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Monday, 30 May
At Tel Aviv University (Gilman Building, Hall 496)Â
INFORMATION IN BIOLOGY
9:45-10:00
Welcome Remarks
José Brunner, Head, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science & Ideas
10:00-11:00
Michael Lachmann (Santa Fe Institute)
Information in Evolution
Chair: Ehud Lamm (Tel Aviv University)
11:00-12:00
Ulrich Stegmann (University of Aberdeen and Utrecht University)
Do Animal Signals Have Derived Content?
Chair: Arnon Levy (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
12:00-12:30
Coffee Break
12:30-13:30
Irun R. Cohen (Weizmann Institute of Science)
An Informational View of the Evolution of Living Systems
Chair: Marc Artiga (University of Barcelona)
13:30-14:45
Lunch Break
14:45-15:45
Dan Zakay (Tel Aviv University and IDC Herzeliya)
Time as Information to the Cognitive and Meta–Cognitive Systems
Chair: Liad Mudrik (Tel Aviv University)
15:45-16:45
Rosa Cao (New York University)
Functional Specialization, Substrate Independence, and the Explanatory Role of Information
Chair: Nir Fresco (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Tuesday, 31 May
At the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (34, Jabotinsky Street)
INFORMATION IN PHYSICS
9:15-10:15
Olimpia Lombardi (CONICET – Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Interpreting the Concept of Information
Chair: Orly Shenker (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
10:15-11:15
Yemima Ben-Menahem (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
The PBR Theorem: Whose Side Is It On?
Chair: Orly Shenker (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
11:15-11:30
Coffee Break
11:30-12:30
Daniel Rohrlich (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Thermodynamics and the Measure of Entanglement
Chair: Orly Shenker (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
12:30-14:00
Lunch Break
14:00-15:00
Orly Shenker (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Entropy: Information versus Probability
Chair: Guy Hetzroni (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
15:00-16:00
Israel Belfer (Bar-Ilan University, STS Program)
Bit by Bit: The Role of Information in Physics
Chair: Guy Hetzroni (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
16:00-16:15
Coffee Break
16:15-17:15
Open Discussion on Information in Biology and Physics
Wednesday, 1 June
At the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (34, Jabotinsky Street)
INFORMATION IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE Pt. 1
9:30-10:30
Gualtiero Piccinini (University of Missouri, St. Louis)
Nonnatural Representation
Chair: Dimitri Coelho Mollo (King’s College London & Humboldt-Universitaet Berlin)
10:30-11:30
Mark Sprevak (The University of Edinburgh)
Information and Representation in Probabilistic Models of Cognition
Chair: Dimitri Coelho Mollo (King’s College London & Humboldt-Universitaet Berlin)
11:30-12:00
Coffee Break
12:00-13:00
Oron Shagrir (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
No Computation without Representation
Chair: Lotem Elber (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
13:00-14:30
Lunch Break
14:30-15:30
Ayelet N. Landau (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Temporal Structure in Perception and Attention
Chair:Â Jonathan Najenson (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
15:30-16:30
Nir Fresco (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and
Eva Jablonka (Tel Aviv University)
From Information to Representation: A Teleological Approach
Chair: Elvira Di Bona (Van Leer institute)
16:30-16:45
Coffee Break
16:45-17:45
Ronald J. Planer (University of Kentucky)
Evolving a Language of Thought
Chair: Arnon Levy (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Thursday, 2 June
At the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Edmond J. Safra Campus/Givat Ram, Beit Belgia)
 INFORMATION IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE Pt. 2
9:30-10:30
Haim Sompolinsky (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Information and Representation in Theories of Brain Sensory Processing
Chair: Ariel Furstenberg (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
10:30-11:30
Fred Adams (University of Delaware)
From information to Cognition
Chair: Andrea Polonioli (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
11:30-12:00
Coffee Break
12:00-13:00
Aaron Sloman (University of Birmingham)
What’s information? An Answer from Physics, Biology, Mind-Science and Philosophy
Chair: Aviv Keren (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)