INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

SYMMETRY AND INVARIANCE IN THE NATURAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

NOVEMBER 17, 10:00AM – 5:40PM & NOVEMBER 18, 10:00AM – 1:00PM

SSPA 2112 DUNCAN LUCE CONFERENCE ROOM

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2017

10:00AM Welcome and opening remarks: Jean-Paul Carvalho, UCI

10:10AM Don Saari, UCI, Hidden symmetries inherent to decision methods

10:50AM Steve Frank, UCI, Common probability patterns arise from simple invariances

11:30AM Break

11:50AM Jean-Claude Falmagne, UCI, Meaningfulness as a Symmetry and Invariance Axiom with some Examples of Derived Laws

12:30PM Lunch Break

2:00PM Zyg Pizlo, UCI, The Role of Symmetry in Veridical 3D Shape Perception

2:40PM Don Hoffman, UCI, Symmetry Does Not Entail Veridicality

3:20PM Natalia Komarova, UCI, Symmetry in evolutionary dynamics: case studies from medicine to language

4:00PM Break

4:20PM Yanxi Liu, Penn State, Computational Regularity: Theory and Applications

5:00PM Tony Norcia, Stanford, Neural and computational foundations of human symmetry processing

5:40PM Adjourn

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2017

10:00AM Ronaldo Vigo, Ohio University, An Invariance-based Foundation for Cognition: Accounting for Key Empirical Results on Conception, Perception, and Choice with Generalized Invariance Structure Theory

10:40AM Geoff Iverson, UCI, ROCs, dual ROCs and symmetric ROCs

11:20AM Break

11:30AM Simon Huttegger, Role of symmetries in inductive inference

12:10PM Louis Narens, UCI, Generalized Symmetry

12:50PM Closing Remarks, Jean-Paul Carvalho, UCI

1:00PM Conference Adjourns