PiTP Schedule

2012 PiTP Program Schedule

July 9 - 20, 2012

(FINAL)

REGISTRATION/CHECK-IN: Sunday, July 8 from 3:00 - 7:45 p.m. (in Bloomberg Hall Common Room)

A list of general topics covered, and the lecturers who spoke on each topic, are noted below:

"Errors and codes": Måns Ehrenberg (Uppsala University) and Tsvi Tlusty (Institute for Advanced Study)

"Viruses and immunity": Guillaume Bonfante (Université de Nancy), Arup Chakraborty (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and Arnold Levine (Institute for Advanced Study)

"Growth and form": Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz (University of Calgary) and Enrico Coen (John Innes Centre, Norwich)

"Natural algorithms": Bernard Chazelle (Princeton University), Jean-Louis Deneubourg (Université Libre de Bruxelles), and Guy Theraulaz (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse)

"Learning & robotics": Hod Lipson (Cornell University) and Dario Floreano (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

WEEK 1: All events held in Wolfensohn Hall, unless otherwise noted.

	July 9	July 10	July 11	July 12	July 13
8:45 am - 9:00 am	Greeting & Introduction
9:00 am - 10:30 am	Levine Lecture "Viruses and immunity" (General Introduction)	Levine Lecture "Viruses and immunity" (1 of 2)	Levine Lecture "Viruses and immunity" (2 of 2)	Floreano Lecture "Evolutionary Robotics" (1 of 2)	Floreano Lecture "Evolutionary Robotics" (2 of 2)
10:30 am - 11:00 am	Coffee Break (in Fuld Hall Common Room)
11:00 am - 12:30 pm	Bonfante Lecture "Viruses and immunity: On the theory of computer viruses" (1 of 2)	Bonfante Lecture "Viruses and immunity: On the theory of computer viruses" (2 of 2)	Chakraborty Lecture "Introduction to basic immunology"	Chakraborty Lecture "How to hit HIV where it hurts"	Coen Lecture "Genes, Growth and Geometry" (2 of 2)
12:30 pm - 1:45 pm	Lunch Break Institute Dining Hall (NOTES: Lunch tickets are valid only after 12:30 pm. Dining Hall serves only until 1:30 pm) GROUP PHOTO at start of lunch on Wednesday, July 11 - assemble behind Fuld Hall INSTITUTE APPAREL SALE on Friday, July 13 during lunch break - upper level Dining Hall
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm	Prusinkiewicz Lecture "How do plants acquire their form?" (General Introduction)	Prusinkiewicz Lecture "How do plants acquire their form?" (1 of 2)	Coen Lecture "Genes, Growth and Geometry" (General Introduction)	Coen Lecture "Genes, Growth and Geometry" (1 of 2)	Prusinkiewicz Lecture "How do plants acquire their form?" (2 of 2)
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm	Afternoon Tea Break (in Fuld Hall Common Room)
3:45 pm - 5:00 pm	Homework/ Discussion Session	Homework/ Discussion Session	Homework/ Discussion Session	Homework/ Discussion Session	Homework/ Discussion Session
Evening	Grocery Shuttle (departs from in front of Fuld Hall) 1st group leaves @ 5:30 pm		Director's Welcome Dinner 6:30 pm (Dining Hall)

SUGGESTED PRINCETON SITES TO VISIT - WEEKEND ACTIVITIES: Information available here.

WEEK 2: All events held in Wolfensohn Hall, unless otherwise noted.

	July 16	July 17	July 18	July 19	July 20
9:00 am - 10:30 am	Tlusty Lecture "Coding a Life Full of Errors" (1 of 2)	Tlusty Lecture "Coding a Life Full of Errors" (2 of 2)	Chazelle Lecture "Natural algorithms" (1 of 2)	Chazelle Lecture "Natural algorithms" (2 of 2)	Lipson Lecture "Co-Evolutionary Learning: Distilling Free-Form Natural Laws from Experimental Data" (1 of 2)
10:30 am - 11:00 am	Coffee Break (in Fuld Hall Common Room)
11:00 am - 12:30 pm	Ehrenberg Lecture "Limits of accuracy in biosynthetic reactions"	Ehrenberg Lecture "The rate-accuracy trade-off in bacterial protein synthesis"	Theraulaz Lecture "Distributed coordination and collaboration in animal societies" (1 of 2)	Theraulaz Lecture "Distributed coordination and collaboration in animal societies" (2 of 2)	Lipson Lecture "Co-Evolutionary Learning: Distilling Free-Form Natural Laws from Experimental Data" (2 of 2)
12:30 pm - 1:45 pm	Lunch Break Institute Dining Hall (NOTES: Lunch tickets are valid only after 12:30 pm. Dining Hall serves only until 1:30 pm)
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm	Chazelle Lecture "Natural algorithms" (General Introduction)	Deneubourg Lecture "Dynamics of aggregation" (1 of 2)	Deneubourg Lecture "Dynamics of aggregation" (2 of 2)	Lipson Lecture "Co-Evolutionary Learning: Distilling Free-Form Natural Laws from Experimental Data" (General Introduction)	PROGRAM ENDS WITH LUNCH on July 20
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm	Afternoon Tea Break (in Fuld Hall Common Room)
3:45 pm - 5:00 pm	Homework/ Discussion Session	Homework/ Discussion Session	Homework/ Discussion Session	Homework/ Discussion Session
Evening	Grocery Shuttle (departs from in front of Fuld Hall) 1st group leaves @ 5:30 pm		Pizza & Pool Party MOVED TO THURSDAY	Pizza & Pool Party 5:30 pm (Olden Farm)