2025 Workshop

Workshop on Functional Information and State Space Expansion

The University of ¾«Í¯ÓûÅ®'s Committee on the History and Philosophy of Science

Sponsored by the Foster Endowment, the Templeton Foundation, and the ¾«Í¯ÓûÅ® Philosophy Department

May 14th, 2025 in Boulder, ¾«Í¯ÓûÅ®

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

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

4:00 TBA

7:00 Dinner 

Participants:

  • Gunnar Babcock (Cornell)
  • Stuart Bartlett (MIT)
  • Jim Cleaves (Howard)
  • Carol Cleland (¾«Í¯ÓûÅ®)
  • Heather Demarest (¾«Í¯ÓûÅ®)
  • 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 (ר1 and ר2) from the airport to downtown Boulder, near the hotel. The conference hotel is the . The workshop will take place on ¾«Í¯ÓûÅ®'s beautiful campus, in the , room 125. 

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