans (University of Sydney, Australia): "Network effects on self-organisation in congestion games with bounded rational agents"
17:00 - 17:15 Closing remarks (Michael S. Harré)