2025 Workshop

Workshop on Functional Information and State Space Expansion

The 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó's Committee on the History and Philosophy of Science

Sponsored by the Foster Endowment, the Templeton Foundation, and the CU Philosophy Department

May 14th, 2025 in 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó, Colorado

Schedule: Each fifteen-minute presentation will be followed by moderated, workshop-style discussion.

9:30 Welcome coffee and snacks

10:00 Demarest on Statistical Mechanics and Complexity

11:30 Wong on State Spaces and Funneling

1:00 Lunch (Participants are on their own for this. There are many good restaurants to choose from on nearby.)

2:30 Bartlett on Casual Leverage Density, A Universal Approach to Semantic Information

4:00 McShea on the Zero-Force Evolutionary Law

7:00 Participant Dinner at Thai (1035 Pearl St.)

Participants:

  • Gunnar Babcock (Cornell)
  • Stuart Bartlett (Caltech)
  • Carol Cleland (CU)
  • Heather Demarest (CU)
  • Saakshi Dulani (Johns Hopkins)
  • Brittany Gentry (Utah State)
  • Mike Hicks (Glasgow)
  • Dan McShea (Duke)
  • Jessical Wilson (Toronto)
  • Michael Wong (Carnegie)

Local Information:

Participants should fly in and out of DEN (Denver International Airport). There are regular, convenient, and direct busses (AB1 and AB2) from the airport to downtown 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó, near the hotel. The conference hotel is the . The workshop will take place on CU's beautiful campus, in the , room 125. 

For more information, please email heather.demarest@colorado.edu