Seminars and Colloquia

Date: 10-06-2007
Place: "Shaastra 2007, IIT Madras (India)
Title: Digital Genetics: Unraveling the Genetic Basis of Evolution

Date: 06-24-2007
Place: "Genes, Genomes and Evolution", Villars (Switzerland)
Title: A Mechanism for Drastically Fluctuating Genomic Evolution: From Digitals to the Cambrian Explosion and Back

Date: 06-06-2007
Place: Systems Biology Summit II, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond
Title: Digital Genetics: Unraveling the Genetic Basis of Evolution

Date: 04-16-2007
Place: Evolvability Conference, Varenna, Italy
Title: A Mechanism for Drastically Fluctuating Genomic Evolution: From Digitals to the Cambrian Explosion and Back

Date: 04-13-2007
Place: EvoStar Conference, Valencia, Spain
Title: In-silico Evolution of Complex Modular Metabolic Networks

Date: 09-13-2006
Place: Biology seminar, University of Houston, Texas
Title: Digital Genetics: Unraveling the Genetic Basis of Evolution

Date: 09-12-2006
Place: Physics Colloquium, University of Houston, Texas
Title: Quantum Information Theory and the Fate of Black Holes

Date: 06-07/10-2006
Place: 10th International Conference on Artificial Life, Bloomington, Indiana

Date: 05-22/26-2006
Place: CM06 Workshop IV: Systems Biology and Molecular Modeling, IPAM, UCLA
Title: Digital Genetics: Unraveling the Genetic Basis of Evolution

Date: 05-03-2006
Place: Center for Studies in Physics and Biology, Rockefeller University
Title: Digital Genetics: Unraveling the Genetic Basis of Evolution

Date: 04-27-2006
Place: Computational Biology Seminar, KGI
Title: Information Theory and Evolution (and some Statistical Physics)

Date: 02-03-2006
Place: Mathematics of Fitness Landscapes Workshop, UC Berkeley
Title: The Relation between Evolutionary Biology and Statistical Physics

Date: 01-19-2006
Place: TLL Symposium on "Replication of Structures, Cells, and Organisms", Singapore
Title: Digital Genetics: Unraveling the Genetic Basis of Evolution

Date: 12-12-2005
Place: CNS Seminar Series, Caltech
Title: Digital Genetics: Unraveling the Genetic Basis of Evolution

Date: 12-10-2005
Place: Innovation in Biological Systems: Mechanisms, Evolution, and Consequences, IHES Bures-sur-Yvette (France)
Title: Adaptive Radiation in Digital Organisms: Towards Sympatric Speciation

Date: 11-14/20-2005
Place: NSF Mathematical Biology Initiative Workshop: "Aspects of Self-Organization", Ohio State Univ.
Title: Adaptive Radiation in Digital Organisms

Date: 10-20-2005
Place: AAAS DoSER Lecture Series, Washington, DC
Title: Evolution of Biological Complexity

Date: 10-13-2005
Place: ESF Synthetic Biology Workshop, Avila (Spain)
Title: Digital Genetics: Unraveling the Genetic Basis of Evolution

Date: 06-27-2005
Place: Harvard Medical School Children's Hospital Boston, "Leading Edge" Seminar Series
Title: Artificial Life: Life NOT As We Know It

Date: 06-19/24-2005
Place: Structural, Functional, and Evolutionary Genetics Gordon Conference, Bates College, ME
Title: Inferring the Complexity of Genes From Their Sequences

Date: 04-27-2005
Place: Symposium of Quantitative Biological Modeling Initiative, Michigan State U.
Title: Prospects for Suppression of Resistance Mutations in HIV-1 Protease

Date: 01-02-2005
Place: 35th Winter Coll. Physics of Quantum Electronics: "Quantum Field Theory in Curved Space" (Snowbird, Utah)
Title: Black Holes Conserve Information in Curved-Space Quantum Field Theory

Date: 12-04-2004
Place: 5th Int. EMBL Student's Symposium (Heidelberg, Germany)
Title: Evolution of Complex Computational Genes in Digital Organisms

Date: 11-01-2004
Place: Cal State Long Beach Physics Colloquium
Title: Artificial Life: Life NOT As We Know It

Date: 10-15-2004
Place: IPG 04, Lyon (France)
Title: Artificial Life: Life NOT As We Know It

Date: 09-28-2004
Place: AIAA Space 2004 conference
Title: Evolving Artificial Brains for Artificial Explorers

Date: 09-17-2004
Place Keck Graduate Institute, All KGI Seminar
Title: Artificial Life: Life NOT As We Know It

Date: 08-19-2004
Place: QCPR 2004, Orlando, Florida
Title: Black Holes Conserve Information in Curved-Space Quantum Field Theory

Date: 02-19-2004
Place: von Karman Lecture Series, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Title: Artificial Life: Life NOT as we know it

Date: 11-24-2003
Place: Crown College, UC Santa Cruz
Title: Experimenting With the Evolution of Terrestrial and Non- Terrestrial Llife.

Date: 10-18-2003
Place: Center for Biological Modelling Annual Retreat, Michigan State University
Title: Predicting Protein-Protein Interactions from Sequence Data

Date: 10-01-2003
Place: NASA Ames Workshop on Quantum Mechanics, Information Theory, and the Origin of Life
Title: Classical and Quantum Information Theory: Applications to Molecular Biology

Date: 09-10-2003
Place: AMOS Technical Conference 2003, Wailea, Maui
Title: Towards a Fully Relativistic Theory of Quantum Information

Date: 08-04-2003
Place: School of Informatics, Indiana University
Title: Applications of Information Theory to Molecular Biology: From Structure Prediction to Drug Design

Date: 06-09-2003
Place: Keck Graduate Institute, Claremont
Title: Applications of Information Theory to Molecular Biology: From Structure Prediction to Drug Design

Date: 04-11-2003
Place: Biocomplexity Seminar, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Title: Applications of Information Theory to Molecular Biology: From Structure Prediction to Drug Design

Date: 02-08-2003
Place: 2003 CNS Retreat, Warner Springs Ranch, CA
Title: Applications of Information Theory to Molecular Biology: From Structure Prediction to Drug Design

Date: 11-14-2002
Place: NASA DoD Workshop on Quantum Imaging and Metrology, Pasadena, CA
Title: Quantum Entanglement Goes Relativistic: Steps towards Relativistic Quantum Information Theory

Date 07-15/22-2002
Place: 2002 Santa Fe Institute Summer School, Budapest
Title: "Evolution in biological and digital organisms"

Date: 06-24-02
Place: Evolutionary Theory Conference, Esalen Institute (Monterey, CA)
Title: "Evolutionary biology with digital organisms"

Date: 04-07-02
Place: 2nd Astrobiology Science Conference, NASA Ames Research Center, April 7-11, 2002
Title:  "Digital organisms for experimental evolution"

Date  03-23-02
Place: International Workshop on Concepts for Complex Adaptive Systems, Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, Germany
Title: "Evolution of biological complexity"

Date 02-11-02
Place: Santa Fe Institute Colloquium
Title: "Evolution of biological complexity"

Date: 11-14-01
Place: Center for Study of Evolution and Origin of Life (CSEOL) Seminar, UCLA
Title: "Evolution of biological complexity"

Date: 10-29-01
Place: CNS Seminar, Caltech
Title: "Digital organisms for experimental evolution"

Date:  09-29-01
Place: 15th Birthday Bash, CNS (Caltech)
Title: "Digital (R)evolution"

Date: 09-14-01
Place: AMOS Technical Conference, Maui, Hawaii
Title: "Quantum computing--The ultimate frontier"

Date: 08-28-01
Place: JPL Laboratory-wide Seminar, von Karman Auditorium
Title: "Using molecular evolution and information theory to improve drug design"

Date: 07-30-01
Place: Gordon Research Conference in Microbial Population Biology, Williamstown, MA
Title: "Digital organisms for experimental evolution" (invited talk).

Date: 05-21-01
Place: Annual Retreat, Center for Biological Modelling, East Lansing, MI
Title: "Digital organisms for experimental evolution" (invited talk)

Date: 03-27-01
Place: Annual Outreach Program for Highschool Youth, Caltech
Title: "Research at the Digital Life Laboratory"

Date: 01-19-01
Place: Colloquium, "Edge of Science" Series, Michigan State University
Title: "Survival of the most robust"

Date: 01-18-01
Place: Colloquium, Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan
Title: "Survival of the most robust"

Date: 08-10-00
Place: 85th Annual Meeting of Ecological Society of America, August 1-11, 2000, Snowbird, UT
Title: "Individual-based modeling of ecosystems with Artificial Life"  (invited talk)

Date: 05-23-00
Place: International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS), May 21-26, 2000, Nashua, NH
Title: "Complexity in Artificial Life" (invited talk)

Date: 01-15-00
Place: Quantitative Challenges in the Postgenomic Era: Workshop and Symposium, Jan 11-15, 2000, San Diego, CA
Title: "Computational genomics on digital organisms"

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