8:30 – 8:50      Coffee and Snacks

8:50 – 9:00      Welcome and Opening Remarks: Charlie Doering – University of Michigan

9:00 – 10:00     Paul Newton –  University of Southern California
Markov and clonal evolution models of breast tumor growth, resistance, and migration.

10:00 – 10:30    Discussion and Coffee Break

10:30 – 11:30    John Harte  –  UC Berkeley
Maximum Entropy and the Inference of Pattern and Dynamics in Ecology

11:30 – 1:15      Discussion and Lunch

1:15 – 2:15        Jeffrey B. Weiss –  University of Colorado Boulder
Nonequilibrium fluctuations, entropy production, and climate variability

2:15 – 2:45         Discussion

2:45 – 3:45        Jon Shlens  –  Google Inc.
Building Vision Systems with Modern Machine Learning

3:45 – 4:15         Discussion and Coffee Break

4:15 – 5:15         Scott E Page  –  University of Michigan Entropy in Social Science: System and Strategic Uncertainty, Path Dependence, and System Robustness

5:15 – 5:30          Discussion and closing remarks