Schedule

Thursday (June 5, 2025)

• 8:30a Breakfast + Coffee
• 9:00a Opening remarks
• 9:15a Keynote by Richard Watson (Southampton University): “Cognition-First Evolution”
• 10:00a Discussion/Coffee
• 10:15am Break
• 10:30a Charles Ofria (Michigan State University): “Tips on Effective Theory and Practice of Genetic Programming”
• 11:00a James McDermott (University of Galway): “Evolving Programs in the Lambda Calculus using Program Trace Optimisation” (lightning talk)
• 11:15a Quentin Vacher (INSA of Rennes): “Advancing Machine Learning with Tangled Program Graphs: The Gegelati Framework for Efficient and Reproducible Solutions” (lightning talk)
• 11:30a Jose Guadalupe Hernandez (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center): “GP and LLMs for Program Synthesis with Varying Number of Input-Output Examples” (lightning talk)
• 11:45a Anil Saini (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center): “Agentic-GP: A Theoretical Framework for the Development of Genetic Programming Systems Via Agentic AI” (lightning talk)
• 12:00p Discussion
• 12:45p Lunch
• 2:00p Lee Spector, Ryan Bahlous-Boldi, Paul Vander Vort, and Niko Lorantos (Amherst College and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst): “Evolution of Artificial Intelligence, Continued”
• 2:30p Julie Rolla (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory): “Applications of Genetic Programming for Instrument Design” (lightning talk)
• 2:45p Cliff Bohm (Michigan State University) and Arend Hintze (Dalarna University): “The Evolution of Heterogeneous Logic: An Analysis of the Buffet Method” (lightning talk)
• 3:00p Discussion/Coffee
• 3:30p Break
• 4:00p Mark Kotanchek (Evolved Analytics): “To Smoothly Go Where No Model has Gone Before Pareto Tournaments, Model Curvature and Alternating Objectives”
• 4:30p Illya Bakurov (Michigan State University): “Analyzing Fitness Aggregation Strategies for Symbolic Regression Problem-Solving” (lightning talk)
• 4:45p Closing Discussion

Friday (June 6, 2025)

• 8:30a Breakfast + Coffee
• 9:00a Keynote by Chris Adami: “How evolution creates complexity: From viruses to brains”
• 10:00a Discussion/Coffee
• 10:15am Break
• 10:30a Leonardo Trujillo (Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana): “Heeding good advise for research in genetic programming”
• 11:00a Chris Crary (University of Florida): “FPGA-Based Streaming Processors for Tree-Based Genetic Programming” (lightning talk)
• 11:15a Una-May O’Reilly (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): “Spatial Genetic Programming with the S1 Processing Board” (lightning talk)
• 11:30a Nam Le (University of Vermont): “LASER: How Learning Can Guide The Evolution Of Equations” (lightning talk)
• 11:45a Alberto Tonda (French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment): “Language Model-Driven Program Synthesis with Program Trace Optimization on the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus” (lightning talk)
• 12:00p Discussion
• 12:45p Lunch
• 2:00p Malcom Heywood (Dalhousie University): “Offline reinforcement learning: A new challenge for symbolic regression?”
• 2:30p Giorgia Nadizar (University of Trieste): “Interpretable Control with Graph-based Genetic Programming” (lightning talk)
• 2:45p Alcides Fonseca (University of Lisbon): “Bridging Genetic Programming and Programming Languages Research” (lightning talk)
• 3:00p Discussion/Coffee
• 3:30p Break
• 4:00p Travis Desell (Rochester Institute of Technology): “CANTS-GP: A Nature-Inspired Metaheuristic for Graph Based Genetic Programs”
• 4:30p
• 4:45p Closing discussion

Saturday (June 7, 2025)

• 8:30a Breakfast + Coffee
• 9:00a Keynote by Shubho Sengupta: “Building Scalable Automated Software Test Systems with LLMs”
• 10:00a Discussion/Coffee
• 10:30a Stuart Card: “The Needs of the Few — Information Theory Aided Ensemble Selection for Robustly Generalizing Causal Models”
• 11:00a Michael Affenzeller (University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria): “On the Effects of Continuous Pruning on Symbolic Regression for Different Variants of Evolutionary Search”
• 11:30a Sylvain Cussat-Blanc (University of Toulouse): “On Interpretability in Multimodal Biomedical Image Analysis”
• 12:00p Closing discussion