[tt] [Boston-announce] Grey Thumb meeting Mon, Nov 3, featuring Dr. Shivakumar Viswanathan

[Eugen Leitl]

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Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:03:37 -0400
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	featuring Dr. Shivakumar Viswanathan
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Grey Thumb Meeting Announcement

Grey Thumb is pleased to announce a presentation by Dr. Shivakumar 
Viswanathan

When: 7:00pm Monday, November 3, 2008
Where: The Asgard Irish Pub & Restaurant (350 Mass. Ave, Central Square, 
Cambridge)
Who: All are welcome

Speaker: Dr. Shivakumar Viswanathan

Title: The Ideal Delivery problem in Evolutionary-Developmental algorithms

Abstract: Biological development is a phenomenal process of change where 
a single
cell eventually turns into an individual organism consisting of 
trillions of
differentiated cells. The challenges posed by developmental complexity 
for the
evolution of novel, adaptive phenotypic features has been a major 
motivation for
the study of the evolvability of the genetic encoding. However, the 
implications
of a developmental stage on the dynamics of selection remain poorly 
understood.
Using computational models of development instantiated by generative 
representations,
I will discuss how development can exert a strong bias on fitness 
evaluation and
selection by framing it as an optimal stopping problem. These findings 
bring to light
some of the strong informational constraints operative during 
development that need
to be taken into consideration in interpreting the role of the 
Genotype-Phenotype
map on evolutionary adaptation.

About Grey Thumb:
Grey Thumb is a group of scientists, engineers, hackers, artists, and 
hobbyists in the Boston metro area with a strong interest in artificial 
life, artificial intelligence, biology, complex systems and other 
related topics. http://www.greythumb.org

Note: Parking is available for $3 (with validation) in the garage behind 
The Asgard on Green St.
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