Informational fundamentals of life: genomes and languages - satellite of quantitative linguistic conference QUALICO 2014
Olomouc (Czech Republic) May 27 –May 29, 2014
We would like to invite you to symposium " Informational fundamentals of life: genomes and languages ". It will be organized as a satellite of quantitative linguistic conference
QUALICO 2014 ( http://www.iqla.org/qualico_2014/index.html
) and will be held from 27th to 29th of May 2014, in Olomouc, Czech Republic. You are also welcome to give a talk at the symposium on the subject of your choice (see the scope below).
Both - genetic and human scripts are informational structures created by and serving the needs of living beings . Hence, questions like how have they emerged, and how have they evolved and what is their structure – are biological questions in both domains. Answers should not turn out to be identical for humanities and biology but certainly they are of similar nature. How far the similarity goes?
We, thus, are heading to the forum for interdisciplinary discussions on the following topics:
Origin of language and origin of sequences
Morphology of human and genetic scripts
Linguistic tools in sequence research
Repetitive nature of early sequences and genome evolution
Repetitiveness in human speech and scripts
Repeats in modern genomes
Evolution of human language - from gestures and calls to scripts
From hieroglyphs to alphabets – irreversible trend?
Rudiments of language in animals
Evolution of speech apparatus
Philosophical aspects of communication
Is it all digital?

Please contact us if you are interested .Some financial assistance for speakers is possible.
All abstracts are to be sent to following address: misa.zemkova@seznam.cz
until the end of April.
There will be no participation fees.
Organizers:
Michaela Zemkova
Misa.zemkova@seznam.cz
Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science, Dpt. of philosophy and history of science,
Czech Republic
Edward N. Trifonov trifonov@research.haifa.ac.il
University of Haifa, Genome diversity center, institute of evolution, Izrael