The Future of Game Theory in Biology
from
Monday 4 July 2022 (16:00)
to
Friday 8 July 2022 (16:00)
Monday 4 July 2022
16:00
Arrival & Check-In
Arrival & Check-In
16:00 - 18:00
18:00
Dinner
Dinner
18:00 - 19:00
19:00
Welcome
-
Chaitanya Gokhale
(
MPI for Evolutionary Biology
)
Welcome
Chaitanya Gokhale
(
MPI for Evolutionary Biology
)
19:00 - 20:00
Overview of the programme and workshop format
Tuesday 5 July 2022
09:00
Sigrunn Eliasson and Willem Frankenhuis
Sigrunn Eliasson and Willem Frankenhuis
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions
09:00
Adaptive decision-making and animal interactions in social networks
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Sigrunn Eliassen
(
University of Bergen
)
09:45
Development in a frequency-dependent context
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Willem Frankenhuis
(
Utrecht University
)
10:30
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
Discussion on three possible subtopics and group formation
Discussion on three possible subtopics and group formation
11:00 - 12:30
12:30
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
13:30
Independent group discussion
Independent group discussion
13:30 - 15:30
15:30
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
Games and Dynamics
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Yoh Iwasa
(
Kyushu University
)
Games and Dynamics
Yoh Iwasa
(
Kyushu University
)
16:00 - 17:00
I will speak basically on two topics. [1] Coupled social and ecological dynamics: I will discuss the issue of replicator dynamics versus best response dynamics. First I will speak two models related to illegall logging in tropical forests. One model discusses the action of profit sharing by the Indonesian government, which was effective in suppressing illegal logging of teak forests. In this model, we adopted the stochastic best response dynamics. The second model is on the corruption — rule enforcer might receive bribe and neglect the illegal logging case. The work was in collaboration with Karl Sigmund and Ulf Dieckmann, and certainly it is based on replicator dynamics. The main conclusion was that the resurgence of illegal logging and corruption persists. Then I ask what are the major differences between the two dynamics. Which is more appropriate? Are there any empirical evidence supporting one over the other? etc. These are just questions, and I do not have definite answers myself. [2] Coupled behavioral and epidemilogical dynamics: In 2020-2021, we have COVID-19 infection that exhibited several waves of infection, but the total number of infected stayed rather low (the cumulated number of infected was less than 1.5%). I think this was caused by the coupling of people’s behavioral responses and epidemiology. There are many papers written on epidemiology models incorporating people’s behavioral responses, which are all quite high dimensional and were analyzed only numerically. We constructed a very simples model of just two dimensions, and we can prove many bifurcations (homoclinic bifurcation, Hopf bifurcation, transcritical etc.). We concluded that both risk avoidance and conformity are needed to explain the observation.
17:00
Break
Break
17:00 - 18:00
18:00
Dinner
Dinner
18:00 - 19:00
19:00
Group Rapporteur Discussion and Conclusion
Group Rapporteur Discussion and Conclusion
19:00 - 20:00
Wednesday 6 July 2022
09:00
Nicola Raihani & Christian Hilbe
Nicola Raihani & Christian Hilbe
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions
09:00
Evolution of cooperation -- what has happened, where are the gaps?
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Christian Hilbe
(
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology
)
09:45
Punishment: one tool, many uses
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Nichola Raihani
(
University College London
)
10:30
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
Discussion on three possible subtopics and group formation
Discussion on three possible subtopics and group formation
11:00 - 12:30
12:30
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
13:30
Independent group discussion
Independent group discussion
13:30 - 15:30
15:30
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
Multivariate adaptive dynamics and games
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Hans Metz
(
Leiden University
)
Multivariate adaptive dynamics and games
Hans Metz
(
Leiden University
)
16:00 - 17:00
Adaptive dynamics (AD) is the natural biological embedding for evolutionary game theory. It looks how continuous traits, think e.g. of the frequency of playing hawk, develop over evolutionary time through subsequent mutant substitutions. This dynamic embedding allows to bring to bear various tools of dynamical systems theory, think e.g. of the development of a bifurcation theory for ESSes. In the talk I will give a short overview of the main tools and general results of AD, with particular attention to the biological perspective, with the goal to help with the further biologising of the mathematics. The stress will be on the multivariate case, as one inevitably ends up there when trying to increase the biological content of one's models, and it is where at this moment most open problems are to be found.
17:00
Break
Break
17:00 - 18:00
18:00
Dinner
Dinner
18:00 - 19:00
19:00
Group Rapporteur Discussion and Conclusion
Group Rapporteur Discussion and Conclusion
19:00 - 20:00
Thursday 7 July 2022
09:00
Franjo Weissing & Peter Hammerstein
Franjo Weissing & Peter Hammerstein
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions
09:00
Game theory confronted with facts: The analysis of variation in natural populations
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Peter Hammerstein
(
Humboldt University Berlin
)
09:45
Animal personalities – a challenge for evolutionary game theory
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Franjo Weissing
(
University of Groningen
)
10:30
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
Discussion on three possible subtopics and group formation
Discussion on three possible subtopics and group formation
11:00 - 12:30
12:30
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
13:30
Independent group discussion
Independent group discussion
13:30 - 15:30
16:00
Boat Trip
Boat Trip
16:00 - 17:00
17:00
Break
Break
17:00 - 18:00
18:00
Dinner at Restaurant
Dinner at Restaurant
18:00 - 19:00
19:00
Group Rapporteur Discussion and Conclusion
Group Rapporteur Discussion and Conclusion
19:00 - 20:00
Friday 8 July 2022
09:00
Jens Krause & Rufus Johnstone
Jens Krause & Rufus Johnstone
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions
09:00
Fish waves as collective signal?
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Jens Krause
(
IGB Berlin
)
10:30
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
Joint Discussion on the effect of previous topics on collective behaviour
Joint Discussion on the effect of previous topics on collective behaviour
11:00 - 12:30
12:30
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
13:30
Closing Remarks & Feedback
Closing Remarks & Feedback
13:30 - 14:30
14:30
Coffee
Coffee
14:30 - 15:00