Time | Event |
8:30 | Conference bus departs from Heiligenstadt Bahnhof to IST Austria |
9:00-9:15 | Registration and Coffee |
9:15-9:30 | Introduction |
9:30-10:30 | Ruth Chang
“Hard Choices” Welcoming lecture: Incommensurability of values & principles of decision making |
10:30-11:00 | Coffee break |
11:00-12:00 | Davide Scaramuzza
”Autonomous, Agile, Vision-controlled Drones” Robotics and Perception |
12:00-13:00 | Laurent Frantz
“Understanding Domestication in the Genomic Era“ Evolutionary Biology and Population Genomics |
13:00-14:00 | Lunch and some game activities |
14:00-15:00 | Laura Mančinska
“Quantum Entanglement and Nonlocal Games” Quantum information theory: Non local games |
15:00-16:00 | Michael Brecht
“Neural Correlates of Tickle, Play and Ambivalence in the Somatosensory Cortex” Systems Neuroscience |
16:00-16:30 | Coffee break |
16:30-17:30 | Christian Fankhauser
“Reaching out for the Sun: Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Enhanced Light Access in Plants” Plant Cell Biology: Photoperception strategies of plants |
17:30-18:30 | Eyal Winter
“Feeling Smart: Why our Emotions are More Rational Than We Think” Behavioral Economics: The influence of emotions on decision making |
18:30-18:45 | Closing remarks and prize winner announcements |
18:45 | Happy hour: drinks |
20:30 | Conference bus leaves for Vienna in front of the Lecture Hall |
**Please note that the schedule is subject to change