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Week 1
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Tue, Jan 8
 10:00 am
 SSR
 All participants
 Organizational Meeting

1:30 pm
 SSR
 Mogens Jensen
 Coupled oscillators in biology

4:00 pm
 Broida 1640
 Stanislas Leibler
 Physical Biology: Is there an elephant in the room?
 Physics Dept Colloquium, refreshments at 3:40pm, Broida 1640
Wed, Jan 9




Thu, Jan 10
 10:00 am
 SSR
 Nicolas Desprat
 Game theory in the study of cooperation

1:30 pm
 SSR
 Michael Doebeli
 Theoretical perspectives on the problem of cooperation: Part 1

4:00pm
 Mosher Alum House
2nd floor
 Sebastian Seung
 Connectome: How the brain's wiring makes us who we are
 Perhaps of interest to some; talk in a lecture series.
Fri, Jan 11
 10:00 am
 SSR
 Gyan Bhanot
 Selfish genes and evolution of cooperation

1:30pm
 SSR
 Michael Doebeli
 Theoretical perspectives on the problem of cooperation: Part 2
Week 2
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Mon, Jan 14





12:15pm
 Aud
 Jeff Gore
 Why cooperate? From self replicators to human societies
 Blackboard Lunch Seminar, All welcome.

2:30pm
 Aud
 All participants
 Introduction meeting for newcomers
 Introductions, big questions, mini-intro to wiki

5:00pm
 KITP Commons
 All participants
 Wine & Cheese
Tue, Jan 15
 10:00am
 SSR
 Nicolas Desprat
 Public goods in a spatially structured environment
Wed, Jan 16
 10:00am
 Aud
 Andrew Murray
 Multicellularity: Is there a big idea?

1:30pm
 Aud
 James Ferrell
 Bistability, trigger waves, and coupled oscillators in the Xenopus embryo
Thur, Jan 17
 10:00am
 SSR
 Mimi Koehl
 Evolution of multicellularity: Fluid mechanics of feeding by unicellular vs. multicellular choanoflagellates

1:30pm
 Aud
 Marcus Roper
 Hydrodynamic cooperation and a precursor to metazoan multicellularity

4:00 pm
 Aud
 All participants
(David Bensimon & Birgitta Whaley,
discussion leaders)
 Coherent control for biology
 joint discussion between participants in both programs (Multicell and Control of Complex Quantum Systems). Introduction by David Bensimon and Birgitta Whaley.
Fri, Jan 18
 10:00am
 SSR
 Jeff Gore
 Cooperation, cheating, and collapse in microbial populations

1:30pm
 SSR
 Peter Swain
 Identifying sources of variation in biochemical networks

Week 3
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 Time
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Mon, Jan 21



Holiday
Tue, Jan 22
 10:00am
 SSR
 All participants
 Introduction meeting for newcomers
 Introductions, big questions, mini-intro to wiki

1:30pm
 Aud
 Owen Gilbert
 A critical look at the field of microbial social evolution

4:00pm
 Broida 1640
 Robert Kirschner
 Exploding stars and cosmic acceleration: better precision in the infrared
 Physics Department Seminar Series
Wed, Jan 23
 11:00
 MRL 2053
 David Bensimon
 Engineering enzymatic reactions
 Biomolecular Science and Engineering program seminar. MRL Bldg, 2053

1:30pm
 Aud
 Michael Lynch
 The evolution of mutation rates and the relevance to multicellularity
Thur, Jan 24
 10:00am
 SSR
 Simone Pigolotti
 Growth, competition, and cooperation in spatial population genetics

1:30pm
 Aud
 Federico Toschi
 Population dynamics under flow
Fri, Jan 25
 10:00am
 Aud
 Herb Bernstein
 Introduction to The Anacapa Society
 for more information see http://anacapasociety.org

10:10am
 Aud
 Erwin Frey
 Cyclic dominance in spatially extended populations


Week 4
Date
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
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Mon, Jan 28
 12:15pm
 Aud
 Paul Julienne
 Quantum encounters of the cold kind
 KITP Blackboard Lunch seminar series

2:30pm
 Aud
 All participants
 Introduction meeting for newcomers
 Introductions, big questions, mini-intro to wiki

5:00pm
 Commons
 All participants
 Wine & cheese
Tue, Jan 29
 10:00am
 SSR
 Joan Strassmann
 Challenges in multicellularity solvable with studies of social amoebae

1:30pm
 Aud
 Yoav Soen
 Epigenesis and symbiosis: The dark matter of evolution?

4:00pm
 Broida 1640
 Kohl Gill
 Physics, policy and phones
 Physics Department Colloquium, refreshments at 3:40pm in Broida 1640
Wed, Jan 30
 11:00am
 Elings 1601
 Eugene Shakhnovich
 Mapping protein folding on organismal fitness one mutation at a time
 BMSE Seminar Series

2:00pm
 Aud
 Peter Byrne
 Hype, censorship, and the paranoid style in science writing
 part of the Journalist in Residence seminar series

4:00 pm
 2205
 Prasad Perlekar
 Discrete population dynamics in flows
 informal discussion - all welcome

8:00pm
 MSR
 Daniel Fisher
 Can evolution be understood quantitatively?
 Public Lecture, reception to follow
Thur, Jan 31
 10:00am
 SSR
 Paul Rainey
 Levels and transitions

1:30pm
 Aud
 David Queller
 Social insects and evolution

4:00pm
 Aud
 Mike Lynch
 The evolution of multimeric states of proteins
 informal discussion and brainstorming - all welcome
Fri, Feb 1
 10:00am
 Aud
 Silvia De Monte
 Group formation and the evolution of microbial 'societies'

3:30pm
 Aud
 Faye Flam
 Life on Mars and Neanderthal clones: Why weird science gets on the front page and what you can do about it
 part of the Journalist in Residence seminar series

Week 5

CONFERENCE: Cooperation and Major Evolutionary Transitions
4-8 February


Week 6
Date
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
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Mon, Feb 11
 12:15pm
 Aud
 Birgitta Whaley
 Coherent manipulation of natural and engineered quantum systems
 KITP lunchtime Blackboard talk

2:30pm
 Aud
 All participants
 Introduction meeting for newcomers
 Introductions, big questions, mini-intro to wiki
Tue, Feb 12
 10:00am
 SSR
 James Glazier
 Cancer games and paradoxes: Simple simulations of the somatic evolution of behaviors during solid tumor progression

1:30pm
 Aud
 All participants
 Guided discussion on somatic evolution

4:00pm
 Broida 1640
 Robert Birgeneau
 Superconductors: Old and new
 Physics Department Colloquium, refreshments at 3:40pm
in Broida 1640
Wed, Feb 13
 10:00am
 Aud
 David Dingli
 Dynamics of hematopoiesis and its disorders

2:00pm
 MSR
 Paul Hansma
 From Broida to Bedside: From Fundamental to Clinical Research on Bone Fracture
 KITP colloquium
Thur, Feb 14
 10:00am
 SSR
 Avidgor Eldar
 Physical and evolutionary considerations in the design of bacterial communication systems

12:30
 Life Sciences Building 1001, Rathmann Auditorium
 Cassandra Extavour
 The evolution of novel and diverse modes of germ cell specification
 Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology Seminar

1:30pm
 Aud
 Irene Chen
 Understanding biomolecular design and evolution
Fri, Feb 15
 10:00am
 Aud
 David Nelson
 Population genetics in spatially heterogeneous environments


10:45am
 Aud
 Max Lavrentovich
 Nonequilibrium phase transitions and spatial population genetics


Week 7
Date
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
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Mon, Feb 18



Holiday!
Tue, Feb 19
 10:00am
 SSR
 Arnie Levine
 The evolution of the p53 family of genes and their functions in the origins of cancers

1:30pm
 Aud
 John Koschwanez
 Budding multicellularity in yeast

4:00pm
 Broida 1640
 Carl Wieman
 TBA
 Physics Department Colloquium, refreshments at 3:40pm
in Broida 1640
Wed, Feb 20
 10:00am
 Aud
 Deborah Shelton
 Intro to the Price equation

2:00pm
 Aud
 Faye Flam
 How to sell your science without selling your soul: How to get the media to work for you
 Journalist in Residence talk
Thur, Feb 21
 10:00am
 SSR
 Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo
 The origin of metazoan multicellularity:
what comparative genomics is telling us and how we could go forward

1:30pm
 Aud
 Jorge Pacheco
 Stochastic effects in hematopoiesis
Fri, Feb 22
 10:00am
 Aud
 Illes Farkas
 Can we list biochemical behaviors?










Week 8
Date
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
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Mon, Feb 25
 2:30pm
 Aud
 All participants
 Introductory meeting
 Introductions, big questions, mini-intro to wiki
Tue, Feb 26
 10:00am
 Aud
 Gabor Balazsi
 Evolution through the lens of synthetic biology





Biomolecular Sci & Engineering seminar series

1:30pm
 FR
 Paul Rainey
 Evolution of stochastic switches

4:00pm
 Broida 1640
 Misha Lukin
 Exploring New Frontiers of Quantum Optical Science
 Physics Department Colloquium, refreshments at 3:40pm
in Broida 1640
Wed, Feb 27
 11:00am
 ESB 2001
 David Nelson
 Dislocation-mediated elongation of bacteria

2:00pm
 Aud
 Peter Byrne
 Writing about quantum mechanics for biologists: The Many-Worlds theory as told by Peter Byrne
 Journalist in Residence talk
Thur, Feb 28
 11:00am
 Aud
 James Glazier
 A brief introduction to CompuCell3D

1:30pm
 FR
 Clayton Davis
Severine Urdy
Andras Szabo
 CompuCell3D mini-workshop
Fri, Feb 29
 10:00am
 Aud
 Joseph Zhou
 Cancer attractors and cancer-cell population dynamics


3:00pm
 South Hall 4607
 Roeland Merks
 Stochastic self-organization of branched organs: on the
growth of blood vessels, glands, and kidneys
 Math Dept seminar in South Hall (across the campus)

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Week 9
Date
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
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Mon, Mar 4
 2:30pm
 Aud
 All participants
 Introductory meeting
 Introductions, big questions, mini-intro to wiki
Tue, Mar 5
 10:00am
 SSR
 Cristian Solari
 Evolutionary ecology of multicellularity: The Volvocine green
algae as a case study





Biomolecular Sci & Engineering seminar series

1:30pm
 Aud
 Roeland Merks
 The morphogenesis of branched tissues

4:00pm
 Broida 1640
 Chandra Varma
 Higgs bosons in superconductors
 Physics Department Colloquium, refreshments at 3:40pm
in Broida 1640
Wed, Mar 6
 10:00am
 Aud
 Joao Xavier
 Experiments in Pseudomonas aeruginosa swarming: Bridging social evolution
and molecular mechanism

2:00pm
 Aud
 Faye Flam
 Salacious science
 Journalist in Residence talk
Thur, Mar 7
 10:00am
 SSR
 Tommy Angelini
 Biofilms suck and epithelial cells blow: Forces in multicellular systems

1:30pm
 Aud
 Liyan Ping
 Division of labor in a bacterial swarm
Fri, Mar 8
 10:00am
 Aud
 Carl Simpson
 The macroevolution of individuality


12:15pm
 Aud
 Cassandra Extavour
 Integrating the physics and biology of cooperation: From molecules to super organisms
 KITP lunchtime Black Board talk

3:00pm
 South Hall 4607
 Roeland Merks
 Stigmergy in blood vessel growth: how indirect mechanical and chemical signaling, via the extra-cellular matrix, can coordinate collective cell behavior
 Math Dept seminar in South Hall (across the campus)


Week 10
Date
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
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Mon, Mar 11
 10:00am
 Aud
 Brad Olson
 The genomics of multicellularity in the Volvocales
Tue, Mar 12
 10:00am
 Aud
 Tom Chou
 Physics of self-assembly and sensing

4:00pm
 Broida 1640
 Uros Seljak
 Galaxy-dark matter connection: the large scale structure view
 Physics Department Colloquium, refreshments at 3:40pm
in Broida 1640
Wed, Mar 13
 10:00am
 Aud
 Victor Luria
 Stochastic decision-making and exploratory behavior in neural and genetic circuits

1:30pm
 FR
 Cristian Solari
 The evolution of cellular differentiation in Volvocales part II: Flagellar Mixing and Molecular Transport.
 informal discussion
Thur, Mar 14
 10:00am
 Aud
 Cassandra Extavour
 Evolution of genetic and developmental novelty: lessons from animal germ cells

1:30pm
 FR
 Christoph Kirst
 Information Flow Patterning in Modular Networks of Oscillators
Fri, Mar 15
 10:00am
 Aud
 Chaitanya Gokhale
 Thinking beyond the Dyad: Multiplayer evolutionary games

*Aud=Auditorium, SSR=Small Seminar Room, MSR=Main Seminar Room, FR=Founders' Room, PL=Porthole Lounge
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