Conference themes
From Evo Devo Universe
EDU research can be divided into six major academic domains, and promising research themes within each domain. Each theme lists a few distinguished investigators (most not associated with the EDU community) in the theme, some of whom we hope to solicit for presentations or tutorials at future conferences.
Contents |
Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Information Theory
- Entropy Production and Infodynamics (Roderick Dewar, Stanley Salthe)
- Evolution and Development of Information (William Harms, Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Seth Lloyd, Cliff Joslyn)
- Evolutionary Cosmology (Lee Smolin, George FR Ellis, Quentin Smith)
- Fine-Tuning Problem in Cosmology (Milan Cirkovic, John Leslie, John D. Barrow, Lawrence M. Krauss, Martin J. Rees)
- Quantum Darwinism (Wojciech Zurek)
- Self-Organizing Space-Time (Jan Ambjørn, Renate Loll)
- Self-Similar and Scale Relative Cosmology (Robert Oldershaw, Marie-Noelle Celerier, Laurent Nottale)
Chemistry, Energetics, and Astrobiology
- Chemical Evolution and the Origin of Life (Martin Nowak, Steen Rasmussen, D. Eric Smith)
- Emergent Features of Chemistry (Robert Laughlin, Eric Scerri)
- Free Energy Rate Density and Astrobiology (Eric Chaisson, Fred Spier)
- Habitable Zones and Biofelicity (Helmut Lammer, Paul Davies, Chris Chyba)
- RNA World Hypothesis (D. Eric Smith, Eörs Szathmáry)
Biology - Life Sciences
- Acceleration in Evolutionary Transitions (Laurent Nottale, Jean Chaline, Pierre Grou, Robert Aunger)
- Acceleration in Human Genetic Evolution (John Hawks, Eric T. Wang, Bob Moyzis)
- Anthropoid Convergence (Dale Russell)
- Developmental Ascendancy (James A. Coffman, Robert Ulanowicz)
- Dynamical Patterning Modules and Genetic-Cellular Self Organization (Stuart A. Newman)
- Evo Devo: Beyond Natural Selection (Robert Ulanowicz, Simon Conway-Morris, Gerd B. Müller)
- Evo Devo and Epigenetics (Eva Jablonka)
- Evolutionary Convergence (Simon Conway-Morris)
- Evolutionary Escalation (Geerat Vermiej)
- Hierarchy and Modularity (Werner Callebaut, Günter P. Wagner, Stan Salthe)
- Hierarchy and Scale in Ecology (John Bonner, Geoffrey West)
- Scale Relativity in Systems Biology (Charles Auffray, Geoffrey West, Laurent Nottale)
Biology - Mind and Social Sciences
- Neural Darwinism in Development and Adulthood (Gerald Edelman, Olaf Sporns, Nicolas Lori)
- Cognitive Selectionism (William Calvin, Donald T. Campbell, Daniel Dennett)
- Integrated Information as Consciousness Development (Giulio Tononi, Christof Koch, Tomaso Poggio)
- Evolution of Language and Universal Grammars (Stanislas Dehaene, Andrew Ira Nevins, Terrence Deacon)
- Evolutionary Psychology (Jerome Barkow, Leda Cosmides, Michael Ghiselin, John Tooby)
- Evolutionary Morality (Richard Joyce, Robert Wright, Herbert Gintis, Samuel Bowles, Robert Boyd, Ernst Fehr)
- Evo Devo and Cognitive Psychology (Daniel J. Povinelli, Ronald Amundson, Robert Sapolsky)
- Memes and Cultural Evo Devo (Robert Aunger, Ron Inglehart, Howard Bloom)
- Evolutionary Social Systems (David Hull, Geoffrey Hodgson, Thorbjoern Knudsen, Joel Mokyr)
Economics, Technology and Computation
- Evolutionary Economics (Richard Nelson, Kurt Dopfer, Hardy Hanappi, Samuel Bowles)
- Institutions and Stigmergy (Eric Bonabeau, Mark Elliott, Benjamin Kerr, Francis Heylighen)
- Niche Construction and Human-Machine Symbiosis (Andy Clark,F. John Odling-Smee, Kevin Laland, Norman Johnson)
- Technical Productivity (Jack E. Triplett, Timothy F. Bresnahan, Christopher L. Magee)
- Computer Capacity and Information Growth (William D. Nordhaus, John F. Gantz, Hans Moravec)
- Evolutionary Learning Agents and Evolutionary Computation (Peter Norvig, Ingo Rechenberg, Nick Bostrom)
- Artificial Life (Chris Adami, John Holland, John Koza, Chris Langton)
- Technological Autonomy (Kevin Kelly, Hans Moravec, Ray Kurzweil)
Transdisciplinarity (Complexity, Philosophy, Systems Theory)
- Constructal Theory (Adrian Bejan)
- Evolution and Development of Complexity (Yaneer Bar-Yam, Francis Heylighen, Harold Morowitz, Stan Salthe)
- Self-Organization and Self-Assembly in Complexity (Carlos Gershenson, Francis Heylighen)
- Evolutionary Values and Iterative Games (Herbert Gintis, Richard Joyce, Robert Wright)
- CNS with Intelligence (James N. Gardner, Bela Balasz)
