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Complex Systems Summer School 2015-After Hours

2015-06-25T01:27:39Z

Cjo.verzijl: /* June 25 Rodeo de Santa Fe */

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2015}}

==Saturday, June 27: Party At JP's Farm!!!==

I'd like to host a nice little summer party out at my family's farm south of town. Let's have a little summer BBQ!

Let's head out about 4:30-5:00 on Saturday, and spend the late afternoon into the evening there. We should pick up some things to cook at a grocery store on the way out.

JP's GTI 
1.JP 
2.Yared 
3.Melissa 
4. 
5. 

JP's Totally Cool People Hauler 4Runner 
1.<driver needed> 
2. 
3. 
4. 
5. 

Connor's well-dented Dodge Intrepid 
1.connor 
2. 
3. 
4. 
5. 

Still Needs a Ride 
1. 
2. 
3. 
...

==Monday, June 22: Pop-Up Dumplings!==

JP's Car 
1.JP 
2.Haitao 
3. 
4. 
5. 

==Friday, June 19: Summer Sessions Techno Hoedown==

So a friend of mine is hosting a "techno hoedown" at his ranch north of town. Promised music, hay bales, and some good fun.

Interested? Sign up here [[Summer Sessions 2015 | Summer Sessions 2015]]

Federico (in Carolina's car!)

==Wednesdays==

St. John's College hosts a concert series on the college's athletic field every Wednesday evening from 6 to 8 p.m. These concerts are free and food/sodas are available to purchase.

==Anyday.. everyday??==

"Undefeated" Fuego baseball team plays at 6 everyday at Fort Marcy Field. Games are 6 dollars, beer is available in excess. Schedule is [http://santafefuego.com/santafe.asp?page=11&team=13&year=2015 here] 

We have two dates we will organize for the time being. 

Tuesday, 6/16 

Interested?

1. Matt O 
2. 
3. 
4. 
... 

Saturday, 6/20 

Interested?

1. 
2. 
3. 
4. 
... 

==CSSS Dance June 20==

[[Playlist submissions for Dance]]

==Soccer enthusiasts==

Soccer this Weekend? 
Saturday? 
1. 
2. 
Sunday? 
1. 
2. 

==Basketball==

Golden State 
1. Federico 
2. Connor 
3. ... 
Cleveland 
1. Matthew "King James" 
2. ... 
3. ... 

FYI ran into some breadloafers who said they're going to play Mondays. We should gather a crew to defeat them.

==Morning Yoga==

We meet at the gym at 7, there is an open space we can use. Bring a towel or a yoga mat, if you have it.
Rotating leading turns, feel free to share your favourite yoga position!

Mon-Thu 1 hour
Fri 45 min (because of the shuttle to SFI)

Interested?

Ilaria 
Carolina (M,W,F) 
Alice 

==Saturdays==

* Contra Dancing, 1st & 3rd Sat. Albuquerque Square Dance Center. [http://folkmads.org/events/albuquerque-events/ Details]
** Interested individuals: Richard Barnes
* Contra Dancing, 2nd & 4th Sat. Santa Fe Odd Fellow's Hall. [http://folkmads.org/events/santa-fe-events/ Details]
** Interested individuals: Richard Barnes

== Amma in Santa Fe – June 20, 2015.==
http://amma.org/meeting-amma/north-america/santa-fe
Free Morning Program 10am–approx. 3pm
8:00am: The token line opens. To ensure everyone has an equal chance of getting an early token, please refrain from forming a line until then.
8:30am: Tokens are handed out and guests are escorted to seats.
10:00am: Amma enters the hall and conducts a short meditation.
10:30am: Amma begins to embrace those who have come.
12:30pm: Lunch is served until thirty minutes after Amma leaves the hall.
About morning programs ›

EVERYONE IS WELCOME
To meet Amma, you will need a token which is issued on a first-come-first-served basis. Tokens are limited, so please arrive early.

Location: Buffalo Thunder Resort
30 Buffalo Thunder Trail 
Santa Fe, NM 87506
United States
Hotel: 877.848.6337

Meeting time: Since we take 45 min to arrive the Resort, we should plan to leave at 7:15 AM.
Interested:
1. Nilton 

==June 20, 10:00am - Bandelier Field Trip==

We're taking a trip to [http://www.nps.gov/band/index.htm Bandelier National Monument] on Saturday June 20th. Please visit the [[Bandelier 2015 | Bandelier Field Trip]] Page to sign up!

==June 25 Rodeo de Santa Fe==

Thursday, June 25!

Come on down for the 66th annual Rodeo de Santa Fe! Watch real-life cowboys get thrown off of various species of raging livestock for their competition and your entertainment. Starts at 7:00pm, we should leave SJC about 6:00. http://rodeodesantafe.org/

Juni's Car 
1. Juni 
2. María Pereda 
3. Sara Lumbreras 
4. Sahil Garg 
5. Federico Battiston 

JP's Ferrari (5 seats) 
1.JP 
2. Jakub Rojcek 
3. Glenn Magerman 
4. Dan Hedblom 
5. Yared Abebe 

JP's Lamborghini (5 seats) 
1. <driver needed> 
2. Junming Huang 
3. Danqing Liu 
4. Martina Steffen 
5. Song Binyang 

Christine's Jeep (5 seats) 
1. Christine 
2. Vanessa 
3. Sola 
4. Melissa 
5. Masa 

Sam's Car (5 seats total) 
1. Sam 
2. Matthew H 
3. Emilia 
4. Tirtha 
5. Alice 
 

Sharon's Car (5 seats) 
1. Sharon 
2. Stefano 
3. Tolga 
4. Laurence 
5. Penny Mealy 
 

Joshua's Car (5 seats) 
1. Joshua 
2. Chao Fan 
3. Haitao Shang 
4. Susanne 
5. Tirtha 
 

Laura's Car (5 seats) 
1. Laura 
2. Kleber Neves 
3. Richard Barnes 
4. Jae B. Cho 
5. Alejandro 

 Connor's Car (5 seats) 
1. Connor 
2. Matt O 
3. Jean-Gab 
4. Andre 
5. Daniel Citron 

 Valery's Car (7 seats) 
1. Valery 
2. Marie-Pierre 
3. Chris 
4. 
5. 
6. 
7. 

Needs a ride 
1. Andy 
2. Nilton Cardoso 
3. Ilaria 
4. Jelle 

==Grand Canyon Trip , June 26 - June 28==
'''There is a small group heading to the Grand Canyon the last weekend (leaving Jun26 afternoon, returning Jun28). We will be renting a car, the drive is about 6.5 hours. Anyone interested in joining please contact Juan or Nilton.'''
 
Interested:
 
1. Sahil Garg
 

==Cinema: Inside Out, Sunday (June 28) ==
Cinema by the Railyard (Violet Crown) 
Movie starts at 8:15 - we'll eat dinner nearby somewhere before 
<strike>The SFI-Bus will probably take us downtown at 5:30.</strike> Ride shares! 

Cars 

JP's Wicked-Cool GTI 
1.[[JP]] 
2.Laurence 
3. 
4. 
5.

Complex Systems Summer School 2015-Tutorials

2015-06-18T23:31:12Z

Cjo.verzijl: /* NetworkX: Exploring Python's network library and what you can do with it */

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2015}}

CSSS participants come from a wide range of disciplines. Participants are encouraged to share their knowledge by organizing their own tutorials.

You can schedule your own tutorial here, they will be held in the ESL study hall. Please do not schedule during other CSSS Lectures.

try to use this template:

=='''Tutorial: Skilled action, complex systems science and the Free Energy Principle''' ==
'''Speaker: Jelle Bruineberg''' 
'''Date & Time: June 11th, 20:00''' 
'''Motivation and content: Quite some people seemed to be interested in the "Variational Approaches to Mind and Life" project that we are trying to get of the ground. Apart from this, some people were curious how philosophy relates to complex systems science. I would like to present my own work on skilled action and relate it to complex systems science. After this, I will sketch how the Free Energy Principle (the principle to be studied in the Variational Approaches to Mind and Life group) relates to this work. This is the point, where, I hope, the presentation part will stop and the brainstorm/discussion session will take over.''' 
'''Prerequisite: Being open to a bit of philosophy :)''' 
'''Slides: will follow''' 
'''Paper: [http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00599/abstract]''' 

=='''Introduction to NetLogo''' ==
'''Speaker:''' Christine Harvey (ceharvey@mitre.org) 
'''Date & Time:''' June 16th 7pm in Tutorial Room 
'''Motivation and content:''' Basic introduction to NetLogo for new users/programmers. Quick overview of the screens, language and possibilities. And standard documentation practices for the model. Walkthrough editing a model. 
'''Prerequisite:''' Download and install NetLogo (https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/download.shtml) 
'''Interested people:'''
*

=='''Tutorial: R, EDA, a bit of geo-mapping''' ==
'''Speaker:''' Brent Schneeman 
'''Date & Time:''' Tuesday June 23, 7pm (1900) 
'''Motivation and content:''' The "Great Circles" t-shirt design generated some interest in how it was done. I'll walk through the code showing how R can access the Google Maps API and generate great circle arcs. Along the way, we'll look at generating simple descriptive plots of a dataset that will likely resonate with you (because you heard Shalizi talk about kernel density estimates). If we're lucky, we'll be able to translate the arcs and the world map longitudinally. A teensy bit of github will also be shown. I do not claim to be any sort of expert in anything demo'ed, but bring your questions anyway. 
'''Prerequisite:''' Minimal: none, but if you want to type along, install [http://cran.r-project.org/ R] and [http://www.rstudio.com/products/RStudio/#Desk RStudio] (and maybe [http://git-scm.com/ git]). Maximal: you've checked out the [https://github.com/schnee/csss-geo CSSS-geo] code from github, OR you've clicked the little "Download ZIP" button (lower right hand side of the [https://github.com/schnee/csss-geo CSSS-geo] page) and have decompressed into a folder. 
'''Slides:''' [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HzKfmb4ARChrviMavlGkWqxNCD0P8Q_E62f9xktOHjY/edit?usp=sharing Google] 
'''Source Code:''' [https://github.com/schnee/csss-geo CSSS-geo] 
'''Interested:'''
*Christine
*Glenn
*Chris
*Song Binyang
*Jakub
*Alejandro
*Haitao Shang
*Jarrod Scott
* Nilton Cardoso
* Matt Ingram

=='''Python: A Crash Course''' ==
'''Speaker:''' Richard Barnes 
'''Date & Time: June 17 @ 7pm''' 
'''Motivation and content:''' This tutorial assumes some familiarity with programming and covers basic interaction with Python, pros and cons of using it as a language, and a summary of some of its useful packages. If there are particular things you'd like covered, or if you'd like to co-instruct, drop me a line (rbarnes@umn.edu). A few people have expressed interest on following up on this tutorial by teaching workshops on specific packages for networking, machine learning, and scientific computation. 
'''Prerequisite:''' Have [https://www.python.org/downloads/ Python] installed on your computer ([http://continuum.io/downloads Anaconda] is an easy way to get this set up). Please have a code editor installed, [https://www.sublimetext.com/ SublimeText] is an excellent choice. 
'''Interested people:'''
<li> Kiki(no background at all)
<li> Glenn Magerman (no background, only R, Stata)
<li> María Pereda (no background in Python, but I like programming, R, Netlogo, Matlab, C, CUDA)
<li> Laurence (no Python, only R, C++, ..)
<li> Valery (no background in Pyton, only R and Netlogo)
<li> Song Binyang (know a little about Python)
<li> Tolga Oztan (some Python, mostly R)
<li> Jakub (No python, so far Java, Matlab)
<li> Anna(no background in Python, but would love to learn)
<li> Sola...(no background in Python. Proficient in STATA)
<Ii> Jeroen de Wilde (no background)
<li> Alejandro(no background in Python. C and Matlab)
<li> Haitao Shang (no background in Python, only know MatLab)
<li> Jarrod Scott(a little background in Python, a little better with R)
<li> Nilton Cardoso (no background in Python, only R and other stat packages)
<li> Urs (very little background in Python, only Matlab)
<li> Matt Ingram (R, Stata, some Python)
<li> Matt O (R, Mathematica, Matlab)
<li> Jun (only C)
<li> Brent (very very little Python. R, Java, Scala (someday....))
<li> Laura (very little Python mostly R)

=='''Git: A Crash Course''' ==
'''Speaker:''' Richard Barnes 
'''Date & Time:''' TBD, targeting sometime later on the week of the 15th. 
'''Motivation and content:''' This course will cover the basic concepts of Git. It will walk you through creating a repository, committing changes to your code, and collaborating with others. If there are particular things you'd like covered, or if you'd like to co-instruct, drop me a line (rbarnes@umn.edu). 
'''Prerequisite:''' Install [https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/ SourceTree]. Have a code editor, preferably [https://www.sublimetext.com/ SublimeText], installed. 
'''Interested people:'''
<li> Kiki (no background at all)
<li> Glenn Magerman (no background)
<li> Valery (no background)
<li> Jakub (Used it once)
<li> Will (used a little)
<li> Tolga Oztan (used it once)
<li> Anna (no background in this)
<li> Jim Caton (no background)
<li> Alejandro (no background)
<li> Haitao Shang (no background)
<li> Jarrod Scott (some background)
<li> Nilton Cardoso (no backgroung)
<li> Urs (no background)
<li> Matt Ingram (no background)
<li> Laurence (some background)
<li> Laura (no background)
<li> Juan (used a little)

=='''Cloud Computing Introduction''' ==
'''Speaker:''' Christine Harvey (ceharvey@mitre.org) 
'''Date & Time:''' TBD, targeting third or fourth week 
'''Motivation and content:''' This will cover an introduction to cloud computing using Amazon Web Services. This will review setting up an AWS account, launching an instance, logging on to the remote computing resource, and we can try to do a little something else as well. Open to suggestions! 
'''Prerequisite:''' Amazon account and a credit card (compute time should cost < $1) 
'''Interested people:'''
* Glenn Magerman
* Chris
* Valery
* Jakub
* Anna
* Alejandro
* Haitao Shang
* Nilton Cardoso
* Jae
* Matt Ingram
* Laurence

=='''Reproducible Research with iPython Notebooks''' ==
'''Speaker:''' Christine Harvey (ceharvey@mitre.org) 
'''Date & Time:''' TBD, targeting third or fourth week 
'''Motivation and content:''' iPython notebooks are a great way to keep track of your analysis and track data manipulations. Ideal for anyone working with data sets and creating visualizations along the way. More details to follow! Example: http://ipython.org/_static/sloangrant/9_home_fperez_prof_grants_1207-sloan-ipython_proposal_fig_ipython-notebook-specgram.png 
'''Prerequisite:''' Python Install with iPython Notebooks (other packages to be listed). Easiest install is the Anaconda Install (http://continuum.io/downloads) 
'''Interested people:'''
* Glenn Magerman
* Valery
* Song Binyang
* Tolga Oztan
* Anna
* Nilton Cardoso
* Matt Ingram
* Brent
* Jakub
* María Pereda
* Cobain
* Laura
* Ilaria

=='''Topological Data Analysis - Persistent homology''' ==
'''Speaker:''' Alice Patania 
'''Date & Time:''' Sunday, June 21st, 7pm 
'''Content:'''The tutorial will be a short introduction to topological data analysis and its applications to complex systems. I will try to illustrate the utility of these class of methods in several real world examples, and give some computational tools to apply them. 
'''Motivation:''' Topological Data Analysis is sensitive to both large and small scale patterns that often fail to be detected by other analysis methods, such as principal component analysis, (PCA), multidimensional scaling, (MDS), and cluster analysis. PCA and MDS produce unstructured scatterplots and clustering methods produce distinct, unrelated groups. These methodologies sometimes obscure geometric features that topological methods can capture. 
'''Prerequisite:''' 
'''References:''' 
'''Interested people:''' 
1. Nilton 
2. Jean-Gab 
3. Jakub 
4. Richard 
5. María Pereda 
6. Laura 
7. Matt Ingram 
8. Glenn Magerman 
9. Ilaria 
10. Andy 
11. Chris 

=='''NetworkX: Exploring Python's network library and what you can do with it''' ==
'''Speaker:''' Carolina Mattsson and possibly others (carromattsson@gmail.com) 
'''Date & Time:''' Tuesday June 23 - 7:00pm 
'''Motivation and content:''' We'll be having four (!) lectures on networks. Thankfully some of those giants on whose shoulders we stand have built excellent libraries in python, R, and C that make playing around with networks a whole lot easier. In this tutorial we'll be digging into python's network library - NetworkX - and some things it can be used for. Network libraries in other languages have similar functionality, so don't let the python scare you. Having this after the network lectures means we can directly incorporate things that Newman talks about. I'll most likely use iPython notebook as a teaching tool, but if you don't want to install we can work around. There are people other than me who also know NetworkX quite well, if that's you and you want to help, just let me know! 
'''Prerequisites:''' Some Python knowledge - Richard's tutorial would be enough! 
'''Interested co-instructors:''' 
1. Carolina 
2. 
'''Interested people:''' 
1. Jakub 
2. Laura 
3. Matt Ingram 
4. Chris 

=='''Basic examples of dummy variable use in econometrics applied to some Prof. Wooldridge datasets''' ==
''' Speaker:''' Nilton Cardoso 
''' Date & Time:''' Thu, Jun 25, 7:00 PM 
''' Contents:''' Let´s go over some basic examples using Wooldridge´s datasets to illustrate the use of dummy varibales in econometrics. 
''' Motivation:''' Dummy variables in econometric models can capture group/ categories effects and are very useful in estimating different patterns within the sample. 
''' Prerequisite:''' Install R Studio (http://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/); selected csv data from Wooldridge data sets (http://www.cengage.com/aise/economics/wooldridge_3e_datasets/) 
''' References:''' http://www.amazon.com/Jeffrey-M.-Wooldridge/e/B001IGLWNY 
''' Interested people: ''' 
1. Alice 
2. Sola

=='''Modeling With NetLogo''' ==
'''Speaker:''' Christine Harvey (ceharvey@mitre.org) and Keith Burghardt (keith@umd.edu) 
'''Date & Time:''' 7:00PM, June 16 
'''Motivation:''' NetLogo is a powerful tool for Agent-Based Models (ABM) due to its ease to code, simple-to-create visualization tools, and relatively fast computation capabilities. NetLogo is written in Java, which gives this modeling environment great portability at the expense of speed compared to C or Fortran. 
'''Content:''' In this talk, I will be reviewing NetLogo for students with mild backgrounds in coding by describing the basic program environment, GUI interface, and ways to reduce performance issues through massive parallelization, and avoiding read/write race conditions that can crop up. 
'''To Install NetLogo:''' https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/download.shtml 
'''Introduction Walkthrough:''' Download the guide for the tutorial here: [[File:NetLogoTutorial.pdf]] 
'''Slides Upload: '''[[File:NetLogo_Review.pdf]] 
'''Interested people:''' 
1. Cobain 
2. Jakub 
3. Nilton 
4. Maggie 
5. Urs 
6. Laurence 
7. Matt H

Complex Systems Summer School 2015-Tutorials

2015-06-18T23:30:59Z

Cjo.verzijl: /* Topological Data Analysis - Persistent homology */

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2015}}

CSSS participants come from a wide range of disciplines. Participants are encouraged to share their knowledge by organizing their own tutorials.

You can schedule your own tutorial here, they will be held in the ESL study hall. Please do not schedule during other CSSS Lectures.

try to use this template:

=='''Tutorial: Skilled action, complex systems science and the Free Energy Principle''' ==
'''Speaker: Jelle Bruineberg''' 
'''Date & Time: June 11th, 20:00''' 
'''Motivation and content: Quite some people seemed to be interested in the "Variational Approaches to Mind and Life" project that we are trying to get of the ground. Apart from this, some people were curious how philosophy relates to complex systems science. I would like to present my own work on skilled action and relate it to complex systems science. After this, I will sketch how the Free Energy Principle (the principle to be studied in the Variational Approaches to Mind and Life group) relates to this work. This is the point, where, I hope, the presentation part will stop and the brainstorm/discussion session will take over.''' 
'''Prerequisite: Being open to a bit of philosophy :)''' 
'''Slides: will follow''' 
'''Paper: [http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00599/abstract]''' 

=='''Introduction to NetLogo''' ==
'''Speaker:''' Christine Harvey (ceharvey@mitre.org) 
'''Date & Time:''' June 16th 7pm in Tutorial Room 
'''Motivation and content:''' Basic introduction to NetLogo for new users/programmers. Quick overview of the screens, language and possibilities. And standard documentation practices for the model. Walkthrough editing a model. 
'''Prerequisite:''' Download and install NetLogo (https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/download.shtml) 
'''Interested people:'''
*

=='''Tutorial: R, EDA, a bit of geo-mapping''' ==
'''Speaker:''' Brent Schneeman 
'''Date & Time:''' Tuesday June 23, 7pm (1900) 
'''Motivation and content:''' The "Great Circles" t-shirt design generated some interest in how it was done. I'll walk through the code showing how R can access the Google Maps API and generate great circle arcs. Along the way, we'll look at generating simple descriptive plots of a dataset that will likely resonate with you (because you heard Shalizi talk about kernel density estimates). If we're lucky, we'll be able to translate the arcs and the world map longitudinally. A teensy bit of github will also be shown. I do not claim to be any sort of expert in anything demo'ed, but bring your questions anyway. 
'''Prerequisite:''' Minimal: none, but if you want to type along, install [http://cran.r-project.org/ R] and [http://www.rstudio.com/products/RStudio/#Desk RStudio] (and maybe [http://git-scm.com/ git]). Maximal: you've checked out the [https://github.com/schnee/csss-geo CSSS-geo] code from github, OR you've clicked the little "Download ZIP" button (lower right hand side of the [https://github.com/schnee/csss-geo CSSS-geo] page) and have decompressed into a folder. 
'''Slides:''' [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HzKfmb4ARChrviMavlGkWqxNCD0P8Q_E62f9xktOHjY/edit?usp=sharing Google] 
'''Source Code:''' [https://github.com/schnee/csss-geo CSSS-geo] 
'''Interested:'''
*Christine
*Glenn
*Chris
*Song Binyang
*Jakub
*Alejandro
*Haitao Shang
*Jarrod Scott
* Nilton Cardoso
* Matt Ingram

=='''Python: A Crash Course''' ==
'''Speaker:''' Richard Barnes 
'''Date & Time: June 17 @ 7pm''' 
'''Motivation and content:''' This tutorial assumes some familiarity with programming and covers basic interaction with Python, pros and cons of using it as a language, and a summary of some of its useful packages. If there are particular things you'd like covered, or if you'd like to co-instruct, drop me a line (rbarnes@umn.edu). A few people have expressed interest on following up on this tutorial by teaching workshops on specific packages for networking, machine learning, and scientific computation. 
'''Prerequisite:''' Have [https://www.python.org/downloads/ Python] installed on your computer ([http://continuum.io/downloads Anaconda] is an easy way to get this set up). Please have a code editor installed, [https://www.sublimetext.com/ SublimeText] is an excellent choice. 
'''Interested people:'''
<li> Kiki(no background at all)
<li> Glenn Magerman (no background, only R, Stata)
<li> María Pereda (no background in Python, but I like programming, R, Netlogo, Matlab, C, CUDA)
<li> Laurence (no Python, only R, C++, ..)
<li> Valery (no background in Pyton, only R and Netlogo)
<li> Song Binyang (know a little about Python)
<li> Tolga Oztan (some Python, mostly R)
<li> Jakub (No python, so far Java, Matlab)
<li> Anna(no background in Python, but would love to learn)
<li> Sola...(no background in Python. Proficient in STATA)
<Ii> Jeroen de Wilde (no background)
<li> Alejandro(no background in Python. C and Matlab)
<li> Haitao Shang (no background in Python, only know MatLab)
<li> Jarrod Scott(a little background in Python, a little better with R)
<li> Nilton Cardoso (no background in Python, only R and other stat packages)
<li> Urs (very little background in Python, only Matlab)
<li> Matt Ingram (R, Stata, some Python)
<li> Matt O (R, Mathematica, Matlab)
<li> Jun (only C)
<li> Brent (very very little Python. R, Java, Scala (someday....))
<li> Laura (very little Python mostly R)

=='''Git: A Crash Course''' ==
'''Speaker:''' Richard Barnes 
'''Date & Time:''' TBD, targeting sometime later on the week of the 15th. 
'''Motivation and content:''' This course will cover the basic concepts of Git. It will walk you through creating a repository, committing changes to your code, and collaborating with others. If there are particular things you'd like covered, or if you'd like to co-instruct, drop me a line (rbarnes@umn.edu). 
'''Prerequisite:''' Install [https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/ SourceTree]. Have a code editor, preferably [https://www.sublimetext.com/ SublimeText], installed. 
'''Interested people:'''
<li> Kiki (no background at all)
<li> Glenn Magerman (no background)
<li> Valery (no background)
<li> Jakub (Used it once)
<li> Will (used a little)
<li> Tolga Oztan (used it once)
<li> Anna (no background in this)
<li> Jim Caton (no background)
<li> Alejandro (no background)
<li> Haitao Shang (no background)
<li> Jarrod Scott (some background)
<li> Nilton Cardoso (no backgroung)
<li> Urs (no background)
<li> Matt Ingram (no background)
<li> Laurence (some background)
<li> Laura (no background)
<li> Juan (used a little)

=='''Cloud Computing Introduction''' ==
'''Speaker:''' Christine Harvey (ceharvey@mitre.org) 
'''Date & Time:''' TBD, targeting third or fourth week 
'''Motivation and content:''' This will cover an introduction to cloud computing using Amazon Web Services. This will review setting up an AWS account, launching an instance, logging on to the remote computing resource, and we can try to do a little something else as well. Open to suggestions! 
'''Prerequisite:''' Amazon account and a credit card (compute time should cost < $1) 
'''Interested people:'''
* Glenn Magerman
* Chris
* Valery
* Jakub
* Anna
* Alejandro
* Haitao Shang
* Nilton Cardoso
* Jae
* Matt Ingram
* Laurence

=='''Reproducible Research with iPython Notebooks''' ==
'''Speaker:''' Christine Harvey (ceharvey@mitre.org) 
'''Date & Time:''' TBD, targeting third or fourth week 
'''Motivation and content:''' iPython notebooks are a great way to keep track of your analysis and track data manipulations. Ideal for anyone working with data sets and creating visualizations along the way. More details to follow! Example: http://ipython.org/_static/sloangrant/9_home_fperez_prof_grants_1207-sloan-ipython_proposal_fig_ipython-notebook-specgram.png 
'''Prerequisite:''' Python Install with iPython Notebooks (other packages to be listed). Easiest install is the Anaconda Install (http://continuum.io/downloads) 
'''Interested people:'''
* Glenn Magerman
* Valery
* Song Binyang
* Tolga Oztan
* Anna
* Nilton Cardoso
* Matt Ingram
* Brent
* Jakub
* María Pereda
* Cobain
* Laura
* Ilaria

=='''Topological Data Analysis - Persistent homology''' ==
'''Speaker:''' Alice Patania 
'''Date & Time:''' Sunday, June 21st, 7pm 
'''Content:'''The tutorial will be a short introduction to topological data analysis and its applications to complex systems. I will try to illustrate the utility of these class of methods in several real world examples, and give some computational tools to apply them. 
'''Motivation:''' Topological Data Analysis is sensitive to both large and small scale patterns that often fail to be detected by other analysis methods, such as principal component analysis, (PCA), multidimensional scaling, (MDS), and cluster analysis. PCA and MDS produce unstructured scatterplots and clustering methods produce distinct, unrelated groups. These methodologies sometimes obscure geometric features that topological methods can capture. 
'''Prerequisite:''' 
'''References:''' 
'''Interested people:''' 
1. Nilton 
2. Jean-Gab 
3. Jakub 
4. Richard 
5. María Pereda 
6. Laura 
7. Matt Ingram 
8. Glenn Magerman 
9. Ilaria 
10. Andy 
11. Chris 

=='''NetworkX: Exploring Python's network library and what you can do with it''' ==
'''Speaker:''' Carolina Mattsson and possibly others (carromattsson@gmail.com) 
'''Date & Time:''' Tuesday June 23 - 7:00pm 
'''Motivation and content:''' We'll be having four (!) lectures on networks. Thankfully some of those giants on whose shoulders we stand have built excellent libraries in python, R, and C that make playing around with networks a whole lot easier. In this tutorial we'll be digging into python's network library - NetworkX - and some things it can be used for. Network libraries in other languages have similar functionality, so don't let the python scare you. Having this after the network lectures means we can directly incorporate things that Newman talks about. I'll most likely use iPython notebook as a teaching tool, but if you don't want to install we can work around. There are people other than me who also know NetworkX quite well, if that's you and you want to help, just let me know! 
'''Prerequisites:''' Some Python knowledge - Richard's tutorial would be enough! 
'''Interested co-instructors:''' 
1. Carolina 
2. 
'''Interested people:''' 
1. Jakub 
2. Laura 
3. Matt Ingram 

=='''Basic examples of dummy variable use in econometrics applied to some Prof. Wooldridge datasets''' ==
''' Speaker:''' Nilton Cardoso 
''' Date & Time:''' Thu, Jun 25, 7:00 PM 
''' Contents:''' Let´s go over some basic examples using Wooldridge´s datasets to illustrate the use of dummy varibales in econometrics. 
''' Motivation:''' Dummy variables in econometric models can capture group/ categories effects and are very useful in estimating different patterns within the sample. 
''' Prerequisite:''' Install R Studio (http://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/); selected csv data from Wooldridge data sets (http://www.cengage.com/aise/economics/wooldridge_3e_datasets/) 
''' References:''' http://www.amazon.com/Jeffrey-M.-Wooldridge/e/B001IGLWNY 
''' Interested people: ''' 
1. Alice 
2. Sola

=='''Modeling With NetLogo''' ==
'''Speaker:''' Christine Harvey (ceharvey@mitre.org) and Keith Burghardt (keith@umd.edu) 
'''Date & Time:''' 7:00PM, June 16 
'''Motivation:''' NetLogo is a powerful tool for Agent-Based Models (ABM) due to its ease to code, simple-to-create visualization tools, and relatively fast computation capabilities. NetLogo is written in Java, which gives this modeling environment great portability at the expense of speed compared to C or Fortran. 
'''Content:''' In this talk, I will be reviewing NetLogo for students with mild backgrounds in coding by describing the basic program environment, GUI interface, and ways to reduce performance issues through massive parallelization, and avoiding read/write race conditions that can crop up. 
'''To Install NetLogo:''' https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/download.shtml 
'''Introduction Walkthrough:''' Download the guide for the tutorial here: [[File:NetLogoTutorial.pdf]] 
'''Slides Upload: '''[[File:NetLogo_Review.pdf]] 
'''Interested people:''' 
1. Cobain 
2. Jakub 
3. Nilton 
4. Maggie 
5. Urs 
6. Laurence 
7. Matt H

Complex Systems Summer School 2015-Tutorials

2015-06-18T23:30:51Z

Cjo.verzijl: /* Topological Data Analysis - Persistent homology */

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2015}}

CSSS participants come from a wide range of disciplines. Participants are encouraged to share their knowledge by organizing their own tutorials.

You can schedule your own tutorial here, they will be held in the ESL study hall. Please do not schedule during other CSSS Lectures.

try to use this template:

=='''Tutorial: Skilled action, complex systems science and the Free Energy Principle''' ==
'''Speaker: Jelle Bruineberg''' 
'''Date & Time: June 11th, 20:00''' 
'''Motivation and content: Quite some people seemed to be interested in the "Variational Approaches to Mind and Life" project that we are trying to get of the ground. Apart from this, some people were curious how philosophy relates to complex systems science. I would like to present my own work on skilled action and relate it to complex systems science. After this, I will sketch how the Free Energy Principle (the principle to be studied in the Variational Approaches to Mind and Life group) relates to this work. This is the point, where, I hope, the presentation part will stop and the brainstorm/discussion session will take over.''' 
'''Prerequisite: Being open to a bit of philosophy :)''' 
'''Slides: will follow''' 
'''Paper: [http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00599/abstract]''' 

=='''Introduction to NetLogo''' ==
'''Speaker:''' Christine Harvey (ceharvey@mitre.org) 
'''Date & Time:''' June 16th 7pm in Tutorial Room 
'''Motivation and content:''' Basic introduction to NetLogo for new users/programmers. Quick overview of the screens, language and possibilities. And standard documentation practices for the model. Walkthrough editing a model. 
'''Prerequisite:''' Download and install NetLogo (https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/download.shtml) 
'''Interested people:'''
*

=='''Tutorial: R, EDA, a bit of geo-mapping''' ==
'''Speaker:''' Brent Schneeman 
'''Date & Time:''' Tuesday June 23, 7pm (1900) 
'''Motivation and content:''' The "Great Circles" t-shirt design generated some interest in how it was done. I'll walk through the code showing how R can access the Google Maps API and generate great circle arcs. Along the way, we'll look at generating simple descriptive plots of a dataset that will likely resonate with you (because you heard Shalizi talk about kernel density estimates). If we're lucky, we'll be able to translate the arcs and the world map longitudinally. A teensy bit of github will also be shown. I do not claim to be any sort of expert in anything demo'ed, but bring your questions anyway. 
'''Prerequisite:''' Minimal: none, but if you want to type along, install [http://cran.r-project.org/ R] and [http://www.rstudio.com/products/RStudio/#Desk RStudio] (and maybe [http://git-scm.com/ git]). Maximal: you've checked out the [https://github.com/schnee/csss-geo CSSS-geo] code from github, OR you've clicked the little "Download ZIP" button (lower right hand side of the [https://github.com/schnee/csss-geo CSSS-geo] page) and have decompressed into a folder. 
'''Slides:''' [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HzKfmb4ARChrviMavlGkWqxNCD0P8Q_E62f9xktOHjY/edit?usp=sharing Google] 
'''Source Code:''' [https://github.com/schnee/csss-geo CSSS-geo] 
'''Interested:'''
*Christine
*Glenn
*Chris
*Song Binyang
*Jakub
*Alejandro
*Haitao Shang
*Jarrod Scott
* Nilton Cardoso
* Matt Ingram

=='''Python: A Crash Course''' ==
'''Speaker:''' Richard Barnes 
'''Date & Time: June 17 @ 7pm''' 
'''Motivation and content:''' This tutorial assumes some familiarity with programming and covers basic interaction with Python, pros and cons of using it as a language, and a summary of some of its useful packages. If there are particular things you'd like covered, or if you'd like to co-instruct, drop me a line (rbarnes@umn.edu). A few people have expressed interest on following up on this tutorial by teaching workshops on specific packages for networking, machine learning, and scientific computation. 
'''Prerequisite:''' Have [https://www.python.org/downloads/ Python] installed on your computer ([http://continuum.io/downloads Anaconda] is an easy way to get this set up). Please have a code editor installed, [https://www.sublimetext.com/ SublimeText] is an excellent choice. 
'''Interested people:'''
<li> Kiki(no background at all)
<li> Glenn Magerman (no background, only R, Stata)
<li> María Pereda (no background in Python, but I like programming, R, Netlogo, Matlab, C, CUDA)
<li> Laurence (no Python, only R, C++, ..)
<li> Valery (no background in Pyton, only R and Netlogo)
<li> Song Binyang (know a little about Python)
<li> Tolga Oztan (some Python, mostly R)
<li> Jakub (No python, so far Java, Matlab)
<li> Anna(no background in Python, but would love to learn)
<li> Sola...(no background in Python. Proficient in STATA)
<Ii> Jeroen de Wilde (no background)
<li> Alejandro(no background in Python. C and Matlab)
<li> Haitao Shang (no background in Python, only know MatLab)
<li> Jarrod Scott(a little background in Python, a little better with R)
<li> Nilton Cardoso (no background in Python, only R and other stat packages)
<li> Urs (very little background in Python, only Matlab)
<li> Matt Ingram (R, Stata, some Python)
<li> Matt O (R, Mathematica, Matlab)
<li> Jun (only C)
<li> Brent (very very little Python. R, Java, Scala (someday....))
<li> Laura (very little Python mostly R)

=='''Git: A Crash Course''' ==
'''Speaker:''' Richard Barnes 
'''Date & Time:''' TBD, targeting sometime later on the week of the 15th. 
'''Motivation and content:''' This course will cover the basic concepts of Git. It will walk you through creating a repository, committing changes to your code, and collaborating with others. If there are particular things you'd like covered, or if you'd like to co-instruct, drop me a line (rbarnes@umn.edu). 
'''Prerequisite:''' Install [https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/ SourceTree]. Have a code editor, preferably [https://www.sublimetext.com/ SublimeText], installed. 
'''Interested people:'''
<li> Kiki (no background at all)
<li> Glenn Magerman (no background)
<li> Valery (no background)
<li> Jakub (Used it once)
<li> Will (used a little)
<li> Tolga Oztan (used it once)
<li> Anna (no background in this)
<li> Jim Caton (no background)
<li> Alejandro (no background)
<li> Haitao Shang (no background)
<li> Jarrod Scott (some background)
<li> Nilton Cardoso (no backgroung)
<li> Urs (no background)
<li> Matt Ingram (no background)
<li> Laurence (some background)
<li> Laura (no background)
<li> Juan (used a little)

=='''Cloud Computing Introduction''' ==
'''Speaker:''' Christine Harvey (ceharvey@mitre.org) 
'''Date & Time:''' TBD, targeting third or fourth week 
'''Motivation and content:''' This will cover an introduction to cloud computing using Amazon Web Services. This will review setting up an AWS account, launching an instance, logging on to the remote computing resource, and we can try to do a little something else as well. Open to suggestions! 
'''Prerequisite:''' Amazon account and a credit card (compute time should cost < $1) 
'''Interested people:'''
* Glenn Magerman
* Chris
* Valery
* Jakub
* Anna
* Alejandro
* Haitao Shang
* Nilton Cardoso
* Jae
* Matt Ingram
* Laurence

=='''Reproducible Research with iPython Notebooks''' ==
'''Speaker:''' Christine Harvey (ceharvey@mitre.org) 
'''Date & Time:''' TBD, targeting third or fourth week 
'''Motivation and content:''' iPython notebooks are a great way to keep track of your analysis and track data manipulations. Ideal for anyone working with data sets and creating visualizations along the way. More details to follow! Example: http://ipython.org/_static/sloangrant/9_home_fperez_prof_grants_1207-sloan-ipython_proposal_fig_ipython-notebook-specgram.png 
'''Prerequisite:''' Python Install with iPython Notebooks (other packages to be listed). Easiest install is the Anaconda Install (http://continuum.io/downloads) 
'''Interested people:'''
* Glenn Magerman
* Valery
* Song Binyang
* Tolga Oztan
* Anna
* Nilton Cardoso
* Matt Ingram
* Brent
* Jakub
* María Pereda
* Cobain
* Laura
* Ilaria

=='''Topological Data Analysis - Persistent homology''' ==
'''Speaker:''' Alice Patania 
'''Date & Time:''' Sunday, June 21st, 7pm 
'''Content:'''The tutorial will be a short introduction to topological data analysis and its applications to complex systems. I will try to illustrate the utility of these class of methods in several real world examples, and give some computational tools to apply them. 
'''Motivation:''' Topological Data Analysis is sensitive to both large and small scale patterns that often fail to be detected by other analysis methods, such as principal component analysis, (PCA), multidimensional scaling, (MDS), and cluster analysis. PCA and MDS produce unstructured scatterplots and clustering methods produce distinct, unrelated groups. These methodologies sometimes obscure geometric features that topological methods can capture. 
'''Prerequisite:''' 
'''References:''' 
'''Interested people:''' 
1. Nilton 
2. Jean-Gab 
3. Jakub 
4. Richard 
5. María Pereda 
6. Laura 
7. Matt Ingram 
8. Glenn Magerman 
9. Ilaria 
10. Andy 
11. Chris <br.

=='''NetworkX: Exploring Python's network library and what you can do with it''' ==
'''Speaker:''' Carolina Mattsson and possibly others (carromattsson@gmail.com) 
'''Date & Time:''' Tuesday June 23 - 7:00pm 
'''Motivation and content:''' We'll be having four (!) lectures on networks. Thankfully some of those giants on whose shoulders we stand have built excellent libraries in python, R, and C that make playing around with networks a whole lot easier. In this tutorial we'll be digging into python's network library - NetworkX - and some things it can be used for. Network libraries in other languages have similar functionality, so don't let the python scare you. Having this after the network lectures means we can directly incorporate things that Newman talks about. I'll most likely use iPython notebook as a teaching tool, but if you don't want to install we can work around. There are people other than me who also know NetworkX quite well, if that's you and you want to help, just let me know! 
'''Prerequisites:''' Some Python knowledge - Richard's tutorial would be enough! 
'''Interested co-instructors:''' 
1. Carolina 
2. 
'''Interested people:''' 
1. Jakub 
2. Laura 
3. Matt Ingram 

=='''Basic examples of dummy variable use in econometrics applied to some Prof. Wooldridge datasets''' ==
''' Speaker:''' Nilton Cardoso 
''' Date & Time:''' Thu, Jun 25, 7:00 PM 
''' Contents:''' Let´s go over some basic examples using Wooldridge´s datasets to illustrate the use of dummy varibales in econometrics. 
''' Motivation:''' Dummy variables in econometric models can capture group/ categories effects and are very useful in estimating different patterns within the sample. 
''' Prerequisite:''' Install R Studio (http://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/); selected csv data from Wooldridge data sets (http://www.cengage.com/aise/economics/wooldridge_3e_datasets/) 
''' References:''' http://www.amazon.com/Jeffrey-M.-Wooldridge/e/B001IGLWNY 
''' Interested people: ''' 
1. Alice 
2. Sola

=='''Modeling With NetLogo''' ==
'''Speaker:''' Christine Harvey (ceharvey@mitre.org) and Keith Burghardt (keith@umd.edu) 
'''Date & Time:''' 7:00PM, June 16 
'''Motivation:''' NetLogo is a powerful tool for Agent-Based Models (ABM) due to its ease to code, simple-to-create visualization tools, and relatively fast computation capabilities. NetLogo is written in Java, which gives this modeling environment great portability at the expense of speed compared to C or Fortran. 
'''Content:''' In this talk, I will be reviewing NetLogo for students with mild backgrounds in coding by describing the basic program environment, GUI interface, and ways to reduce performance issues through massive parallelization, and avoiding read/write race conditions that can crop up. 
'''To Install NetLogo:''' https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/download.shtml 
'''Introduction Walkthrough:''' Download the guide for the tutorial here: [[File:NetLogoTutorial.pdf]] 
'''Slides Upload: '''[[File:NetLogo_Review.pdf]] 
'''Interested people:''' 
1. Cobain 
2. Jakub 
3. Nilton 
4. Maggie 
5. Urs 
6. Laurence 
7. Matt H

Physics Lab 2015

2015-06-11T19:51:59Z

Cjo.verzijl: /* Thursday June 11, 7:00 - 9:00 PM */

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2015}}

==Tuesday June 9, 7:00 - 9:00 PM==

1. MV Eitzel 
2. Daniel Citron 
3. Tobias Morville 
4. Urs Braun 
5. Ilaria Bertazzi 
6. Jakub Rojcek 
7. Nilton Cardaso 
8. Christine Harvey 
9. Michael Smallegan 
10. Jelle Bruineberg 
11. Susanne Petterson 
12. Jun Takahashi 
13. Andrew Schauf 
14. Maggie Simon 
15. Matt Ingram 

==Thursday June 11, 7:00 - 9:00 PM==

1. Glenn Magerman 
2. Carolina Mattson 
3. Anna Zaytseva 
4. Tirthankar Bandyopadhyay 
5. Sara Lumbreras 
6. Richard Barnes 
7. Laurence Brandenberger 
8. 'Sola Omoju 
9. Andre Veski 
10. John Thomas 
11. Vanessa Chioffi 
12. Chris Verzijl 
13. 
14. Jeroen de Wilde 
15. 

==Monday June 15, 7:00 - 9:00 PM==

1. Sahil Garg 
2. Junming Huang 
3. John Thomas 
4. Chao Fan 
5. Juan Carlos Castilla 
6. Alejandro Tejedor 
7. Brent Schneeman 
8. Emilia Wysocka 
9. William Chang 
10. Martina Steffen 
11. Sam Way 
12. Kleber Neves 
13. Jae B Cho 
14. Matthew Histen 
15. 

==Tuesday June 16, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM==

1. Federico Battiston 
2. Alice Patania 
3. Sebastian Poledna 
4. Keith Burghardt 
5. María Pereda 
6. Matthew Cobain 
7. Daniel Hedblom 
8. Jean-Gabriel Young 
9. Matthew Osmond 
10. Penny Mealy 
11. Marie-Pierre Hasne 
12. Sharon Greenblum 
13. Laura Condon 
14. Richard Barnes 
15. Jarrod Scott

Christopher Verzijl

2015-06-11T04:06:41Z

Cjo.verzijl:

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2015}}

Physicist, risk quant, and "just a guy from the islands." Am deeply interested in understanding network structure as a causal factor in the dynamics of financial markets. I believe knowing and visualizing this structure is necessary in order to better understand market, credit and liquidity risk. Broadly speaking, I want to apply this to the defensive side of trading and asset management. I'm otherwise pretty much open to discussions about just about anything, always looking for new insights, and different takes on old problems..
 
[[File:Chris_V_n3.jpg]]

File:Chris V n3.jpg

2015-06-11T04:06:25Z

Cjo.verzijl:

Christopher Verzijl

2015-06-11T04:04:13Z

Cjo.verzijl:

Christopher Verzijl

2015-06-11T04:03:49Z

Cjo.verzijl:

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2015}}

[[File:Chris_V_n2.jpg]]
Physicist, risk quant, and "just a guy from the islands." Am deeply interested in understanding network structure as a causal factor in the dynamics of financial markets. I believe knowing and visualizing this structure is necessary in order to better understand market, credit and liquidity risk. Broadly speaking, I want to apply this to the defensive side of trading and asset management. I'm otherwise pretty much open to discussions about just about anything, always looking for new insights, and different takes on old problems..

File:Chris V n2.jpg

2015-06-11T04:03:37Z

Cjo.verzijl:

Christopher Verzijl

2015-06-11T03:57:51Z

Cjo.verzijl:

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2015}}

[[File:Chris_V_n.jpg]]
Physicist, risk quant, and "just a guy from the islands." Am deeply interested in understanding network structure as a causal factor in the dynamics of financial markets. I believe knowing and visualizing this structure is necessary in order to better understand market, credit and liquidity risk. Broadly speaking, I want to apply this to the defensive side of trading and asset management. I'm otherwise pretty much open to discussions about just about anything, always looking for new insights, and different takes on old problems..

File:Chris V n.jpg

2015-06-11T03:57:06Z

Cjo.verzijl: Profile Photo Chris

Profile Photo Chris

Complex Systems Summer School 2015-Tutorials

2015-06-11T03:53:43Z

Cjo.verzijl: /* Cloud Computing Introduction */

Complex Systems Summer School 2015-Tutorials

2015-06-11T03:53:08Z

Cjo.verzijl: /* Tutorial: R, EDA, a bit of geo-mapping */

Christopher Verzijl

2015-06-11T03:50:08Z

Cjo.verzijl:

Complex Systems Summer School 2015-After Hours

2015-06-10T23:47:55Z

Cjo.verzijl: /* June 14 (Sunday evening): Jurassic World Cinema excursion */

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2015}}

==Anyday.. everyday??==

"Undefeated" Fuego baseball team plays at 6 everyday at Fort Marcy Field. Games are 6 dollars, beer is available in excess. Schedule is [http://santafefuego.com/santafe.asp?page=11&team=13&year=2015 here]

Interested?

1. 
2. 
3. 
4. 
... 

==Soccer enthusiasts==

Interested?

Thursday, 7 p.m, at the soccer field

1. Sola 
2. Federico 
3. Urs 
4. Sharon 
5. Matt Ingram 
6. Christine Harvey 
7. Yared Abebe 
... 

==Saturdays==

* Contra Dancing, 1st & 3rd Sat. Albuquerque Square Dance Center. [http://folkmads.org/events/albuquerque-events/ Details]
** Interested individuals: Richard Barnes
* Contra Dancing, 2nd & 4th Sat. Santa Fe Odd Fellow's Hall. [http://folkmads.org/events/santa-fe-events/ Details]
** Interested individuals: Richard Barnes

==June 12 Currents New Media Festival==

When: Friday June 12 8pm 
Where: Meet at 2nd Street Railyard 1607 Paseo De Peralta #10, Santa Fe, NM 87501 

Super cool interactive new media festival on the Santa Fe Railyard. Let's meet at 2nd Street Brewery around 8pm for drinks and then walk through the festival. Here's the info http://currentsnewmedia.org/ 

-Juniper 

Whoo! Let's Go! -JP

JP's VW 
1.JP 
2. 
3. 
4. 
5. 

Interested Folks: 
Connor 
Glenn Magerman 
Laurence 
Matthew 
Chris 

==June 13, 8:am - Rio Grand Gorge Bridge==
Who wants to see the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Gorge_Bridge Rio Grande Gorge Bridge] and nearby attractions? About a 90 minute drive out of Santa Fe; we can jet over to Taos before or after and perhaps checkout the Pueblo. Or we could do a big loop and check out [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Ranch Ghost Ranch]

Interested?

Brent's Car (5 seats total) 
1.Brent 
2.Stefano 
3.Keith 
4.Haitao 
5.Jae B. Cho 

Christine's Car (5 seats total) 
1.Christine 
2.Vanessa 
3. Urs 
4.Laurence 
5.Richard 

Needs a ride: 
Melissa 
Alejandro 
Matt Histen 
Chris 

==June 13: Contra dancing in Santa Fe==

7:00 pm – Lesson, 7:30-10:30 – Dancing
Member $8, Non-members $9, Students half price, Under 12 free

Interested?

1. Richard 
2. 
3. 
4. 
... 

==June 14 (Sunday evening): Jurassic World Cinema excursion==

7:00 pm - Regal Cinemas Santa Fe 14
it's in RealD 3D, tickets are 16$

Interested?

1. Laurence Brandenberger 
2. Richard 
3. Matthew 
4. Chris 
... 

==June 20, 10:00am - Bandelier Field Trip==

We're taking a trip to [http://www.nps.gov/band/index.htm Bandelier National Monument] on Saturday June 20th. Please visit the [[Bandelier 2015 | Bandelier Field Trip]] Page to sign up!

==June 25 Rodeo de Santa Fe==

Thursday, June 25!

Come on down for the 66th annual Rodeo de Santa Fe! Watch real-life cowboys get thrown off of various species of raging livestock for their competition and your entertainment. Starts at 7:00pm, we should leave SJC about 6:00. http://rodeodesantafe.org/

Juni's Car 
1. Juni 
2.María Pereda 

JP's Ferrari (5 seats) 
1.JP 
2. Jakub Rojcek 
3. Glenn Magerman 
4. Dan Hedblom 
5. Yared Abebe 

JP's Lamborghini (5 seats) 
1.<driver needed> 
2. 
3. 
4. 
5. 

Needs a ride 

1. Sahil Garg 
2. Federico Battiston 
3. Junming Huang 
4. Danqing Liu 
5. Martina Steffen 
6. Song Binyang 
7. Chao Fan 
8. Kleber Neves 
9. Richard Barnes 
10. Laurence Brandenberger 
11. Haitao Shang 
12. Jae B. Cho 
13. Alejandro

Complex Systems Summer School 2015-After Hours

2015-06-10T23:47:17Z

Cjo.verzijl: /* June 12 Currents New Media Festival */

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2015}}

==Anyday.. everyday??==

"Undefeated" Fuego baseball team plays at 6 everyday at Fort Marcy Field. Games are 6 dollars, beer is available in excess. Schedule is [http://santafefuego.com/santafe.asp?page=11&team=13&year=2015 here]

Interested?

1. 
2. 
3. 
4. 
... 

==Soccer enthusiasts==

Interested?

Thursday, 7 p.m, at the soccer field

1. Sola 
2. Federico 
3. Urs 
4. Sharon 
5. Matt Ingram 
6. Christine Harvey 
7. Yared Abebe 
... 

==Saturdays==

* Contra Dancing, 1st & 3rd Sat. Albuquerque Square Dance Center. [http://folkmads.org/events/albuquerque-events/ Details]
** Interested individuals: Richard Barnes
* Contra Dancing, 2nd & 4th Sat. Santa Fe Odd Fellow's Hall. [http://folkmads.org/events/santa-fe-events/ Details]
** Interested individuals: Richard Barnes

==June 12 Currents New Media Festival==

When: Friday June 12 8pm 
Where: Meet at 2nd Street Railyard 1607 Paseo De Peralta #10, Santa Fe, NM 87501 

Super cool interactive new media festival on the Santa Fe Railyard. Let's meet at 2nd Street Brewery around 8pm for drinks and then walk through the festival. Here's the info http://currentsnewmedia.org/ 

-Juniper 

Whoo! Let's Go! -JP

JP's VW 
1.JP 
2. 
3. 
4. 
5. 

Interested Folks: 
Connor 
Glenn Magerman 
Laurence 
Matthew 
Chris 

==June 13, 8:am - Rio Grand Gorge Bridge==
Who wants to see the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Gorge_Bridge Rio Grande Gorge Bridge] and nearby attractions? About a 90 minute drive out of Santa Fe; we can jet over to Taos before or after and perhaps checkout the Pueblo. Or we could do a big loop and check out [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Ranch Ghost Ranch]

Interested?

Brent's Car (5 seats total) 
1.Brent 
2.Stefano 
3.Keith 
4.Haitao 
5.Jae B. Cho 

Christine's Car (5 seats total) 
1.Christine 
2.Vanessa 
3. Urs 
4.Laurence 
5.Richard 

Needs a ride: 
Melissa 
Alejandro 
Matt Histen 
Chris 

==June 13: Contra dancing in Santa Fe==

7:00 pm – Lesson, 7:30-10:30 – Dancing
Member $8, Non-members $9, Students half price, Under 12 free

Interested?

1. Richard 
2. 
3. 
4. 
... 

==June 14 (Sunday evening): Jurassic World Cinema excursion==

7:00 pm - Regal Cinemas Santa Fe 14
it's in RealD 3D, tickets are 16$

Interested?

1. Laurence Brandenberger 
2. Richard 
3. Matthew 
4. 
... 

==June 20, 10:00am - Bandelier Field Trip==

We're taking a trip to [http://www.nps.gov/band/index.htm Bandelier National Monument] on Saturday June 20th. Please visit the [[Bandelier 2015 | Bandelier Field Trip]] Page to sign up!

==June 25 Rodeo de Santa Fe==

Thursday, June 25!

Come on down for the 66th annual Rodeo de Santa Fe! Watch real-life cowboys get thrown off of various species of raging livestock for their competition and your entertainment. Starts at 7:00pm, we should leave SJC about 6:00. http://rodeodesantafe.org/

Juni's Car 
1. Juni 
2.María Pereda 

JP's Ferrari (5 seats) 
1.JP 
2. Jakub Rojcek 
3. Glenn Magerman 
4. Dan Hedblom 
5. Yared Abebe 

JP's Lamborghini (5 seats) 
1.<driver needed> 
2. 
3. 
4. 
5. 

Needs a ride 

1. Sahil Garg 
2. Federico Battiston 
3. Junming Huang 
4. Danqing Liu 
5. Martina Steffen 
6. Song Binyang 
7. Chao Fan 
8. Kleber Neves 
9. Richard Barnes 
10. Laurence Brandenberger 
11. Haitao Shang 
12. Jae B. Cho 
13. Alejandro

Complex Systems Summer School 2015-After Hours

2015-06-10T23:46:58Z

Cjo.verzijl: /* June 13, 8:am - Rio Grand Gorge Bridge */

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2015}}

==Anyday.. everyday??==

"Undefeated" Fuego baseball team plays at 6 everyday at Fort Marcy Field. Games are 6 dollars, beer is available in excess. Schedule is [http://santafefuego.com/santafe.asp?page=11&team=13&year=2015 here]

Interested?

1. 
2. 
3. 
4. 
... 

==Soccer enthusiasts==

Interested?

Thursday, 7 p.m, at the soccer field

1. Sola 
2. Federico 
3. Urs 
4. Sharon 
5. Matt Ingram 
6. Christine Harvey 
7. Yared Abebe 
... 

==Saturdays==

* Contra Dancing, 1st & 3rd Sat. Albuquerque Square Dance Center. [http://folkmads.org/events/albuquerque-events/ Details]
** Interested individuals: Richard Barnes
* Contra Dancing, 2nd & 4th Sat. Santa Fe Odd Fellow's Hall. [http://folkmads.org/events/santa-fe-events/ Details]
** Interested individuals: Richard Barnes

==June 12 Currents New Media Festival==

When: Friday June 12 8pm 
Where: Meet at 2nd Street Railyard 1607 Paseo De Peralta #10, Santa Fe, NM 87501 

Super cool interactive new media festival on the Santa Fe Railyard. Let's meet at 2nd Street Brewery around 8pm for drinks and then walk through the festival. Here's the info http://currentsnewmedia.org/ 

-Juniper 

Whoo! Let's Go! -JP

JP's VW 
1.JP 
2. 
3. 
4. 
5. 

Interested Folks: 
Connor 
Glenn Magerman 
Laurence 
Matthew 

==June 13, 8:am - Rio Grand Gorge Bridge==
Who wants to see the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Gorge_Bridge Rio Grande Gorge Bridge] and nearby attractions? About a 90 minute drive out of Santa Fe; we can jet over to Taos before or after and perhaps checkout the Pueblo. Or we could do a big loop and check out [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Ranch Ghost Ranch]

Interested?

Brent's Car (5 seats total) 
1.Brent 
2.Stefano 
3.Keith 
4.Haitao 
5.Jae B. Cho 

Christine's Car (5 seats total) 
1.Christine 
2.Vanessa 
3. Urs 
4.Laurence 
5.Richard 

Needs a ride: 
Melissa 
Alejandro 
Matt Histen 
Chris 

==June 13: Contra dancing in Santa Fe==

7:00 pm – Lesson, 7:30-10:30 – Dancing
Member $8, Non-members $9, Students half price, Under 12 free

Interested?

1. Richard 
2. 
3. 
4. 
... 

==June 14 (Sunday evening): Jurassic World Cinema excursion==

7:00 pm - Regal Cinemas Santa Fe 14
it's in RealD 3D, tickets are 16$

Interested?

1. Laurence Brandenberger 
2. Richard 
3. Matthew 
4. 
... 

==June 20, 10:00am - Bandelier Field Trip==

We're taking a trip to [http://www.nps.gov/band/index.htm Bandelier National Monument] on Saturday June 20th. Please visit the [[Bandelier 2015 | Bandelier Field Trip]] Page to sign up!

==June 25 Rodeo de Santa Fe==

Thursday, June 25!

Come on down for the 66th annual Rodeo de Santa Fe! Watch real-life cowboys get thrown off of various species of raging livestock for their competition and your entertainment. Starts at 7:00pm, we should leave SJC about 6:00. http://rodeodesantafe.org/

Juni's Car 
1. Juni 
2.María Pereda 

JP's Ferrari (5 seats) 
1.JP 
2. Jakub Rojcek 
3. Glenn Magerman 
4. Dan Hedblom 
5. Yared Abebe 

JP's Lamborghini (5 seats) 
1.<driver needed> 
2. 
3. 
4. 
5. 

Needs a ride 

1. Sahil Garg 
2. Federico Battiston 
3. Junming Huang 
4. Danqing Liu 
5. Martina Steffen 
6. Song Binyang 
7. Chao Fan 
8. Kleber Neves 
9. Richard Barnes 
10. Laurence Brandenberger 
11. Haitao Shang 
12. Jae B. Cho 
13. Alejandroa

Complex Systems Summer School 2015-Projects & Working Groups

2015-06-09T23:39:09Z

Cjo.verzijl: /* Ebola */

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2015}}

==Ebola==
The 2014-15 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa presented both unique opportunities and unique challenges to the epidemiological modeling community. For the first time during an emerging infectious disease outbreak, high resolution data--from a variety of sources--were made available to the academic community and many public health decision makers genuinely engaged with mathematical and computational modelers. However, the popular and scientific press were highly critical of most models ability to project the outbreak's course. The following key and open questions seem ripe for investigation using a complex adaptive systems lens:
 
1) What features of EVD transmission are most problematic for reliable, robust forecasting: changing behavior, intervention, viral evolution, complex social networks, etc?
 
2) How/can we use digital data to either improve forecasts or inform model selection?
 
3) Can one quantify the value of additional information in real-time?
 
'''Contact:''' Samuel Scarpino, SFI Omidyar Fellow, Santa Fe Institute - scarpino@santafe.edu
 
 
'''Interested:'''
 
Marie-Pierre Hasne 
Chris Verzijl 

== Homeostatic Dynamics and the Optimality of Behavior ==
The survival of all organisms is predicated on occupying a small subspace of internal states, the long-run regulation of which is contingent on behaviour. Currently most models of reinforcement learning and decision-making make the assumption that behaviour is optimal insofar as it maximises reward acquisition by maximising the expectation value of reward. An often unchallenged assumption of this approach is that the target variable to be maximized is an ergodic observable. An ergodic observable is characterised by the time-average converging to the expectation value. Recent work by Peters and co-workers on dynamics in decision making [1] [2] show that the underlying dynamics of a process should govern the objective function that is optimised; the expectation operator for purely additive dynamics and the time average for purely multiplicative dynamics.
 
 
In this project I will ask two questions: First, what are the characteristic dynamics of homeostatic variables? Second, how do these dynamics constrain the objective function that biological agents must maximise? I will investigate the degree to which such dynamics are ergodic, or not. Non-ergodic processes are likely common in homeostatic systems. For instance, reaction rates of biochemical networks typically grow by a constant multiplicative factor for every stepwise change in core temperature. Any biological agent engaging in behavioural thermoregulation of such products thus faces multiplicative dynamics, and as such according to the framework should maximise time average growth, not the expectation value. I will survey extant literatures on homeostatic systems, looking for cases in which the underlying dynamics are clearly characterised, and for which there is a plausible and unambiguous path to how such a system can be behaviourally regulated.
 
 
As a trained economist and neuroscientist working with computational models of decision making under evolutionary constraints, I am especially interested in the dynamics that govern homeostatic processes that are optimised via overt regulatory behaviour - such as temperature, hydration, and energy regulation, such that experimentally testable predictions can be specified.
 
 
'''Interested:'''
 
 
Contact: tobiasm@drcmr.dk
 
 
[1] O. Peters and M. Gell-Mann, “Evaluating gambles using dynamics,” arXiv.org. 2014.
 
[2] O. Peters, “The time resolution of the St Petersburg paradox,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, vol. 369, no. 1956, pp. 4913–4931, Oct. 2011.

==Decision support/network analysis of a complex socio-ecosystem in rural Zimbabwe==
''Context''
 
Many communities in Africa have been surprisingly resilient in the face of a host of devastating challenges. The people of Mazvihwa Communal Area in Zimbabwe have lived through more than a century of rapid change through the colonial, liberation war, and post-colonial periods. There have been dramatic changes in public health (ranging from better control of communicable diseases after World War II, to child vaccination programs after independence, to the AIDS pandemic especially from the mid-1990s to the end of the 2000s) and in land access and use (with repeated removals, resistance, and returns of communities to land designated for white settlement). These shifts in population distribution have interacted with rapid natural increase in population (especially in the period 1950-1990) driven by high fertility and declining mortality; followed by recent decades of declining fertility and high AIDS-related mortality. Differences in religious beliefs mean that these changes are uneven across households and areas. The country's economy has meanwhile gone through a series of long cycles of boom and busts, and during the 2000s experienced inflation reaching a billion billion billion per cent.
 
 
The Muonde Trust is a Zimbabwean non-governmental organization established to help support the community in Mazvihwa to continue developing and deploying bottom-up solutions in response to these challenges. Mazvihwa has a semi-arid subtropical climate with remnant woodlands and a combination of largely subsistence agriculture and livestock production. From the point of view of most of the people in Mazvihwa, and as taken up by the community network of the Muonde Trust, the “sustainability” of their area now requires a series of linked changes in land use and investments in natural capital.
 
 
''Data and Questions''
 
The data we have on this community and ecosystem originates from an ongoing community-based participatory research project originally begun in the 1980s and since continued by the Muonde Trust. It includes robust quantitative data on human demography, health, nutrition, agricultural practices, rainfall, land use choices, woodland dynamics, household assets, and land tenure. Our goal at SFI is to develop theoretical or simulation studies which would help us to better understand the resilience and sustainability of this system, which would eventually be informed by the data. Questions we might address using complex systems methods include:
 
 
1) How do individuals and resources flow through households and communities? (Empirical data shows that the composition of households changes rapidly, even though most analyses of these societies tends to assume they are static and natural units of analysis). It is clear that individuals are variously strategizing through households as well as within other kin, religious and clan groups. At the same time households also have emergent properties. In contexts of rapidly shifting demography and changing resource access, are there ways that we can use network analysis to illuminate these complexities?
 
 
2) How best can community as a whole allocate their land to agriculture, pasture, and woodland when these components interact and feedback to each other? One of the main land-use decisions facing the community is the trade-off between agricultural cultivation (which requires fencing to keep out livestock as well as water harvesting techniques) and retaining woodland areas that have cultural value as well as providing grazing space and forage for livestock (and many other economic benefits). This relationship is complex, with livestock providing benefits to agriculture (manure for fertilizer and draft power for cultivation), and vice versa (well-tended fields provide considerable feed for livestock). The community derives benefits from all these land uses, including food for subsistence from agriculture, meat and milk from livestock, and cultural values and a wide variety of benefits from woodland (including fuelwood, construction materials, a variety of foods and medicines, and improved soil characteristics). In addition, community members may sell livestock, as well as using them for bridewealth and compensation in the case of some deaths. How can this system be represented and manipulated in a model to create optimal strategies for the well-being of the system?
 
 
''Possible methods''
 
Our methodology is open to what we learn during the summer school, but some ideas include: network analysis to study the way people and resources connect and flow through the households and other components of the system; an analytical mathematical model of the interacting components of the system, e.g. coupled differential equations; cellular automata which can represent the land use category of each part of a farmer's land and underlie a decision support tool.
 
 
Contact: mveitzel@ucsc.edu
 
 
'''Interested:'''

Complex Systems Summer School 2015-Projects & Working Groups

2015-06-09T23:38:56Z

Cjo.verzijl: /* Ebola */

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2015}}

==Ebola==
The 2014-15 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa presented both unique opportunities and unique challenges to the epidemiological modeling community. For the first time during an emerging infectious disease outbreak, high resolution data--from a variety of sources--were made available to the academic community and many public health decision makers genuinely engaged with mathematical and computational modelers. However, the popular and scientific press were highly critical of most models ability to project the outbreak's course. The following key and open questions seem ripe for investigation using a complex adaptive systems lens:
 
1) What features of EVD transmission are most problematic for reliable, robust forecasting: changing behavior, intervention, viral evolution, complex social networks, etc?
 
2) How/can we use digital data to either improve forecasts or inform model selection?
 
3) Can one quantify the value of additional information in real-time?
 
'''Contact:''' Samuel Scarpino, SFI Omidyar Fellow, Santa Fe Institute - scarpino@santafe.edu
 
 
'''Interested:'''
 
Marie-Pierre Hasne
Chris Verzijl

== Homeostatic Dynamics and the Optimality of Behavior ==
The survival of all organisms is predicated on occupying a small subspace of internal states, the long-run regulation of which is contingent on behaviour. Currently most models of reinforcement learning and decision-making make the assumption that behaviour is optimal insofar as it maximises reward acquisition by maximising the expectation value of reward. An often unchallenged assumption of this approach is that the target variable to be maximized is an ergodic observable. An ergodic observable is characterised by the time-average converging to the expectation value. Recent work by Peters and co-workers on dynamics in decision making [1] [2] show that the underlying dynamics of a process should govern the objective function that is optimised; the expectation operator for purely additive dynamics and the time average for purely multiplicative dynamics.
 
 
In this project I will ask two questions: First, what are the characteristic dynamics of homeostatic variables? Second, how do these dynamics constrain the objective function that biological agents must maximise? I will investigate the degree to which such dynamics are ergodic, or not. Non-ergodic processes are likely common in homeostatic systems. For instance, reaction rates of biochemical networks typically grow by a constant multiplicative factor for every stepwise change in core temperature. Any biological agent engaging in behavioural thermoregulation of such products thus faces multiplicative dynamics, and as such according to the framework should maximise time average growth, not the expectation value. I will survey extant literatures on homeostatic systems, looking for cases in which the underlying dynamics are clearly characterised, and for which there is a plausible and unambiguous path to how such a system can be behaviourally regulated.
 
 
As a trained economist and neuroscientist working with computational models of decision making under evolutionary constraints, I am especially interested in the dynamics that govern homeostatic processes that are optimised via overt regulatory behaviour - such as temperature, hydration, and energy regulation, such that experimentally testable predictions can be specified.
 
 
'''Interested:'''
 
 
Contact: tobiasm@drcmr.dk
 
 
[1] O. Peters and M. Gell-Mann, “Evaluating gambles using dynamics,” arXiv.org. 2014.
 
[2] O. Peters, “The time resolution of the St Petersburg paradox,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, vol. 369, no. 1956, pp. 4913–4931, Oct. 2011.

==Decision support/network analysis of a complex socio-ecosystem in rural Zimbabwe==
''Context''
 
Many communities in Africa have been surprisingly resilient in the face of a host of devastating challenges. The people of Mazvihwa Communal Area in Zimbabwe have lived through more than a century of rapid change through the colonial, liberation war, and post-colonial periods. There have been dramatic changes in public health (ranging from better control of communicable diseases after World War II, to child vaccination programs after independence, to the AIDS pandemic especially from the mid-1990s to the end of the 2000s) and in land access and use (with repeated removals, resistance, and returns of communities to land designated for white settlement). These shifts in population distribution have interacted with rapid natural increase in population (especially in the period 1950-1990) driven by high fertility and declining mortality; followed by recent decades of declining fertility and high AIDS-related mortality. Differences in religious beliefs mean that these changes are uneven across households and areas. The country's economy has meanwhile gone through a series of long cycles of boom and busts, and during the 2000s experienced inflation reaching a billion billion billion per cent.
 
 
The Muonde Trust is a Zimbabwean non-governmental organization established to help support the community in Mazvihwa to continue developing and deploying bottom-up solutions in response to these challenges. Mazvihwa has a semi-arid subtropical climate with remnant woodlands and a combination of largely subsistence agriculture and livestock production. From the point of view of most of the people in Mazvihwa, and as taken up by the community network of the Muonde Trust, the “sustainability” of their area now requires a series of linked changes in land use and investments in natural capital.
 
 
''Data and Questions''
 
The data we have on this community and ecosystem originates from an ongoing community-based participatory research project originally begun in the 1980s and since continued by the Muonde Trust. It includes robust quantitative data on human demography, health, nutrition, agricultural practices, rainfall, land use choices, woodland dynamics, household assets, and land tenure. Our goal at SFI is to develop theoretical or simulation studies which would help us to better understand the resilience and sustainability of this system, which would eventually be informed by the data. Questions we might address using complex systems methods include:
 
 
1) How do individuals and resources flow through households and communities? (Empirical data shows that the composition of households changes rapidly, even though most analyses of these societies tends to assume they are static and natural units of analysis). It is clear that individuals are variously strategizing through households as well as within other kin, religious and clan groups. At the same time households also have emergent properties. In contexts of rapidly shifting demography and changing resource access, are there ways that we can use network analysis to illuminate these complexities?
 
 
2) How best can community as a whole allocate their land to agriculture, pasture, and woodland when these components interact and feedback to each other? One of the main land-use decisions facing the community is the trade-off between agricultural cultivation (which requires fencing to keep out livestock as well as water harvesting techniques) and retaining woodland areas that have cultural value as well as providing grazing space and forage for livestock (and many other economic benefits). This relationship is complex, with livestock providing benefits to agriculture (manure for fertilizer and draft power for cultivation), and vice versa (well-tended fields provide considerable feed for livestock). The community derives benefits from all these land uses, including food for subsistence from agriculture, meat and milk from livestock, and cultural values and a wide variety of benefits from woodland (including fuelwood, construction materials, a variety of foods and medicines, and improved soil characteristics). In addition, community members may sell livestock, as well as using them for bridewealth and compensation in the case of some deaths. How can this system be represented and manipulated in a model to create optimal strategies for the well-being of the system?
 
 
''Possible methods''
 
Our methodology is open to what we learn during the summer school, but some ideas include: network analysis to study the way people and resources connect and flow through the households and other components of the system; an analytical mathematical model of the interacting components of the system, e.g. coupled differential equations; cellular automata which can represent the land use category of each part of a farmer's land and underlie a decision support tool.
 
 
Contact: mveitzel@ucsc.edu
 
 
'''Interested:'''