TSVP Symposium: Computational and Physical Understanding of Biological Information Processing

Title: Computational and Physical Understanding of Biological Information Processing

Abstract: The notion of information and its processing is essential for understanding a wide range of biological systems that behave adaptively in an unpredictably changing world with different time scales. Nonetheless, the concepts, methodologies, and theories developed for respective fields such as neuroscience, evolutionary biology, ecology, and biophysics, are dispersed in each community, and the communications between them are still limited. This symposium aims at establishing a new research field of biological information processing that enables us to integratively and coherently understand a wide range of intelligence functions in various biological phenomena by providing a place to share visions and exchange knowledge and best practices of these fields.

Linked to Thematic Program on "Computational and Physical Understanding of Biological Information Processing"

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Symposium Organizers

Tetsuya J. Kobayashi (The University of Tokyo)
Simon K. Schnyder (The University of Tokyo)
Naoki Honda (Hiroshima University)

Invited Participants

Corentin Briat (FHNW)
David Brueckner (University of Basel)
Daniel Maria Busiello (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems)
Manon Costa (Université de Toulouse)
Paul Francois (Université de Montréal)
Benjamin Friedrich (TU Dresden)
Yusuke Himeoka (The University of Tokyo)
Yuji Hirono (Osaka University)
Sanjay Jain (University of Delhi and Santa Fe Institute)
Keita Kamino (Academia Sinica)
Daisuke Kiga (Waseda University)
David Lacoste (ESPCI)
Shiling Liang (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems)
Leenoy Meshulam (University of Washington, Seattle)
John Jairo Molina Lopez (Kyoto University)
Rami Pugatch (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Pawel Piotr Romanczuk (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
Gašper Tkačik (Institute of Science and Technology Austria)
Matthew Turner (Warwick University)

Schedule

March 5, 2025: Arrival Day

March 6: Scientific Sessions

March 7: Scientific Sessions

March 8: AM: Scientific Sessions, PM: Poster session and Discussion

March 9: Excursion and free Discussion

Detailed Program

Day 1 (March 6)

Session 1: chair: Simon Schnyder
09:15    09:30    Opening remarks
09:30    10:00    Talk 1: Tetsuya J. Kobayashi
10:00    10:30    Talk 2: Naoki Honda 

10:30    11:00    Coffee break

Session 2: chair: Naoki Honda
11:00    11:30    Talk 3: Leenoy Meshulam
11:30    12:00    Talk 4: Benjamin Markus Friedrich

12:00    13:30    Lunch

Session 3: chair Atsushi Kamimura
13:30    14:00    Talk 5: Sanjay Jain
14:00    14:30    Talk 6: Daisuke Kiga

14:30    15:00    Coffee break

Session 4: chair Praful Gagrani
15:00    15:30    Talk 7: David Lacoste
15:30    16:00    Talk 8: Rami Pugatch (online presentation)

16:00    17:30    Poster session I

18:00            Networking Dinner in the Atrium of Lab 5

Day 2 (March 7)

Session 5: chair Kento Nakamura
09:30    10:00    Talk 9: Sam Reiter
10:00    10:30    Talk 10: Pawel Romanczuk

10:30    11:00    Coffee break

Session 6: chair Shuhei Horiguchi
11:00    11:30    Talk 11: Corentin Briat
11:30    12:00    Talk 12: Yuji Hirono

12:00    13:30    Lunch

Session 7: chair Tetsuhiro Hatakeyama
13:30    14:00    Talk 13: John Jairo Molina Lopez
14:00    14:30    Talk 14: David Brückner

14:30    15:00    Coffee break

Session 8: chair Ignacio Madrid
15:00    15:30    Talk 15: Manon Costa
15:30    16:00    Talk 16: Simon Schnyder

16:00    16:30    Coffee break

Session 9: chair Tetsuya J. Kobayashi
16:30    16:50    Short talk 1: Shiling Liang
16:50    17:10    Short talk 2: Tetsuhiro S. Hatakeyama
17:10    17:30    Short talk 3: TBA

Day 3 (March 8)

Session 10: chair Takehiro Tottori
09:30    10:00    Talk 17: Kamino Keita
10:00    10:30    Talk 18: Gašper Tkačik

10:30    11:00    Coffee break

Session 11: chair Tetsuya J. Kobayashi
11:00    11:30    Talk 19: Paul Francois
11:30    12:00    Talk 20: Yusuke Himeoka  

12:00    13:00    Lunch

Session 12: chair Simon Schnyder
13:00    13:20    Short talk 4: Kota Mitsumoto
13:20    13:40    Short talk 5: TBA
13:40    14:00    Short talk 6: TBA
14:00    14:20    Short talk 7: TBA
14:40    15:00    Short talk 8: Masaki Kato

15:00    17:00    Poster session II

17:00    17:10    Closing (Tetsuya J. Kobayashi)

This program is also supported by Information Physics of Living Matters (JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas) and by the JST CREST program (Mathematical Information Platform).

※ Please note that this event may be recorded and the videos uploaded. In addition, photos may be taken during the event. These are intended for publication online (the OIST website, social media, etc.)※