Symposium « Forking Paths».

Languages

Languages will be dedicated to the notions of writing, mathematics, formal languages, logic, computer science, and algorithmic complexity.

9:30am-10:30am Andrée C. Ehresmann, Jean-Paul Vanbremeersch - Université de Picardie Jules Verne.
How to Model Complexity and Emergence in Arts.
Abstract & Bios

10:30am-11:15am Carl Djerassi - Stanford University.
Science-in-Theatre: Primitive Complexity at Work.
Abstract & Bio

11:15am-11:45am Break

11:45am-12:30pm Fabien Lévy - Columbia University.
Apperceptive Complexities, Grammatological Complexities and Heteronomous Complexities in Music.
Abstract & Bio

12:30pm-1:30pm Philippe Albèra - Conservatoires de Genève et de Lausanne.
Interlude I - Presentation of XXth Century Works (Berio, Ligeti, Ferneyough...).
Abstract & Bio

1:30pm-2:45pm Lunch

2:45pm-3:30pm Geoffroy Drouin - Composer, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS).
Complexity and Emergence in Music.
Abstract & Bio

3:30pm-4:15pm Dmitri Tymoczko - Princeton University.
The Geometry of Music.
Abstract & Bio

4:15pm-4:45pm Break

4:45pm-5:30pm Marc Chemillier - École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS).
Approaches to Complexity in the Arts and Oral Traditions: Natural Mathematics.
Abstract & Bio

5:30pm Henri Atlan
Henri Atlan will be taking part in this colloquium through a filmed interview with Frank Madlener, Andrew Gerzso and Gérard Assayag produced at IRCAM on May 20, 2009.