Nov. 18th, 10h00 – 12h00, Session 1 - Defining and quantifying information for biology

Location: centre Broca, salle B 206, Bâtiment B, 21 rue de Broca, Paris 5ème

10h00 : welcome (Philippe Huneman / Livio Riboli-Sasco)
10h10 – 12h00 session 1 - Defining and quantifying information for biology

• Chair : Livio Riboli-Sasco, Atelier des Jours à Venir
• Martin Schüle, IHPST: Information and its measures
• Paul Griffiths, University of Syndey: Information and specificity
• Jean - Louis Dessalles, Telecom Paris Tech: Information, the surviving entity

Nov. 18th, 13h30 – 17h30

Location: IHPST (Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques) 13 rue du Four, Paris 6ème

13h30 – 15h20, session 2 - Evolving information

• Chair : Philippe Huneman, IHSPT
• Pierre - Henri Gouyon, MNHN: Biology : in between mater and information
• Minus Van Baalen, CNRS / ENS: Adaptation, conflicting information and stress
• Livio Riboli-Sasco, Atelier des Jours à Venir: Major transitions in information processing

15h20 - 15h40 : coffee break

15h40 – 17h30, session 3 - Information or specificity ?

• Chair : Gaelle Pontarotti, IHPST
• Karola Stotz, Macquarie University, Sydney, Distributed Specificity
• Arnaud Pocheville, University of Sydney, Measuring Causal Specificity
• Gry Oftedal, University of Oslo, Biological specificity as fine-tuning and direct non-redundancy

Nov 19th, 8h30 – 12h30

Location: IHPST (Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques) 13 rue du Four, Paris 6ème

08:30 – 09:30, Workshop 1 - How to teach "information" to Bachelor & Master students in biology?

• Facilitated by Livio Riboli-Sasco, Atelier des Jours à Venir

09:40 – 11:10, session 4 - A special role for genes?

• Chair : Francesca Merlin, IHPST & CNRS
• Denis Walsh, University of Toronto: Genes, Development & Imperative Content: Who’s giving the orders?
• Elsa Muro Sabater, University of Navarra, Semantic information and Developmental Genetics
   

11h20 – 12h20, Workshop 2 - How our way to deal with "information" (publications, referencing, citation and social networks...) influences us in the way we think about information?

• Facilitated by Livio Riboli-Sasco, Atelier des Jours à Venir

12:20 - 12:30: concluding remarks (Philippe Huneman / Livio Riboli-Sasco)


​Attendence is free. Please do register by sending an email to livio@joursavenir.org