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INVITED SYMPOSIA AND CONFERENCES

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Society of Zoologists Symposium on "The Interface of Quantitative Genetics, Life-History Evolution, and Whole-Organism Ontogeny".  December 27-30, 1981.
bullet Symposium on "Novel Approaches to Interactive Systems".  August 11-13, 1982, Flagstaff, AZ.
bullet Conference on "Neural Populations:  Selectional Theories of Development".   February 7-10, 1984.  Neuroscience Institute, New York, New York.
bullet Summer Atelier on Theoretical Neurobiology. July 9-25, 1984. Neuroscience Institute, New York, New York.
bullet Conference on Population Thinking in Neurobiology, Annual Meeting of Neuroscience Research Program Associates, October 28-30, 1984. Neuroscience Institute, New York, New York.
bullet Conference in "Evolution Theory" February 16, 1985. Part of the series "Realism, Truth and the Physical Sciences" sponsored by the Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium.
bullet Conference on "Historical and Philosophical Issues in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology."  February 27 - March 2, 1985. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
bullet Summer Atelier on Theoretical Neurobiology. June 17-30, 1985. Neuroscience Institute, New York, New York.
bullet Gordon Conference on "The Population Biology and Evolution of Microbes and their Accessory Elements". August 26 - 30, 1985.
European Sociobiology Conference, January 17-19, 1986, Gottingen, W.G.
bullet Summer Atelier on Theoretical Neurobiology. July 28-August 8, 1986. Neuroscience Institute, New York, New York.
bullet International Symposium on Organizational Constraints on the Dynamics of Evolution. June 29-July 3, 1987. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.
bullet Towards a New Synthesis in Evolutionary Biology. July 5-11, 1987. Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. Prague, Czechoslovakia.
bullet First Luigi Galvani Workshop on "Neural Darwinism: Interdisciplinary Dimensions of Contemporary Neuroscience" International School of Neuroscience. Padua, Italy. May 14, 1988.
bullet Interdisciplinary Conference on Foundations of Evolutionary Biology. July 11-15, 1988. Ohio State University. Columbus, Ohio.
bullet Discussant on evolutionary bases of value determination, Conference on towards a scientific analysis of values. Feb. 1-4, 1989, Tucson, AZ.
bullet UCLA Symposium on Molecular Evolution, February 27-March 6 1989. Lake Tahoe, CA.
bullet Round table discussion on concepts of Darwinian selection and brain function. Georgetown University Bicentennial Lecture Series. April 17, 1989. Georgetown University, Washington, DC.
bullet Symposium on "The Significance of Inbreeding in the Evolution of Mating and Social Systems," June 13-18, 1989. Louisville, Kentucky.
Symposium on The Evolution of Sex, Univ of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. August 17, 1989.
bullet Lectures on the evolution of sex, Complex Systems Workshop, Santa Fe Institute, June 4-8, 1990
bullet Symposium on "Pattern Versus Process: Causal Explanation in Evolutionary Biology," International Congress on Systematics and Evolutionary Biology, College Park, Maryland, July 1-7, 1990.
bullet Symposium on "Molecular Genetics of Parasites and Vectors," Feb. 4-7, 1991, Montpellier, France
bullet Seminaire-reflexion autour de Rick Michod: Lectures on Sex and Evolution, Feb. 20-26 1991, Univ Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
bullet XXIIème Rencontre de Meribel. March 17-23 1991. Les Arcs, France
Conference on Evolutionary and Behaviour Ecology. April 12-18, 1992. Aussois, France.
bullet American Genetics Society Conference on "Evolution of Sex." July 9-11, 1992.
bullet Evolution Society Conference on "Evolution of Haploid and Diploid Life Cycles." June 19-23, 1993. Snowbird, Utah.
bullet Evolution93. European Society for Evolution Conference Montpellier, France. Aug 22-28, 1993.
bullet IIASA Workshop on Evolution of Mutualism. May 1995. Vienna, Austria.
Conference on "Conceptual Foundations of Modern Biology" Simon Bolivar University, Caracus, Venezuala. May 29-31 1995.
bullet Conference on "Philosophy of Biology," Central University, Caracus, Venezuala. June 1-2 1995.
bullet Guelph Game Theory Meetings, August 1995. Guelph, Canada.
Am. Society Naturalists Symposium on multi-level selection. August 10-14, 1996. Providence, Rhode Island.
bullet ICSEB Symposium "Why species exist" August 17-24, 1996. Budapest, Hungary
bullet ICSEB Symposium "Philosophical aspects of individuality and development" August 17-24, 1996. Budapest, Hungarys
Meiosis Conference in The Netherlands April, 1997.
bullet European Society for Evolutionary Biology, 24 - 28 August 1997, Wageningen The Netherlands.
bullet International Workshop on Mathematical and Computational Biology, October 21-25, 1997 University of Aizu
bullet CNRS Workshop on "Units of selection and the major transitions in evolution" Paris, France. Jan. 29-30, 1998.
bullet Organized Workshop at Jussieu on "Fitness in Evolutionary Biology" Paris, France. April, 1998.
bullet Jacques Monod Conference of the C.N.R.S. Roscoff, France. Oct. 25-29, 1998.
bullet NASA Conference on Evolutionary Biology. American Museum. New York. March 3-5, 1999.
bullet Organize symposium "Understanding Fitness" European Society for Evolutionary Biology, 24 - 29 August 1999, Barcelona, Spain. 
bullet Symposium on "Modularity in development and evolution." May 2000. Hanse Institute for Advanced Study, Germany. 
bullet Workshop on Artificial Life: Reed College. August, 2000. 
bullet Symposium on "Evolution: From Molecules to Ecosystems." Nov. 2-4, 2000. Valencia Spain. Invited plenary speaker.
bullet Symposium on "Why Sex" Oct. 2001. Barcelona. Invited plenary speaker. Museu de la Ciència de la Fundació "la Caixa."
bullet Symposium: Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Anaheim, January 3-6, 2002. New Perspectives on the Origin of Metazoan Complexity
bullet Dahlem Conference: Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperation Berlin, June 23-28, 2002
bullet UK EPSRC interdisciplinary workshop on "Evolvability and Individuality" Hertfordshire. Sept. 2002 Plenary Speaker
bullet ICSEB VI. Sept. 2002. Patras Greece. Invited Speaker.
bullet American Association of Artificial Intelligence Conference on Computational Synthesis. March 2003. Plenary Speaker
bullet Odyssey Lecture. March 29, 2004. Ca. State Univ. Long Beach. (http://www.csulb.edu/projects/odyssey/)
bullet 11th International Symposium on Dynamic Games and Applications. Dec 18-21, 2004. Ventana Canyon, Member Organizing Committee.
bullet EPSRC Evolvability & Interaction Symposium. London. Oct. 2003. Plenary speaker.
bullet World Summit on Evolution June 9-12, 2005 San Cristobal, Galapagos. Invited speaker.
bullet Institut des Haute Études Scientifiques, Invited speaker at Third "Entretierns de Bures" on "Innovation in biological systems" Dec. 7-10,2005. Bures-sur-Yvette.
bullet Social Evolution: Cooperation and conflict from molecules to societies. UA College of Science Evolution Series Spring 2006.
bullet Philosophy of Science Association, Vancouver, Nov. 2006. Invited Speaker.
bullet National Academy of Sciences Sackler Colloquium "In the light of evolution: adaptation and complex design" Nov. 30-Dec. 2 2006 Irvine, CA. Invited speaker.
bullet Social Evolution: Cooperation and conflict from molecules to societies. Arizona Science Center in Phoenix Jan. 31,2007.
bullet Altenberg Workshop "Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited" Invited Speaker. Vienna, Austria. 7/19-7/23/07
bullet International Society for History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology symposium "Multi-level Selection and Major Transitions in Evolution" Invited Speaker. Exeter, England. 7/25-7/28/07.
bullet 13th International Conference on the Cell and Molecular Biology of Chlamydomonas, June 2008.
bullet Symposium "New Approaches to the Evolution of Social Behavior". ESA August 3-8, 2008, Milwaukee, WI.
bullet Scientific American "Evolution Emanation" conference. February 27 - March 9, 2009.