TECT Final Conference Programme

Wednesday 15th September



14.50 - 15.20
Opening session

Welcome by Chair of organising committee, Eörs Szathmary, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

Introduction to the ESF and EUROCORES, by Eva Hoogland, European Science Foundation (acting TECT coordinator)

About the TECT programme, by Ronald Noë, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg (chair scientific committee)


15.20 - 17.20
SENSE (Sustaining Eco-economic Norms for a Sustainable Environment)

Session chair: Eva Hoogland, European Science Foundation


15.20 - 15.45
An Evolutionary IEA Game: The Evolution of Abatement Strategies
Marius Ochea, Tilburg University

Q&A
15.50 - 16.15
Incentives and Opportunism: From the Carrot to the Stick
Christian Hilbe, University of Vienna

Q&A


16.20 - 16.40
Coffee break


16.40 - 17.05
Conflict, decision-making and the emergence of social hierarchy
Adrian de Froment, Princeton University

Q&A
17.10 - 17.20General discussion


17.20 - 17.30
Break


17.30 - 18.30
Invited lecture - The Natural Selection of Leadership: Integrating Biological, Evolutionary, and Psychological Approaches
Mark van Vugt, VU University Amsterdam


20.00
Dinner


Thursday 16th September



09.00 - 12.00
DYNCOOPNET (Dynamic Complexity of Cooperation-Based Self-Organising Networks in the First Global Age)

Session chair: Ana Crespo Solana, CCHS-High Spanish Council of Research, CSIC


09.00 - 09.15
Introduction to DynCoopNet: What’s in a name?
Jack Owens, Idaho State University
09.15 -09.35
Cooperation in self-organising networks - an interdisciplinary approach, Amélia Polónia, University of Porto
09.35 - 09.50
Cooperation in 16th Century. The Simón Ruiz network case study: from data source to network modelling
Joaquim Carvalho, University of Coimbra / Ana Sofía Ribeiro, Universidade do Porto
09.50 - 10.05
Theory and practice: cooperation in financial networks
David Alonso Garcia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
10.05 - 10.20
Datasets on Cooperation
Ana Crespo Solano, CCHS-High Spanish Council of Research, CSIC


10.20 - 10.40
Coffee break


10.40 - 10.55
Integration into a GIS of temporal expressions, using Natural Language Processing tools: Advances relating to letters of Simón Ruiz
Miguel Ángel Bernabé / Marta Guerrero Nieto, Politechnical University, Madrid
10.55 - 11.10
Mapping 16th Century Trade Networks: a GIS Application for Historical Data Sources
Monica Wachowicz, Wageningen University / Sara Costa Pinto & Miguel Nogueira, University of Porto
11.10 - 11.20

Cooperation in Historical Dynamics: An overview
Ana Crespo Solano, CCHS-High Spanish Council of Research, CSIC

11.20 - 11.40
General comments by Jorge Pacheco, Universidade do Minho & Universidade de Lisboa
11.40 - 12.00
General discussion


12.00 - 13.30
Lunch


13.30 - 14.30
Invited lecture – The evolution of political complexity; an empirical analysis of human history
Ruth Mace, University College London


14.30 - 14.45
Break


14.45 - 17.45
SOCCOP (The Social and Mental Dynamics of  Cooperation)

Session chair: Arcadi Navarro, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona


14.45 - 15.15
Towards a dissection of the genetic architecture of human economic behaviour
Arcadi Navarro, Universitat Pompeu Fabra,Barcelona

Q&A
15.20 - 15.50
The normative framework of social cooperation & the cooperative nature of social norms
Cristiano Castelfranchi & Luca Tummolini, ISTC-CNR Roma

Q&A


15.55 - 16.15
Coffee break


16.15 - 16.30
Economic Incentives and Social Preferences
Sandra Polania Reyes, University of Siena
16.30 - 16.45
The sophisticated planner's dilemma: over-use and under-use of incentives due to marginal and categorical crowding out
Sung-Ha Hwang, University of Massachusetts
16.45 - 17.00
Veblen effects, political representation, and the reduction in working time over the 20th century
Seung-Yun Oh, University of Massachusetts
17.00 - 17.05
Q&A
17.05 - 17.35Emergence of Language and Evolutionary Dynamics in the Brain During Ontogeny
Eörs Szathmary, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
17.35 - 17.45
General discussion


17.45 - 18.00
Break


18.00 - 19.00
Invited lectureWe are not alone: The impact of externalities on public good provision
Bettina Rockenbach, University of Erfurt


20.00
Dinner


Friday 17th September



09.00 - 12.00
BIOCONTRACT (Cooperation in Mutualisms: contracts, markets, space and dispersal)

Session chair: Naomi Pierce, Harvard University, Cambridge


09.00 - 09.05
Introduction to BIOCONTRACT, by the Project Leader, Naomi Pierce, Harvard University, Cambridge
09.05 - 09.15

Microeconomic model of partner choice in mutualisms
Doug Yu, University of East Anglia

09.15 - 09.25
Coexistence of Cooperation and Defection in Public Goods Games
Marco Archetti, Harvard University, Cambridge
09.25 - 09.35
Life history tactics in the lichen symbiosis
Chris Baker, Harvard University, Cambridge
09.35 - 09.45
Cooperative burrowing in Peromyscus polionotus
Wenfei Tong, Harvard University, Cambridge
09.45 - 10.00
Within-Colony Social Insect Communication: Individual or Multilevel Selection?
Moshe Hoffman, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago 
10.00 - 10.15
The importance of additional partners in the maintenance of ant-plant mutualisms
Jérôme Orivel, Université Toulouse 3
10.15 - 10.25
The importance of sanctions and transmission mode in conflicts resolution: insights from an ant-plant mutualism
Pierre-Jean Malé, Université Toulouse 3


10.25 - 10.45
Coffee break


10.45 - 11.00
Is secretion of public goods the reason for the maintenance of mutualism between bacterial cells and conjugative plasmids?
Francisco Dionisio, Universidade Lisboa
11.00 - 11.05
Introduction of BIOCONTRACT at the Eötvös Loránd University, by the Principal Investigator István Scheuring, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
11.05 - 11.15
The evolution of castration virulence and ant-plant coexistence in a spatially structured environment
Andras Szilagyi, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
11.15 - 11.25
Cooperation in changing interaction networks
Adam Kun, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest  / IASSA
11.25 - 11.30
Introduction to BIOCONTRACT at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), by the Principal Investigator Ulf Dieckmann, IASSA, Laxenburg
11.30 - 11.40
Joint evolution of cooperation and participation in public-good games
Tatsuya Sasaki, IASSA, Laxenburg
11.40 - 11.50
The role of polymorphism in the evolution and stability of mutualism,
Gergely Boza, IASSA, Laxenburg
11.50 - 12.00
Resource heterogeneity can facilitate cooperation
Adam Kun, IASSA / Eötvös Loránd University,Budapest


12.00 - 13.30
Lunch


13.30 - 14.30
Invited lecture – Cooperation for direct fitness benefits and the logic of internal reward
Peter Hammerstein
, Humboldt University, Berlin


14.30 - 14.45
Break


14.45 - 17.45
COCOR (Cooperation in Corvids)

Session chair: Ronald Noë, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg


14.45 - 15.05
Social relationships, cooperation and conflict management in ravens
Thomas Bugnyar, University of Vienna
15.05 - 15.25
What to do after a fight: post-conflict reconciliation and consolation in ravens
Orlaith Fraser, University of Vienna
15.25 - 15.45
Tool use and culture in New Caledonian crows
Christian Rutz, University of Oxford
15.45 - 16.05
Cooperating when it counts: lessons from lazy subordinates in carrion crows
Vittorio Baglione, Universidad de Valladolid


16.05 - 16.25
Coffee break


16.25 - 16.45
Health conditions and cooperative behaviour in captive corvids
Paolo Zucca, University of Teramo
16.45 - 17.05
Do Clark’s nutcrackers engage in cache protection strategies?
Debbie Kelly, University of Saskatchewan
17.05 - 17.25
The cognitive basis of dyadic cooperation in corvids: a neuro-robotics model
Francesco Pugliese, NAC Laboratory, CNR
17.25 - 17.45
Communication and cooperation in public goods games
Eric van Damme, Tilburg University


17.45 - 18.00
Break



Closing TECT Conference / Opening  INCORE  conference


18.00 - 19.00Invited lectureThe power of partner choice
Ronald Noë, Université Louis Pasteur,Strasbourg


19.00 - 20.00
Joint TECT/INCORE poster session
Drinks will be served


20.00
Dinner