January 22-23, 2010
Location: Social Sciences Plaza A, room 2112

Sponsored by the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences
University of California, Irvine
(with partial financial support from the Center for the Study of Democracy)

Friday, January 22

1:00 – 1:10
Conference begins with comments by Donald Saari, Director of IMBS

1:10 – 2:00
FRANCISCO AYALA (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCI)
“Darwin's Revolution: Natural Theology to Natural Selection”

2:00 – 2:15
Discussion

2:15 – 3:05
ROBERT BOYD (Anthropology, UCLA)
“Coordinated, contingent punishment is group beneficial and can increase when rare”

3:05 – 3:20
Discussion

3:20 – 3:40
BREAK in SSPA 2142

3:40 – 4:30
STEVE FRANK (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCI)
“Microbial pathogenesis and metabolism: economic and social perspectives”

4:30 – 4:45
Discussion
Saturday, January 23

9:00 – 9:50
SIMON LEVIN (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton).
“Evolution and Public Goods”

9:50 – 10:00
Discussion

10:00–10:50
AVINASH DIXIT (Economics, Princeton)
“Using national pro-social preferences to provide global public goods”

10:50–11:00
Discussion

11:00–11:15
BREAK IN SSPA 2142

11:15–12:05
TED BERGSTROM (Economics, UC Santa Barbara)
“Ethics, evolution, and neighborly games”

12:05–12:15
Discussion

12:15–1:45
LUNCH BREAK

1:45 – 2:35
MICHAEL McBRIDE (Economics, UC Irvine)
“On the Free-rider Problem in Churches”

2:35 – 2:45
DISCUSSION

2:45 – 3:00
BREAK in SSPA 2142

3:00 – 3:50
STEVE ALLISON (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCI)
“Public goods in microbial ecosystems”

3:50 – 4:00
DISCUSSION