SATELLITE SESSION SCHEDULE

9:00 - 9:20 OPENING

SESSION 1. Social Construction of Cultural Complexity

9:20 - 10:00 Keynote speaker Tom Froese

Can cultural complexity emerge via collective ritual? The case of ancient Teotihuacan

10:00 - 10:25

Global information and consensus formation: theory and simulation

Francesca Lipari (Lumsa University), Brais Alvarez-Pereira (European University Institute), Alireza Goudarzi (Laboratory for Neural Computation and Adaptation), Leonhard Horstmeyer (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences)

10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK

11:00 - 11:25

Could complex referential communication emerge without innate grammar or intergenerational transmission?

Jorge I. Campos (4E CognitionGroup, Instituto de Investigación en Matemáticas Aplicadas y Sistemas, UNAM), Tom Froese (4E CognitionGroup, Instituto de Investigación en Matemáticas Aplicadas y Sistemas, UNAM)

11:25 - 11:50

Dynamic social conflict in the Axelrod model

Carlos Gracia-Lázaro (Instituto de Biocomputación y Física de Sistemas Complejos, Universidad de Zaragoza), Alexis R Hernández (Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), Edgardo Brigatti (Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), Yamir Moreno (Instituto de Biocomputación y Física de Sistemas Complejos, Universidad de Zaragoza)

SESSION 2. Model of evolution of culture

11:50 - 12:30 Keynote speaker Sergi Valverde

Major Transitions in Information Technology

12:30 - 12:55

Global knowledge dynamics in computationally assisted, complex cultural networks

Thomas Petzold (HMKW Berlin)

13:00 - 14:30 LUNCH TIME

14:30 - 14:55

A Review and Critique of Gabora’s Models of Cultural Evolution

Mario A. Zarco-López (IIMAS-UNAM), Tom Froese (IIMAS-UNAM)

SESSION 3. Archaeological evidence of Cultural Complexity

14:55 - 15:35 Keynote speaker Alex Bentley

The acceleration of cultural change - from ancestors to algorithms

15:35- 16:00

Digging for Patterns in Cave Art Marks through Symmetry Operations

Emre Kaya (Bogazici University)

16:00 - 16:30 COFFEE BREAK

16:30 - 16:55

The role of migration in the evolution of behavioural plasticity

Iza Romanowska (Barcelona Supercomputing Center), Seth Bullock (University of Bristol)

16:55 - 17:20

Complexity matters: Uncovering mechanisms of social complexity in the past

Dries Daems (University of Leuven)

17:20 - 17:45

Long-term trends in the Roman imperial economic system: experiments on amphora recycling and product preference

Tom Brughmans (University of Oxford)

17:45 - 18:30 DISCUSSION

19:00 WELCOME COCKTAIL

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