Mathematics of Collective Intelligence - IPAM

Mathematics of Collective Intelligence

February 15 - 19, 2022

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Morning Session

SESSION CHAIR: Jacob Foster (UCLA)
08:00-08:55
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:55-09:00
Welcome & Opening Remarks: Dean Miguel García-Garibay (Dean of Physical Sciences, UCLA) and Dima Shlyakhtenko (Director, IPAM)
09:00-09:25
L Mahadevan (Harvard University)
Virtual Talk: Physical intelligence in insect and robot societies
09:35-10:00
Melanie Mitchell (Santa Fe Institute)
Virtual Talk: Abstraction and Analogy in Artificial Intelligence
10:10-10:25
Break
10:25-10:50
Josh Tenenbaum (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Virtual Talk: Cognitive and computational foundations for collective human intelligence
11:00-11:25
Jessica Flack (Santa Fe Institute)
Virtual Talk: Collective intelligence as collective computation: Future directions
11:35-11:50
Break
11:50-12:15
Lillian Ratliff (University of Washington)
Virtual Talk:

Afternoon Session

13:00-15:00
Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)
15:00-17:00
In-Person Collaborative Discussions

Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Morning Session

SESSION CHAIR: Rishi Sonthalia (UCLA)
08:00-09:00
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:25
John Baez (University of California, Riverside (UC Riverside))
Categories: the Mathematics of Connection
09:35-10:00
Elchanan Mossel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Virtual Talk: Some mathematical theorems on agreement and learning in networks
10:10-10:25
Break
10:25-10:50
Lisa Lee (Google Brain )
Learning to Explore with Scalable Supervision
11:00-11:25
Max Kleiman-Weiner (University of Washington)
Virtual Talk: Multi-Agent Common Sense
11:35-11:50
Break
11:50-12:50
Moderated Discussions

Afternoon Session

13:00-15:00
Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)
15:00-17:00
In-Person Collaborative Discussions

Thursday, February 17, 2022

Morning Session

SESSION CHAIR: Pranab Das (Elon University)
08:00-09:00
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:25
Orit Peleg (University of Colorado Boulder)
Virtual Talk: Physical Computation in Insect Swarms
09:35-10:00
David Ha (Google AI)
Virtual Talk: Collective Intelligence for Deep Learning: A Survey of Recent Developments
10:10-10:25
Break
10:25-10:50
Michael Levin (Tufts University)
Virtual Talk: Structural and functional plasticity without genetic change: from bioelectric embryos to synthetic proto-organisms
11:00-11:25
Josh Bongard (University of Vermont)
Virtual Talk: A xither of xenobots: demolishing dichotomous thinking with synthetic proto-organisms
11:35-11:50
Break
11:50-12:15
Robert Batterman (University of Pittsburgh)
Explaining Autonomy: Mesoscale Models and Many-Body Systems

Afternoon Session

12:25-12:50
Ali Jadbabaie (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Virtual Talk: Persuasion, news sharing, and cascades on social networks
13:00-15:00
Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)
15:00-17:00
In-Person Collaborative Discussions

Friday, February 18, 2022

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:25
Michael Muthukrishna (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Virtual Talk: Paradox of diversity in the collective brain
09:35-10:00
Nika Haghtalab (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))
Virtual Talk: Learning and Persuading with Anecdotes
10:10-10:25
Break
10:25-10:50
Patrick Shafto (Rutgers University-Newark)
Cooperative communication as Belief Transport
11:00-11:25
Pranab Das (Elon University)
Broadening the reach of mathematical approaches to the study of intelligences.
11:35-12:35
Moderated Discussions

Afternoon Session

13:00-15:00
Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)
15:00-17:00
In-Person Collaborative Discussions

Saturday, February 19, 2022

Morning Session

SESSION CHAIR: Harlin Lee (UCLA)
08:00-09:00
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:25
Jacob Foster (Indiana University)
Institutions, innovation, and the social production of collective (un)intelligence
09:35-10:00
Fei Fang (Carnegie Mellon University)
Virtual Talk: Machine Learning and Game Theory for Social Impact
10:10-10:25
Break
10:25-10:50
David Spivak (Topos Institute)
Sense-making: accounting for intelligibility
11:00-11:25
Natasha Jaques (Google AI)
Social Reinforcement Learning
11:30-12:00
Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)
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