Please, notice that the deadline for participation in this
workshop has been extended to July 12th!
Please, apply here:
http://ifisc.uib-csic.es/darwin09/inscripcion.php
*Workshop* on 150 Years after **Darwin**:
From Molecular Evolution to Language
Palma de Mallorca, November 23-27, 2009
Scientific organizers:
Jose A. Cuesta (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain)
Susanna C. Manrubia (Centro de Astrobiología, INTA-CSIC, Madrid, Spain)
Alan J. McKane (University of Manchester, UK)
This workshop:
http://www.ifisc.uib-csic.es/darwin09/
is organized within the framework of the Joint Workshop Program
*Trends in Complex Systems*
http://www.ifisc.uib-csic.es/tcs/
between the MPIPKS (Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex
Systems, Dresden, Germany) and the IFISC (Institute for Cross-Disciplinary
Physics and Complex Systems, Palma de Mallorca, Spain).
Two hundred years since the birth of Charles Darwin and a hundred and
fifty years since the publication of ”On the Origin of Species”, the
theory of evolution is now a conceptual cornerstone in a wide number
of areas of research outside its original field of application.
Evolutionary biologists, linguists, physicists, economists,
and social scientists nowadays use the notions of evolution and
adaptation in their research. In each of those areas, the mechanisms
behind the relevant dynamics (stochastic appearance of mutants,
cultural innovations or social strategies, inheritance or spread of
a new variant, and selection through competition) take a specific
form that, nonetheless, shapes the structure and organisation of each
system in a way that can be recognised as arising from ”evolutionary
dynamics” in its broadest sense. These anniversaries seem an ideal
opportunity to bring together researchers from the variety of
disciplines which now use the evolutionary paradigm, to review progress,
learn from each other and initiate new collaborations.
*Invited Speakers*:
W. Brian Arthur <http://www.santafe.edu/%7Ewbarthur/> (Santa Fe
Institute, USA)
Fernando Baquero (Centro de Investigación Biomédica, CSIC, Spain)
William Croft <http://www.unm.edu/%7Ewcroft/> (University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque, NM, USA)
Bernard Derrida <http://www.lps.ens.fr/%7Ederrida/> (École Normale
Supérieure, Paris, France)
Ulf Dieckmann
<http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/EEP/CVs/cv-dieckmann.html>
(International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Vienna, Austria)
Barbara Drossel
<http://www.fkp.tu-darmstadt.de/drossel/barbara_drossel/index.html> (TU
Darmstadt, Germany)
Bruce Edmonds <http://cfpm.org/bruce/> (Manchester Metropolitan
University Business School, UK)
John Foster <http://www.uq.edu.au/economics/index.html?page=15870>
(University of Queensland, Australia)
Sergey Gavrilets <http://www.tiem.utk.edu/%7Egavrila> (University of
Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA)
Herbert Gintis <http://people.umass.edu/gintis/> (University of
Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
Peter Hammerstein <http://itb.biologie.hu-berlin.de/Members/peter>
(Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany)
Michael Lässig <http://www.thp.uni-koeln.de/%7Elassig/index.html>
(Universität zu Köln , Germany)
Antonio Lazcano <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Lazcano>
(Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico)
Andrés Moya <http://www.uv.es/cavanilles/personal/Andres_Moya/>
(Institut Cavanilles de Biodiversitat i Biologia Evolutiva, València,
Spain)
Maxi San Miguel <http://ifisc.uib-csic.es/%7Emaxi> (IFISC, Palma de
Mallorca, Spain)
Karl Sigmund <http://homepage.univie.ac.at/karl.sigmund/> (University of
Vienna, Austria)
Gerald Silverberg
<http://www.merit.unu.edu/about/profile.php?id=52&stage=2> (University
of Maastricht, the Netherlands)
Ricard V. Solé <http://complex.upf.es/%7Ericard/> (Universitat Pompeu
Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)
Peter F. Stadler <http://www.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de/%7Estudla/>
(University of Leipzig, Germany)
Luc Steels <http://arti.vub.ac.be/%7Esteels/> (Vrije Universiteit
Brussel, Belgium)
Arne Traulsen <http://www.evolbio.mpg.de/%7Etraulsen/>
(Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionsbiologie, Plön, Germany)
Eric Westhof <http://www-ibmc.u-strasbg.fr/upr9002/westhof/> (Institut
de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Strasbourg, France)
Ulrich Witt <http://www.econ.mpg.de/english/staff/evo/witt>
(Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Jena, Germany)
For any information about the Workshop, please email:
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Workshop Secretaries:
Katrin Lantsch (MPIPKS) Tel.: +49-351-871-2107 | Fax: +49-351-871-2199
Rosa Rodríguez (IFISC) Tel.: +34-971-173290 | Fax: +34-971-173248
Applications for participation and contributions are welcome and should
be made by using the application form:
http://ifisc.uib-csic.es/darwin09/inscripcion.php
The number of attendees is limited. The applicants’ registration fee for
the workshop is 100 €. Costs for accommodation will be covered
during the workshop. Limited funding is available on request to
partially cover travel expenses.
**Deadline** for applications is: **July 5, 2009**
Workshop poster can be downloaded here:
http://ifisc.uib-csic.es/darwin09/files/announcement_darwin09.pdf
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