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Preliminary programme
150 YEARS AFTER DARWIN: FROM MOLECULAR EVOLUTION TO LANGUAGE
Sunday 22nd to Friday 27th November 2009, IFISC, Palma de Mallorca
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SUNDAY

19:00-21:00 Registration and welcome cocktail at Hotel Jaime III

MONDAY

8:30-9:15 Registration (continues during coffee-breaks)
9:15-9:30 Opening
SESSION 1 ORIGINS OF LIFE AND MOLECULAR EVOLUTION
9:30-10:00 Plenary talk 1 - Juli Peretó
On the origin of life: What Darwin would have liked to know
10:15-10:45 Plenary talk 2 - Eric Westhof
The elementary modules of RNA architecture in RNA evolution
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:00 Plenary talk 3 - Peter Stadler
Origins and innovations in gene regulation: The case of chromatin regulation
12:15-12:30 Contributed talk 1 - Herrada, E. Alejandro
The shape of phylogenetic trees: From taxonomic trees to the Tree of Life
12:35-12:50 Contributed talk 2 - Waxman, David
The simple dynamics of gene loss
13:00-15:00 Lunch
SESSION 2 ADAPTATION AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF BIOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY
15:00-15:30 Plenary talk 4 - Andrés Moya
Symbiotic consortia: A model
15:45-16:00 Contributed talk 3 - Olsson, Sanna
Morphological puzzles posed by mosses - When morphology and molecules tell us different stories
16:05-16:20 Contributed talk 4 - Kampis, George
The power of the phenotype
16:30-17:00 Coffee break
17:30- Poster session (including cold buffet and drinks)

TUESDAY

9:30-10:00 Plenary talk 6 - Sergey Gavrilets
Adaptive radiation: Contrasting recent theory with data
10:15-10:45 Plenary talk 7 - Barbara Drossel
Evolution of Boolean networks
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
SESSION 3 THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO EVOLUTION
11:30-12:00 Plenary talk 8 - Bernard Derrida
Genealogies in models of evolution with selection
12:15-12:30 Contributed talk 5 - Krug, Joachim
Exploring the effect of sex on empirical fitness landscapes
12:35-12:50 Contributed talk 6 - Pascual-García, Alberto
Quantifying the increase in biodiversity supported by mutualistic networks
13:00-15:00 Lunch
15:00-15:30 Plenary talk 9 - Arne Traulsen
Exploration dynamics in evolutionary games
15:45-16:00 Contributed talk 7 - Sherrington, David
Evolution with frustrated fast and slow dynamics
16:05-16:20 Contributed talk 8 - Pigolotti, Simone
Species area relationships and the multitype voter model
16:30-17:00 Coffee break
17:00-17:30 Plenary talk 10 - Michael Laessig
Does fitness increase in Darwinian evolution?
18:30 Palma : Guided tour
20:15 Celebration dinner: 150 years after the Origin

WEDNESDAY

9:30-10:00 Plenary talk 11 - Ulf Dieckmann
Dynamics at the interface of ecology and evolution
SESSION 4 INTELLIGENT AGENTS - GAMES AND COOPERATION
10:15-10:45 Plenary talk 12 - Herbert Gintis
Gene-Culture coevolution and the unification of the behavioral sciences
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:00 Plenary talk 13 - Karl Sigmund
The emergence of executive power
12:15-12:30 Contributed talk 9 - Carlos P. Roca
Cooperation, norms, and conflict
12:35-12:50 Contributed talk 10 - Muñoz, Miguel Á.
Evolvability of optimal networks
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:15 Excursion to Valldemossa
18:00 Bellver Castle Guided Tour

THURSDAY

9:30-10:00 Plenary talk 14 - Bruce Edmonds
Evolutionary models of information transmission in human societies
10:15-10:45 Plenary talk 15 - Peter Hammerstein
Darwinian decision theory
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
SESSION 5 HUMAN BEHAVIOUR - HOMO ECONOMICUS
11:30-12:00 Plenary talk 17 - Gerald Silverberg
Darwin among the machines: The Butlerian conjecture as metaphor and model
12:15-12:30 Contributed talk 11 - Floría, Luis Mario
Social network reciprocity as a social phase transition
12:35-12:50 Contributed talk 12 - Platkowski, Tadeusz
Solution of social dilemmas in two person games with complex personality profiles
13:00-15:00 Lunch
15:00-15:15 Contributed talk 13 - Arenas, Alex
Topological frustration in evolutionary games
15:20-15:35 Contributed talk 14 - Blythe, Richard
Detecting selection in generalised evolutionary systems
15:40-15:55 Contributed talk 15 - Marco Patriarca
Statistical model for study of dispersal, competition, and evolution of languages
16:00-16.30 Coffee break
16:30-17:00 Plenary talk 18 - John Foster
Energy, aesthetics and knowledge in complex economic systems
18:45 Supper at UIB Campus

FRIDAY

SESSION 6 LINGUISTIC EVOLUTION
9:30-10:00 Plenary talk 19 - William Croft
Mechanisms of variation and selection in language change
10:15-10:45 Plenary talk 20 - Fernando Baquero
From microbes to Wittgenstein: Levels of selection and the score of life
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:00 Plenary talk 21 - Maxi San Miguel
Dynamics of language competition
12:15-12:45 Plenary talk 22 - Luc Steels
The origins of language - Darwin's unsolved mistery
13:00-15:00 Closure and Lunch
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