CT= Contributed Talk

1. Aging of matter and materials

• An overview of the phenomenology of physical aging (Michel Pleimling, Blacksburg)
• Physical aging in materials: from vortex matter to skyrmion systems (Michel Pleimling, Blacksburg)
• Basics of slow relaxation, glasses and kinetically constrained dynamics (Juan P. Garrahan, Nottingham)
• From micro-to macro: record dynamics as a coarse graining tool for aging systems (Paolo Sibani, Odense)
• Origin of common dynamical aspects in glassy materials and biological ecosystems: a qualitative discussion (Paolo Sibani, Odense)
• CT: Relaxational kinetics in red blood cell mechanics: linking physical to biological aging (Marta Gironella, Barcelona)
• CT: Length dependence of the elastic properties and secondary structure of single- stranded DNA (Xavier Viader-Godoy, Barcelona)

2. Aging on the individual and collective level: from bacteria to ecological systems

• Aging as stress response: examples from bacteria and higher eukaryotes (Ala Trusina, Copenhagen)
• How the aging circadian clock affects our daily rhythms (Jos H.T. Rohling, Leiden)
• Ageing as a consequence of evolutionary adaptation (Henrik J. Jensen, London)
• Universal features of ageing through record dynamics (Henrik J. Jensen, London)
• From micro-to macro: record dynamics as a coarse graining tool for aging systems  (Paolo Sibani, Odense)
• CT: Interaction analysis of longevity interventions using survival curves (Jonas Rzezonka, Köln)
• CT: Beyond asymmetry: the evolutionary advantages of an active damage retention mechanism (Niek Welkenhuysen, Gothenburg)
• CT: Task-specific adaptation of a living flow network (Philipp Fleig, Göttingen)

3. Aging of the human brain from the perspective of neuroscience

• Spatiotemporal reorganization of brain rhythms on slow and fast time scales with healthy aging (Dipanjan Roy, Manesar)
• Metastability, causality and synchronization in the aging brain: a new perspective (Dipanjan Roy, Manesar)

4. Genetic basis of lifespan and longevity: Aging on the genetic and cellular level

• An Introduction to the actin cytoskeleton, its properties and its decline during ageing (Campbell W. Gourlay, Canterbury)
• Killer Actin (Campbell W. Gourlay, Canterbury)
• The temporal scaling of C.elegans’ aging (Nicolas Stroustrup, Barcelona)
• Induction of cellular senescence under various stress conditions (Feng Liu, Nanjing)
• Systems biology of single-cell aging - periodic silencing dynamics control cell aging (Nan Hao, San Diego)
• CT: Ageing, translation and noise - are they related? (Tailise C. de Souza Guerreiro, Warwick)
• CT: Dose-rate scaling laws in a generic cellular stress response model (Darka Labavic, Lille)

5. Biological processes as error-prone processing of information

• Information processing in neural and gene regulatory networks (Gasper Tkacik, Klosterneuburg)
• Intrinsic limits to gene regulation by global crosstalk (Gasper Tkacik, Klosterneuburg)
• Running Histone Code on a Chromatin Computer  (Sonja Prohaska, Leipzig)
• Epigenetics: Regulation of a Special Kind  (Sonja Prohaska, Leipzig)

6. Trade-off between costs, speed and precision in biological networks

• Cost and precision in stochastic thermodynamics (Andre Barato, Dresden)
• Stochastic thermodynamics of learning (Sebastian Goldt, Paris)
• Unified thermodynamic uncertainty relations in linear response (Katarzyna Macieszczak, Cambridge)
• Experimental measurement of information-content in non-equilibrium systems (Felix Ritort, Barcelona)
• Fluctuation properties of counting observables and their first passage times in stochastic systems (Juan P. Garrahan, Nottingham)
• Q-stat thermodynamics: a new perspective on non-equilibrium phenomena (Felix Ritort, Barcelona)
• Thermodynamics of biochemical copying (Pieter Ren ten Wolde, Amsterdam)
• Theory on the optimal design of cell sensing systems (Pieter Ren ten Wolde, Amsterdam)
• On the performance of dynamical systems under a trade-off between cost and precision (Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns, Bremen)