Reading group on The Evolution of Biological Information Christoph Adami - 2024

Organizer(s):
Djordje Grbic – Associate professor
Elias Najarro – PhD fellow 

Lecturer(s):
Djordje Grbic – Associate professor

Date(s) of the course:
Time: Every Friday from 13:00 to 14:00.
Start date: 10 May 2024, recurring weekly for 12 weeks.

Room:
Not booked yet.

Course description:
The reading group will be on the book “The Evolution of Biological Information” by Christoph Adami

Topics addressed:
Evolution, information theory in biology, Evolution of Complexity.

Intended outcomes:
By the end of the reading group, the participants will have developed a information theoretic perspective of evolutionary processes and the emergence of complexity in natural and artificial environments

Reading list:
“The Evolution of Biological Information” Christoph Adami, 2024.

Programme:
Each week a chapter of the book will be discussed which participants will have previously read and worked on their own.  

Prerequisites:
Familiarity with evolutionary computation and having read the first 2 chapters of the book as 
preparation.

Assessment:
Assessment will be based on active participation each week.
Each participant will facilitate each of the chapters by preparing a small presentation serving as the backbone of the week’s discussion.

Credits:
2 ECTS

Number of hours the student is expected to use on the course:
Participation: 14 hours
Preparation: 44 hours

Participants: 
In order to have room for everyone to be involved in discussion each week, we will limit participation to 10 participants (if there’s more interest a new format will be conceived for the next edition).

Current confirmed participants:
Elias Najarro, phd fellow
Erwan Plantec, phd fellow 
Laurits Dixen, phd fellow
Nicolas Bessone, phd fellow
Claire Glanoid, postdoc
Eleni Nisioti, postdoc

How to sign up: 
Send an email to enaj@itu.dk or djgr@itu.dk