Two talks from two Simons next Tuesday at the LEC!

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“Linguistic structure is the adaptive compromise between communication and learning: new evidence from simulation and experiments”

Simon Kirby, 11.00-12.30, 1.17 DSB

This will be a summary a bunch of new computational and experimental results that touch on issues such as the role of horizontal vs. vertical transmission, and whether some of the basic design features of language are actually more basic than others. This is work carried out with Monica Tamariz, Hannah Cornish, Sean Roberts and Kenny Smith.

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“Pattern and Computation in an Animal Social System”

Simon DeDeo, 14.00-15.00, 1.17 DSB

Simon is a postdoc at the Santa Fe Institute, and is visiting us briefly. He works with David Krakauer, and is interested in the empirical analysis of behaviour in model animal systems, as well as mathematical formalisms for describing regularities in the behaviour (in particular, group-theoretic tools for the analysis of finite-state machines).

Simon is keen to learn more about our work here, so I hope that PhD students and postdocs (and anyone else interested) will have time to meet him in the afternoon after his talk.

Here’s his web page: http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~simon/

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See you all there!
Simon

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