Program Wednesday 11. February
09.30-09.40: Introduction: Darwin's influence on our understanding of life
Nils Chr. Stenseth
CEES
09.40-09.50: Greetings from Darwin’s homeland
David Powell
British Ambassador to Norway
09.50-10.15: Announcing the book “Darwin: verden ble aldri den samme” (Eng: "Darwin: the world would never be the same again") edited by Dag O. Hessen, Thore Lie & Nils Chr. Stenseth
Nils Chr. Stenseth
CEES
10.15-11.15: The public acceptance of evolution in Europe and the United States
Jon D. Miller
East Lansing, MI
11.15-12.15: The fossil record and Darwin's theory of evolution
Adrian M. Lister
Natural History Museum, London
12.15-14.00: Break
14.00-15.00: The evolution of individuality
Paul Rainey
NZ Institute for Advanced Study (NZIAS) at Massey University's Albany Campus
15.00-16.00: Self-Organization, embodiment, and biologically inspired robotics
Rolf Pfeifer
Zurich, Switzerland
Program Thursday 12 February
09.30-10.30: A Genomic View of Human Origins
Johannes Krause
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
10.30-11.30: Evolution, behaviour and primate cortex: the behavioural neurobiology of vocal communication
Cory Miller
Johns Hopkins University, USA
11.30-13.00: Break
13.00-14.00: Finding the way – an evolutionarily conserved brain function
Edvard Moser
Director of Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and Director of Centre for the Biology of Memory, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
14.00-15.00: Evolution of Cooperation, especially in Humans
Karl Sigmund
Vienna
15.00-16.00: The impact of Darwinian thought on decision theory and the behavioral sciences
Peter Hammerstein
Berlin
16.30-17.15: Discussion on the complete sequencing of the Neanderthal genome
Johannes Krause
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
Program Friday 13 February
11.15-12.00 (Aud. 2): Thomas Malthus and Connecting population dynamics and evolution
Mike Begon
University of Liverpool, UK