Atelier
Main School
Sunday 15 July
- Welcome and Opening (Luc Steels and Vittorio Loreto)
- Dietrich Stauffer (Cologne University Germany) Interdisciplinary Physics: Language Competition [related article]
- Jean-Marie Hombert (CNRS, Lyon, France) From Language to Languages [presentation]
- Francesco d'Errico (CNRS, Bordeaux, France) The archaeology of language origin or the search for the best fitting Model
Monday 16 July
Opinion Dynamics I
- Sidney Redner (Boston University, MA, USA) The Dynamics of Consensus and Clash [presentation]
- Claudio Castellano ("Sapienza" Univ. of Rome, Italy) The Axelrod model for cultural dissemination: role of noise, peer pressure and homophily. [presentation]
- Santo Fortunato (Institute for Scientific Interchange, Torino, Italy) Phenomenology of Social Dynamics [presentation]
Language I: Emergent Communication
- Susan Goldin-Meadow (University of Chicago, IL, USA) Gesture's Role in Creating and Learning Language. [presentation]
- Bruno Galantucci (Haskins Lab, Yale Univ., USA) Studying the emergence of human communication systems in the laboratory [presentation]
Semiotic Dynamics I
- Alain Barrat (Université de Paris-Suc, Orsay, France) Agreement dynamics on interaction networks: the Naming Game paradigm [presentation]
- Jose J. Mendes (Dept. De Fisica, Unversidade de Aveiro, Portugal) The structure of complex networks coffee break
Social Dynamics I
- Matteo Marsili (International Centre of Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy) Coordinating on volatile network: A simple model [presentation]
- Damian Zanette (Centro Atomico Bariloche, Rio Negro, Argentine) Models of Agent-network Coevolution
Evening Event: Francois Pachet (SONY-CSL, Paris, France) The meaning of music
Tuesday 17 July
Opinion Dynamics II
- Gerard Weisbuch (Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris, France) Hiking the hypercube [presentation]
- Maxi San Miguel (Univ. de les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain) Language competition as an example of social consensus [presentation]
- Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron (University of Wroclaw, Poland) Opinion dynamics in personal and economical areas do they differ?
Language II: Construction Grammar
- Laura Michaelis (University of Colorado, CO, USA) Traces of Grammar Evolution: Protoconstructions, Amalgams and Mismatch Effects [presentation]
- Benjamin Bergen (Dept. of Linguistics, University of Hawaii, USA)) The dynamics of language learning
Games and Language
- Massimo Warglien (University Ca' Foscari, Venezia, Italia) The emergence of language : an experimental economics perspective
- Hannelore Brandt (University of Wien, Austria) Indirect reciprocity, reputation and moral hazard coffee break
Semiotic Dynamics II
- Natalia Komarova (Dept. of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine, USA) Darwinean Models of Language Evolution
- Andrea Baronchelli (Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain) Cultural Route to the Emergence of Linguistic Categories
Evening Event: Michael E. Fisher (University of Maryland, MA, USA) Atoms and Ions: Universality, Singularity and Particularity: some lessons from a half-century of statistical physics
Wednesday 18 July
Semiotic Dynamics III
- Ciro Cattuto (Centro "E. Fermi" and "Sapienza" Univ. of Rome, Italy) Stylized facts in social tagging systems [presentation]
- Takashi Ikegami (Tokyo University, Japan) Dynamical systems approach to emergence of communication [presentation]
Language III: Grammaticalisation and Language Evolution
- Salikoko Mufwene (University of Chicago, IL, USA) Grammaticization in Language Evolution [presentation]
- Jim Hurford (University of Edinburgh, UK) The Origins of Meaning
Short-talks session
- Flemming Topsoe (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Stability and flexibility of natural languages
- Les Gasser (University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, USA) Some core dilemmas of Language evolution [presentation]
- Stanislaw Cebrat (Wroclaw University, Poland) How the local, limited interactions affect the evolution?
- Mikhail Malyutov (Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA) Conditional Complexity of compression of query text slices for attributing their authorship [presentation]
Poster session
Language IV
Special OMLL Session Chairman: Prof. P. Ramat (University of Pavia, Italy) Eva Hoogland (European Science Foundation) Itziar Laka (University of Basque Country) Nuria Sebastian (University of Barcelona). Christophe Coupé (CNRS Dynamique du Langage, Lyon) [presentation]Panel on the "Two cultures" Chair: Israel Rosenfield (City University of New York, USA)
Thursday 19 July
Language V: Future Challenges
- Bill Croft (Dept. of Linguistics, University of New Mexico, USA) The evolution of utterances: a usage-based theory of language change
- William S.-Y. Wang (The Chinese University of Hong-Kong, China) The Dynamics of Language Evolution