TO: Alife Workshop Participants
FROM: Leigh Tesfatsion
DATE: April 8, 1994
SUBJECT: Final Schedule
                                                   REVISED  April 8, 1994

ALIFE WORKSHOP: SPRING SCHEDULE OF TOPICS AND MODERATORS
(Held F, 3:10-4:30, in Room 468D, Heady Hall, unless otherwise indicated)

January 28:    Tom Ray, "Synthesis of Life," moderated by
               Steve Willson and Dan Ashlock

February 4:    Biological population modelling, articles by John Maynard
               Smith and Alan Grafen, moderated by Ann Stanley

February 11:   "Parental Guidance Suggested: How Parental Imprinting Evolves
               through Sexual Selection and Adaptive Learning Mechanisms," by
               P. Todd and G.  Miller, moderated by Mark Smucker

February 18:   "Evolution of Food-Foraging Strategies for the Caribbean
               _Anolis_ Lizard using Genetic Programming," by J. Koza, J.
               Rice, and J.  Roughgarden, moderated by Bill Grayhack.

February 25:   "Explorations in Evolutionary Robotics," by D. Cliff
               I. Harvey, and P. Husbands.

March 4:       Selected readings from Barbara Von Eckardt, C. R. Gallistel,
               and John Searle, moderated by Bill Robinson.

March 11:      Informal Gathering at Cafe Lovish (2512 Lincoln) at 3:10

March 18:                       Spring Vacation

March 25:      B. Arthur, "On Designing Economic Agents that Behave
               Like Human Agents," moderated by Veronica Dark

April 1:       "Learning in Experimental Auction Games," readings TBA,
               moderated by Jay Shogren.

April 8:       R. Selten, "Evolution, Learning and Economic
               Behavior," moderated by Leigh Tesfatsion.

April 15:      No Workshop

April 22:      Selections from Karl Sigmund, _Games of Life: Explorations in
               Evolutionary Biology," on cellular automata and the GAME-OF-LIFE,
               moderated by Jim Lathrop.

April 29:      K. Lindgren and M. G. Nordahl, "Evolutionary Dynamics of
               Spatial Games," moderated by Bill Grayhack.

May 6:         P. Angeline and J. Pollack, "Co-Evolving High-Level
               Representations" (dynamic genetic algorithms), in
               _Alife III_, moderated by Gerry Sheble.

May 13:  Final Exam Period, No Workshop