About the Conference

Empirical insights and theoretical methods underlying the evolutionary theory of cooperation are currently undergoing a phase of rapid expansion and partial reorientation. The goal of this conference is to showcase complementary approaches to evolutionary problems related to the social dilemmas surrounding human cooperation. The main emphasis will be on theory, or rather theories, but these will not only be compared from a mathematical viewpoint: throughout the conference, model-based lectures will be complemented by lectures on salient empirical findings.

The conference will be held from September 15 to 18, 2009, in the former summer palace of the Habsburg family in Laxenburg, near Vienna, Austria, home of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).

The conference is part of the EUROCORES Programme TECT on The Evolution of Cooperation and Trading, coordinated by the European Science Foundation and funded by a range of national research agencies. It will provide a platform for comparing and orchestrating different research approaches, within the TECT Programme and beyond.