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Seventh International Workshop on Guided Self-Organization

The University of Freiburg is pleased to host the 7th International Workshop on Guided Self-Organisation

in collaboration with BrainLinks - BrainTools, December 16-18, 2014.

GSO-2014 Program

	Tuesday, Dec 16th 2014	Wednesday, Dec 17th 2014	Thursday, Dec 18th 2014
	Self-organised embodied systems and information theory	Complex networks, swarms, and morphogenesis	Networks and GSO theory
9:15	Opening Remarks
9:30	Ralf Der, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig Guided self-organization of sensorimotor contingencies	Ulrich Egert, University of Freiburg Emergence of structure-function relations in biological neuronal networks	Herbert Jaeger, Jacobs University, Bremen Shaping the Dynamics of Recurrent Neural Networks by Conceptors
10:30	Break	Break	Break
11:00	Georg Martius and Ralf Der, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig Guided Self-Organization of Behavioral Repertoires and Emerging Gaits	BrainLinks-BrainTools Session - Active stimulation for modulation of complex network activity	Claudius Gros and Rodrigo Echeveste, Goethe University Frankfurt Guiding self-organization by combining distinct objective functions
11:25	Simón C. Smith, Athanasios Polydoros and J. Michael Herrmann, University of Edinburgh Internal Models for Self-Organised Robotic Behaviour		Heiko Hamann and Gabriele Valentini, University of Paderborn, Université Libre de Bruxelles Micro-Macro Links for Self-Organizing Collective Systems: From Local State Transition Rules to Global Transition Probabilities and Back
11:50	Keyan Ghazi-Zahedi, joint work with Guido Montufar & Nihat Ay Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig A Framework for Cheap Universal Approximation in Embodied Systems		Francesco Caravelli, University College London Reinforcement walkers vs. graph decay: scale-free networks as a self-organizing emergent phenomenon
12:15	Lunch	Lunch	Val K Bykovsky, Virtek Research Energy-Driven Molecular Sampling and its Competitive Guidance
13:45	Jochen Triesch, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies Active Efficient Coding	Guy Theraulaz, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse From individual to collective information processing in fish schools	Wrap-Up (12:40)
14:45	J. Michael Herrmann, University of Edinburgh Self-Organisation of Deep Control	Oliver Obst, Andreea Lazar and Joschka Boedecker, CSIRO ICT Centre, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, University of Freiburg Representations and Self-Organisation in Recurrent Networks
15:10	Christoph Salge, Cornelius Glackin and Daniel Polani, University of Hertfordshire Empowerment: a Route Towards the Three Laws of Robotics	Renato Duarte, University of Freiburg Synaptic adaptation stabilizes sequential stimulus representations
15:35	Break	Break
16:05	Mikhail Prokopenko and Joseph T. Lizier, University of Sydney Transfer Entropy and Transient Limits of Computation	René Doursat, Complex Systems Institute, Paris Morphogenetic Engineering in Swarm Robotics and Synthetic Biology
16:30	Paolo Perrone and Nihat Ay, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig Synergy as a Linear Operator	Yuri Shalygo, Gamma Ltd, Vyborg The Kinetic Basis of Morphogenesis
16:55	Tim Genewein and Daniel A. Braun, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen An information-theoretic optimality principle for the formation of abstractions	Linge Bai and David E. Breen, Drexel University, Philadelphia Directing Chemotaxis-Based Spatial Self-Organization via Biased, Random Initial Conditions
17:20	Wrap-Up	Wrap-Up

Regular talks (light green) are 20 mins + 5 mins Q&A