Summer Conference Recap

This Summer has been quite busy in the Orthogonal Research and Education Lab in terms of conference presentations. The Saturday Morning NeuroSim group has presented at three conferences during the month of June and July: Cultural Evolution Society Conference, the Inverse Generative Social Science Workshop and the Cognitive Offloading Conference. In addition, the Open Science initiative was represented at the NetOpen Satellite Session at Networks 2021. Check out our YouTube channel’s lectures channel and Figshare for most of these talks.

At the Cultural Evolution Society, we were represented by two talks: “Charting the Future of Academic Fields with Cultural Evolutionary Trajectories” (Jesse Parent and Bradly Alicea), and “Examining Cultural Evolution with Contextual Geometric Structures” (Bradly Alicea, Jesse Parent, and Erin Higgs).

We also attended the Inverse Generative Social Science Workshop, which features many different types of Agent-based Model (ABM). Our contribution(by Bradly Alicea and Jesse Parent) was called on Meta-brain Models (“Meta-brain Models: biologically complex agent-based models”). While this was not pre-recorded, the slides are available on Figshare.

As part of Networks 2021, Bradly Alicea was able to present to the NetOpen Satellite on network representations of open-source communities, using data from OREL, the OpenWorm Foundation, and the Rokwire Community. This talk (“Network Architectures for Growing Open-source Communities”) draws from our laboratory vision preprint (now on MetaArXiv). Watch this talk on YouTube to get an open networks perspective on our lab’s unique mission.

Finally, Angela Risius, Jesse Parent, and Bradly Alicea represented the Representational Brains and Phenotypes theme at the Cognitive Offloading conference. The talk “A Developmental Model for Intelligence Offloading” argues that developmental agents use a series of tradeoffs to produce embodied adult contents with varying amounts of information encoded in the environment.

Stay tuned for more presentations and papers coming out of our various initiatives in the near future!