UPCOMING EVENTS
IAIS DIALOGUE Wednesday October 15th 2025 at 18:00 (6 pm) CET
We are pleased to announce the new Dialogue at the International Academy of Information Studies:
LIFE AND FORMALISM
Andrei Igamberdiev: The Quantum of Life--Consequences for Formalism
(Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada; Chief Editor of BioSystems)
Plamen L. Simeonov: Myhts and Realities of Formalism--Perspectives after AI
(Research Professor and Engineer; Director Research Integral Biomathics)
The session will take place on Wednesday, October 15th, at 18:00 PM (CET) = 09:00 AM (LA) = 12:00 PM (NY) = 00:00 AM* (Beijing)
At the MEET link: https://meet.google.com/gqm-frcd-apg?pli=1
The Dialogue will have the following format: each of the speakers will have 20 min. presentation, followed by 15 min. mutual debate, and 30 min. Q&A from the audience. It will be moderated by IAIS Board member Pedro C. Marijuán.
The session will be recorded and posted on the YouTube channel of the IAIS Dialogues: https://www.youtube.com/@IAISDIALOGUES
INTELLIGENT INQUIRY INTO INTELLIGENCE | 10-14 June 2025 | Online
Contributing to the 2025 IS4SI Summit
https://sciforum.net/event/IOCPh2025?section=#ConferenceAnnouncement
IAIS DIALOGUE May 23 2025 at 18:00 (6 pm) CET
We are pleased to announce the forthcoming Dialogue at the International Academy of Information Studies:
Prof. John Torday, The Lundquist Institute, Medicine UCLA University (https://lundquist.org/john-torday-phd)
Prof. Youri Timsit, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Research Director (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Youri-Timsit)
PRINCIPLES OF BIOLOGICAL ORGANIZATION
The session will take place on Friday, May 23, 2025, at 18:00 CET, which corresponds to 09:00 (LA), 12:00 PM in New York, USA,
and 00:00 AM in Beijing;
at the MEET link: https://meet.google.com/gqm-frcd-apg?pli=1
It will be moderated by IAIS Board member Pedro C. Marijuán.
The Dialogue will have the following format: each of the speakers will have 20 min presentation, followed by 15 min mutual debate, and followed by 30 min Q&A by the audience.
The session will be recorded and posted on the YouTube channel of the IAIS Dialogues: https://www.youtube.com/@IAISDIALOGUES
IAIS DIALOGUE April 25 2025 at 10 pm CET
We are pleased to announce the forthcoming Dialogue at the International Academy of Information Studies:
Howard Bloom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Bloom and
Daniel Pinchbeck https://pinchbeck.net/
SCIENCE, POWER AND THE WORLD CRISIS
The session will take place on Friday, April 25, 2025, at 20:00 CET, which corresponds to 21:00 GMT in London, 16:00 EST in New York, USA,
and 05:00 CST (next day) in Beijing;
at the MEET link: https://meet.google.com/gqm-frcd-apg?pli=1
It will be moderated by IAIS Board member Pedro C. Marijuán.
The Dialogue will have the following format: each of the speakers will have 20 min presentation, followed by 15 min mutual debate, and followed by 30 min Q&A by the audience.
The session will be recorded and posted on the YouTube channel of the IAIS Dialogues: https://www.youtube.com/@IAISDIALOGUES
IAIS DIALOGUE March 21 2025 at 18:00 CET
We are pleased to announce the forthcoming Dialogue at the
International Academy of Information Studies:
Prof. Michael Levin, Tufts University (https://as.tufts.edu/biology/people/faculty/michael-levin), and
Prof. William B. Miller Jr., MD, Bioverse Foundation (https://www.ourbioverse.com/resume/)
MIND, LIFE, AND MACHINES
The session will take place on Friday, March 21, 2025, at 18:00 CET, which corresponds to 17:00 GMT in London, 13:00 EDT in New York, USA,
and 01:00 CST (March 22) in Beijing;
at the MEET link: https://meet.google.com/gqm-frcd-apg?pli=1
It will be moderated by IAIS Board member Pedro C. Marijuán.
The Dialogue will have the following format: each of the speakers will have 20 min presentation, followed by 15 min mutual debate, and followed by 30 min Q&A by the audience.
The session will be recorded and posted on the YouTube channel of the IAIS Dialogues: https://www.youtube.com/@IAISDIALOGUES
IAIS DIALOGUE 13th February 2025
We are pleased to announce the first session of the Dialogues at the International Academy of Information Studies in 2025.
Prof. Adrian Bejan, Duke University (https://www.constructal.org/p/penning-the-physical-law-of-evolution), and
Prof. Terry Bristol, Portland State University (https://www.terrybristol.org)
THE CONSTRUCTAL LAW--EVOLUTION OF DESIGN IN THE NATURAL AND THE ARTIFICIAL
The session will take place on Thursday, February 13th, at 17:00 PM (CET) = 12:00 PM Beijing = 16:00 PM London = 11:00 AM New York, USA
at the MEET link: https://meet.google.com/gqm-frcd-apg?pli=1
It will be moderated by IAIS Board member Pedro C. Marijuán.
The Dialogue will have the following format: each of the speakers will have 20 min presentation, followed by 15 min mutual debate, and followed by 30 min Q&A by the audience.
The session will be recorded and posted on the YouTube channel of the IAIS Dialogues: https://www.youtube.com/@IAISDIALOGUES
Forthcoming IAIS DIALOGUE - the Dialogue has been postponed until the Zoom connection with China is reestablished.
We are pleased to announce the first talk at the International Academy of Information Studies in 2025 which brings together
Prof. Yixin Zhong, University of Posts & Telecommunications, Beijing, China and Dr. Eric Werner, FLS, Oxford Advanced Research Foundation to discuss the topic:
Wisdom of the Social Mind: Mechanisms of Understanding in Artificial Intelligence
The session will take place on Friday January 17th at 10:00 AM (CEST) = 5:00 PM Beijing (CST) = 9:00 AM GMT London, UK = 4:00 AM (EST) New York, USAvia ZOOMIt will be moderated by IAIS Board member Pedro C. Marijuán.The debate will have the following format: Each of the speakers will have 20 min presentation, followed by 15 min debate,
followed by 30 min Q&A by the audience.
Recordings of the sessions will be posted on the YouTube channel of the Academy's dialogues:
https://www.youtube.com/@IAISDIALOGUES
MEMOIRES
Monday, November 4th, at 7:00 PM (CET) = 11.00 New Mexico time =
= 6:00 London time = 13:00 New York time = 2:00 AM November 5th Beijing time
via the following link: https://meet.google.com/gqm-frcd-apg
Stuart Kauffman: Warren Sturgis McCulloch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK0N-E3xuHs
THE DIALOGUES
We are pleased to announce the launch of a new initiative at the International Academy of Information Studies: The Dialogues.
This series will feature online conversations between two scholars to explore topics relevant to the Academy's informational concerns.
Recordings of the sessions are posted on the YouTube channel of the Academy's dialogues:
https://www.youtube.com/@IAISDIALOGUES
Our first Dialogue brings together Prof. Karl Friston and Prof. György Buzsáki, who will discuss both theoretical and experimental studies of the brain, under the title:
THE INFORMATIONAL BRAIN: PRINCIPLES OF ORDER VS. DYNAMIC CONNECTOME
The session took place on Wednesday, October 2nd, at 7:00 PM (CEST) = 6 London time = 13 New York time = 1:00 AM NEXT DAY Beijing timeFIS LECTURES
Biologic - at the interface between biology, topology, logic and cybernetics, Louis H. Kauffman New Year Lecture 2025 (current)
Feedback: How to Destroy or Save the World Péter Érdi
Emotional Sentience & Information Katherine Peil Kauffman
Can we go beyond the limits of formal systems? Carlos Gershenson
A third transition in science? Stuart Kauffman, New Year Lecture 2024
Discussion archives can be found at:
http://listas.unizar.es/pipermail/fis/
https://fis.sciforum.net/fis-discussion-sessions/
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CONTACT
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