Workshop I: Analyzing High-dimensional Traces of Intelligent Behavior - IPAM

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

08:00-08:55
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:55-09:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:00-09:00
SESSION CHAIR: Jacob Foster
09:00-09:50
Peter Todd (Indiana University)
Traces of search in space and mind
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Simon Garnier (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
Of Swarms and Slimes: Intelligence Beyond – and Without – the Brain
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Robert Hawkins (Stanford University)
Scaling cognitive science to understand the dynamics of social interaction in naturalistic settings

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-14:30
SESSION CHAIR: Jacob Foster
14:30-15:20
Ilker Yildirim (Yale University)
Reverse-engineering neural and cognitive representations with multilevel computational theories
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Dan Yamins (Stanford University)
How the Vision System Might Have Arisen
17:00-17:15
Lightning Poster Session
17:15-18:30
Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:00
SESSION CHAIR: Ida Momennejad
09:00-09:50
Kelsey Allen (Google)
Physical problem-solving across timescales
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Judith Fan (Stanford University)
Cognitive tools for making the invisible visible
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

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-14:30
SESSION CHAIR: Ida Momennejad
14:30-15:20
Omayra Ortega (Sonoma State University)
The Mathematics of Mathematics (#MetaMath): An Introduction and Some Examples
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Michael Murray (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Characterizing transitions between benign, tempered and no-overfitting

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:00
SESSION CHAIR: Max Kleiman-Weiner
09:00-09:50
Jacob Foster (Indiana University)
Death and dreams in low dimensions: Methods for discovering pattern and structure in cultural traces
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

Afternoon Session

12:30-12:45
Group Photo
12:45-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-14:30
SESSION CHAIR: Max Kleiman-Weiner
14:30-15:20
Ida Momennejad (Microsoft Research)
Evaluation and architectures of intelligence in humans, LLMs, and generative AI for games
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Xue-Xin Wei (University of Texas at Austin)
Learning and Inference with Prior Knowledge

Thursday, September 26, 2024

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:00
SESSION CHAIR: Peter Todd
09:00-09:50
Joel Leibo (DeepMind Technologies)
Studying the behavior of generative AI-based agents in multi-agent systems
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

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-14:30
SESSION CHAIR: Peter Todd
14:30-15:20
Cynthia Flores (California State University, Channel Islands (CSU Channel Islands))
From Materials to Minds: Nonlocal Approaches to Damage and Degeneration
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Gregory Beylkin (University of Colorado Boulder)
On algorithms in high dimensions

Friday, September 27, 2024

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:00
SESSION CHAIR: Cynthia Flores
09:00-09:50
James Evans (University of Chicago)
Diversity, Disconnection, Discord, and Other Properties of Collective Intelligence
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
James Pascoe (Drexel University)
Beyond physical maze solvers via modern portfolio theory

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-14:30
SESSION CHAIR: Cynthia Flores
14:30-15:20
Stanislav Minsker (University of Southern California (USC))
New performance guarantees for Tukey’s median
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