Workshop I: Analyzing High-dimensional Traces of Intelligent Behavior

Part of the Long Program Mathematics of Intelligences
September 23 - 27, 2024

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, September 23, 2024

Morning Session
8:00 - 8:55 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:55 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 SESSION CHAIR: Jacob Foster
9:00 - 9:50
Peter Todd (Indiana University Bloomington)

"Traces of search in space and mind"

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 SESSION CHAIR: Jacob Foster
2:30 - 3:20
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
Dan Yamins (Stanford University)

How the Vision System Might Have Arisen

5:00 - 5:15 Lightning Poster Session
5:15 - 6:30 Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 SESSION CHAIR: Ida Momennejad
9:00 - 9:50
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
Deanna Needell (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

Towards Fairer-ness and transparency in Machine Learning

12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 SESSION CHAIR: Ida Momennejad
2:30 - 3:20
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
Michael Murray (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

Characterizing transitions between benign, tempered and no-overfitting


Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 SESSION CHAIR: Max Kleiman-Weiner
9:00 - 9:50
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Daniel McNamee (Champalimaud Foundation)

Studies on strong intuitive reasoning in human experts

11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
Dora Biro (Rochester Institute of Technology)

Virtual Talk: Scaling up from individual to collective cognition

12:30 - 12:45 Group Photo
12:45 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 SESSION CHAIR: Max Kleiman-Weiner
2:30 - 3:20
Ida Momennejad (Microsoft Research)

Evaluation and architectures of intelligence in humans, LLMs, and generative AI for games

3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
Xue-Xin Wei (University of Texas at Austin)

Learning and Inference with Prior Knowledge


Thursday, September 26, 2024

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 SESSION CHAIR: Peter Todd
9:00 - 9:50
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Max Kleiman-Weiner (University of Washington)

Reverse-Engineering Human Cooperation

11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
Tobias Gerstenberg (Stanford University)

Counterfactual simulation in causal cognition

12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 SESSION CHAIR: Peter Todd
2:30 - 3:20
Cynthia Flores (California State University, Channel Islands (CSU Channel Islands))

From Materials to Minds: Nonlocal Approaches to Damage and Degeneration

3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
Gregory Beylkin (University of Colorado Boulder)

On algorithms in high dimensions


Friday, September 27, 2024

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 SESSION CHAIR: Cynthia Flores
9:00 - 9:50
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Natalia Velez (Princeton University)

Games as a window into large-scale social phenomena

11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 SESSION CHAIR: Cynthia Flores
2:30 - 3:20
Stanislav Minsker (University of Southern California (USC))

New performance guarantees for Tukey’s median