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2011 Presentation Schedule

2011-07-01T17:19:10Z

Ehurk:

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2011}}

9:00-9:15: "Modeling Marriage Squeeze." Cristina Bradatan, Chris Glazner, Nathan Wang, Cristina Metzger 

9:15-9:30: "A Generalized Model of a Synthetic Genetic-Metabolic Oscillator." Ed Reznik 

9:30-9:45: "Fragility and Food Webs in Southwestern Colorado: an Analysis of Interconnectedness in Castle Rock Pueblo." Stefani & Lydia 

9:45-10:00: Evolution Challenge Question, Sean Roberts and Andrew Tinka 

10:00-10:15: Empty slot (originally earmarked for Martin/Sean, but that will be rolled into "Chaotic music generation, aka DJ Chaos(es)") 

10:15-10:30: "SFI explanations of music neuroscience." Victor Quintanar-Zilinskas 

10:30-10:45 "The Fifth Rule: an agent-based modeling approach and possible applications based on real data." Elliot Aguilar, Nora Connor, Alejandro Fajardo, Matteo Gagliolo, Josh Garland, Eugenia Polizzi 

10:45-11:00: Break 

11:00-11:15: "Routing for Robustness on Wireless Sensor Networks." Andrew Tinka 

11:15-11:30 Tomas Veloz 

11:30-11:45: "Self-organization in a heterogeneous bacterial biofilm." David Borenstein and Erik Edlund 

11:45-12:00:"The Suicide Model Project." C. Bradatan, J. Garland, C. Gunning, C. Metzger, S. Singh, C. Andris 

12:00-12:15: Break 

12:15-12:30: Network Challenge Question. Michael Johanson, Shweta Singh, Yangjing Long, Guido Montufar, 

12:30-12:45: Complexity Challenge Question, Chris Glazner, Fran Moore, Shweta Singh, Ryan Baird, Jason Veneman, Michael Lightfoot, Lydia Smith, Nini Zhang 

12:45-1:00: "Some genes have many partners: Detecting biological modularity." Aaron Brooks, Antoine Allard and Yangjing Long 

1:00-1:15 "A Cellular Automata Model for Common Pool Resource Management" Zoe Hamstead, Michael Sachs, Nadja Kunz, Alejandro Fajardo 

1:15-1:30 "CSSS (social) network challenge" Anand, Cali, Evelien, Randy, Taka, Stefani 

Closing:
"Chaotic music generation, aka the Chaotic Attractors!" Anna Deluca, Martin Gould, Sean Roberts, Nini Zhang 

Special Presentation

Complex Systems Summer School 2011-Blog

2011-06-28T22:14:45Z

Ehurk:

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2011}}

Use this page as an informal forum to share your opinion and discuss anything at CSSS'11.

Students are encouraged to share their observations, insights, and opinions about daily lecture content as well as extracurricular activities.

Students may be assigned a day to provide a free-form blog entry covering the topics of that day.

== a great, hilarious and informative documentary on "the new science of networks" ==
Or at least, that is what a collegue of mine said about this documentary.
I haven't seen it yet, but is sounds interesting...
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcCpEf6_Ofg Link to documentary on new science of networks]

== Does a picture blog count, too? ==

All my pictures so far can be found at
[https://picasaweb.google.com/101826271245347003012/SantaFe?authkey=Gv1sRgCOLn6fC9v-aR1AE this website] 
I have trouble choosing between pictures, so I just put almost everything up there. The cat, the hike, some summer-school-in-action, and much more.
I have to say, I should actually tweak around with the colors and stuff, but there is simply no time.
Feel free to send me an email what your favorite picture is (nr + description), and I will send you the raw file with which you can tweak around yourself!

Best,

Evelien
[[File:Cat.jpg|left|440px|alt=Cat at SFI]] 

== What is Complexity? - a first attempt to explain it to 'my grandmother', by Evelien ==

After 2.5 weeks of complex systems summerschool, it might be time to tell about what complexity is. You might think this is an easy task after so many back to back lectures, but this is not the case. A good example is the favorite definition of complexity uttered here that stuck to the mind of most (guys):

''Complexity is like pornography: you know it when you see it.''

You can say a lot about this definition, but I think we can all agree that this definition does not really help you to understand what complexity is. I hope to do better on that account, by sketching the broad line I noticed in the lectures so far. It is important though to note that clearly from the above definition, even professionals in this field do not have one clear concept of what a complex system is. So, if after reading this (rather long) piece you have a feeling of what a complex system might be – you are almost an expert ;)

'''The general idea of Complexity'''

You come across complexity and complex systems (I will interchange the terms freely) in many areas of science. The current participants illustrate that: we have computer scientists, social scientists, archeologists, geographical information systems-persons, Mathematicians, Physicists, Economists, and much more. I would say that the explanation for this diversity is that a complex system is not a well-defined thing or process, but rather a way of looking at things, and doing research.

Some of these fields I mentioned above are ‘old’ sciences. People like Newton studied the world to try to understand it. Therefore, they made simplifying assumptions in order to study the workings of the world, or better: to make models of it. Next generations started too built on their research, then the next generation built on that research, new fields started to emerge until we have the broad science field of today.
Fortunately, we have made some progress in the past few decades or even centuries. This allows us to go far, far back to the core models of the field, and question what assumptions were made in that model – and whether we think this is a viable representation of the real world.

A good complex systems scientist will always be able to find something which is important – but currently left out. An even better complex systems scientist can borrow from other fields of research and using that knowledge to extend the model to include a new, more complicated assumption, which will make the whole process more complex. And that basically is a complex system.

'''Examples of Complex Systems'''

Not every extension of a model will make it directly a complex system: the problem itself needs to become fundamentally harder. To keep you some feeling of complex systems, I will describe three examples.

''Independence assumption''

Especially in statistics, and ‘identically independent distributed process’ is one of the favorite toys of scientists. The independency assumption basically means that when two things happen, they do not depend upon each other. Take for instance the waiting line at the supermarket: people are assumed to be joining at random. However, when the waiting line is very long, you might decide that you need to shop faster and join sooner (because you need to make an appointment), then when the line is short. So, the process may not be independent. What happens in the case of dependency is what Jim Crutchfield talked about today (all day, and still not finished ;) ).

''Continuity assumption''

Both in math and in physics, often it is assumed that you can approximate a discrete process by a continuous process. Some of you may remember the Riemann-sums (blocks underneath the graph) to approximate the area underneath the graph. The next step was to integrate the function, and use that to calculate the area underneath the graph. The latter (integrated function) is the continuous process version of the discrete process (the Riemann-sum).

Once you have integrated the function, calculating the area underneath a graph is easier than with the Riemann-sum – especially when you want to do more advanced stuff. That is why often people approximate a discrete process by a continuous process: as it generally makes things easier, and allows for exact mathematical results. But, a continuous process is not always a good representation of a discrete process.

A counter example turns out to be childishly simple (and fun). Remember the little water/sand mills for children? You put in a substance on the top, and as soon as the first bucket is full, the wheel starts to turn. If you have a continuous flow of e.g. water, the wheel will keep turning – and in this case a continuous process is a good approximation to find e.g. the speed of the wheel.
But, when we take the same wheel, and we slowly start dripping water into it, something different happens. At some frequency (and you can try this yourself) the little bucket will drip full slowly, and then turn a bit as it loses balance. A new little bucket is up, and that will drip full – but may start turning the wheel in a different direction then the one before. Predicting which way the wheel will turn, becomes a very difficult task – which issue would never be clear from the continuous process. So, the discrete process shows a feature that we cannot capture in the continuous representation.

Off course, the way a child’s toy turns seems not vital to the working of the world at large. But in fact, this is a small model of how a discrete process can result in behavior that is different from the continuous approximation – and that discovery (and playing with that) is complexity science, too.

''Networks''

Finally, I couldn’t stop before I mentioned networks. In short, this is the field of studying interactions and relations between all kinds of things: people, the internet, power grids, and so on. Basically, the network is studied in terms of connectedness, robustness, distance between nodes, and much more. Secondly, they link these things to research fields in which networks are important, such as transportation, but also human interaction. In the spread of (contagious) disease, the network of people connecting to one another is a vital part of the way disease spreads. So, studying epidemic outbreaks as a complexity scientists, you would include the (social)networks of the people involved in finding the best way to fight the disease.

''''New techniques''''

Generally, complex systems are at the front end of their research field (or, on the far boarder of their fields, if you are a bit more skeptical). You need some guts when you decide to study the internet as an organism. You need to have a dream if you are working on building a super computer with far more power than the human brain. And you may be considered plainly stupid by some, if you spent your time programming little agents who interact with each other. In short, as a complexity scientist you need to be confident and believe that you will bring science to the next level.

These complex systems are complex because they cannot be easily solved by standard technology of the field, new methods need to be developed – or can be developed using complex systems. A good example of the latter is that Alfred Huebler can let small iron bits play tetris (but as mentioned before, Alfred Huebler is said to be able to do anything if he just ‘puts up the throughput’- including wrestling crocodiles). An example of the former (new methodology) is the ever growing attention for agent based modeling: in the computer program Netlogo this would be equivalent to programming how turtles interact with each other: basically making a ‘game’ in which you tell every single turtle to e.g. turn around when he sees land, and go towards the nearest turtle he can see. All of that is complex systems research.

'''Why should you be happy there are ‘complex systems scientists’?'''

In case you are a scientist yourself, this is pretty easy: complexity research is a lot of fun, you can do very different things, meet people from many different fields, it allows for an open mind, creativity and challenging problems – and on top of that, it is very much in fashion in the greater scientific community, which may benefit your chance of getting something published.
Chances are, you are not a scientist. Why should you care? Computers taking over the world doesn’t sound like a good thing to invest taxes in, I could imagine. I am not going to completely contradict that notion: it is true that some of this research is pretty wild, and ‘we’ are not sure if ever anything useful will come out. I do not know if this is a consolation, but that is unfortunately true for a lot of research (if not all).

There is an upside: complexity research so far has lead to some pretty cool results! When trying to prevent an epidemic (large spread of disease) I think it makes sense to take into account that a busdriver will meet far more people that the average ‘I prefer to work at home’ scientist – and taking that into account in to the modelling may make the way we fight spread of disease far more effective.
Another example I find pretty cool, is that someone has made an agent-based model of a long-gone cultural society. Archeologists are better able to reconstruct and explain/clarify the way the people lived. For instance, they find that after so many years food starts to get scars in the area, so the import chicken to keep near their houses, so that they have enough to eat.

The same agent based models can explain some of the stuff currently going on in our society: from segregation of ethnicities to marriage… So, although we are not sure all complexity research is of benefit to our world, there are some pretty neat examples that say complexity research makes the world a little bit a better place.

'''In summary'''

In essence, complexity goes back to the roots of the model and the problem, compares this to the world, finds an important feature that is still missing from the model, and tries to add this. Additions can be e.g. interactions between things in the model, nonlinearity (not everything is a straight line), dependency of things (not all processes are purely random), and so on.
To solve these problems, complexity researchers try to borrow from many fields, but two of their favorites are statistics and mathematics. Another option instead of borrowing is to develop new techniques to study (new) problems.

Not all complexity research is immediately clearly usefull. Still, there are good examples of where complexity research has made a huge difference in the way we understand or solve things, such as understanding and accommodating for interactions in a process (think of the disease spread and network).

Complexity researchers come from all different kinds of backgrounds and fields – and this probably causes the fact that there is no single, clear definition of a complex system. It might even be (in my opinion), that the current ‘new’ assumptions of complexity will get accepted in each of their respective fields, and the in some years the current labeled ‘complex systems’ will not be considered to be complexity anymore, but continue their lives under a different name.

I hope though, that the essence of this complexity field will not fade. In this highly fractured world, I think it is so very important to try to come together with people from different fields and with different specialties, learn from each other and be able to step back and compare our research to what we are actually studying: the place we live. I think this is vital to do good research and especially try to push research forward in a more converging instead of diverging way.

Meeting different people and comparing your own believes and assumptions with the world, can be rewarding for everyone - scientist, and non scientist. Therefore I would like to end, now that you have a little bit of feeling for complexity, by wishing everyone a little complexity in their life.

Complex Systems Summer School 2011-Photos

2011-06-27T06:57:31Z

Ehurk:

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2011}}

Feel free to share links to your photos here.

[https://picasaweb.google.com/randy.casstevens/SFISummerSchoolAtalayaMountainTrail?authkey=Gv1sRgCM3D-62S77PgZw# 2011.06.11 - Atalaya Mountain Trail] 
[https://picasaweb.google.com/randy.casstevens/SFISummerSchoolChimayo?authkey=Gv1sRgCLGh9tPrsOr4-gE# 2011.06.12 - Chimayo] 

[https://picasaweb.google.com/michael.johansson/Csss11?authkey=Gv1sRgCICG-K_Y4LevCg&feat=directlink BBQ, Atalaya, Bandelier, Fires, Rodeo, Taos... Updated 6-26-11] 

(Evelien's pictures:)
[https://picasaweb.google.com/101826271245347003012/RodeoDeSantaFe?authkey=Gv1sRgCPbPgMb02enVnAE Rodeo Wednesday]
[https://picasaweb.google.com/101826271245347003012/Taos?authkey=Gv1sRgCJymmubGt9CXKg Taos - small trip]
[https://picasaweb.google.com/101826271245347003012/BandelierAndLasConchitasTrail?authkey=Gv1sRgCLGWy-22n5SICA Bandelier and waterfall and trail]
[https://picasaweb.google.com/101826271245347003012/SantaFe?authkey=Gv1sRgCOLn6fC9v-aR1AE Santa Fe, all kinds of stuff]
[https://picasaweb.google.com/101826271245347003012/TentRock?authkey=Gv1sRgCKC5zuKqy6jlpwE Tent Rock]

==2011.06.11::Atalaya Mountain Trail==

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Complex Systems Summer School 2011-Photos

2011-06-27T04:40:50Z

Ehurk:

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2011}}

Feel free to share links to your photos here.

[https://picasaweb.google.com/randy.casstevens/SFISummerSchoolAtalayaMountainTrail?authkey=Gv1sRgCM3D-62S77PgZw# 2011.06.11 - Atalaya Mountain Trail] 
[https://picasaweb.google.com/randy.casstevens/SFISummerSchoolChimayo?authkey=Gv1sRgCLGh9tPrsOr4-gE# 2011.06.12 - Chimayo] 

[https://picasaweb.google.com/michael.johansson/Csss11?authkey=Gv1sRgCICG-K_Y4LevCg&feat=directlink BBQ, Atalaya, Bandelier, Fires, Rodeo, Taos... Updated 6-26-11] 

(Evelien's pictures:)
[https://picasaweb.google.com/101826271245347003012/RodeoDeSantaFe?authkey=Gv1sRgCPbPgMb02enVnAE Rodeo Wednesday]
[https://picasaweb.google.com/101826271245347003012/Taos?authkey=Gv1sRgCJymmubGt9CXKg Taos - small trip]
[https://picasaweb.google.com/101826271245347003012/BandelierAndLasConchitasTrail?authkey=Gv1sRgCLGWy-22n5SICA Bandelier and waterfall and trail]
[https://picasaweb.google.com/101826271245347003012/SantaFe?authkey=Gv1sRgCOLn6fC9v-aR1AE Santa Fe, all kinds of stuff]

==2011.06.11::Atalaya Mountain Trail==

[[File:P1050948.JPG|left|500px]]
[[File:P1060500.JPG|left|500px]]
[[File:P1060499.JPG|right|500px]]

Complex Systems Summer School 2011-After Hours

2011-06-25T05:04:04Z

Ehurk: /* Booty - June 28 */

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2011}}

Use this space to organize your own after hours activities.

==Golondrians Trip, June 26==
Trip to El Rancho de las Golondrinas living history museum.

JP's Camry 
1[[JP]] 
2 Evelien 
3 Cristina M. 
4 Nini (rest, what is rest?) 
5 

Bill's Car 
1 
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3 
4 
5 

==Booty - June 28==
Find the treasure! Tuesday the 28th starting at 8:00 at the field behind the gym. Be prompt and bring running shoes (or something that will get you through ~3 miles on mixed terrain at a fairly slow pace), a flashlight (if you have one), and $5 for hydration. Sign up below for a (potentially) life changing experience and at minimum a solid break from lectures: 
1. JP -- WOOOOOOHOOO!!! 
2. yaaaay - Kam 
3. Anna 
4. Cali 
5. Nadja 
6. Jason 
7. Alejandro Fajardo 
8. Evelien (if ankle doesn't get worse) 
9. 
10. 
11. 
12. 
13. 
14. 
15.  

==Geographic Information Systems and You!==

Clio can do a short course in GIS next week if interested, please sign up below and maybe write your background (jk, I know everyone's background by now). Perhaps Nathan can chime in, as he is a GIS expert super hero. We can do it at lunch if you want.

Questions: what software do i need? none. is gis fun? it can be... what will i learn? how to do spatial analysis on anything (location of schools...rivers...people's IP addresses...)

'''THIS WILL BE ON MONDAY AT LUNCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
'''
Clio is attending 
Cali 
Nini 
Kam - I am so there 
Cristina M. 
Nadja - sounds good Clio :-) 
Andrew T. 
Jason 
Lydia 
JP I <3 Maps 
Evelien 

==Present your own research==

there are many others with very inspiring and ready to present research findings, so the idea would be to have a small session next '''Tuesday''' after lectures: let's say 4.30 - 6.00 (or longer, depending on how many of us want to / are ready to present) ...let's say 15 min each (so cut it down to the essentials! ...max 10 slides, if any!) and leave some room for discussion... so if you're ready and want some constructive feedback, just put here the title of your potential presentation, and we'll see if we get a critical mass that's interested:

- Aaron: Characterization of microbial promoter architectures for rational reengineering

- Ed: "Shmoozing between enzyme kinetics and classical mechanics"

- Shweta: Role of bio-geochemical cycles in economic activities - Current inventory for US economy.

- Victor: current ideas in interdisciplinary education, as informed by case studies & interdisciplinarity philosophy

- Alexis: stuff related to maximum entropy, e.g., inductive reasoning, impossibility of scientific controversy, etc.

- ...

Week after (last week):

- Ryan: complexity

- Miles: "TCP/IP: Why the Internet is the internet." History of the early international spread of the Internet, and how the politics of the Cold War are embedded in the current network. 21 slides, 20 minutes, but it goes fast.

-Elliot Aguilar:"You got it from your mama: a probabilistic model of cultural genealogies."

- Nathan: "When does geography matter? From geosimulation to geovisualization."

-Josh A: "Robot Evolution"

- Sean: Cultural Evolution: The toughest gig in science

==Canyon Road Gallery Walk, Friday 5-7 PM==

Possible candidates for visiting: SITE Santa Fe, Canyon Road art walk, Santa Fe Museum of Modern Art (all free!).

Possibly followed by pizza at Il Vicino. I've heard that Alfred Hubler endorses it.

I'm in. -Nora
 
Nini is going with this free madness as well

==Taos Earthships, Rio Grande Gorge, High Country==
Taos is a small town about 60 miles North of Santa Fe. It's known for the Taos Indian Pueblo, an artist colony, skiing, and the Taos Earthships. Depending on who's interested, we could stop by some wineries on the way up/down. The drive up alone is worth it.

Which day is this trip? -Nora

We'll be going this Saturday, leaving at 10:00am

Here's a link to the proposed route: [http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=St+John's+College,+Camino+De+Cruz+Blanca,+Santa+Fe,+NM&daddr=35.95257,-105.89925+to:US-64+W+to:Espanola,+NM&hl=en&sll=35.988007,-105.711823&sspn=0.846719,1.783905&geocode=FfM6IAIdKumv-SGbTeoLvFZoEQ%3BFbqXJAIdDhuw-SllKxaBwDYYhzHMpwy8Lvl_1A%3BFYLCLAIdPmGy-Q%3BFZhYJQIdrpSt-SkTO_AfiDwYhzFpPdgmCLwHRA&mra=dpe&mrsp=1&sz=10&via=1&t=h&z=10 Low Road/High Road to Taos]

Please add your car and seats if you have one 

Car 1: JP's Camry (4 seats) 
1. JP 
2. Jimmy James 
3. Andrew Tinka 
4. Ed 
5.

1. Nicolas Paez 
2. 
3. 
4. 

Car 3: Tom's Car 
1. Tom 
2.Elliot Aguilar 
3. Tomas Veloz 
4. Guido Montufar 
(5). 

Nora's Car -- leaving at 11am, going for Williams Lake hike before dinner in Taos 
1. Nora 
2. Erik 
3. 
4. 
5. 

People who need rides: 
1. 
2. 
3. 
4. 
5. 

==Tent Rocks 25 June==
We're planning a 2-3 hour hike to Tent Rocks (45 min south of us, toward Albuquerque) sometime this weekend (the last weekend of the summer school).

Some information can be found at: 
[http://www.blm.gov/nm/st/en/prog/recreation/rio_puerco/kasha_katuwe_tent_rocks.html Official Tent Rock site] 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasha-Katuwe_Tent_Rocks_National_Monument the Wiki of Tent Rock (including more pictures)] 
[[File:TentRocks.jpg]]

Nini has rented a car. We will assembl at 800 at the Visitor's Circle.

1. Nini (your driver) 
2. Evelien 
3. Miles 
4. Nicolas 
5. 
...

==Community Lecture, 1930, 29 June==
From Democratic Consensus to Cannibalistic Hordes: The Principles of Collective Animal Behavior[http://santafe.edu/gevent/detail/public/408/] 
Presented by Ian Couzin (Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University) 

Anyone interested? - Nini

Yep, we have a shuttle already scheduled and seats reserved. No need to worry about transportation. -JP

==Carlsbad Caverns, White Sands, VLA==

Im thinking of taking a trip to the carlsbad caverns, white sands and the VLA this weekend... we can also do some stargazing and perhaps stop at Roswell if people are interested since its on the way....

Its going to be an overnight trip... 2 days... just want to see if people might be interested... i realize its far... but the caverns and white sands come highly recommended for this part of the country...

I am open to doing this on the weekend after the program as well...

I can rent a car...

Heres the route I'm thinking....

http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=St+John's+College,+Camino+De+Cruz+Blanca,+Santa+Fe,+NM&daddr=3225+National+Parks+Hwy,+Carlsbad,+NM+88220+(Carlsbad+Caverns+National+Park)+to:white+sands+to:NRAO+Very+Large+Array,+Old+Highway+60,+Magdalena,+NM&hl=en&ll=33.94336,-105.710449&spn=4.419525,9.832764&sll=33.897777,-105.67749&sspn=4.421888,9.832764&geocode=FfM6IAIdKumv-SGbTeoLvFZoEQ%3BFR9E6gEdbqLE-SG9sju99z3Ubg%3BFVUG9AEdKLap-SHDIL9nhxjRNg%3BFU7rBwId07qV-SG06Y_KW2f8zg&mra=ls&z=7

let me know if you're interested...

-Raghav

==NRAO Very Large Array==

National Radio Astronomy Observatory - Very Large Array

Its a bit of a hike... about a 3 hour drive... but should be totally worth it. Perhaps we could do this and los alamos together on the same day. -Raghav

Heres the description from the website(http://www.vla.nrao.edu/)-

The Very Large Array, one of the world's premier astronomical radio observatories, consists of 27 radio antennas in a Y-shaped configuration on the Plains of San Agustin fifty miles west of Socorro, New Mexico. Each antenna is 25 meters (82 feet) in diameter. The data from the antennas is combined electronically to give the resolution of an antenna 36km (22 miles) across, with the sensitivity of a dish 130 meters (422 feet) in diameter.

I'd love to go and would be willing to rent a car and drive. Unfortunately Los Alamos is in a different direction (NW) than VLA by quite a lot. I suggest looking above for other trips in planning for Los Alamos.

I think this trip depends on when we go (when is Taos Earthships trip?) and whatever else people have planned for. Note that this trip is 3 hours and there's very little else besides VLA in that neighborhood of NM - this trip would be optimal if we can hook on this visit to any other attractions nearby (or in Albuquerque). Any suggestions? - Nini

If you do go to the VLA, I'd recommend combining it with a visit to Kelly Mine, an old ghost town near Magdalena which is pretty neat to poke around. There is also a great microbrewery in Socorro (called Socorro Springs). Also, the town of Magdalena is in the process of trying to make itself a mini-artists' haven, so it could be fun to poke around the galleries there. Any more questions about the region and I'll see what I can do; my mom is from Socorro, and I can ask her for further suggestions. -Nora

Mind signing up to indicate interest? 
1.
2. Chris G - Have a car, but all depends on when we go... 
3. Cali - I would go, looks cool (can rent a car, don't have one) 
4. Raghav - Definitely wanna go... Can rent a car 

==Stargazing==

I'd like to spend an evening star-gazing - maybe try to get far enough out of town to avoid major light pollution. The next new moon is July 1st, so we might look to do it towards the end of the program.

UPDATE: Given folks' schedules, let's plan for stargazing the evening of Wednesday, June 29th. Those of us working on projects will want to have the evening of the 30th free. I will work on a location and further details with JP. I will also keep an eye on the weather, in case it looks like we might be clouded out. July 1 would be our fall back date. Check back later for more details.

NB: Some people have expressed concern (perhaps hope) that I am organizing this trip as an excuse to make out in a remote location. Sadly, no; I really am nerd enough to want a quasi-scientific look at a clear night's sky. That is my full agenda, and I'm slightly embarrassed I'm not able to say otherwise. Of course, you are welcome to make out on this trip, but please be considerate of those of us who are not planning to do so.

- Miles

I'd be interested, might be able to get a telescope, and know a few locations. (JP) 
Cristina M.: Count me in and keep me informed. Great idea, Miles! 

Shweta S : I am also interested, but I have an early morning flight on 2nd July . So, I have to be at Peterson circle by 4 Am for the Pick up shuttle to airport. If possible, I am certainly in for Star Gazing, haven't done it for years. 

I am also very interested... but may fly out on the 1st in the evening... Could we perhaps do this on a weeknight? -Raghav

count on me if it is before July 2... -----Yangjing

I'm in as well! -David B

==Early morning hiking==

Would anybody would be interested in hiking the Atalaya Mountain Trail (or anywhere else) before dawn to watch the sunrise from the top?

When?

I am kind of tempted to do it on a weekday, but I may end up doing it alone. Unless a few people are interested, we could do it, let's say, this Saturday? The sun rises at about 5h45 these days.

==Swimming?==
Anyone want to go swimming with me (Ed)? There's a pool about 2 miles away that's open till 8:30, was thinking of walking down after class.

Count me in for the drowning. When? - Nini

I'd like to join -Yangjing
I'm in. Where do we meet?--Elliot Aguilar

==Museum Trip Friday June 24th==
It's $8 for admission to the Georgia O'Keefe Museum. I want to go after lecture next week; sounds like a cool exhibit about the relationship between photography and contemporary art. Let's meet outside the student center at 4:30pm. The museum is open until 7pm. We can potentially grab dinner and drinks downtown afterwards.
I'll drive down in my car from St. Johns; I've got space for 4 more.

Note: let's join the Canyon Drive walk tomorrow instead. Free art > museums. :) -Nora 
Also, the art museum (modern/contemporary art) is free on Friday afternoons and close at 8. -Nini

==Frisbee==
Ok, look. I (Ed) like frisbee. By virtue of being into science, you people must at some level also like frisbee. So, let's play frisbee. There are lots of ways to do this:
1) Throwing
2) Throwing with our arms tucked in like T-Rex's
3) Imbibing beverages and throwing
4) Spinning the disc on our fingers (ooo fancy) and then throwing it
5) Playing cower (ask me for details)

Who has a disc? - Ed

I would be up for throwing, and also for a game of Ultimate. Thursday evening (the 16th) is free on our schedule. We can buy a disc. -Miles

I've got a disc. Just let me know whenever you want it. -AA

I am soo in. Cristina M.

I want to play cower! With beverages! -Kam

==A Nice Dinner Out==

The St. John's cafeteria is great, but Santa Fe is also the home of many unique, world-class restaurants. I would like to go out for a nice dinner some night and would love company. Any of the places below are kind of pricey and will require reservations, so please post preferences for date and location and I'll pull something together. Here are a few to get you started, with reviews and menus. - Cali (weakly prefers La Plazuela or Martín)

Epazote is one of my favorites and I've always been treated very well by the chef. I think that gets my vote. -[[JP]]

This sounds great - I'd be interested too. Fran.

I am in too. Cristina B.

Epazote (Contemporary Mexican)
[http://www.epazotesantafe.com/epazotesantafe/epazote.html Menu]
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60958-d1742792-Reviews-Epazote-Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.html TripAdvisor]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/epazote-santa-fe Yelp]

La Plazuela (New Mexican)
[http://www.lafondasantafe.com/dining/laPlazuela.html Menu]
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60958-d477193-Reviews-La_Plazuela_at_La_Fonda-Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.html TripAdvisor]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/la-plazuela-dining-room-santa-fe Yelp]

Restaurant Martín (Contemporary American)
[http://www.restaurantmartinsantafe.com/ Menu]
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60958-d1539133-Reviews-Restaurant_Martin-Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.html TripAdvisor]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/restaurant-martin-santa-fe Yelp]

The Ore House (New Mexican, Steak)
[http://www.orehouseontheplaza.com/ Menu]
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60958-d459720-Reviews-Ore_House_On_The_Plaza-Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.html TripAdvisor]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/ore-house-on-the-plaza-santa-fe Yelp]

Other suggestions that are not necessarily New Mexican... 
Shibumi Ramen (cash only but supposedly awesome)
[http://www.shibumiramen.com/ Menu]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/shibumi-ramenya-santa-fe Yelp]

==Other Options==

Rafting down the Rio Grande Box.

[http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/events/SF/music.shtml Music on the Hill] Concert Series (at St. John's)

Great Sand Dunes (in Colorado)

Sandia Peak Tram (in Albuquerque)

[http://www.rodeodesantafe.org/ Rodeo de Santa Fe]

[http://ojospa.com/index.php Ojo Caliente hot springs Field Trip]

Chaco Canyon

[http://www.visitpagosasprings.com/things-to-do/activities/summer/hot-springs/ Soak in the Hot Springs at Pagosa Springs, CO]

==Mountain Biking==
I am looking for people interested in mountain biking either early morning, pre-dinner or on the weekend. If you don't have a bike there are a number of shops around town that rent. -Josh A

==Completed Events==

===Yoga Thursday, June 23rd, 7:30pm, soccer fields===

===SF Complex===
We're planning a trip to the [http://sfcomplex.org Santa Fe Complex] on Friday June 10 towards the evening.

UPDATE: We'll be making it an official trip. Shuttles will arrive at SJC 10 June at 6:00(18:00), return 8:00 (20:00).

===Soccer, Monday 13 June at 7 PM?===
(I saw this from Victor on the CSSS FB wall)

"Who's down for soccer this Monday evening, at 7?
Rsvp w/a comment
If you have a ball, bring it--and let us know in your rsvp
I think it makes sense if those of us who want to play meet up at the drop-off circle and then walk down to the athletic field cheers V"

===Who already presented their own research===

- Martin: the world's technological capacity to process information

- Yangjing: Relations Between Graphs

- Nadja: Coupling human-engineered systems to improve water management on mine sites

- Tomas: Chemical Organization Theory & Concept's Theory

- Stefani: Understanding prehistory through agent-based modeling and network analysis

===Ten Thousand Waves===

They say it's a "must-do" while here. Just put your name down here if interested. (Cristina M.)

How does Thursday after lectures sound? (JP)? 
//Cristina M: Thursday after lectures is perfect! Though they have this on Friday: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=151999048206158. Thanks [[JP]]!
Given the talks on Thursday, Friday (if there is time) may be better. Do we need to make a reservation (they recommend so on several places on their website) EH.

I'd be happy for Friday night. There are some fairly large private tubs available. We should look into that. (JP)

Website: http://www.tenthousandwaves.com/
Price list: http://www.tenthousandwaves.com/RATES/price_list_summary.php

JP's Car! (hurray!) 
1.John Paul Gonzales 
2.Cristina M. 
3.Nini 
4.Evelien 
5.Raghav 

People Who Need Rides 
1. Fran 

===Bandelier Field Trip===
Trip to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandelier_National_Monument Bandelier National Monument] on Sat. June 18.

We're splitting this into two groups, unofficially dubbed the Hardcore Hikers and the Happy Campers.

We might string a visit to the [http://www.vallescaldera.gov/ Valles Caldera] and [http://www.lanl.gov/museum/ Bradbury Science Museum/Los Alamos] in as well.

From Stefani: I know the head archaeologist at Bandelier. I'll see if I can get him or his assistant to give us a brief talk.

Bandelier Trip Sign Up.

Bandelier and Los Alamos: These Cars Will Leave At 10:00AM

Car 1: JP's Camry (5 seats) 
1. John Paul Gonzales 
2. Nini Zhang 
3. Raghav Chawla 
4. Miles Townes 

Car 3: Tom Carter's car (can fit 4 or 5) 
1. Tom 
2. Yangjing Long 
3. Nicolas Paez 
4. 
5. Shweta Singh 

Car 4: Juniper (can fit 2 or 3) '''Not going to Los Alamos''' 
1. Yasushi (driver) 
2. Juniper 
3. 
4. 
5. 

Car: Rental car, Evelien driving - staying as long as we like in Bandelier, might skip Alamos 

1. Evelien (driver) 
2. Navigator: Eugenia 
'Achterbank ensemble:' 
3. Martin Gould 
4. Ed 
5. Randy C 

Car: Rental car, Michael driving 
1. Michael Sachs 
2. Zoe Hamstead 
3. Nadja Kunz 
4. Alejandro Fajardo 
5. Ryan James 

Hardcore Hikers: THESE CARS WILL LEAVE AT 9:00AM

Stefani's Mazda only for a 13-mile hike: 
1. Stefani Crabtree 
2. Cali Ellis 
3. Andrew Tinka 
4. Anand 
5. David B 

Lydia's car only for a 13-mile hike 
1. Lydia 
2. Alexis Toda 
3. Antoine 
4. Anna 
5. Michael J 

Nora's car only for a 13-mile hike 
1. Nora 
2. Josh A 
3. Erik 
4. 
5. 

 People who need rides 

1. 
2. 
3. 
4... 

===Yo La Tengo in Santa Fe, 17 June===

For anyone interested, they're playing in town.

I might be interested in attending if others are going - Josh 

Anna, Eugenia, and I just got tickets. http://www.thirstyearfestival.com/concerts.html#yo We have 1 more seat left in the car. -Lydia

===Backpacking in the Pecos Wilderness===
I've been planning a full-weekend backpacking trip with a local friend of mine. We'd probably camp Friday night at the trailhead (or his parents cabin) to get an early start, set up camp, then do a lighter hike to summit Las Truchas, the second highest peak in NM. We'd return on Sunday. At a minimum, you'd need a backpack and sleeping bag. We might be able to rustle up other gear. Cars shouldn't be an issue.

Interest: 
1. Chris G. 
2. Kameron - I'm in! 
3. Fran (also have tent and stove if needed) 

===Los Alamos===

Los Alamos National Labs

From website: "Los Alamos National Laboratory is a premier national security research institution, delivering scientific and engineering solutions for the nation's most crucial and complex problems. Our primary responsibility is ensuring the safety, security, and reliability of the nation's nuclear deterrent. The Los Alamos of today emphasizes worker safety, effective operational safeguards & security, and environmental stewardship, while outstanding science remains the foundation of the Laboratory. In addition to supporting the Lab's core national security mission, our work advances bioscience, chemistry, computer science, earth and environmental sciences, materials science, and physics disciplines."

Check it out at lanl.gov

I'd like to go, and I can rent a car if there's an interested group. -Clio

I'd like to go too! -Raghav

count me in! -ryan j

If this is 25th or 26th, I'd love to join! - Taka

I would like to go on 26th! - Tomas Veloz

Some people are going on to Los Alamos from the Bandelier/Valles Caldera trip this Saturday. - Nini

===Rodeo de Santa Fe, June 22===

Sign up for the Rodeo! Opening night

It's in town and we do need an extra car. (JP)

JP's Camry 
1. [[JP]] 
2. Fran 
3. Nini 
4. Cristina M. 
5. Evelien 

Juniper's car 
1. Juniper 
2. David B. 
3. Miles 
4.Michael J. 
5.Eugenia 

People who need rides 
1. Raghav - Can rent a car if needed 
2. Elliot Aguilar 
3. 
4.

Complex Systems Summer School 2011-After Hours

2011-06-25T05:02:35Z

Ehurk: /* Geographic Information Systems and You! */

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2011}}

Use this space to organize your own after hours activities.

==Golondrians Trip, June 26==
Trip to El Rancho de las Golondrinas living history museum.

JP's Camry 
1[[JP]] 
2 Evelien 
3 Cristina M. 
4 Nini (rest, what is rest?) 
5 

Bill's Car 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 

==Booty - June 28==
Find the treasure! Tuesday the 28th starting at 8:00 at the field behind the gym. Be prompt and bring running shoes (or something that will get you through ~3 miles on mixed terrain at a fairly slow pace), a flashlight (if you have one), and $5 for hydration. Sign up below for a (potentially) life changing experience and at minimum a solid break from lectures: 
1. JP -- WOOOOOOHOOO!!! 
2. yaaaay - Kam 
3. Anna 
4. Cali 
5. Nadja 
6. Jason 
7. Alejandro Fajardo 
8. 
9. 
10. 
11. 
12. 
13. 
14. 
15.  

==Geographic Information Systems and You!==

Clio can do a short course in GIS next week if interested, please sign up below and maybe write your background (jk, I know everyone's background by now). Perhaps Nathan can chime in, as he is a GIS expert super hero. We can do it at lunch if you want.

Questions: what software do i need? none. is gis fun? it can be... what will i learn? how to do spatial analysis on anything (location of schools...rivers...people's IP addresses...)

'''THIS WILL BE ON MONDAY AT LUNCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
'''
Clio is attending 
Cali 
Nini 
Kam - I am so there 
Cristina M. 
Nadja - sounds good Clio :-) 
Andrew T. 
Jason 
Lydia 
JP I <3 Maps 
Evelien 

==Present your own research==

there are many others with very inspiring and ready to present research findings, so the idea would be to have a small session next '''Tuesday''' after lectures: let's say 4.30 - 6.00 (or longer, depending on how many of us want to / are ready to present) ...let's say 15 min each (so cut it down to the essentials! ...max 10 slides, if any!) and leave some room for discussion... so if you're ready and want some constructive feedback, just put here the title of your potential presentation, and we'll see if we get a critical mass that's interested:

- Aaron: Characterization of microbial promoter architectures for rational reengineering

- Ed: "Shmoozing between enzyme kinetics and classical mechanics"

- Shweta: Role of bio-geochemical cycles in economic activities - Current inventory for US economy.

- Victor: current ideas in interdisciplinary education, as informed by case studies & interdisciplinarity philosophy

- Alexis: stuff related to maximum entropy, e.g., inductive reasoning, impossibility of scientific controversy, etc.

- ...

Week after (last week):

- Ryan: complexity

- Miles: "TCP/IP: Why the Internet is the internet." History of the early international spread of the Internet, and how the politics of the Cold War are embedded in the current network. 21 slides, 20 minutes, but it goes fast.

-Elliot Aguilar:"You got it from your mama: a probabilistic model of cultural genealogies."

- Nathan: "When does geography matter? From geosimulation to geovisualization."

-Josh A: "Robot Evolution"

- Sean: Cultural Evolution: The toughest gig in science

==Canyon Road Gallery Walk, Friday 5-7 PM==

Possible candidates for visiting: SITE Santa Fe, Canyon Road art walk, Santa Fe Museum of Modern Art (all free!).

Possibly followed by pizza at Il Vicino. I've heard that Alfred Hubler endorses it.

I'm in. -Nora
 
Nini is going with this free madness as well

==Taos Earthships, Rio Grande Gorge, High Country==
Taos is a small town about 60 miles North of Santa Fe. It's known for the Taos Indian Pueblo, an artist colony, skiing, and the Taos Earthships. Depending on who's interested, we could stop by some wineries on the way up/down. The drive up alone is worth it.

Which day is this trip? -Nora

We'll be going this Saturday, leaving at 10:00am

Here's a link to the proposed route: [http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=St+John's+College,+Camino+De+Cruz+Blanca,+Santa+Fe,+NM&daddr=35.95257,-105.89925+to:US-64+W+to:Espanola,+NM&hl=en&sll=35.988007,-105.711823&sspn=0.846719,1.783905&geocode=FfM6IAIdKumv-SGbTeoLvFZoEQ%3BFbqXJAIdDhuw-SllKxaBwDYYhzHMpwy8Lvl_1A%3BFYLCLAIdPmGy-Q%3BFZhYJQIdrpSt-SkTO_AfiDwYhzFpPdgmCLwHRA&mra=dpe&mrsp=1&sz=10&via=1&t=h&z=10 Low Road/High Road to Taos]

Please add your car and seats if you have one 

Car 1: JP's Camry (4 seats) 
1. JP 
2. Jimmy James 
3. Andrew Tinka 
4. Ed 
5.

1. Nicolas Paez 
2. 
3. 
4. 

Car 3: Tom's Car 
1. Tom 
2.Elliot Aguilar 
3. Tomas Veloz 
4. Guido Montufar 
(5). 

Nora's Car -- leaving at 11am, going for Williams Lake hike before dinner in Taos 
1. Nora 
2. Erik 
3. 
4. 
5. 

People who need rides: 
1. 
2. 
3. 
4. 
5. 

==Tent Rocks 25 June==
We're planning a 2-3 hour hike to Tent Rocks (45 min south of us, toward Albuquerque) sometime this weekend (the last weekend of the summer school).

Some information can be found at: 
[http://www.blm.gov/nm/st/en/prog/recreation/rio_puerco/kasha_katuwe_tent_rocks.html Official Tent Rock site] 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasha-Katuwe_Tent_Rocks_National_Monument the Wiki of Tent Rock (including more pictures)] 
[[File:TentRocks.jpg]]

Nini has rented a car. We will assembl at 800 at the Visitor's Circle.

1. Nini (your driver) 
2. Evelien 
3. Miles 
4. Nicolas 
5. 
...

==Community Lecture, 1930, 29 June==
From Democratic Consensus to Cannibalistic Hordes: The Principles of Collective Animal Behavior[http://santafe.edu/gevent/detail/public/408/] 
Presented by Ian Couzin (Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University) 

Anyone interested? - Nini

Yep, we have a shuttle already scheduled and seats reserved. No need to worry about transportation. -JP

==Carlsbad Caverns, White Sands, VLA==

Im thinking of taking a trip to the carlsbad caverns, white sands and the VLA this weekend... we can also do some stargazing and perhaps stop at Roswell if people are interested since its on the way....

Its going to be an overnight trip... 2 days... just want to see if people might be interested... i realize its far... but the caverns and white sands come highly recommended for this part of the country...

I am open to doing this on the weekend after the program as well...

I can rent a car...

Heres the route I'm thinking....

http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=St+John's+College,+Camino+De+Cruz+Blanca,+Santa+Fe,+NM&daddr=3225+National+Parks+Hwy,+Carlsbad,+NM+88220+(Carlsbad+Caverns+National+Park)+to:white+sands+to:NRAO+Very+Large+Array,+Old+Highway+60,+Magdalena,+NM&hl=en&ll=33.94336,-105.710449&spn=4.419525,9.832764&sll=33.897777,-105.67749&sspn=4.421888,9.832764&geocode=FfM6IAIdKumv-SGbTeoLvFZoEQ%3BFR9E6gEdbqLE-SG9sju99z3Ubg%3BFVUG9AEdKLap-SHDIL9nhxjRNg%3BFU7rBwId07qV-SG06Y_KW2f8zg&mra=ls&z=7

let me know if you're interested...

-Raghav

==NRAO Very Large Array==

National Radio Astronomy Observatory - Very Large Array

Its a bit of a hike... about a 3 hour drive... but should be totally worth it. Perhaps we could do this and los alamos together on the same day. -Raghav

Heres the description from the website(http://www.vla.nrao.edu/)-

The Very Large Array, one of the world's premier astronomical radio observatories, consists of 27 radio antennas in a Y-shaped configuration on the Plains of San Agustin fifty miles west of Socorro, New Mexico. Each antenna is 25 meters (82 feet) in diameter. The data from the antennas is combined electronically to give the resolution of an antenna 36km (22 miles) across, with the sensitivity of a dish 130 meters (422 feet) in diameter.

I'd love to go and would be willing to rent a car and drive. Unfortunately Los Alamos is in a different direction (NW) than VLA by quite a lot. I suggest looking above for other trips in planning for Los Alamos.

I think this trip depends on when we go (when is Taos Earthships trip?) and whatever else people have planned for. Note that this trip is 3 hours and there's very little else besides VLA in that neighborhood of NM - this trip would be optimal if we can hook on this visit to any other attractions nearby (or in Albuquerque). Any suggestions? - Nini

If you do go to the VLA, I'd recommend combining it with a visit to Kelly Mine, an old ghost town near Magdalena which is pretty neat to poke around. There is also a great microbrewery in Socorro (called Socorro Springs). Also, the town of Magdalena is in the process of trying to make itself a mini-artists' haven, so it could be fun to poke around the galleries there. Any more questions about the region and I'll see what I can do; my mom is from Socorro, and I can ask her for further suggestions. -Nora

Mind signing up to indicate interest? 
1.
2. Chris G - Have a car, but all depends on when we go... 
3. Cali - I would go, looks cool (can rent a car, don't have one) 
4. Raghav - Definitely wanna go... Can rent a car 

==Stargazing==

I'd like to spend an evening star-gazing - maybe try to get far enough out of town to avoid major light pollution. The next new moon is July 1st, so we might look to do it towards the end of the program.

UPDATE: Given folks' schedules, let's plan for stargazing the evening of Wednesday, June 29th. Those of us working on projects will want to have the evening of the 30th free. I will work on a location and further details with JP. I will also keep an eye on the weather, in case it looks like we might be clouded out. July 1 would be our fall back date. Check back later for more details.

NB: Some people have expressed concern (perhaps hope) that I am organizing this trip as an excuse to make out in a remote location. Sadly, no; I really am nerd enough to want a quasi-scientific look at a clear night's sky. That is my full agenda, and I'm slightly embarrassed I'm not able to say otherwise. Of course, you are welcome to make out on this trip, but please be considerate of those of us who are not planning to do so.

- Miles

I'd be interested, might be able to get a telescope, and know a few locations. (JP) 
Cristina M.: Count me in and keep me informed. Great idea, Miles! 

Shweta S : I am also interested, but I have an early morning flight on 2nd July . So, I have to be at Peterson circle by 4 Am for the Pick up shuttle to airport. If possible, I am certainly in for Star Gazing, haven't done it for years. 

I am also very interested... but may fly out on the 1st in the evening... Could we perhaps do this on a weeknight? -Raghav

count on me if it is before July 2... -----Yangjing

I'm in as well! -David B

==Early morning hiking==

Would anybody would be interested in hiking the Atalaya Mountain Trail (or anywhere else) before dawn to watch the sunrise from the top?

When?

I am kind of tempted to do it on a weekday, but I may end up doing it alone. Unless a few people are interested, we could do it, let's say, this Saturday? The sun rises at about 5h45 these days.

==Swimming?==
Anyone want to go swimming with me (Ed)? There's a pool about 2 miles away that's open till 8:30, was thinking of walking down after class.

Count me in for the drowning. When? - Nini

I'd like to join -Yangjing
I'm in. Where do we meet?--Elliot Aguilar

==Museum Trip Friday June 24th==
It's $8 for admission to the Georgia O'Keefe Museum. I want to go after lecture next week; sounds like a cool exhibit about the relationship between photography and contemporary art. Let's meet outside the student center at 4:30pm. The museum is open until 7pm. We can potentially grab dinner and drinks downtown afterwards.
I'll drive down in my car from St. Johns; I've got space for 4 more.

Note: let's join the Canyon Drive walk tomorrow instead. Free art > museums. :) -Nora 
Also, the art museum (modern/contemporary art) is free on Friday afternoons and close at 8. -Nini

==Frisbee==
Ok, look. I (Ed) like frisbee. By virtue of being into science, you people must at some level also like frisbee. So, let's play frisbee. There are lots of ways to do this:
1) Throwing
2) Throwing with our arms tucked in like T-Rex's
3) Imbibing beverages and throwing
4) Spinning the disc on our fingers (ooo fancy) and then throwing it
5) Playing cower (ask me for details)

Who has a disc? - Ed

I would be up for throwing, and also for a game of Ultimate. Thursday evening (the 16th) is free on our schedule. We can buy a disc. -Miles

I've got a disc. Just let me know whenever you want it. -AA

I am soo in. Cristina M.

I want to play cower! With beverages! -Kam

==A Nice Dinner Out==

The St. John's cafeteria is great, but Santa Fe is also the home of many unique, world-class restaurants. I would like to go out for a nice dinner some night and would love company. Any of the places below are kind of pricey and will require reservations, so please post preferences for date and location and I'll pull something together. Here are a few to get you started, with reviews and menus. - Cali (weakly prefers La Plazuela or Martín)

Epazote is one of my favorites and I've always been treated very well by the chef. I think that gets my vote. -[[JP]]

This sounds great - I'd be interested too. Fran.

I am in too. Cristina B.

Epazote (Contemporary Mexican)
[http://www.epazotesantafe.com/epazotesantafe/epazote.html Menu]
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60958-d1742792-Reviews-Epazote-Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.html TripAdvisor]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/epazote-santa-fe Yelp]

La Plazuela (New Mexican)
[http://www.lafondasantafe.com/dining/laPlazuela.html Menu]
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60958-d477193-Reviews-La_Plazuela_at_La_Fonda-Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.html TripAdvisor]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/la-plazuela-dining-room-santa-fe Yelp]

Restaurant Martín (Contemporary American)
[http://www.restaurantmartinsantafe.com/ Menu]
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60958-d1539133-Reviews-Restaurant_Martin-Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.html TripAdvisor]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/restaurant-martin-santa-fe Yelp]

The Ore House (New Mexican, Steak)
[http://www.orehouseontheplaza.com/ Menu]
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60958-d459720-Reviews-Ore_House_On_The_Plaza-Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.html TripAdvisor]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/ore-house-on-the-plaza-santa-fe Yelp]

Other suggestions that are not necessarily New Mexican... 
Shibumi Ramen (cash only but supposedly awesome)
[http://www.shibumiramen.com/ Menu]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/shibumi-ramenya-santa-fe Yelp]

==Other Options==

Rafting down the Rio Grande Box.

[http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/events/SF/music.shtml Music on the Hill] Concert Series (at St. John's)

Great Sand Dunes (in Colorado)

Sandia Peak Tram (in Albuquerque)

[http://www.rodeodesantafe.org/ Rodeo de Santa Fe]

[http://ojospa.com/index.php Ojo Caliente hot springs Field Trip]

Chaco Canyon

[http://www.visitpagosasprings.com/things-to-do/activities/summer/hot-springs/ Soak in the Hot Springs at Pagosa Springs, CO]

==Mountain Biking==
I am looking for people interested in mountain biking either early morning, pre-dinner or on the weekend. If you don't have a bike there are a number of shops around town that rent. -Josh A

==Completed Events==

===Yoga Thursday, June 23rd, 7:30pm, soccer fields===

===SF Complex===
We're planning a trip to the [http://sfcomplex.org Santa Fe Complex] on Friday June 10 towards the evening.

UPDATE: We'll be making it an official trip. Shuttles will arrive at SJC 10 June at 6:00(18:00), return 8:00 (20:00).

===Soccer, Monday 13 June at 7 PM?===
(I saw this from Victor on the CSSS FB wall)

"Who's down for soccer this Monday evening, at 7?
Rsvp w/a comment
If you have a ball, bring it--and let us know in your rsvp
I think it makes sense if those of us who want to play meet up at the drop-off circle and then walk down to the athletic field cheers V"

===Who already presented their own research===

- Martin: the world's technological capacity to process information

- Yangjing: Relations Between Graphs

- Nadja: Coupling human-engineered systems to improve water management on mine sites

- Tomas: Chemical Organization Theory & Concept's Theory

- Stefani: Understanding prehistory through agent-based modeling and network analysis

===Ten Thousand Waves===

They say it's a "must-do" while here. Just put your name down here if interested. (Cristina M.)

How does Thursday after lectures sound? (JP)? 
//Cristina M: Thursday after lectures is perfect! Though they have this on Friday: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=151999048206158. Thanks [[JP]]!
Given the talks on Thursday, Friday (if there is time) may be better. Do we need to make a reservation (they recommend so on several places on their website) EH.

I'd be happy for Friday night. There are some fairly large private tubs available. We should look into that. (JP)

Website: http://www.tenthousandwaves.com/
Price list: http://www.tenthousandwaves.com/RATES/price_list_summary.php

JP's Car! (hurray!) 
1.John Paul Gonzales 
2.Cristina M. 
3.Nini 
4.Evelien 
5.Raghav 

People Who Need Rides 
1. Fran 

===Bandelier Field Trip===
Trip to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandelier_National_Monument Bandelier National Monument] on Sat. June 18.

We're splitting this into two groups, unofficially dubbed the Hardcore Hikers and the Happy Campers.

We might string a visit to the [http://www.vallescaldera.gov/ Valles Caldera] and [http://www.lanl.gov/museum/ Bradbury Science Museum/Los Alamos] in as well.

From Stefani: I know the head archaeologist at Bandelier. I'll see if I can get him or his assistant to give us a brief talk.

Bandelier Trip Sign Up.

Bandelier and Los Alamos: These Cars Will Leave At 10:00AM

Car 1: JP's Camry (5 seats) 
1. John Paul Gonzales 
2. Nini Zhang 
3. Raghav Chawla 
4. Miles Townes 

Car 3: Tom Carter's car (can fit 4 or 5) 
1. Tom 
2. Yangjing Long 
3. Nicolas Paez 
4. 
5. Shweta Singh 

Car 4: Juniper (can fit 2 or 3) '''Not going to Los Alamos''' 
1. Yasushi (driver) 
2. Juniper 
3. 
4. 
5. 

Car: Rental car, Evelien driving - staying as long as we like in Bandelier, might skip Alamos 

1. Evelien (driver) 
2. Navigator: Eugenia 
'Achterbank ensemble:' 
3. Martin Gould 
4. Ed 
5. Randy C 

Car: Rental car, Michael driving 
1. Michael Sachs 
2. Zoe Hamstead 
3. Nadja Kunz 
4. Alejandro Fajardo 
5. Ryan James 

Hardcore Hikers: THESE CARS WILL LEAVE AT 9:00AM

Stefani's Mazda only for a 13-mile hike: 
1. Stefani Crabtree 
2. Cali Ellis 
3. Andrew Tinka 
4. Anand 
5. David B 

Lydia's car only for a 13-mile hike 
1. Lydia 
2. Alexis Toda 
3. Antoine 
4. Anna 
5. Michael J 

Nora's car only for a 13-mile hike 
1. Nora 
2. Josh A 
3. Erik 
4. 
5. 

 People who need rides 

1. 
2. 
3. 
4... 

===Yo La Tengo in Santa Fe, 17 June===

For anyone interested, they're playing in town.

I might be interested in attending if others are going - Josh 

Anna, Eugenia, and I just got tickets. http://www.thirstyearfestival.com/concerts.html#yo We have 1 more seat left in the car. -Lydia

===Backpacking in the Pecos Wilderness===
I've been planning a full-weekend backpacking trip with a local friend of mine. We'd probably camp Friday night at the trailhead (or his parents cabin) to get an early start, set up camp, then do a lighter hike to summit Las Truchas, the second highest peak in NM. We'd return on Sunday. At a minimum, you'd need a backpack and sleeping bag. We might be able to rustle up other gear. Cars shouldn't be an issue.

Interest: 
1. Chris G. 
2. Kameron - I'm in! 
3. Fran (also have tent and stove if needed) 

===Los Alamos===

Los Alamos National Labs

From website: "Los Alamos National Laboratory is a premier national security research institution, delivering scientific and engineering solutions for the nation's most crucial and complex problems. Our primary responsibility is ensuring the safety, security, and reliability of the nation's nuclear deterrent. The Los Alamos of today emphasizes worker safety, effective operational safeguards & security, and environmental stewardship, while outstanding science remains the foundation of the Laboratory. In addition to supporting the Lab's core national security mission, our work advances bioscience, chemistry, computer science, earth and environmental sciences, materials science, and physics disciplines."

Check it out at lanl.gov

I'd like to go, and I can rent a car if there's an interested group. -Clio

I'd like to go too! -Raghav

count me in! -ryan j

If this is 25th or 26th, I'd love to join! - Taka

I would like to go on 26th! - Tomas Veloz

Some people are going on to Los Alamos from the Bandelier/Valles Caldera trip this Saturday. - Nini

===Rodeo de Santa Fe, June 22===

Sign up for the Rodeo! Opening night

It's in town and we do need an extra car. (JP)

JP's Camry 
1. [[JP]] 
2. Fran 
3. Nini 
4. Cristina M. 
5. Evelien 

Juniper's car 
1. Juniper 
2. David B. 
3. Miles 
4.Michael J. 
5.Eugenia 

People who need rides 
1. Raghav - Can rent a car if needed 
2. Elliot Aguilar 
3. 
4.

Complex Systems Summer School 2011-After Hours

2011-06-24T21:24:28Z

Ehurk: /* Golondrians Trip, June 26 */

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2011}}

Use this space to organize your own after hours activities.

==Golondrians Trip, June 26==
Trip to El Rancho de las Golondrinas living history museum.

JP's Camry 
1[[JP]] 
2 Evelien 
3 
4 
5 

Bill's Car 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 

==Booty - June 28==
Find the treasure! Tuesday the 28th starting at 8:00 at the field behind the gym. Be prompt and bring running shoes (or something that will get you through ~3 miles on mixed terrain at a fairly slow pace), a flashlight (if you have one), and $5 for hydration. Sign up below for a (potentially) life changing experience and at minimum a solid break from lectures: 
1. JP -- WOOOOOOHOOO!!! 
2. yaaaay - Kam 
3. Anna 
4. Cali 
5. Nadja 
6. 
7. 

==Geographic Information Systems and You!==

Clio can do a short course in GIS next week if interested, please sign up below and maybe write your background (jk, I know everyone's background by now). Perhaps Nathan can chime in, as he is a GIS expert super hero. We can do it at lunch if you want.

Questions: what software do i need? none. is gis fun? it can be... what will i learn? how to do spatial analysis on anything (location of schools...rivers...people's IP addresses...)

'''THIS WILL BE ON MONDAY AT LUNCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
'''
Clio is attending 
Cali 
Nini 
Kam - I am so there 
Cristina M. 
Nadja - sounds good Clio :-) 
Andrew T. 
Jason 
Lydia 
JP I <3 Maps
==Present your own research==

there are many others with very inspiring and ready to present research findings, so the idea would be to have a small session next '''Tuesday''' after lectures: let's say 4.30 - 6.00 (or longer, depending on how many of us want to / are ready to present) ...let's say 15 min each (so cut it down to the essentials! ...max 10 slides, if any!) and leave some room for discussion... so if you're ready and want some constructive feedback, just put here the title of your potential presentation, and we'll see if we get a critical mass that's interested:

- Aaron: Characterization of microbial promoter architectures for rational reengineering

- Cristina: "Marriage squeeze modeling" .

- Ed: "Shmoozing between enzyme kinetics and classical mechanics"

- Shweta: Role of bio-geochemical cycles in economic activities - Current inventory for US economy.

- Victor: current ideas in interdisciplinary education, as informed by case studies & interdisciplinarity philosophy

- Alexis: stuff related to maximum entropy, e.g., inductive reasoning, impossibility of scientific controversy, etc.

- ...

Week after (last week):

- Ryan: complexity

- Miles: "TCP/IP: Why the Internet is the internet." History of the early international spread of the Internet, and how the politics of the Cold War are embedded in the current network. 21 slides, 20 minutes, but it goes fast.

-Elliot Aguilar:"You got it from your mama: a probabilistic model of cultural genealogies."

- Nathan: "When does geography matter? From geosimulation to geovisualization."

-Josh A: "Robot Evolution"

- Sean: Cultural Evolution: The toughest gig in science

==Canyon Road Gallery Walk, Friday 5-7 PM==

Possible candidates for visiting: SITE Santa Fe, Canyon Road art walk, Santa Fe Museum of Modern Art (all free!).

Possibly followed by pizza at Il Vicino. I've heard that Alfred Hubler endorses it.

I'm in. -Nora
 
Nini is going with this free madness as well

==Taos Earthships, Rio Grande Gorge, High Country==
Taos is a small town about 60 miles North of Santa Fe. It's known for the Taos Indian Pueblo, an artist colony, skiing, and the Taos Earthships. Depending on who's interested, we could stop by some wineries on the way up/down. The drive up alone is worth it.

Which day is this trip? -Nora

We'll be going this Saturday, leaving at 10:00am

Here's a link to the proposed route: [http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=St+John's+College,+Camino+De+Cruz+Blanca,+Santa+Fe,+NM&daddr=35.95257,-105.89925+to:US-64+W+to:Espanola,+NM&hl=en&sll=35.988007,-105.711823&sspn=0.846719,1.783905&geocode=FfM6IAIdKumv-SGbTeoLvFZoEQ%3BFbqXJAIdDhuw-SllKxaBwDYYhzHMpwy8Lvl_1A%3BFYLCLAIdPmGy-Q%3BFZhYJQIdrpSt-SkTO_AfiDwYhzFpPdgmCLwHRA&mra=dpe&mrsp=1&sz=10&via=1&t=h&z=10 Low Road/High Road to Taos]

Please add your car and seats if you have one 

Car 1: JP's Camry (4 seats) 
1. JP 
2. Jimmy James 
3. Andrew Tinka 
4. Ed 
5.

1. Nicolas Paez 
2. 
3. Yangjing Long 
4. 

Car 3: Tom's Car 
1. Tom 
2.Elliot Aguilar 
3. Tomas Veloz 
4. Guido Montufar 
(5). 

People who need rides: 
1. 
2. 
3. 
4. 
5. 

==Tent Rocks 25 June==
We're planning a 2-3 hour hike to Tent Rocks (45 min south of us, toward Albuquerque) sometime this weekend (the last weekend of the summer school).

Some information can be found at: 
[http://www.blm.gov/nm/st/en/prog/recreation/rio_puerco/kasha_katuwe_tent_rocks.html Official Tent Rock site] 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasha-Katuwe_Tent_Rocks_National_Monument the Wiki of Tent Rock (including more pictures)] 
[[File:TentRocks.jpg]]

Nini has rented a car. We'll be assembling at 900 at the Visitor's Circle.

1. Nini (will rent a car) 
2. Evelien 
3. Miles 
4. Nicolas 
5. 
...

==Community Lecture, 1930, 29 June==
From Democratic Consensus to Cannibalistic Hordes: The Principles of Collective Animal Behavior[http://santafe.edu/gevent/detail/public/408/] 
Presented by Ian Couzin (Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University) 

Anyone interested? - Nini

Yep, we have a shuttle already scheduled and seats reserved. No need to worry about transportation. -JP

==Carlsbad Caverns, White Sands, VLA==

Im thinking of taking a trip to the carlsbad caverns, white sands and the VLA this weekend... we can also do some stargazing and perhaps stop at Roswell if people are interested since its on the way....

Its going to be an overnight trip... 2 days... just want to see if people might be interested... i realize its far... but the caverns and white sands come highly recommended for this part of the country...

I am open to doing this on the weekend after the program as well...

I can rent a car...

Heres the route I'm thinking....

http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=St+John's+College,+Camino+De+Cruz+Blanca,+Santa+Fe,+NM&daddr=3225+National+Parks+Hwy,+Carlsbad,+NM+88220+(Carlsbad+Caverns+National+Park)+to:white+sands+to:NRAO+Very+Large+Array,+Old+Highway+60,+Magdalena,+NM&hl=en&ll=33.94336,-105.710449&spn=4.419525,9.832764&sll=33.897777,-105.67749&sspn=4.421888,9.832764&geocode=FfM6IAIdKumv-SGbTeoLvFZoEQ%3BFR9E6gEdbqLE-SG9sju99z3Ubg%3BFVUG9AEdKLap-SHDIL9nhxjRNg%3BFU7rBwId07qV-SG06Y_KW2f8zg&mra=ls&z=7

let me know if you're interested...

-Raghav

==NRAO Very Large Array==

National Radio Astronomy Observatory - Very Large Array

Its a bit of a hike... about a 3 hour drive... but should be totally worth it. Perhaps we could do this and los alamos together on the same day. -Raghav

Heres the description from the website(http://www.vla.nrao.edu/)-

The Very Large Array, one of the world's premier astronomical radio observatories, consists of 27 radio antennas in a Y-shaped configuration on the Plains of San Agustin fifty miles west of Socorro, New Mexico. Each antenna is 25 meters (82 feet) in diameter. The data from the antennas is combined electronically to give the resolution of an antenna 36km (22 miles) across, with the sensitivity of a dish 130 meters (422 feet) in diameter.

I'd love to go and would be willing to rent a car and drive. Unfortunately Los Alamos is in a different direction (NW) than VLA by quite a lot. I suggest looking above for other trips in planning for Los Alamos.

I think this trip depends on when we go (when is Taos Earthships trip?) and whatever else people have planned for. Note that this trip is 3 hours and there's very little else besides VLA in that neighborhood of NM - this trip would be optimal if we can hook on this visit to any other attractions nearby (or in Albuquerque). Any suggestions? - Nini

If you do go to the VLA, I'd recommend combining it with a visit to Kelly Mine, an old ghost town near Magdalena which is pretty neat to poke around. There is also a great microbrewery in Socorro (called Socorro Springs). Also, the town of Magdalena is in the process of trying to make itself a mini-artists' haven, so it could be fun to poke around the galleries there. Any more questions about the region and I'll see what I can do; my mom is from Socorro, and I can ask her for further suggestions. -Nora

Mind signing up to indicate interest? 
1.
2. Chris G - Have a car, but all depends on when we go... 
3. Cali - I would go, looks cool (can rent a car, don't have one) 
4. Raghav - Definitely wanna go... Can rent a car 

==Stargazing==

I'd like to spend an evening star-gazing - maybe try to get far enough out of town to avoid major light pollution. The next new moon is July 1st, so we might look to do it towards the end of the program.

UPDATE: Given folks' schedules, let's plan for stargazing the evening of Wednesday, June 29th. Those of us working on projects will want to have the evening of the 30th free. I will work on a location and further details with JP. I will also keep an eye on the weather, in case it looks like we might be clouded out. July 1 would be our fall back date. Check back later for more details.

NB: Some people have expressed concern (perhaps hope) that I am organizing this trip as an excuse to make out in a remote location. Sadly, no; I really am nerd enough to want a quasi-scientific look at a clear night's sky. That is my full agenda, and I'm slightly embarrassed I'm not able to say otherwise. Of course, you are welcome to make out on this trip, but please be considerate of those of us who are not planning to do so.

- Miles

I'd be interested, might be able to get a telescope, and know a few locations. (JP) 
Cristina M.: Count me in and keep me informed. Great idea, Miles! 

Shweta S : I am also interested, but I have an early morning flight on 2nd July . So, I have to be at Peterson circle by 4 Am for the Pick up shuttle to airport. If possible, I am certainly in for Star Gazing, haven't done it for years. 

I am also very interested... but may fly out on the 1st in the evening... Could we perhaps do this on a weeknight? -Raghav

count on me if it is before July 2... -----Yangjing

I'm in as well! -David B

==Early morning hiking==

Would anybody would be interested in hiking the Atalaya Mountain Trail (or anywhere else) before dawn to watch the sunrise from the top?

When?

I am kind of tempted to do it on a weekday, but I may end up doing it alone. Unless a few people are interested, we could do it, let's say, this Saturday? The sun rises at about 5h45 these days.

==Swimming?==
Anyone want to go swimming with me (Ed)? There's a pool about 2 miles away that's open till 8:30, was thinking of walking down after class.

Count me in for the drowning. When? - Nini

I'd like to join -Yangjing
I'm in. Where do we meet?--Elliot Aguilar

==Museum Trip Friday June 24th==
It's $8 for admission to the Georgia O'Keefe Museum. I want to go after lecture next week; sounds like a cool exhibit about the relationship between photography and contemporary art. Let's meet outside the student center at 4:30pm. The museum is open until 7pm. We can potentially grab dinner and drinks downtown afterwards.
I'll drive down in my car from St. Johns; I've got space for 4 more.

Note: let's join the Canyon Drive walk tomorrow instead. Free art > museums. :) -Nora 
Also, the art museum (modern/contemporary art) is free on Friday afternoons and close at 8. -Nini

==Frisbee==
Ok, look. I (Ed) like frisbee. By virtue of being into science, you people must at some level also like frisbee. So, let's play frisbee. There are lots of ways to do this:
1) Throwing
2) Throwing with our arms tucked in like T-Rex's
3) Imbibing beverages and throwing
4) Spinning the disc on our fingers (ooo fancy) and then throwing it
5) Playing cower (ask me for details)

Who has a disc? - Ed

I would be up for throwing, and also for a game of Ultimate. Thursday evening (the 16th) is free on our schedule. We can buy a disc. -Miles

I've got a disc. Just let me know whenever you want it. -AA

I am soo in. Cristina M.

I want to play cower! With beverages! -Kam

==A Nice Dinner Out==

The St. John's cafeteria is great, but Santa Fe is also the home of many unique, world-class restaurants. I would like to go out for a nice dinner some night and would love company. Any of the places below are kind of pricey and will require reservations, so please post preferences for date and location and I'll pull something together. Here are a few to get you started, with reviews and menus. - Cali (weakly prefers La Plazuela or Martín)

Epazote is one of my favorites and I've always been treated very well by the chef. I think that gets my vote. -[[JP]]

This sounds great - I'd be interested too. Fran.

Epazote (Contemporary Mexican)
[http://www.epazotesantafe.com/epazotesantafe/epazote.html Menu]
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60958-d1742792-Reviews-Epazote-Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.html TripAdvisor]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/epazote-santa-fe Yelp]

La Plazuela (New Mexican)
[http://www.lafondasantafe.com/dining/laPlazuela.html Menu]
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60958-d477193-Reviews-La_Plazuela_at_La_Fonda-Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.html TripAdvisor]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/la-plazuela-dining-room-santa-fe Yelp]

Restaurant Martín (Contemporary American)
[http://www.restaurantmartinsantafe.com/ Menu]
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60958-d1539133-Reviews-Restaurant_Martin-Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.html TripAdvisor]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/restaurant-martin-santa-fe Yelp]

The Ore House (New Mexican, Steak)
[http://www.orehouseontheplaza.com/ Menu]
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60958-d459720-Reviews-Ore_House_On_The_Plaza-Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.html TripAdvisor]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/ore-house-on-the-plaza-santa-fe Yelp]

Other suggestions that are not necessarily New Mexican... 
Shibumi Ramen (cash only but supposedly awesome)
[http://www.shibumiramen.com/ Menu]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/shibumi-ramenya-santa-fe Yelp]

==Other Options==

Rafting down the Rio Grande Box.

[http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/events/SF/music.shtml Music on the Hill] Concert Series (at St. John's)

Great Sand Dunes (in Colorado)

Sandia Peak Tram (in Albuquerque)

[http://www.rodeodesantafe.org/ Rodeo de Santa Fe]

[http://ojospa.com/index.php Ojo Caliente hot springs Field Trip]

Chaco Canyon

[http://www.visitpagosasprings.com/things-to-do/activities/summer/hot-springs/ Soak in the Hot Springs at Pagosa Springs, CO]

==Mountain Biking==
I am looking for people interested in mountain biking either early morning, pre-dinner or on the weekend. If you don't have a bike there are a number of shops around town that rent. -Josh A

==Completed Events==

===Yoga Thursday, June 23rd, 7:30pm, soccer fields===

===SF Complex===
We're planning a trip to the [http://sfcomplex.org Santa Fe Complex] on Friday June 10 towards the evening.

UPDATE: We'll be making it an official trip. Shuttles will arrive at SJC 10 June at 6:00(18:00), return 8:00 (20:00).

===Soccer, Monday 13 June at 7 PM?===
(I saw this from Victor on the CSSS FB wall)

"Who's down for soccer this Monday evening, at 7?
Rsvp w/a comment
If you have a ball, bring it--and let us know in your rsvp
I think it makes sense if those of us who want to play meet up at the drop-off circle and then walk down to the athletic field cheers V"

===Who already presented their own research===

- Martin: the world's technological capacity to process information

- Yangjing: Relations Between Graphs

- Nadja: Coupling human-engineered systems to improve water management on mine sites

- Tomas: Chemical Organization Theory & Concept's Theory

- Stefani: Understanding prehistory through agent-based modeling and network analysis

===Ten Thousand Waves===

They say it's a "must-do" while here. Just put your name down here if interested. (Cristina M.)

How does Thursday after lectures sound? (JP)? 
//Cristina M: Thursday after lectures is perfect! Though they have this on Friday: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=151999048206158. Thanks [[JP]]!
Given the talks on Thursday, Friday (if there is time) may be better. Do we need to make a reservation (they recommend so on several places on their website) EH.

I'd be happy for Friday night. There are some fairly large private tubs available. We should look into that. (JP)

Website: http://www.tenthousandwaves.com/
Price list: http://www.tenthousandwaves.com/RATES/price_list_summary.php

JP's Car! (hurray!) 
1.John Paul Gonzales 
2.Cristina M. 
3.Nini 
4.Evelien 
5.Raghav 

People Who Need Rides 
1. Fran 

===Bandelier Field Trip===
Trip to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandelier_National_Monument Bandelier National Monument] on Sat. June 18.

We're splitting this into two groups, unofficially dubbed the Hardcore Hikers and the Happy Campers.

We might string a visit to the [http://www.vallescaldera.gov/ Valles Caldera] and [http://www.lanl.gov/museum/ Bradbury Science Museum/Los Alamos] in as well.

From Stefani: I know the head archaeologist at Bandelier. I'll see if I can get him or his assistant to give us a brief talk.

Bandelier Trip Sign Up.

Bandelier and Los Alamos: These Cars Will Leave At 10:00AM

Car 1: JP's Camry (5 seats) 
1. John Paul Gonzales 
2. Nini Zhang 
3. Raghav Chawla 
4. Miles Townes 

Car 3: Tom Carter's car (can fit 4 or 5) 
1. Tom 
2. Yangjing Long 
3. Nicolas Paez 
4. 
5. Shweta Singh 

Car 4: Juniper (can fit 2 or 3) '''Not going to Los Alamos''' 
1. Yasushi (driver) 
2. Juniper 
3. 
4. 
5. 

Car: Rental car, Evelien driving - staying as long as we like in Bandelier, might skip Alamos 

1. Evelien (driver) 
2. Navigator: Eugenia 
'Achterbank ensemble:' 
3. Martin Gould 
4. Ed 
5. Randy C 

Car: Rental car, Michael driving 
1. Michael Sachs 
2. Zoe Hamstead 
3. Nadja Kunz 
4. Alejandro Fajardo 
5. Ryan James 

Hardcore Hikers: THESE CARS WILL LEAVE AT 9:00AM

Stefani's Mazda only for a 13-mile hike: 
1. Stefani Crabtree 
2. Cali Ellis 
3. Andrew Tinka 
4. Anand 
5. David B 

Lydia's car only for a 13-mile hike 
1. Lydia 
2. Alexis Toda 
3. Antoine 
4. Anna 
5. Michael J 

Nora's car only for a 13-mile hike 
1. Nora 
2. Josh A 
3. Erik 
4. 
5. 

 People who need rides 

1. 
2. 
3. 
4... 

===Yo La Tengo in Santa Fe, 17 June===

For anyone interested, they're playing in town.

I might be interested in attending if others are going - Josh 

Anna, Eugenia, and I just got tickets. http://www.thirstyearfestival.com/concerts.html#yo We have 1 more seat left in the car. -Lydia

===Backpacking in the Pecos Wilderness===
I've been planning a full-weekend backpacking trip with a local friend of mine. We'd probably camp Friday night at the trailhead (or his parents cabin) to get an early start, set up camp, then do a lighter hike to summit Las Truchas, the second highest peak in NM. We'd return on Sunday. At a minimum, you'd need a backpack and sleeping bag. We might be able to rustle up other gear. Cars shouldn't be an issue.

Interest: 
1. Chris G. 
2. Kameron - I'm in! 
3. Fran (also have tent and stove if needed) 

===Los Alamos===

Los Alamos National Labs

From website: "Los Alamos National Laboratory is a premier national security research institution, delivering scientific and engineering solutions for the nation's most crucial and complex problems. Our primary responsibility is ensuring the safety, security, and reliability of the nation's nuclear deterrent. The Los Alamos of today emphasizes worker safety, effective operational safeguards & security, and environmental stewardship, while outstanding science remains the foundation of the Laboratory. In addition to supporting the Lab's core national security mission, our work advances bioscience, chemistry, computer science, earth and environmental sciences, materials science, and physics disciplines."

Check it out at lanl.gov

I'd like to go, and I can rent a car if there's an interested group. -Clio

I'd like to go too! -Raghav

count me in! -ryan j

If this is 25th or 26th, I'd love to join! - Taka

I would like to go on 26th! - Tomas Veloz

Some people are going on to Los Alamos from the Bandelier/Valles Caldera trip this Saturday. - Nini

===Rodeo de Santa Fe, June 22===

Sign up for the Rodeo! Opening night

It's in town and we do need an extra car. (JP)

JP's Camry 
1. [[JP]] 
2. Fran 
3. Nini 
4. Cristina M. 
5. Evelien 

Juniper's car 
1. Juniper 
2. David B. 
3. Miles 
4.Michael J. 
5.Eugenia 

People who need rides 
1. Raghav - Can rent a car if needed 
2. Elliot Aguilar 
3. 
4.

Complex Systems Summer School 2011-Blog

2011-06-24T06:40:39Z

Ehurk: /* What is Complexity? - a first attempt to explain 'my grandmother', by Evelien */

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2011}}

Use this page as an informal forum to share your opinion and discuss anything at CSSS'11.

Students are encouraged to share their observations, insights, and opinions about daily lecture content as well as extracurricular activities.

Students may be assigned a day to provide a free-form blog entry covering the topics of that day.

== Does a picture blog count, too? ==

All my pictures so far can be found at
[https://picasaweb.google.com/101826271245347003012/SantaFe?authkey=Gv1sRgCOLn6fC9v-aR1AE this website] 
I have trouble choosing between pictures, so I just put almost everything up there. The cat, the hike, some summer-school-in-action, and much more.
I have to say, I should actually tweak around with the colors and stuff, but there is simply no time.
Feel free to send me an email what your favorite picture is (nr + description), and I will send you the raw file with which you can tweak around yourself!

Best,

Evelien
[[File:Cat.jpg|left|440px|alt=Cat at SFI]] 

== What is Complexity? - a first attempt to explain it to 'my grandmother', by Evelien ==

After 2.5 weeks of complex systems summerschool, it might be time to tell about what complexity is. You might think this is an easy task after so many back to back lectures, but this is not the case. A good example is the favorite definition of complexity uttered here that stuck to the mind of most (guys):

''Complexity is like pornography: you know it when you see it.''

You can say a lot about this definition, but I think we can all agree that this definition does not really help you to understand what complexity is. I hope to do better on that account, by sketching the broad line I noticed in the lectures so far. It is important though to note that clearly from the above definition, even professionals in this field do not have one clear concept of what a complex system is. So, if after reading this (rather long) piece you have a feeling of what a complex system might be – you are almost an expert ;)

'''The general idea of Complexity'''

You come across complexity and complex systems (I will interchange the terms freely) in many areas of science. The current participants illustrate that: we have computer scientists, social scientists, archeologists, geographical information systems-persons, Mathematicians, Physicists, Economists, and much more. I would say that the explanation for this diversity is that a complex system is not a well-defined thing or process, but rather a way of looking at things, and doing research.

Some of these fields I mentioned above are ‘old’ sciences. People like Newton studied the world to try to understand it. Therefore, they made simplifying assumptions in order to study the workings of the world, or better: to make models of it. Next generations started too built on their research, then the next generation built on that research, new fields started to emerge until we have the broad science field of today.
Fortunately, we have made some progress in the past few decades or even centuries. This allows us to go far, far back to the core models of the field, and question what assumptions were made in that model – and whether we think this is a viable representation of the real world.

A good complex systems scientist will always be able to find something which is important – but currently left out. An even better complex systems scientist can borrow from other fields of research and using that knowledge to extend the model to include a new, more complicated assumption, which will make the whole process more complex. And that basically is a complex system.

'''Examples of Complex Systems'''

Not every extension of a model will make it directly a complex system: the problem itself needs to become fundamentally harder. To keep you some feeling of complex systems, I will describe three examples.

''Independence assumption''

Especially in statistics, and ‘identically independent distributed process’ is one of the favorite toys of scientists. The independency assumption basically means that when two things happen, they do not depend upon each other. Take for instance the waiting line at the supermarket: people are assumed to be joining at random. However, when the waiting line is very long, you might decide that you need to shop faster and join sooner (because you need to make an appointment), then when the line is short. So, the process may not be independent. What happens in the case of dependency is what Jim Crutchfield talked about today (all day, and still not finished ;) ).

''Continuity assumption''

Both in math and in physics, often it is assumed that you can approximate a discrete process by a continuous process. Some of you may remember the Riemann-sums (blocks underneath the graph) to approximate the area underneath the graph. The next step was to integrate the function, and use that to calculate the area underneath the graph. The latter (integrated function) is the continuous process version of the discrete process (the Riemann-sum).

Once you have integrated the function, calculating the area underneath a graph is easier than with the Riemann-sum – especially when you want to do more advanced stuff. That is why often people approximate a discrete process by a continuous process: as it generally makes things easier, and allows for exact mathematical results. But, a continuous process is not always a good representation of a discrete process.

A counter example turns out to be childishly simple (and fun). Remember the little water/sand mills for children? You put in a substance on the top, and as soon as the first bucket is full, the wheel starts to turn. If you have a continuous flow of e.g. water, the wheel will keep turning – and in this case a continuous process is a good approximation to find e.g. the speed of the wheel.
But, when we take the same wheel, and we slowly start dripping water into it, something different happens. At some frequency (and you can try this yourself) the little bucket will drip full slowly, and then turn a bit as it loses balance. A new little bucket is up, and that will drip full – but may start turning the wheel in a different direction then the one before. Predicting which way the wheel will turn, becomes a very difficult task – which issue would never be clear from the continuous process. So, the discrete process shows a feature that we cannot capture in the continuous representation.

Off course, the way a child’s toy turns seems not vital to the working of the world at large. But in fact, this is a small model of how a discrete process can result in behavior that is different from the continuous approximation – and that discovery (and playing with that) is complexity science, too.

''Networks''

Finally, I couldn’t stop before I mentioned networks. In short, this is the field of studying interactions and relations between all kinds of things: people, the internet, power grids, and so on. Basically, the network is studied in terms of connectedness, robustness, distance between nodes, and much more. Secondly, they link these things to research fields in which networks are important, such as transportation, but also human interaction. In the spread of (contagious) disease, the network of people connecting to one another is a vital part of the way disease spreads. So, studying epidemic outbreaks as a complexity scientists, you would include the (social)networks of the people involved in finding the best way to fight the disease.

''''New techniques''''

Generally, complex systems are at the front end of their research field (or, on the far boarder of their fields, if you are a bit more skeptical). You need some guts when you decide to study the internet as an organism. You need to have a dream if you are working on building a super computer with far more power than the human brain. And you may be considered plainly stupid by some, if you spent your time programming little agents who interact with each other. In short, as a complexity scientist you need to be confident and believe that you will bring science to the next level.

These complex systems are complex because they cannot be easily solved by standard technology of the field, new methods need to be developed – or can be developed using complex systems. A good example of the latter is that Alfred Huebler can let small iron bits play tetris (but as mentioned before, Alfred Huebler is said to be able to do anything if he just ‘puts up the throughput’- including wrestling crocodiles). An example of the former (new methodology) is the ever growing attention for agent based modeling: in the computer program Netlogo this would be equivalent to programming how turtles interact with each other: basically making a ‘game’ in which you tell every single turtle to e.g. turn around when he sees land, and go towards the nearest turtle he can see. All of that is complex systems research.

'''Why should you be happy there are ‘complex systems scientists’?'''

In case you are a scientist yourself, this is pretty easy: complexity research is a lot of fun, you can do very different things, meet people from many different fields, it allows for an open mind, creativity and challenging problems – and on top of that, it is very much in fashion in the greater scientific community, which may benefit your chance of getting something published.
Chances are, you are not a scientist. Why should you care? Computers taking over the world doesn’t sound like a good thing to invest taxes in, I could imagine. I am not going to completely contradict that notion: it is true that some of this research is pretty wild, and ‘we’ are not sure if ever anything useful will come out. I do not know if this is a consolation, but that is unfortunately true for a lot of research (if not all).

There is an upside: complexity research so far has lead to some pretty cool results! When trying to prevent an epidemic (large spread of disease) I think it makes sense to take into account that a busdriver will meet far more people that the average ‘I prefer to work at home’ scientist – and taking that into account in to the modelling may make the way we fight spread of disease far more effective.
Another example I find pretty cool, is that someone has made an agent-based model of a long-gone cultural society. Archeologists are better able to reconstruct and explain/clarify the way the people lived. For instance, they find that after so many years food starts to get scars in the area, so the import chicken to keep near their houses, so that they have enough to eat.

The same agent based models can explain some of the stuff currently going on in our society: from segregation of ethnicities to marriage… So, although we are not sure all complexity research is of benefit to our world, there are some pretty neat examples that say complexity research makes the world a little bit a better place.

'''In summary'''

In essence, complexity goes back to the roots of the model and the problem, compares this to the world, finds an important feature that is still missing from the model, and tries to add this. Additions can be e.g. interactions between things in the model, nonlinearity (not everything is a straight line), dependency of things (not all processes are purely random), and so on.
To solve these problems, complexity researchers try to borrow from many fields, but two of their favorites are statistics and mathematics. Another option instead of borrowing is to develop new techniques to study (new) problems.

Not all complexity research is immediately clearly usefull. Still, there are good examples of where complexity research has made a huge difference in the way we understand or solve things, such as understanding and accommodating for interactions in a process (think of the disease spread and network).

Complexity researchers come from all different kinds of backgrounds and fields – and this probably causes the fact that there is no single, clear definition of a complex system. It might even be (in my opinion), that the current ‘new’ assumptions of complexity will get accepted in each of their respective fields, and the in some years the current labeled ‘complex systems’ will not be considered to be complexity anymore, but continue their lives under a different name.

I hope though, that the essence of this complexity field will not fade. In this highly fractured world, I think it is so very important to try to come together with people from different fields and with different specialties, learn from each other and be able to step back and compare our research to what we are actually studying: the place we live. I think this is vital to do good research and especially try to push research forward in a more converging instead of diverging way.

Meeting different people and comparing your own believes and assumptions with the world, can be rewarding for everyone - scientist, and non scientist. Therefore I would like to end, now that you have a little bit of feeling for complexity, by wishing everyone a little complexity in their life.

Complex Systems Summer School 2011-Blog

2011-06-24T05:53:42Z

Ehurk:

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2011}}

Use this page as an informal forum to share your opinion and discuss anything at CSSS'11.

Students are encouraged to share their observations, insights, and opinions about daily lecture content as well as extracurricular activities.

Students may be assigned a day to provide a free-form blog entry covering the topics of that day.

== Does a picture blog count, too? ==

All my pictures so far can be found at
[https://picasaweb.google.com/101826271245347003012/SantaFe?authkey=Gv1sRgCOLn6fC9v-aR1AE this website] 
I have trouble choosing between pictures, so I just put almost everything up there. The cat, the hike, some summer-school-in-action, and much more.
I have to say, I should actually tweak around with the colors and stuff, but there is simply no time.
Feel free to send me an email what your favorite picture is (nr + description), and I will send you the raw file with which you can tweak around yourself!

Best,

Evelien
[[File:Cat.jpg|left|440px|alt=Cat at SFI]] 

== What is Complexity? - a first attempt to explain 'my grandmother', by Evelien ==

After 2.5 weeks of complex systems summerschool, it might be time to tell about what complexity is. You might think this is an easy task after so many back to back lectures, but this is not the case. A good example is the favorite definition of complexity uttered here that stuck to the mind of most (guys):

''Complexity is like pornography: you know it when you see it.''

You can say a lot about this definition, but I think we can all agree that this definition does not really help you to understand what complexity is. I hope to do better on that account, by sketching the broad line I noticed in the lectures so far. It is important though to note that clearly from the above definition, even professionals in this field do not have one clear concept of what a complex system is. So, if after reading this (rather long) piece you have a feeling of what a complex system might be – you are almost an expert ;)

'''The general idea of Complexity'''

You come across complexity and complex systems (I will interchange the terms freely) in many areas of science. The current participants illustrate that: we have computer scientists, social scientists, archeologists, geographical information systems-persons, Mathematicians, Physicists, Economists, and much more. I would say that the explanation for this diversity is that a complex system is not a well-defined thing or process, but rather a way of looking at things, and doing research.

Some of these fields I mentioned above are ‘old’ sciences. People like Newton studied the world to try to understand it. Therefore, they made simplifying assumptions in order to study the workings of the world, or better: to make models of it. Next generations started too built on their research, then the next generation built on that research, new fields started to emerge until we have the broad science field of today.
Fortunately, we have made some progress in the past few decades or even centuries. This allows us to go far, far back to the core models of the field, and question what assumptions were made in that model – and whether we think this is a viable representation of the real world.

A good complex systems scientist will always be able to find something which is important – but currently left out. An even better complex systems scientist can borrow from other fields of research and using that knowledge to extend the model to include a new, more complicated assumption, which will make the whole process more complex. And that basically is a complex system.

'''Examples of Complex Systems'''

Not every extension of a model will make it directly a complex system: the problem itself needs to become fundamentally harder. To keep you some feeling of complex systems, I will describe three examples.

''Independence assumption''

Especially in statistics, and ‘identically independent distributed process’ is one of the favorite toys of scientists. The independency assumption basically means that when two things happen, they do not depend upon each other. Take for instance the waiting line at the supermarket: people are assumed to be joining at random. However, when the waiting line is very long, you might decide that you need to shop faster and join sooner (because you need to make an appointment), then when the line is short. So, the process may not be independent. What happens in the case of dependency is what Jim Crutchfield talked about today (all day, and still not finished ;) ).

''Continuity assumption''

Both in math and in physics, often it is assumed that you can approximate a discrete process by a continuous process. Some of you may remember the Riemann-sums (blocks underneath the graph) to approximate the area underneath the graph. The next step was to integrate the function, and use that to calculate the area underneath the graph. The latter (integrated function) is the continuous process version of the discrete process (the Riemann-sum).

Once you have integrated the function, calculating the area underneath a graph is easier than with the Riemann-sum – especially when you want to do more advanced stuff. That is why often people approximate a discrete process by a continuous process: as it generally makes things easier, and allows for exact mathematical results. But, a continuous process is not always a good representation of a discrete process.

A counter example turns out to be childishly simple (and fun). Remember the little water/sand mills for children? You put in a substance on the top, and as soon as the first bucket is full, the wheel starts to turn. If you have a continuous flow of e.g. water, the wheel will keep turning – and in this case a continuous process is a good approximation to find e.g. the speed of the wheel.
But, when we take the same wheel, and we slowly start dripping water into it, something different happens. At some frequency (and you can try this yourself) the little bucket will drip full slowly, and then turn a bit as it loses balance. A new little bucket is up, and that will drip full – but may start turning the wheel in a different direction then the one before. Predicting which way the wheel will turn, becomes a very difficult task – which issue would never be clear from the continuous process. So, the discrete process shows a feature that we cannot capture in the continuous representation.

Off course, the way a child’s toy turns seems not vital to the working of the world at large. But in fact, this is a small model of how a discrete process can result in behavior that is different from the continuous approximation – and that discovery (and playing with that) is complexity science, too.

''Networks''

Finally, I couldn’t stop before I mentioned networks. In short, this is the field of studying interactions and relations between all kinds of things: people, the internet, power grids, and so on. Basically, the network is studied in terms of connectedness, robustness, distance between nodes, and much more. Secondly, they link these things to research fields in which networks are important, such as transportation, but also human interaction. In the spread of (contagious) disease, the network of people connecting to one another is a vital part of the way disease spreads. So, studying epidemic outbreaks as a complexity scientists, you would include the (social)networks of the people involved in finding the best way to fight the disease.

''''New techniques''''

Generally, complex systems are at the front end of their research field (or, on the far boarder of their fields, if you are a bit more skeptical). You need some guts when you decide to study the internet as an organism. You need to have a dream if you are working on building a super computer with far more power than the human brain. And you may be considered plainly stupid by some, if you spent your time programming little agents who interact with each other. In short, as a complexity scientist you need to be confident and believe that you will bring science to the next level.

These complex systems are complex because they cannot be easily solved by standard technology of the field, new methods need to be developed – or can be developed using complex systems. A good example of the latter is that Alfred Huebler can let small iron bits play tetris (but as mentioned before, Alfred Huebler is said to be able to do anything if he just ‘puts up the throughput’- including wrestling crocodiles). An example of the former (new methodology) is the ever growing attention for agent based modeling: in the computer program Netlogo this would be equivalent to programming how turtles interact with each other: basically making a ‘game’ in which you tell every single turtle to e.g. turn around when he sees land, and go towards the nearest turtle he can see. All of that is complex systems research.

'''Why should you be happy there are ‘complex systems scientists’?'''

In case you are a scientist yourself, this is pretty easy: complexity research is a lot of fun, you can do very different things, meet people from many different fields, it allows for an open mind, creativity and challenging problems – and on top of that, it is very much in fashion in the greater scientific community, which may benefit your chance of getting something published.
Chances are, you are not a scientist. Why should you care? Computers taking over the world doesn’t sound like a good thing to invest taxes in, I could imagine. I am not going to completely contradict that notion: it is true that some of this research is pretty wild, and ‘we’ are not sure if ever anything useful will come out. I do not know if this is a consolation, but that is unfortunately true for a lot of research (if not all).

There is an upside: complexity research so far has lead to some pretty cool results! When trying to prevent an epidemic (large spread of disease) I think it makes sense to take into account that a busdriver will meet far more people that the average ‘I prefer to work at home’ scientist – and taking that into account in to the modelling may make the way we fight spread of disease far more effective.
Another example I find pretty cool, is that someone has made an agent-based model of a long-gone cultural society. Archeologists are better able to reconstruct and explain/clarify the way the people lived. For instance, they find that after so many years food starts to get scars in the area, so the import chicken to keep near their houses, so that they have enough to eat.

The same agent based models can explain some of the stuff currently going on in our society: from segregation of ethnicities to marriage… So, although we are not sure all complexity research is of benefit to our world, there are some pretty neat examples that say complexity research makes the world a little bit a better place.

'''In summary'''

In essence, complexity goes back to the roots of the model and the problem, compares this to the world, finds an important feature that is still missing from the model, and tries to add this. Additions can be e.g. interactions between things in the model, nonlinearity (not everything is a straight line), dependency of things (not all processes are purely random), and so on.
To solve these problems, complexity researchers try to borrow from many fields, but two of their favorites are statistics and mathematics. Another option instead of borrowing is to develop new techniques to study (new) problems.

Not all complexity research is immediately clearly usefull. Still, there are good examples of where complexity research has made a huge difference in the way we understand or solve things, such as understanding and accommodating for interactions in a process (think of the disease spread and network).

Complexity researchers come from all different kinds of backgrounds and fields – and this probably causes the fact that there is no single, clear definition of a complex system. It might even be (in my opinion), that the current ‘new’ assumptions of complexity will get accepted in each of their respective fields, and the in some years the current labeled ‘complex systems’ will not be considered to be complexity anymore, but continue their lives under a different name.

I hope though, that the essence of this complexity field will not fade. In this highly fractured world, I think it is so very important to try to come together with people from different fields and with different specialties, learn from each other and be able to step back and compare our research to what we are actually studying: the place we live. I think this is vital to do good research and especially try to push research forward in a more converging instead of diverging way.

Meeting different people and comparing your own believes and assumptions with the world, can be rewarding for everyone - scientist, and non scientist. Therefore I would like to end, now that you have a little bit of feeling for complexity, by wishing everyone a little complexity in their life.

Complex Systems Summer School 2011-Blog

2011-06-24T05:52:42Z

Ehurk:

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2011}}

Use this page as an informal forum to share your opinion and discuss anything at CSSS'11.

Students are encouraged to share their observations, insights, and opinions about daily lecture content as well as extracurricular activities.

Students may be assigned a day to provide a free-form blog entry covering the topics of that day.

== Does a picture blog count, too? ==

All my pictures so far can be found at
[https://picasaweb.google.com/101826271245347003012/SantaFe?authkey=Gv1sRgCOLn6fC9v-aR1AE this website] 
I have trouble choosing between pictures, so I just put almost everything up there. The cat, the hike, some summer-school-in-action, and much more.
I have to say, I should actually tweak around with the colors and stuff, but there is simply no time.
Feel free to send me an email what your favorite picture is (nr + description), and I will send you the raw file with which you can tweak around yourself!

Best,

Evelien
[[File:Cat.jpg|left|440px|alt=Cat at SFI]]

== What is Complexity? - a first attempt to explain 'my grandmother', by Evelien ==

After 2.5 weeks of complex systems summerschool, it might be time to tell about what complexity is. You might think this is an easy task after so many back to back lectures, but this is not the case. A good example is the favorite definition of complexity uttered here that stuck to the mind of most (guys):

'‘Complexity is like pornography: you know it when you see it.'’

You can say a lot about this definition, but I think we can all agree that this definition does not really help you to understand what complexity is. I hope to do better on that account, by sketching the broad line I noticed in the lectures so far. It is important though to note that clearly from the above definition, even professionals in this field do not have one clear concept of what a complex system is. So, if after reading this (rather long) piece you have a feeling of what a complex system might be – you are almost an expert ;)

'''The general idea of Complexity'''

You come across complexity and complex systems (I will interchange the terms freely) in many areas of science. The current participants illustrate that: we have computer scientists, social scientists, archeologists, geographical information systems-persons, Mathematicians, Physicists, Economists, and much more. I would say that the explanation for this diversity is that a complex system is not a well-defined thing or process, but rather a way of looking at things, and doing research.

Some of these fields I mentioned above are ‘old’ sciences. People like Newton studied the world to try to understand it. Therefore, they made simplifying assumptions in order to study the workings of the world, or better: to make models of it. Next generations started too built on their research, then the next generation built on that research, new fields started to emerge until we have the broad science field of today.
Fortunately, we have made some progress in the past few decades or even centuries. This allows us to go far, far back to the core models of the field, and question what assumptions were made in that model – and whether we think this is a viable representation of the real world.

A good complex systems scientist will always be able to find something which is important – but currently left out. An even better complex systems scientist can borrow from other fields of research and using that knowledge to extend the model to include a new, more complicated assumption, which will make the whole process more complex. And that basically is a complex system.

'''Examples of Complex Systems'''

Not every extension of a model will make it directly a complex system: the problem itself needs to become fundamentally harder. To keep you some feeling of complex systems, I will describe three examples.

''Independence assumption''

Especially in statistics, and ‘identically independent distributed process’ is one of the favorite toys of scientists. The independency assumption basically means that when two things happen, they do not depend upon each other. Take for instance the waiting line at the supermarket: people are assumed to be joining at random. However, when the waiting line is very long, you might decide that you need to shop faster and join sooner (because you need to make an appointment), then when the line is short. So, the process may not be independent. What happens in the case of dependency is what Jim Crutchfield talked about today (all day, and still not finished ;) ).

''Continuity assumption''

Both in math and in physics, often it is assumed that you can approximate a discrete process by a continuous process. Some of you may remember the Riemann-sums (blocks underneath the graph) to approximate the area underneath the graph. The next step was to integrate the function, and use that to calculate the area underneath the graph. The latter (integrated function) is the continuous process version of the discrete process (the Riemann-sum).

Once you have integrated the function, calculating the area underneath a graph is easier than with the Riemann-sum – especially when you want to do more advanced stuff. That is why often people approximate a discrete process by a continuous process: as it generally makes things easier, and allows for exact mathematical results. But, a continuous process is not always a good representation of a discrete process.

A counter example turns out to be childishly simple (and fun). Remember the little water/sand mills for children? You put in a substance on the top, and as soon as the first bucket is full, the wheel starts to turn. If you have a continuous flow of e.g. water, the wheel will keep turning – and in this case a continuous process is a good approximation to find e.g. the speed of the wheel.
But, when we take the same wheel, and we slowly start dripping water into it, something different happens. At some frequency (and you can try this yourself) the little bucket will drip full slowly, and then turn a bit as it loses balance. A new little bucket is up, and that will drip full – but may start turning the wheel in a different direction then the one before. Predicting which way the wheel will turn, becomes a very difficult task – which issue would never be clear from the continuous process. So, the discrete process shows a feature that we cannot capture in the continuous representation.

Off course, the way a child’s toy turns seems not vital to the working of the world at large. But in fact, this is a small model of how a discrete process can result in behavior that is different from the continuous approximation – and that discovery (and playing with that) is complexity science, too.

''Networks''

Finally, I couldn’t stop before I mentioned networks. In short, this is the field of studying interactions and relations between all kinds of things: people, the internet, power grids, and so on. Basically, the network is studied in terms of connectedness, robustness, distance between nodes, and much more. Secondly, they link these things to research fields in which networks are important, such as transportation, but also human interaction. In the spread of (contagious) disease, the network of people connecting to one another is a vital part of the way disease spreads. So, studying epidemic outbreaks as a complexity scientists, you would include the (social)networks of the people involved in finding the best way to fight the disease.

''''New techniques''''

Generally, complex systems are at the front end of their research field (or, on the far boarder of their fields, if you are a bit more skeptical). You need some guts when you decide to study the internet as an organism. You need to have a dream if you are working on building a super computer with far more power than the human brain. And you may be considered plainly stupid by some, if you spent your time programming little agents who interact with each other. In short, as a complexity scientist you need to be confident and believe that you will bring science to the next level.

These complex systems are complex because they cannot be easily solved by standard technology of the field, new methods need to be developed – or can be developed using complex systems. A good example of the latter is that Alfred Huebler can let small iron bits play tetris (but as mentioned before, Alfred Huebler is said to be able to do anything if he just ‘puts up the throughput’- including wrestling crocodiles). An example of the former (new methodology) is the ever growing attention for agent based modeling: in the computer program Netlogo this would be equivalent to programming how turtles interact with each other: basically making a ‘game’ in which you tell every single turtle to e.g. turn around when he sees land, and go towards the nearest turtle he can see. All of that is complex systems research.

'''Why should you be happy there are ‘complex systems scientists’?'''

In case you are a scientist yourself, this is pretty easy: complexity research is a lot of fun, you can do very different things, meet people from many different fields, it allows for an open mind, creativity and challenging problems – and on top of that, it is very much in fashion in the greater scientific community, which may benefit your chance of getting something published.
Chances are, you are not a scientist. Why should you care? Computers taking over the world doesn’t sound like a good thing to invest taxes in, I could imagine. I am not going to completely contradict that notion: it is true that some of this research is pretty wild, and ‘we’ are not sure if ever anything useful will come out. I do not know if this is a consolation, but that is unfortunately true for a lot of research (if not all).

There is an upside: complexity research so far has lead to some pretty cool results! When trying to prevent an epidemic (large spread of disease) I think it makes sense to take into account that a busdriver will meet far more people that the average ‘I prefer to work at home’ scientist – and taking that into account in to the modelling may make the way we fight spread of disease far more effective.
Another example I find pretty cool, is that someone has made an agent-based model of a long-gone cultural society. Archeologists are better able to reconstruct and explain/clarify the way the people lived. For instance, they find that after so many years food starts to get scars in the area, so the import chicken to keep near their houses, so that they have enough to eat.

The same agent based models can explain some of the stuff currently going on in our society: from segregation of ethnicities to marriage… So, although we are not sure all complexity research is of benefit to our world, there are some pretty neat examples that say complexity research makes the world a little bit a better place.

'''In summary'''

In essence, complexity goes back to the roots of the model and the problem, compares this to the world, finds an important feature that is still missing from the model, and tries to add this. Additions can be e.g. interactions between things in the model, nonlinearity (not everything is a straight line), dependency of things (not all processes are purely random), and so on.
To solve these problems, complexity researchers try to borrow from many fields, but two of their favorites are statistics and mathematics. Another option instead of borrowing is to develop new techniques to study (new) problems.

Not all complexity research is immediately clearly usefull. Still, there are good examples of where complexity research has made a huge difference in the way we understand or solve things, such as understanding and accommodating for interactions in a process (think of the disease spread and network).

Complexity researchers come from all different kinds of backgrounds and fields – and this probably causes the fact that there is no single, clear definition of a complex system. It might even be (in my opinion), that the current ‘new’ assumptions of complexity will get accepted in each of their respective fields, and the in some years the current labeled ‘complex systems’ will not be considered to be complexity anymore, but continue their lives under a different name.

I hope though, that the essence of this complexity field will not fade. In this highly fractured world, I think it is so very important to try to come together with people from different fields and with different specialties, learn from each other and be able to step back and compare our research to what we are actually studying: the place we live. I think this is vital to do good research and especially try to push research forward in a more converging instead of diverging way.

Meeting different people and comparing your own believes and assumptions with the world, can be rewarding for everyone - scientist, and non scientist. Therefore I would like to end, now that you have a little bit of feeling for complexity, by wishing everyone a little complexity in their life.

Complex Systems Summer School 2011-Projects & Working Groups

2011-06-23T22:42:21Z

Ehurk: /* The CSSS11-network challenge */

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2011}}

If you'd like to work on a project with other members of the group, please use this page to organize your thoughts and efforts. We'll schedule a time when we can show off your work towards the end of the program.

==Keywords==

Hey Guys! Some of your research interests have been entered. Hopefully this can give us a better idea of what we are studying, and how we can collaborate for the final challenge. They are organized in a [https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ak7533_HL5TadHdhRUFyWGVLRHlmN2liSEVtR2FDUEE&hl=en_US google doc].

Hey Again! Here are two versions of the GML. The first is non-editable, it works. The second can be messed around with like a normal sharable google doc. Please remember to cut and paste ALL of the text (No bracket left behind!) into a text editor of your choice (like notepad) and save it as a .gml. There is a code called "value", this is so you can manipulate the PeopleNodes and the SubjectNodes as separate variables. If you have trouble, let me know. Again, apologies for misspellings and mis-placing-you-in-the-mega-universe-of-stuff-to-study.

ALPHA:
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/15eViqP9BDEsDRqw1Z-R3LnOB04AN57o631YeCxTQQsk/edit?hl=en_US ALPHA GML KEYWORD NETWORK!]

BETA:
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PHDX8LJg-llngEe7tDuQrJTdi6i8q8xwsM7l6dB5oCE/edit?hl=en_US BETA GML KEYWORD NETWORK!]

-Clio

Hey Guys! Some of your research interests have been entered. Hopefully this can give us a better idea of what we are studying, and how we can collaborate for the final challenge. They are organized in a google doc for sorting, searching etc, and all should have editing privileges. Sorry for typos!

[https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ak7533_HL5TadHdhRUFyWGVLRHlmN2liSEVtR2FDUEE&hl=en_US LINK TO GOOGLE DOC SPREADSHEET]

CHECK BACK FOR A NETWORK OF OUR INTERESTS!!!!!!

-Clio

==Meeting with Geoffrey West==

A group of us were interested to continue a discussion with Geoffrey West following his lecture this evening. We will be meeting over lunch next Wednesday 15th June at SFI in the medium conference room. Please add your name to the below list if you would like to attend. 
Nadja Kunz 
Martin Hilbert 
Shweta Singh 
Fran Moore 
Matteo Gagliolo 
Kevin Carlson 
Raghad Chawla 
Jacob Jensen 
Cristina Metgher 
Alejandro Fajardo 
Lydia Smith 
Antoine Allard 
Michael Sachs 
Nicolas Paez 
Christian Gunning 
Nathan Wang 

==Chaotic DJs==

I'd like to play around with the idea of using chaotic attractors to create music, as introduced by Liz Bradley. If anyone else is interested, please say so below! Ideally, I'd love to create a new piece of music (perhaps even recording a few of the budding musicians at the summer school if possible!), pull the individual parts of the composition apart and then use chaotic attractors to put them back together in new (and constantly evolving) ways. I have music production software on my laptop that we can use as a backbone, but we'd need to work out how to program something so that the differential equations controlled it (or otherwise figure out how to use the DEs to make a composition that we then record within the software - perhaps an easier option!) I'd like to hear other people's ideas about what elements of the piece the chaotic attractors could be used to manipulate - Liz's example only used them to re-order pitch, but I'm sure there are other things that we could do too. Hopefully this could be a project that we could play with in our spare time - I'm also looking to join in with a more academic project too, but I think this could potentially be a very enjoyable side-project. -Martin Gould

Interested: 
Anna Deluca 
Nini Zhang (I'm particularly interested variations as defined computationally v musically) 
Stefani Crabtree (What a great idea! I'm a musician: www.stefanicrabtree.com) 
Lydia Smith (I hope it's not too late to jump on board!) 
Sean Roberts

How about having a quick meeting to discuss ideas on Thursday lunch time? Dining hall at noon? The original paper that Liz talked about is here: [http://www.aip.org/journals/chaos/95_1.pdf] perhaps we could discuss which of the original ideas we'd like to use and also brainstorm some new ones that we'd like to try out. -Martin

[[A Page for Mysterious Things]] 
In other words, it's the talk page for members of this group. It's not exciting, don't look at it.

==The CSSS11-network challenge==
'''MEETING THURSDAY 23 AT LUNCH''' 
Discussing ongoing and new ideas for analysis. Mainly focussed on using current available data.
Discussion in canteen, just find me (Evelien). 

'''General Idea Project''' 
We have by now quiet some data. Anyone interested can download the below files, and play around. Just let me know, and I will keep the overview here. At the end, all studies combine to one study of our network. 

''Current Questions'' (People working in will be entered before question, feel free to add questions) 
- Is there interaction between people from different disciplines? 
- Is the interaction correlated to the country of residence of participants? 
- To what extend is there a correlation between external factors (first people met, location of dorm) and contacts? 
- How do the contacts of a person evolve over time? 
- Do we have 'hubs', and can we explain why these people have become hubs from either internal factors (nr of contacts) or external factors (type of person/area of research/...) 
- What does a graphical study of our network tell us? 
- What are statistical properties of our network? 

Files:<\br>
Will appear soon, whenever I have made my peace with R again... 

[[File:DataS1_22June.xlsx]] 
[[File:Legenda.xls]] 
If you need more explanation, let me (Evelien) know.

'''MEETING TUESDAY 21 AFTER LECTURES''' 
Coming Tuesday, 20 minutes after the lectures end*, I will organize a get together on this project. Everyone interested, please feel welcome. I will announce the location later, here. 
Please, do the following three things: 

1) If you are interested in the analysis, if you have not yet done so, please feel in the survey (we need data!) 
2) Think about what kind of thing you want to bring to this group: passive discussion/knowledge, or active ideas, hands on data analysis, and such 
3) In the latter case of active participation, formulate your ideas in a less-than-5-minute (without slides) old fashioned talk/reasoning 

We will have approx. 5 min idea-statements followed by approx. 5 minute positive, constructive discussion (this will be like a brainstorm session, so all ideas are welcome). 
After we have heard all ideas, the people who want to actively participate will be strongly involved in making a practical schedule.
I plan to have a first (anonymous) data-set available on Tuesday, if I’m lucky, before that. 

*I know that this will coincide with the individual talks of us, which are really interesting, too. The schedule with the labs, evening lectures, and so on, is just too full to do anything else. If you now have a double appointment, one solution is always to (convince your favorite speaker) to present in the last week. 

Thank you for all your help and looking forward to Tuesday! 

Evelien 

PS 
We might need some help with getting the data into a nice structure and such. If converting excel files to graphs is something you like to do, please drop me an email.

'''About the project''' 
Today the Networks Module has started. One of the well-known examples of a network, is a social network.
Did you realize you have been working hard on an (almost) completely new social network in the past few days?

How do these networks come in to place? How do we make friends? Will we be a fully connected network? How many hubs do we have - and can we explain how these hubs come in to place?

This is an excellent opportunity to find some answers to these questions!

The idea is to base the results on the contacts people make. Simply put: who did you have a conversation with? By noting this regularly, we can see the connectedness and sorts of the network evolve over time.

The plan is to collect data on 
1) The evolvement of the network over time, in terms of nr of contacts (conversations lasting over 10 minutes) per approx. 2 days 
2) The 'final' network, as in the people you feel connected to (would like to contact for science or social activities) 

All results will be processed anonymously and will appear (at the end of the summerschool) on the wiki.

We need your help off course, to answer these questions. 
The first survey can be found at: www.thesistools.com/web/?id=20584 

If you are interested in this project, I will organize some discussion meeting (probably in the next week). For now: add your name to the list below, and send in the survey! (while encouraging as much of your connections as you can to do so, too ;) )

If you have any questions, send a message to ehuk at rsm dot nl.

Thank you so much for your help!

The CSSS11-network challenge team 
- Evelien 
- Tomas 
- Clio 
- Randy 
- Antoine 
- JP 
- Cristina M. 
- ....(put your name here if you are in any way interested) 

[http://erzuli.ss.uci.edu/R.stuff/ Various SNA packages for R] (SNA can also be downloaded through the package manager) 

[http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/sna/index.html The SNA package for R from CRAN]

==Econophysics/Economics Working Group==

Akira, Veronica and I have been discussing some econophysics-type problems recently, and we are going to set up a small working group to meet and discuss our work and problems that we've been thinking about. We will be talking about using ideas from complex systems (such as agent-based modelling, statistical mechanics, etc.) to re-visit traditional problems from economics. We haven't set a date for our first meeting yet, but it's likely to be early next week. Please add your name to the list below if you'd like to come along, either to talk or just to listen! 
Martin Gould 
Akira Toda 
Veronica Gheorghiade 
Shweta Singh 
Nicolas Paez 
Matteo Gagliolo 
Fran Moore 
Ryan j 
Alejandro Fajardo (quietly attending) 
Ryan Baird 
Cali Ellis 
 
I've had a chat with a couple of people today, and it seems like Monday 28th of June at 6pm could work for most people. Would people be interested in trying out something a bit old-school: a blackboard session? We see lots of Powerpoint presentations every day, so I thought this might mix things up a bit. For those of us that want to speak (and it's completely fine if you'd like to come along and just listen), we could take it in turns either presenting some of our research or discussing a problem that we're facing in our work, and want some ideas on. I think if we could keep it discussion-group style, this could be an excellent way of generating interdisciplinary ideas for everyone. - Martin

==Complex Systems App==

Would anyone be interested in teaming up to develop a complex systems-themed app for iPhone or iPad? The idea is inspired by NSF's gorgeous [http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/science360-for-ipad/id439928181?mt=8 Science360 app for iPad], as well as [http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/movies-mobile/id424304994?mt=8 Movies Mobile] from the New England Complex Systems Institute.

I, myself, do not know how to write an app, but apparently [http://www.smallcloudbuilder.com/apps/articles/376-how-to-write-an-iphone-app-in-14-days it can be done in 14 days]. If anyone is interested, sign up (with a concept if you have one) and we can pull together a meeting soon.

Complex Systems Summer School 2011-Projects & Working Groups

2011-06-23T22:37:18Z

Ehurk: /* The CSSS11-network challenge */

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2011}}

If you'd like to work on a project with other members of the group, please use this page to organize your thoughts and efforts. We'll schedule a time when we can show off your work towards the end of the program.

==Keywords==

Hey Guys! Some of your research interests have been entered. Hopefully this can give us a better idea of what we are studying, and how we can collaborate for the final challenge. They are organized in a [https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ak7533_HL5TadHdhRUFyWGVLRHlmN2liSEVtR2FDUEE&hl=en_US google doc].

Hey Again! Here are two versions of the GML. The first is non-editable, it works. The second can be messed around with like a normal sharable google doc. Please remember to cut and paste ALL of the text (No bracket left behind!) into a text editor of your choice (like notepad) and save it as a .gml. There is a code called "value", this is so you can manipulate the PeopleNodes and the SubjectNodes as separate variables. If you have trouble, let me know. Again, apologies for misspellings and mis-placing-you-in-the-mega-universe-of-stuff-to-study.

ALPHA:
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/15eViqP9BDEsDRqw1Z-R3LnOB04AN57o631YeCxTQQsk/edit?hl=en_US ALPHA GML KEYWORD NETWORK!]

BETA:
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PHDX8LJg-llngEe7tDuQrJTdi6i8q8xwsM7l6dB5oCE/edit?hl=en_US BETA GML KEYWORD NETWORK!]

-Clio

Hey Guys! Some of your research interests have been entered. Hopefully this can give us a better idea of what we are studying, and how we can collaborate for the final challenge. They are organized in a google doc for sorting, searching etc, and all should have editing privileges. Sorry for typos!

[https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ak7533_HL5TadHdhRUFyWGVLRHlmN2liSEVtR2FDUEE&hl=en_US LINK TO GOOGLE DOC SPREADSHEET]

CHECK BACK FOR A NETWORK OF OUR INTERESTS!!!!!!

-Clio

==Meeting with Geoffrey West==

A group of us were interested to continue a discussion with Geoffrey West following his lecture this evening. We will be meeting over lunch next Wednesday 15th June at SFI in the medium conference room. Please add your name to the below list if you would like to attend. 
Nadja Kunz 
Martin Hilbert 
Shweta Singh 
Fran Moore 
Matteo Gagliolo 
Kevin Carlson 
Raghad Chawla 
Jacob Jensen 
Cristina Metgher 
Alejandro Fajardo 
Lydia Smith 
Antoine Allard 
Michael Sachs 
Nicolas Paez 
Christian Gunning 
Nathan Wang 

==Chaotic DJs==

I'd like to play around with the idea of using chaotic attractors to create music, as introduced by Liz Bradley. If anyone else is interested, please say so below! Ideally, I'd love to create a new piece of music (perhaps even recording a few of the budding musicians at the summer school if possible!), pull the individual parts of the composition apart and then use chaotic attractors to put them back together in new (and constantly evolving) ways. I have music production software on my laptop that we can use as a backbone, but we'd need to work out how to program something so that the differential equations controlled it (or otherwise figure out how to use the DEs to make a composition that we then record within the software - perhaps an easier option!) I'd like to hear other people's ideas about what elements of the piece the chaotic attractors could be used to manipulate - Liz's example only used them to re-order pitch, but I'm sure there are other things that we could do too. Hopefully this could be a project that we could play with in our spare time - I'm also looking to join in with a more academic project too, but I think this could potentially be a very enjoyable side-project. -Martin Gould

Interested: 
Anna Deluca 
Nini Zhang (I'm particularly interested variations as defined computationally v musically) 
Stefani Crabtree (What a great idea! I'm a musician: www.stefanicrabtree.com) 
Lydia Smith (I hope it's not too late to jump on board!) 
Sean Roberts

How about having a quick meeting to discuss ideas on Thursday lunch time? Dining hall at noon? The original paper that Liz talked about is here: [http://www.aip.org/journals/chaos/95_1.pdf] perhaps we could discuss which of the original ideas we'd like to use and also brainstorm some new ones that we'd like to try out. -Martin

[[A Page for Mysterious Things]] 
In other words, it's the talk page for members of this group. It's not exciting, don't look at it.

==The CSSS11-network challenge==
'''MEETING THURSDAY 23 AT LUNCH''' 
Discussing ongoing and new ideas for analysis. Mainly focussed on using current available data.
Discussion in canteen, just find me (Evelien). 

'''General Idea Project''' 
We have by now quiet some data. Anyone interested can download the below files, and play around. Just let me know, and I will keep the overview here. At the end, all studies combine to one study of our network. 

''Current Questions'' (People working in will be entered before question, feel free to add questions) 
- Is there interaction between people from different disciplines? 
- Is the interaction correlated to the country of residence of participants? 
- To what extend is there a correlation between external factors (first people met, location of dorm) and contacts? 
- How do the contacts of a person evolve over time? 
- Do we have 'hubs', and can we explain why these people have become hubs from either internal factors (nr of contacts) or external factors (type of person/area of research/...) 
- What does a graphical study of our network tell us? 
- What are statistical properties of our network? 

Files:<\br>
Will appear soon, whenever I have made my peace with R again... 

[[File:DataS1_22June.zip]] 
[[File:Legenda.xls]] 
If you need more explanation, let me (Evelien) know.

'''MEETING TUESDAY 21 AFTER LECTURES''' 
Coming Tuesday, 20 minutes after the lectures end*, I will organize a get together on this project. Everyone interested, please feel welcome. I will announce the location later, here. 
Please, do the following three things: 

1) If you are interested in the analysis, if you have not yet done so, please feel in the survey (we need data!) 
2) Think about what kind of thing you want to bring to this group: passive discussion/knowledge, or active ideas, hands on data analysis, and such 
3) In the latter case of active participation, formulate your ideas in a less-than-5-minute (without slides) old fashioned talk/reasoning 

We will have approx. 5 min idea-statements followed by approx. 5 minute positive, constructive discussion (this will be like a brainstorm session, so all ideas are welcome). 
After we have heard all ideas, the people who want to actively participate will be strongly involved in making a practical schedule.
I plan to have a first (anonymous) data-set available on Tuesday, if I’m lucky, before that. 

*I know that this will coincide with the individual talks of us, which are really interesting, too. The schedule with the labs, evening lectures, and so on, is just too full to do anything else. If you now have a double appointment, one solution is always to (convince your favorite speaker) to present in the last week. 

Thank you for all your help and looking forward to Tuesday! 

Evelien 

PS 
We might need some help with getting the data into a nice structure and such. If converting excel files to graphs is something you like to do, please drop me an email.

'''About the project''' 
Today the Networks Module has started. One of the well-known examples of a network, is a social network.
Did you realize you have been working hard on an (almost) completely new social network in the past few days?

How do these networks come in to place? How do we make friends? Will we be a fully connected network? How many hubs do we have - and can we explain how these hubs come in to place?

This is an excellent opportunity to find some answers to these questions!

The idea is to base the results on the contacts people make. Simply put: who did you have a conversation with? By noting this regularly, we can see the connectedness and sorts of the network evolve over time.

The plan is to collect data on 
1) The evolvement of the network over time, in terms of nr of contacts (conversations lasting over 10 minutes) per approx. 2 days 
2) The 'final' network, as in the people you feel connected to (would like to contact for science or social activities) 

All results will be processed anonymously and will appear (at the end of the summerschool) on the wiki.

We need your help off course, to answer these questions. 
The first survey can be found at: www.thesistools.com/web/?id=20584 

If you are interested in this project, I will organize some discussion meeting (probably in the next week). For now: add your name to the list below, and send in the survey! (while encouraging as much of your connections as you can to do so, too ;) )

If you have any questions, send a message to ehuk at rsm dot nl.

Thank you so much for your help!

The CSSS11-network challenge team 
- Evelien 
- Tomas 
- Clio 
- Randy 
- Antoine 
- JP 
- Cristina M. 
- ....(put your name here if you are in any way interested) 

[http://erzuli.ss.uci.edu/R.stuff/ Various SNA packages for R] (SNA can also be downloaded through the package manager) 

[http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/sna/index.html The SNA package for R from CRAN]

==Econophysics/Economics Working Group==

Akira, Veronica and I have been discussing some econophysics-type problems recently, and we are going to set up a small working group to meet and discuss our work and problems that we've been thinking about. We will be talking about using ideas from complex systems (such as agent-based modelling, statistical mechanics, etc.) to re-visit traditional problems from economics. We haven't set a date for our first meeting yet, but it's likely to be early next week. Please add your name to the list below if you'd like to come along, either to talk or just to listen! 
Martin Gould 
Akira Toda 
Veronica Gheorghiade 
Shweta Singh 
Nicolas Paez 
Matteo Gagliolo 
Fran Moore 
Ryan j 
Alejandro Fajardo (quietly attending) 
Ryan Baird 
Cali Ellis 
 
I've had a chat with a couple of people today, and it seems like Monday 28th of June at 6pm could work for most people. Would people be interested in trying out something a bit old-school: a blackboard session? We see lots of Powerpoint presentations every day, so I thought this might mix things up a bit. For those of us that want to speak (and it's completely fine if you'd like to come along and just listen), we could take it in turns either presenting some of our research or discussing a problem that we're facing in our work, and want some ideas on. I think if we could keep it discussion-group style, this could be an excellent way of generating interdisciplinary ideas for everyone. - Martin

==Complex Systems App==

Would anyone be interested in teaming up to develop a complex systems-themed app for iPhone or iPad? The idea is inspired by NSF's gorgeous [http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/science360-for-ipad/id439928181?mt=8 Science360 app for iPad], as well as [http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/movies-mobile/id424304994?mt=8 Movies Mobile] from the New England Complex Systems Institute.

I, myself, do not know how to write an app, but apparently [http://www.smallcloudbuilder.com/apps/articles/376-how-to-write-an-iphone-app-in-14-days it can be done in 14 days]. If anyone is interested, sign up (with a concept if you have one) and we can pull together a meeting soon.

File:DataS1 22June.xls

2011-06-23T16:52:21Z

Ehurk: The data of the first survey, data until 21 june

The data of the first survey, data until 21 june

File:Legenda.xls

2011-06-22T06:48:40Z

Ehurk: Decsription of both Legenda and Questions of Survey 1. NOTE! TWO worksheets.

Decsription of both Legenda and Questions of Survey 1. NOTE! TWO worksheets.

Complex Systems Summer School 2011-Projects & Working Groups

2011-06-22T06:47:45Z

Ehurk: /* The CSSS11-network challenge */

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2011}}

If you'd like to work on a project with other members of the group, please use this page to organize your thoughts and efforts. We'll schedule a time when we can show off your work towards the end of the program.

==Keywords==

Hey Guys! Some of your research interests have been entered. Hopefully this can give us a better idea of what we are studying, and how we can collaborate for the final challenge. They are organized in a [https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ak7533_HL5TadHdhRUFyWGVLRHlmN2liSEVtR2FDUEE&hl=en_US google doc].

Hey Again! Here are two versions of the GML. The first is non-editable, it works. The second can be messed around with like a normal sharable google doc. Please remember to cut and paste ALL of the text (No bracket left behind!) into a text editor of your choice (like notepad) and save it as a .gml. There is a code called "value", this is so you can manipulate the PeopleNodes and the SubjectNodes as separate variables. If you have trouble, let me know. Again, apologies for misspellings and mis-placing-you-in-the-mega-universe-of-stuff-to-study.

ALPHA:
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/15eViqP9BDEsDRqw1Z-R3LnOB04AN57o631YeCxTQQsk/edit?hl=en_US ALPHA GML KEYWORD NETWORK!]

BETA:
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PHDX8LJg-llngEe7tDuQrJTdi6i8q8xwsM7l6dB5oCE/edit?hl=en_US BETA GML KEYWORD NETWORK!]

-Clio

Hey Guys! Some of your research interests have been entered. Hopefully this can give us a better idea of what we are studying, and how we can collaborate for the final challenge. They are organized in a google doc for sorting, searching etc, and all should have editing privileges. Sorry for typos!

[https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ak7533_HL5TadHdhRUFyWGVLRHlmN2liSEVtR2FDUEE&hl=en_US LINK TO GOOGLE DOC SPREADSHEET]

CHECK BACK FOR A NETWORK OF OUR INTERESTS!!!!!!

-Clio

==Meeting with Geoffrey West==

A group of us were interested to continue a discussion with Geoffrey West following his lecture this evening. We will be meeting over lunch next Wednesday 15th June at SFI in the medium conference room. Please add your name to the below list if you would like to attend. 
Nadja Kunz 
Martin Hilbert 
Shweta Singh 
Fran Moore 
Matteo Gagliolo 
Kevin Carlson 
Raghad Chawla 
Jacob Jensen 
Cristina Metgher 
Alejandro Fajardo 
Lydia Smith 
Antoine Allard 
Michael Sachs 
Nicolas Paez 
Christian Gunning 
Nathan Wang 

==Chaotic DJs==

I'd like to play around with the idea of using chaotic attractors to create music, as introduced by Liz Bradley. If anyone else is interested, please say so below! Ideally, I'd love to create a new piece of music (perhaps even recording a few of the budding musicians at the summer school if possible!), pull the individual parts of the composition apart and then use chaotic attractors to put them back together in new (and constantly evolving) ways. I have music production software on my laptop that we can use as a backbone, but we'd need to work out how to program something so that the differential equations controlled it (or otherwise figure out how to use the DEs to make a composition that we then record within the software - perhaps an easier option!) I'd like to hear other people's ideas about what elements of the piece the chaotic attractors could be used to manipulate - Liz's example only used them to re-order pitch, but I'm sure there are other things that we could do too. Hopefully this could be a project that we could play with in our spare time - I'm also looking to join in with a more academic project too, but I think this could potentially be a very enjoyable side-project. -Martin Gould

Interested: 
Anna Deluca 
Nini Zhang (I'm particularly interested variations as defined computationally v musically) 
Stefani Crabtree (What a great idea! I'm a musician: www.stefanicrabtree.com) 
Lydia Smith (I hope it's not too late to jump on board!) 
Sean Roberts

How about having a quick meeting to discuss ideas on Thursday lunch time? Dining hall at noon? The original paper that Liz talked about is here: [http://www.aip.org/journals/chaos/95_1.pdf] perhaps we could discuss which of the original ideas we'd like to use and also brainstorm some new ones that we'd like to try out. -Martin

[[A Page for Mysterious Things]] 
In other words, it's the talk page for members of this group. It's not exciting, don't look at it.

==The CSSS11-network challenge==
'''MEETING THURSDAY 23 AT LUNCH''' 
Discussing ongoing and new ideas for analysis. Mainly focussed on using current available data.
Discussion in canteen, just find me (Evelien). 

'''General Idea Project''' 
We have by now quiet some data. Anyone interested can download the below files, and play around. Just let me know, and I will keep the overview here. At the end, all studies combine to one study of our network. 

''Current Questions'' (People working in will be entered before question, feel free to add questions) 
- Is there interaction between people from different disciplines? 
- Is the interaction correlated to the country of residence of participants? 
- To what extend is there a correlation between external factors (first people met, location of dorm) and contacts? 
- How do the contacts of a person evolve over time? 
- Do we have 'hubs', and can we explain why these people have become hubs from either internal factors (nr of contacts) or external factors (type of person/area of research/...) 
- What does a graphical study of our network tell us? 
- What are statistical properties of our network? 

Files:<\br>
Will appear soon, whenever I have made my peace with R again... 
[[File:DataS1_22June.xls]] 
[[File:Legenda.xls]] 
If you need more explanation, let me (Evelien) know.

'''MEETING TUESDAY 21 AFTER LECTURES''' 
Coming Tuesday, 20 minutes after the lectures end*, I will organize a get together on this project. Everyone interested, please feel welcome. I will announce the location later, here. 
Please, do the following three things: 

1) If you are interested in the analysis, if you have not yet done so, please feel in the survey (we need data!) 
2) Think about what kind of thing you want to bring to this group: passive discussion/knowledge, or active ideas, hands on data analysis, and such 
3) In the latter case of active participation, formulate your ideas in a less-than-5-minute (without slides) old fashioned talk/reasoning 

We will have approx. 5 min idea-statements followed by approx. 5 minute positive, constructive discussion (this will be like a brainstorm session, so all ideas are welcome). 
After we have heard all ideas, the people who want to actively participate will be strongly involved in making a practical schedule.
I plan to have a first (anonymous) data-set available on Tuesday, if I’m lucky, before that. 

*I know that this will coincide with the individual talks of us, which are really interesting, too. The schedule with the labs, evening lectures, and so on, is just too full to do anything else. If you now have a double appointment, one solution is always to (convince your favorite speaker) to present in the last week. 

Thank you for all your help and looking forward to Tuesday! 

Evelien 

PS 
We might need some help with getting the data into a nice structure and such. If converting excel files to graphs is something you like to do, please drop me an email.

'''About the project''' 
Today the Networks Module has started. One of the well-known examples of a network, is a social network.
Did you realize you have been working hard on an (almost) completely new social network in the past few days?

How do these networks come in to place? How do we make friends? Will we be a fully connected network? How many hubs do we have - and can we explain how these hubs come in to place?

This is an excellent opportunity to find some answers to these questions!

The idea is to base the results on the contacts people make. Simply put: who did you have a conversation with? By noting this regularly, we can see the connectedness and sorts of the network evolve over time.

The plan is to collect data on 
1) The evolvement of the network over time, in terms of nr of contacts (conversations lasting over 10 minutes) per approx. 2 days 
2) The 'final' network, as in the people you feel connected to (would like to contact for science or social activities) 

All results will be processed anonymously and will appear (at the end of the summerschool) on the wiki.

We need your help off course, to answer these questions. 
The first survey can be found at: www.thesistools.com/web/?id=20584 

If you are interested in this project, I will organize some discussion meeting (probably in the next week). For now: add your name to the list below, and send in the survey! (while encouraging as much of your connections as you can to do so, too ;) )

If you have any questions, send a message to ehuk at rsm dot nl.

Thank you so much for your help!

The CSSS11-network challenge team 
- Evelien 
- Tomas 
- Clio 
- Randy 
- Antoine 
- JP 
- Cristina M. 
- ....(put your name here if you are in any way interested) 

==Econophysics/Economics Working Group==

Akira, Veronica and I have been discussing some econophysics-type problems recently, and we are going to set up a small working group to meet and discuss our work and problems that we've been thinking about. We will be talking about using ideas from complex systems (such as agent-based modelling, statistical mechanics, etc.) to re-visit traditional problems from economics. We haven't set a date for our first meeting yet, but it's likely to be early next week. Please add your name to the list below if you'd like to come along, either to talk or just to listen! 
Martin Gould 
Akira Toda 
Veronica Gheorghiade 
Shweta Singh 
Nicolas Paez 
Matteo Gagliolo 
Fran Moore 
Ryan j 
Alejandro Fajardo (quietly attending) 
Ryan Baird 
Cali Ellis 
 
I've had a chat with a couple of people today, and it seems like Monday 28th of June at 6pm could work for most people. Would people be interested in trying out something a bit old-school: a blackboard session? We see lots of Powerpoint presentations every day, so I thought this might mix things up a bit. For those of us that want to speak (and it's completely fine if you'd like to come along and just listen), we could take it in turns either presenting some of our research or discussing a problem that we're facing in our work, and want some ideas on. I think if we could keep it discussion-group style, this could be an excellent way of generating interdisciplinary ideas for everyone. - Martin

==Complex Systems App==

Would anyone be interested in teaming up to develop a complex systems-themed app for iPhone or iPad? The idea is inspired by NSF's gorgeous [http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/science360-for-ipad/id439928181?mt=8 Science360 app for iPad], as well as [http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/movies-mobile/id424304994?mt=8 Movies Mobile] from the New England Complex Systems Institute.

I, myself, do not know how to write an app, but apparently [http://www.smallcloudbuilder.com/apps/articles/376-how-to-write-an-iphone-app-in-14-days it can be done in 14 days]. If anyone is interested, sign up (with a concept if you have one) and we can pull together a meeting soon.

File:DataS1 21June.xls

2011-06-22T06:17:21Z

Ehurk: Anonymized data for the first survey, as up to 21 june.

Anonymized data for the first survey, as up to 21 june.

Complex Systems Summer School 2011-Projects & Working Groups

2011-06-22T06:13:58Z

Ehurk:

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2011}}

If you'd like to work on a project with other members of the group, please use this page to organize your thoughts and efforts. We'll schedule a time when we can show off your work towards the end of the program.

==Keywords==

Hey Guys! Some of your research interests have been entered. Hopefully this can give us a better idea of what we are studying, and how we can collaborate for the final challenge. They are organized in a [https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ak7533_HL5TadHdhRUFyWGVLRHlmN2liSEVtR2FDUEE&hl=en_US google doc].

Hey Again! Here are two versions of the GML. The first is non-editable, it works. The second can be messed around with like a normal sharable google doc. Please remember to cut and paste ALL of the text (No bracket left behind!) into a text editor of your choice (like notepad) and save it as a .gml. There is a code called "value", this is so you can manipulate the PeopleNodes and the SubjectNodes as separate variables. If you have trouble, let me know. Again, apologies for misspellings and mis-placing-you-in-the-mega-universe-of-stuff-to-study.

ALPHA:
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/15eViqP9BDEsDRqw1Z-R3LnOB04AN57o631YeCxTQQsk/edit?hl=en_US ALPHA GML KEYWORD NETWORK!]

BETA:
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PHDX8LJg-llngEe7tDuQrJTdi6i8q8xwsM7l6dB5oCE/edit?hl=en_US BETA GML KEYWORD NETWORK!]

-Clio

Hey Guys! Some of your research interests have been entered. Hopefully this can give us a better idea of what we are studying, and how we can collaborate for the final challenge. They are organized in a google doc for sorting, searching etc, and all should have editing privileges. Sorry for typos!

[https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ak7533_HL5TadHdhRUFyWGVLRHlmN2liSEVtR2FDUEE&hl=en_US LINK TO GOOGLE DOC SPREADSHEET]

CHECK BACK FOR A NETWORK OF OUR INTERESTS!!!!!!

-Clio

==Meeting with Geoffrey West==

A group of us were interested to continue a discussion with Geoffrey West following his lecture this evening. We will be meeting over lunch next Wednesday 15th June at SFI in the medium conference room. Please add your name to the below list if you would like to attend. 
Nadja Kunz 
Martin Hilbert 
Shweta Singh 
Fran Moore 
Matteo Gagliolo 
Kevin Carlson 
Raghad Chawla 
Jacob Jensen 
Cristina Metgher 
Alejandro Fajardo 
Lydia Smith 
Antoine Allard 
Michael Sachs 
Nicolas Paez 
Christian Gunning 
Nathan Wang 

==Chaotic DJs==

I'd like to play around with the idea of using chaotic attractors to create music, as introduced by Liz Bradley. If anyone else is interested, please say so below! Ideally, I'd love to create a new piece of music (perhaps even recording a few of the budding musicians at the summer school if possible!), pull the individual parts of the composition apart and then use chaotic attractors to put them back together in new (and constantly evolving) ways. I have music production software on my laptop that we can use as a backbone, but we'd need to work out how to program something so that the differential equations controlled it (or otherwise figure out how to use the DEs to make a composition that we then record within the software - perhaps an easier option!) I'd like to hear other people's ideas about what elements of the piece the chaotic attractors could be used to manipulate - Liz's example only used them to re-order pitch, but I'm sure there are other things that we could do too. Hopefully this could be a project that we could play with in our spare time - I'm also looking to join in with a more academic project too, but I think this could potentially be a very enjoyable side-project. -Martin Gould

Interested: 
Anna Deluca 
Nini Zhang (I'm particularly interested variations as defined computationally v musically) 
Stefani Crabtree (What a great idea! I'm a musician: www.stefanicrabtree.com) 
Lydia Smith (I hope it's not too late to jump on board!) 
Sean Roberts

How about having a quick meeting to discuss ideas on Thursday lunch time? Dining hall at noon? The original paper that Liz talked about is here: [http://www.aip.org/journals/chaos/95_1.pdf] perhaps we could discuss which of the original ideas we'd like to use and also brainstorm some new ones that we'd like to try out. -Martin

[[A Page for Mysterious Things]] 
In other words, it's the talk page for members of this group. It's not exciting, don't look at it.

==The CSSS11-network challenge==
'''MEETING THURSDAY 23 AT LUNCH''' 
Discussing ongoing and new ideas for analysis. Mainly focussed on using current available data.
Discussion in canteen, just find me (Evelien). 

'''General Idea Project''' 
We have by now quiet some data. Anyone interested can download the below files, and play around. Just let me know, and I will keep the overview here. At the end, all studies combine to one study of our network. 

''Current Questions'' (People working in will be entered before question, feel free to add questions) 
- Is there interaction between people from different disciplines? 
- Is the interaction correlated to the country of residence of participants? 
- To what extend is there a correlation between external factors (first people met, location of dorm) and contacts? 
- How do the contacts of a person evolve over time? 
- Do we have 'hubs', and can we explain why these people have become hubs from either internal factors (nr of contacts) or external factors (type of person/area of research/...) 
- What does a graphical study of our network tell us? 
- What are statistical properties of our network? 

Files:<\br>
[[File:DataS1_22June.jpg]]
If you need more explanation, let me (Evelien) know.

'''MEETING TUESDAY 21 AFTER LECTURES''' 
Coming Tuesday, 20 minutes after the lectures end*, I will organize a get together on this project. Everyone interested, please feel welcome. I will announce the location later, here. 
Please, do the following three things: 

1) If you are interested in the analysis, if you have not yet done so, please feel in the survey (we need data!) 
2) Think about what kind of thing you want to bring to this group: passive discussion/knowledge, or active ideas, hands on data analysis, and such 
3) In the latter case of active participation, formulate your ideas in a less-than-5-minute (without slides) old fashioned talk/reasoning 

We will have approx. 5 min idea-statements followed by approx. 5 minute positive, constructive discussion (this will be like a brainstorm session, so all ideas are welcome). 
After we have heard all ideas, the people who want to actively participate will be strongly involved in making a practical schedule.
I plan to have a first (anonymous) data-set available on Tuesday, if I’m lucky, before that. 

*I know that this will coincide with the individual talks of us, which are really interesting, too. The schedule with the labs, evening lectures, and so on, is just too full to do anything else. If you now have a double appointment, one solution is always to (convince your favorite speaker) to present in the last week. 

Thank you for all your help and looking forward to Tuesday! 

Evelien 

PS 
We might need some help with getting the data into a nice structure and such. If converting excel files to graphs is something you like to do, please drop me an email.

'''About the project''' 
Today the Networks Module has started. One of the well-known examples of a network, is a social network.
Did you realize you have been working hard on an (almost) completely new social network in the past few days?

How do these networks come in to place? How do we make friends? Will we be a fully connected network? How many hubs do we have - and can we explain how these hubs come in to place?

This is an excellent opportunity to find some answers to these questions!

The idea is to base the results on the contacts people make. Simply put: who did you have a conversation with? By noting this regularly, we can see the connectedness and sorts of the network evolve over time.

The plan is to collect data on 
1) The evolvement of the network over time, in terms of nr of contacts (conversations lasting over 10 minutes) per approx. 2 days 
2) The 'final' network, as in the people you feel connected to (would like to contact for science or social activities) 

All results will be processed anonymously and will appear (at the end of the summerschool) on the wiki.

We need your help off course, to answer these questions. 
The first survey can be found at: www.thesistools.com/web/?id=20584 

If you are interested in this project, I will organize some discussion meeting (probably in the next week). For now: add your name to the list below, and send in the survey! (while encouraging as much of your connections as you can to do so, too ;) )

If you have any questions, send a message to ehuk at rsm dot nl.

Thank you so much for your help!

The CSSS11-network challenge team 
- Evelien 
- Tomas 
- Clio 
- Randy 
- Antoine 
- JP 
- Cristina M. 
- ....(put your name here if you are in any way interested) 

==Econophysics/Economics Working Group==

Akira, Veronica and I have been discussing some econophysics-type problems recently, and we are going to set up a small working group to meet and discuss our work and problems that we've been thinking about. We will be talking about using ideas from complex systems (such as agent-based modelling, statistical mechanics, etc.) to re-visit traditional problems from economics. We haven't set a date for our first meeting yet, but it's likely to be early next week. Please add your name to the list below if you'd like to come along, either to talk or just to listen! 
Martin Gould 
Akira Toda 
Veronica Gheorghiade 
Shweta Singh 
Nicolas Paez 
Matteo Gagliolo 
Fran Moore 
Ryan j 
Alejandro Fajardo (quietly attending) 
Ryan Baird 
Cali Ellis 
 
I've had a chat with a couple of people today, and it seems like Monday 28th of June at 6pm could work for most people. Would people be interested in trying out something a bit old-school: a blackboard session? We see lots of Powerpoint presentations every day, so I thought this might mix things up a bit. For those of us that want to speak (and it's completely fine if you'd like to come along and just listen), we could take it in turns either presenting some of our research or discussing a problem that we're facing in our work, and want some ideas on. I think if we could keep it discussion-group style, this could be an excellent way of generating interdisciplinary ideas for everyone. - Martin

==Complex Systems App==

Would anyone be interested in teaming up to develop a complex systems-themed app for iPhone or iPad? The idea is inspired by NSF's gorgeous [http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/science360-for-ipad/id439928181?mt=8 Science360 app for iPad], as well as [http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/movies-mobile/id424304994?mt=8 Movies Mobile] from the New England Complex Systems Institute.

I, myself, do not know how to write an app, but apparently [http://www.smallcloudbuilder.com/apps/articles/376-how-to-write-an-iphone-app-in-14-days it can be done in 14 days]. If anyone is interested, sign up (with a concept if you have one) and we can pull together a meeting soon.

Complex Systems Summer School 2011-TShirts

2011-06-21T22:26:04Z

Ehurk: /* Symbol Network by Topic */

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2011}}

== Symbol Network by Topic ==
Hi!

A network in symbols, that was pretty much the idea. I guess the concept picture (based on actual data) needs not much more explaining.

I used the data from the survey to represent us by keyword (I hope 34 entries will represnet us sufficiently). It is not perfect yet: I would like to merge economy + business keywords, and I think something complexity (SFI logo?) should be in the middle. Also, the size of the symbols is correlated to the degree of the node (but I just approximated it). The graph is from Gephi, some other stuff could be done with it.

[[File:SymbolNetwork.png]]
[[Media:Slide-Version.ppt]]

If this would turn out to be our final design, I would very much love someone help with finalizing it, I guess we should be finished within an hour. (EH)

-- That's a pretty neat idea. [whoever got this idea] for president! -AA

--I understand that you're trying to use cultures for part of this t-shirt, but that lowest image is a tad... um... could we change it if this is the t-shirt?--> Yes, sure, just suggest anything that you think is better! (EH)

-- Design concept is awesome. I propose non-white background. Perhaps New Mexico yellow? -DBB

-- So if anyone would have a suggestion for a different logo, please post it here.

== What does theory mean to you? #tweet ==

CSSS-ers,

Recently, we had a great conversation that illustrated how theory means very different things across disciplines. We want to capture these different meanings of theory in an artistic t-shirt design.

We need your help! We have created a very brief Survey Monkey survey. Please take a just a minute to describe what theory means to you, limiting your description to a tweet-length 140 characters.

[http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TFMXGKJ http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TFMXGKJ]

Since we want to make sure we don't miss anyone, we will hunt down and survey in person those who don't use the online survey. :)

Thanks so much for your help!

Zoe, Cali, Michael, and Lydia

And here are the results. First, version one of the front:

[[File:ts1_f.png]]

Version two of the front:

[[File:ts2_f.png]]

A pretty but less meaningful version of the front:

[[File:Ts3_f.png]]

The back:

[[File:ts1_b.png]]

The words are yours (those that contributed). The colors represent the fields that you work in. The ordering is random.

== Another (probably obvious) idea ==

I thought it would be neat to take the social network some of us are working on of the group and make it into a pretty graphic, perhaps allowing each person to pick an icon or color to represent themselves. This could go on the T-Shirt, perhaps around or within another design or border.

[[User:Ronnie|Ronnie]] 17:21, 14 June 2011 (UTC) (U.N.M, K.S.C, P.O.E.E.)

== I Lorenz Chaos ==

Although I would never actually wear this.

[[File:ILorenzChaos.png]]

== Word maps & networks ==
We came up with a couple ideas. A word map based on Clio's keyword survey and a network based on geography (the countries where students are from and have studied or worked). Here is one version of a word map and a demo network with 10 people we sampled. The network has the people as unnamed nodes and places as named. The keywords show the breadth of study and the geography shows the international flavor of CSSS while highlighting that we are all connected through SFI. Geography could also be entered as a word map as SFI would still be by far the largest word. We could also combine keywords and geography in a word map. Lastly, one of these ideas could be used on the back of a shirt in concert with another design on the front.... And lastly lastly, the specific formats can definitely be modified. -Anna, Eugenia, and Michael J

[[File:Themewordle.png|400px]]

[[File:Csss11_geonet.png|400px]]

[[File:Diapositiva1.jpg|400px]]

here's the new version, slightly modified (tshirt style)

(coming soon!)

 

== Word maps & more ==

Eugenia, Michael and Anna 

[[File:mojito.png|400px]] 

 

I like the "flowers" a lot, but let's change the wordle. How about taking the words from the "what is theory" question. -Kam

== Sandpile ==

There are some good t-shirt ideas on here already, but just thought I would throw this one out there...

Our interest in the work of SFI is a common thread among all of the participants, so I created a sandpile of SFI logos (one logo per participant with a total of 55 logos). So, this design with certainly win the award for most SFI logos used!

[[File:tshirt_idea_tom_sandpile.png]] 
[[File:tshirt_idea_tom_sandpile.pdf]]

== SFI Pseudo-fractal ==

[[File:Final_logo_sfi1_smallestT.png|600px]] 

== It's dorky ==

Yeah, I'm a great big nerd. Suggestions welcome on how to reduce the textiness.

[[File:trajectory-relationship.png]]

=Crank up ze voltage=

I just did this in the last ten minutes using paint... and i realize my lack of artistic ability... but i just wanted to get the idea out there...

[[File:crankitup.jpg]]

Complex Systems Summer School 2011-After Hours

2011-06-21T20:24:51Z

Ehurk: /* Tent Rocks this weekend */

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2011}}

Use this space to organize your own after hours activities.
==Yoga Thursday, June 23rd, 7:30pm, soccer fields==

==Present your own research==

there are many others with very inspiring and ready to present research findings, so the idea would be to have a small session next '''Tuesday''' after lectures: let's say 4.30 - 6.00 (or longer, depending on how many of us want to / are ready to present) ...let's say 15 min each (so cut it down to the essentials! ...max 10 slides, if any!) and leave some room for discussion... so if you're ready and want some constructive feedback, just put here the title of your potential presentation, and we'll see if we get a critical mass that's interested:

- Aaron: Characterization of microbial promoter architectures for rational reengineering

- Cristina: "Marriage squeeze modeling" .

- Ed: "Shmoozing between enzyme kinetics and classical mechanics"

- Shweta: Role of bio-geochemical cycles in economic activities - Current inventory for US economy.

- Victor: current ideas in interdisciplinary education, as informed by case studies & interdisciplinarity philosophy

- Alexis: stuff related to maximum entropy, e.g., inductive reasoning, impossibility of scientific controversy, etc.

- ...

Week after (last week):

- Ryan: complexity

- Miles: "TCP/IP: Why the Internet is the internet." History of the early international spread of the Internet, and how the politics of the Cold War are embedded in the current network. 21 slides, 20 minutes, but it goes fast.

==Canyon Road Gallery Walk, Friday 5-7 PM==
Possibly followed by pizza at Il Vicino. I've heard that Alfred Hubler endorses it.

==Taos Earthships, Rio Grande Gorge, High Country==
Taos is a small town about 60 miles North of Santa Fe. It's known for the Taos Indian Pueblo, an artist colony, skiing, and the Taos Earthships. Depending on who's interested, we could stop by some wineries on the way up/down. The drive up alone is worth it.

Please add your car and seats if you have one 

Car 1: JP's Camry (4 seats) 
1. JP 
2. 
3. Raghav 
4. Stefani 
5. David B 

Car 2: Chris's Versa 
1. Nicolas Paez 
2. Ed Reznik 
3. 
4. Cristina Metgher 

People who need rides:

==Tent Rocks this weekend==
We're planning a 2-3 hour hike to Tent Rocks (45 min south of us, toward Albuquerque) sometime this weekend. Would anyone like to go? We will likely have to rent a car.

Some information can be found at: 
[http://www.blm.gov/nm/st/en/prog/recreation/rio_puerco/kasha_katuwe_tent_rocks.html Official Tent Rock site] 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasha-Katuwe_Tent_Rocks_National_Monument the Wiki of Tent Rock (including more pictures)] 
[[File:TentRocks.jpg]]

1. Nini (can rent a car) 
2. Evelien 
3. 
...

==Community Lecture, 1930, 29 June==
From Democratic Consensus to Cannibalistic Hordes: The Principles of Collective Animal Behavior[http://santafe.edu/gevent/detail/public/408/] 
Presented by Ian Couzin (Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University) 

Anyone interested? - Nini

Yep, we have a shuttle already scheduled and seats reserved. No need to worry about transportation. -JP

==NRAO Very Large Array==

National Radio Astronomy Observatory - Very Large Array

Its a bit of a hike... about a 3 hour drive... but should be totally worth it. Perhaps we could do this and los alamos together on the same day. -Raghav

Heres the description from the website(http://www.vla.nrao.edu/)-

The Very Large Array, one of the world's premier astronomical radio observatories, consists of 27 radio antennas in a Y-shaped configuration on the Plains of San Agustin fifty miles west of Socorro, New Mexico. Each antenna is 25 meters (82 feet) in diameter. The data from the antennas is combined electronically to give the resolution of an antenna 36km (22 miles) across, with the sensitivity of a dish 130 meters (422 feet) in diameter.

I'd love to go and would be willing to rent a car and drive. Unfortunately Los Alamos is in a different direction (NW) than VLA by quite a lot. I suggest looking above for other trips in planning for Los Alamos.

I think this trip depends on when we go (when is Taos Earthships trip?) and whatever else people have planned for. Note that this trip is 3 hours and there's very little else besides VLA in that neighborhood of NM - this trip would be optimal if we can hook on this visit to any other attractions nearby (or in Albuquerque). Any suggestions? - Nini

If you do go to the VLA, I'd recommend combining it with a visit to Kelly Mine, an old ghost town near Magdalena which is pretty neat to poke around. There is also a great microbrewery in Socorro (called Socorro Springs). Also, the town of Magdalena is in the process of trying to make itself a mini-artists' haven, so it could be fun to poke around the galleries there. Any more questions about the region and I'll see what I can do; my mom is from Socorro, and I can ask her for further suggestions. -Nora

Mind signing up to indicate interest? 
1.
2. Chris G - Have a car, but all depends on when we go... 
3. Cali - I would go, looks cool (can rent a car, don't have one) 
4. Raghav - Definitely wanna go... Can rent a car 

==Stargazing==

I'd like to spend an evening star-gazing - maybe try to get far enough out of town to avoid major light pollution. The next new moon is July 1st, so we might look to do it towards the end of the program.

UPDATE: Given folks' schedules, let's plan for stargazing the evening of Wednesday, June 29th. Those of us working on projects will want to have the evening of the 30th free. I will work on a location and further details with JP. I will also keep an eye on the weather, in case it looks like we might be clouded out. July 1 would be our fall back date. Check back later for more details.

NB: Some people have expressed concern (perhaps hope) that I am organizing this trip as an excuse to make out in a remote location. Sadly, no; I really am nerd enough to want a quasi-scientific look at a clear night's sky. That is my full agenda, and I'm slightly embarrassed I'm not able to say otherwise. Of course, you are welcome to make out on this trip, but please be considerate of those of us who are not planning to do so.

- Miles

I'd be interested, might be able to get a telescope, and know a few locations. (JP) 
Cristina M.: Count me in and keep me informed. Great idea, Miles! 

Shweta S : I am also interested, but I have an early morning flight on 2nd July . So, I have to be at Peterson circle by 4 Am for the Pick up shuttle to airport. If possible, I am certainly in for Star Gazing, haven't done it for years. 

I am also very interested... but may fly out on the 1st in the evening... Could we perhaps do this on a weeknight? -Raghav

count on me if it is before July 2... -----Yangjing

==Early morning hiking==

Would anybody would be interested in hiking the Atalaya Mountain Trail (or anywhere else) before dawn to watch the sunrise from the top?

When?

I am kind of tempted to do it on a weekday, but I may end up doing it alone. Unless a few people are interested, we could do it, let's say, this Saturday? The sun rises at about 5h45 these days.

==Swimming?==
Anyone want to go swimming with me (Ed)? There's a pool about 2 miles away that's open till 8:30, was thinking of walking down after class.

Count me in for the drowning. When? - Nini

I'd like to join -Yangjing

==Museum Trip Friday June 24th==
It's $8 for admission to the Georgia O'Keefe Museum. I want to go after lecture next week; sounds like a cool exhibit about the relationship between photography and contemporary art. Let's meet outside the student center at 4:30pm. The museum is open until 7pm. We can potentially grab dinner and drinks downtown afterwards.
I'll drive down in my car from St. Johns; I've got space for 4 more.

1. Nora 
2. David B 
3. Erik 
4. 
5. Yangjing 

==Rodeo de Santa Fe, June 22==

Sign up for the Rodeo! Opening night

JP's Camry 
1. [[JP]] 
2. Fran 
3. Nini 
4. Cristina M. 
5. Evelien 

People who need rides 
1. Raghav - Can rent a car if needed 
2. 
3. Michael J (Do we need cars? Is it in town?) 
4. Miles Townes

==Frisbee==
Ok, look. I (Ed) like frisbee. By virtue of being into science, you people must at some level also like frisbee. So, let's play frisbee. There are lots of ways to do this:
1) Throwing
2) Throwing with our arms tucked in like T-Rex's
3) Imbibing beverages and throwing
4) Spinning the disc on our fingers (ooo fancy) and then throwing it
5) Playing cower (ask me for details)

Who has a disc? - Ed

I would be up for throwing, and also for a game of Ultimate. Thursday evening (the 16th) is free on our schedule. We can buy a disc. -Miles

I've got a disc. Just let me know whenever you want it. -AA

I am soo in. Cristina M.

I want to play cower! With beverages! -Kam

==A Nice Dinner Out==

The St. John's cafeteria is great, but Santa Fe is also the home of many unique, world-class restaurants. I would like to go out for a nice dinner some night and would love company. Any of the places below are kind of pricey and will require reservations, so please post preferences for date and location and I'll pull something together. Here are a few to get you started, with reviews and menus. - Cali (weakly prefers La Plazuela or Martín)

Epazote is one of my favorites and I've always been treated very well by the chef. I think that gets my vote. -[[JP]]

This sounds great - I'd be interested too. Fran.

Epazote (Contemporary Mexican)
[http://www.epazotesantafe.com/epazotesantafe/epazote.html Menu]
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60958-d1742792-Reviews-Epazote-Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.html TripAdvisor]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/epazote-santa-fe Yelp]

La Plazuela (New Mexican)
[http://www.lafondasantafe.com/dining/laPlazuela.html Menu]
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60958-d477193-Reviews-La_Plazuela_at_La_Fonda-Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.html TripAdvisor]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/la-plazuela-dining-room-santa-fe Yelp]

Restaurant Martín (Contemporary American)
[http://www.restaurantmartinsantafe.com/ Menu]
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60958-d1539133-Reviews-Restaurant_Martin-Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.html TripAdvisor]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/restaurant-martin-santa-fe Yelp]

The Ore House (New Mexican, Steak)
[http://www.orehouseontheplaza.com/ Menu]
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60958-d459720-Reviews-Ore_House_On_The_Plaza-Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.html TripAdvisor]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/ore-house-on-the-plaza-santa-fe Yelp]

Other suggestions that are not necessarily New Mexican... 
Shibumi Ramen (cash only but supposedly awesome)
[http://www.shibumiramen.com/ Menu]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/shibumi-ramenya-santa-fe Yelp]

==Other Options==

Rafting down the Rio Grande Box.

[http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/events/SF/music.shtml Music on the Hill] Concert Series (at St. John's)

Great Sand Dunes (in Colorado)

Sandia Peak Tram (in Albuquerque)

[http://www.rodeodesantafe.org/ Rodeo de Santa Fe]

[http://ojospa.com/index.php Ojo Caliente hot springs Field Trip]

Chaco Canyon

[http://www.visitpagosasprings.com/things-to-do/activities/summer/hot-springs/ Soak in the Hot Springs at Pagosa Springs, CO]

==Mountain Biking==
I am looking for people interested in mountain biking either early morning, pre-dinner or on the weekend. If you don't have a bike there are a number of shops around town that rent. -Josh A

==Completed Events==

===SF Complex===
We're planning a trip to the [http://sfcomplex.org Santa Fe Complex] on Friday June 10 towards the evening.

UPDATE: We'll be making it an official trip. Shuttles will arrive at SJC 10 June at 6:00(18:00), return 8:00 (20:00).

===Soccer, Monday 13 June at 7 PM?===
(I saw this from Victor on the CSSS FB wall)

"Who's down for soccer this Monday evening, at 7?
Rsvp w/a comment
If you have a ball, bring it--and let us know in your rsvp
I think it makes sense if those of us who want to play meet up at the drop-off circle and then walk down to the athletic field cheers V"

===Who already presented their own research===

- Martin: the world's technological capacity to process information

- Yangjing: Relations Between Graphs

- Nadja: Coupling human-engineered systems to improve water management on mine sites

- Tomas: Chemical Organization Theory & Concept's Theory

- Stefani: Understanding prehistory through agent-based modeling and network analysis

===Ten Thousand Waves===

They say it's a "must-do" while here. Just put your name down here if interested. (Cristina M.)

How does Thursday after lectures sound? (JP)? 
//Cristina M: Thursday after lectures is perfect! Though they have this on Friday: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=151999048206158. Thanks [[JP]]!
Given the talks on Thursday, Friday (if there is time) may be better. Do we need to make a reservation (they recommend so on several places on their website) EH.

I'd be happy for Friday night. There are some fairly large private tubs available. We should look into that. (JP)

Website: http://www.tenthousandwaves.com/
Price list: http://www.tenthousandwaves.com/RATES/price_list_summary.php

JP's Car! (hurray!) 
1.John Paul Gonzales 
2.Cristina M. 
3.Nini 
4.Evelien 
5.Raghav 

People Who Need Rides
1. Fran

===Bandelier Field Trip===
Trip to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandelier_National_Monument Bandelier National Monument] on Sat. June 18.

We're splitting this into two groups, unofficially dubbed the Hardcore Hikers and the Happy Campers.

We might string a visit to the [http://www.vallescaldera.gov/ Valles Caldera] and [http://www.lanl.gov/museum/ Bradbury Science Museum/Los Alamos] in as well.

From Stefani: I know the head archaeologist at Bandelier. I'll see if I can get him or his assistant to give us a brief talk.

Bandelier Trip Sign Up.

Bandelier and Los Alamos: These Cars Will Leave At 10:00AM

Car 1: JP's Camry (5 seats) 
1. John Paul Gonzales 
2. Nini Zhang 
3. Raghav Chawla 
4. Miles Townes 

Car 3: Tom Carter's car (can fit 4 or 5) 
1. Tom 
2. Yangjing Long 
3. Nicolas Paez 
4. 
5. Shweta Singh 

Car 4: Juniper (can fit 2 or 3) '''Not going to Los Alamos''' 
1. Yasushi (driver) 
2. Juniper 
3. 
4. 
5. 

Car: Rental car, Evelien driving - staying as long as we like in Bandelier, might skip Alamos 

1. Evelien (driver) 
2. Navigator: Eugenia 
'Achterbank ensemble:' 
3. Martin Gould 
4. Ed 
5. Randy C 

Car: Rental car, Michael driving 
1. Michael Sachs 
2. Zoe Hamstead 
3. Nadja Kunz 
4. Alejandro Fajardo 
5. Ryan James 

Hardcore Hikers: THESE CARS WILL LEAVE AT 9:00AM

Stefani's Mazda only for a 13-mile hike: 
1. Stefani Crabtree 
2. Cali Ellis 
3. Andrew Tinka 
4. Anand 
5. David B 

Lydia's car only for a 13-mile hike 
1. Lydia 
2. Alexis Toda 
3. Antoine 
4. Anna 
5. Michael J 

Nora's car only for a 13-mile hike 
1. Nora 
2. Josh A 
3. Erik 
4. 
5. 

 People who need rides 

1. 
2. 
3. 
4... 

===Yo La Tengo in Santa Fe, 17 June===

For anyone interested, they're playing in town.

I might be interested in attending if others are going - Josh 

Anna, Eugenia, and I just got tickets. http://www.thirstyearfestival.com/concerts.html#yo We have 1 more seat left in the car. -Lydia

===Backpacking in the Pecos Wilderness===
I've been planning a full-weekend backpacking trip with a local friend of mine. We'd probably camp Friday night at the trailhead (or his parents cabin) to get an early start, set up camp, then do a lighter hike to summit Las Truchas, the second highest peak in NM. We'd return on Sunday. At a minimum, you'd need a backpack and sleeping bag. We might be able to rustle up other gear. Cars shouldn't be an issue.

Interest: 
1. Chris G. 
2. Kameron - I'm in! 
3. Fran (also have tent and stove if needed) 

===Los Alamos===

Los Alamos National Labs

From website: "Los Alamos National Laboratory is a premier national security research institution, delivering scientific and engineering solutions for the nation's most crucial and complex problems. Our primary responsibility is ensuring the safety, security, and reliability of the nation's nuclear deterrent. The Los Alamos of today emphasizes worker safety, effective operational safeguards & security, and environmental stewardship, while outstanding science remains the foundation of the Laboratory. In addition to supporting the Lab's core national security mission, our work advances bioscience, chemistry, computer science, earth and environmental sciences, materials science, and physics disciplines."

Check it out at lanl.gov

I'd like to go, and I can rent a car if there's an interested group. -Clio

I'd like to go too! -Raghav

count me in! -ryan j

If this is 25th or 26th, I'd love to join! - Taka

Some people are going on to Los Alamos from the Bandelier/Valles Caldera trip this Saturday. - Nini

File:TentRocks.jpg

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Ehurk: A picture showing one of the spectacular features visible at Tent Rock

A picture showing one of the spectacular features visible at Tent Rock

Complex Systems Summer School 2011-After Hours

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Ehurk: /* Tent Rocks this weekend */

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2011}}

Use this space to organize your own after hours activities.
==Yoga Thursday, June 23rd, 7:30pm, soccer fields==

==Present your own research==

there are many others with very inspiring and ready to present research findings, so the idea would be to have a small session next '''Tuesday''' after lectures: let's say 4.30 - 6.00 (or longer, depending on how many of us want to / are ready to present) ...let's say 15 min each (so cut it down to the essentials! ...max 10 slides, if any!) and leave some room for discussion... so if you're ready and want some constructive feedback, just put here the title of your potential presentation, and we'll see if we get a critical mass that's interested:

- Aaron: Characterization of microbial promoter architectures for rational reengineering

- Cristina: "Marriage squeeze modeling" .

- Ed: "Shmoozing between enzyme kinetics and classical mechanics"

- Shweta: Role of bio-geochemical cycles in economic activities - Current inventory for US economy.

- Victor: current ideas in interdisciplinary education, as informed by case studies & interdisciplinarity philosophy

- Alexis: stuff related to maximum entropy, e.g., inductive reasoning, impossibility of scientific controversy, etc.

- ...

Week after (last week):

- Ryan: complexity

- Miles: "TCP/IP: Why the Internet is the internet." History of the early international spread of the Internet, and how the politics of the Cold War are embedded in the current network. 21 slides, 20 minutes, but it goes fast.

==Canyon Road Gallery Walk, Friday 5-7 PM==
Possibly followed by pizza at Il Vicino. I've heard that Alfred Hubler endorses it.

==Taos Earthships, Rio Grande Gorge, High Country==
Taos is a small town about 60 miles North of Santa Fe. It's known for the Taos Indian Pueblo, an artist colony, skiing, and the Taos Earthships. Depending on who's interested, we could stop by some wineries on the way up/down. The drive up alone is worth it.

Please add your car and seats if you have one 

Car 1: JP's Camry (4 seats) 
1. JP 
2. 
3. Raghav 
4. Stefani 
5. David B 

Car 2: Chris's Versa 
1. Nicolas Paez 
2. Ed Reznik 
3. 
4. Cristina Metgher 

People who need rides:

==Tent Rocks this weekend==
We're planning a 2-3 hour hike to Tent Rocks (45 min south of us, toward Albuquerque) sometime this weekend. Would anyone like to go? We will likely have to rent a car.
Some information can be found at: 
[http://www.blm.gov/nm/st/en/prog/recreation/rio_puerco/kasha_katuwe_tent_rocks.html Official Tent Rock site] 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasha-Katuwe_Tent_Rocks_National_Monument the Wiki of Tent Rock (including more pictures)] 
[[File:TentRocks.jpg]]

1. Nini (can rent a car) 
2. Evelien 
3. 
...

==Community Lecture, 1930, 29 June==
From Democratic Consensus to Cannibalistic Hordes: The Principles of Collective Animal Behavior[http://santafe.edu/gevent/detail/public/408/] 
Presented by Ian Couzin (Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University) 

Anyone interested? - Nini

Yep, we have a shuttle already scheduled and seats reserved. No need to worry about transportation. -JP

==NRAO Very Large Array==

National Radio Astronomy Observatory - Very Large Array

Its a bit of a hike... about a 3 hour drive... but should be totally worth it. Perhaps we could do this and los alamos together on the same day. -Raghav

Heres the description from the website(http://www.vla.nrao.edu/)-

The Very Large Array, one of the world's premier astronomical radio observatories, consists of 27 radio antennas in a Y-shaped configuration on the Plains of San Agustin fifty miles west of Socorro, New Mexico. Each antenna is 25 meters (82 feet) in diameter. The data from the antennas is combined electronically to give the resolution of an antenna 36km (22 miles) across, with the sensitivity of a dish 130 meters (422 feet) in diameter.

I'd love to go and would be willing to rent a car and drive. Unfortunately Los Alamos is in a different direction (NW) than VLA by quite a lot. I suggest looking above for other trips in planning for Los Alamos.

I think this trip depends on when we go (when is Taos Earthships trip?) and whatever else people have planned for. Note that this trip is 3 hours and there's very little else besides VLA in that neighborhood of NM - this trip would be optimal if we can hook on this visit to any other attractions nearby (or in Albuquerque). Any suggestions? - Nini

If you do go to the VLA, I'd recommend combining it with a visit to Kelly Mine, an old ghost town near Magdalena which is pretty neat to poke around. There is also a great microbrewery in Socorro (called Socorro Springs). Also, the town of Magdalena is in the process of trying to make itself a mini-artists' haven, so it could be fun to poke around the galleries there. Any more questions about the region and I'll see what I can do; my mom is from Socorro, and I can ask her for further suggestions. -Nora

Mind signing up to indicate interest? 
1.
2. Chris G - Have a car, but all depends on when we go... 
3. Cali - I would go, looks cool (can rent a car, don't have one) 
4. Raghav - Definitely wanna go... Can rent a car 

==Stargazing==

I'd like to spend an evening star-gazing - maybe try to get far enough out of town to avoid major light pollution. The next new moon is July 1st, so we might look to do it towards the end of the program.

UPDATE: Given folks' schedules, let's plan for stargazing the evening of Wednesday, June 29th. Those of us working on projects will want to have the evening of the 30th free. I will work on a location and further details with JP. I will also keep an eye on the weather, in case it looks like we might be clouded out. July 1 would be our fall back date. Check back later for more details.

NB: Some people have expressed concern (perhaps hope) that I am organizing this trip as an excuse to make out in a remote location. Sadly, no; I really am nerd enough to want a quasi-scientific look at a clear night's sky. That is my full agenda, and I'm slightly embarrassed I'm not able to say otherwise. Of course, you are welcome to make out on this trip, but please be considerate of those of us who are not planning to do so.

- Miles

I'd be interested, might be able to get a telescope, and know a few locations. (JP) 
Cristina M.: Count me in and keep me informed. Great idea, Miles! 

Shweta S : I am also interested, but I have an early morning flight on 2nd July . So, I have to be at Peterson circle by 4 Am for the Pick up shuttle to airport. If possible, I am certainly in for Star Gazing, haven't done it for years. 

I am also very interested... but may fly out on the 1st in the evening... Could we perhaps do this on a weeknight? -Raghav

count on me if it is before July 2... -----Yangjing

==Early morning hiking==

Would anybody would be interested in hiking the Atalaya Mountain Trail (or anywhere else) before dawn to watch the sunrise from the top?

When?

I am kind of tempted to do it on a weekday, but I may end up doing it alone. Unless a few people are interested, we could do it, let's say, this Saturday? The sun rises at about 5h45 these days.

==Swimming?==
Anyone want to go swimming with me (Ed)? There's a pool about 2 miles away that's open till 8:30, was thinking of walking down after class.

Count me in for the drowning. When? - Nini

I'd like to join -Yangjing

==Museum Trip Friday June 24th==
It's $8 for admission to the Georgia O'Keefe Museum. I want to go after lecture next week; sounds like a cool exhibit about the relationship between photography and contemporary art. Let's meet outside the student center at 4:30pm. The museum is open until 7pm. We can potentially grab dinner and drinks downtown afterwards.
I'll drive down in my car from St. Johns; I've got space for 4 more.

1. Nora 
2. David B 
3. Erik 
4. 
5. Yangjing 

==Rodeo de Santa Fe, June 22==

Sign up for the Rodeo! Opening night

JP's Camry 
1. [[JP]] 
2. Fran 
3. Nini 
4. Cristina M. 
5. Evelien 

People who need rides 
1. Raghav - Can rent a car if needed 
2. 
3. Michael J (Do we need cars? Is it in town?) 
4. Miles Townes

==Frisbee==
Ok, look. I (Ed) like frisbee. By virtue of being into science, you people must at some level also like frisbee. So, let's play frisbee. There are lots of ways to do this:
1) Throwing
2) Throwing with our arms tucked in like T-Rex's
3) Imbibing beverages and throwing
4) Spinning the disc on our fingers (ooo fancy) and then throwing it
5) Playing cower (ask me for details)

Who has a disc? - Ed

I would be up for throwing, and also for a game of Ultimate. Thursday evening (the 16th) is free on our schedule. We can buy a disc. -Miles

I've got a disc. Just let me know whenever you want it. -AA

I am soo in. Cristina M.

I want to play cower! With beverages! -Kam

==A Nice Dinner Out==

The St. John's cafeteria is great, but Santa Fe is also the home of many unique, world-class restaurants. I would like to go out for a nice dinner some night and would love company. Any of the places below are kind of pricey and will require reservations, so please post preferences for date and location and I'll pull something together. Here are a few to get you started, with reviews and menus. - Cali (weakly prefers La Plazuela or Martín)

Epazote is one of my favorites and I've always been treated very well by the chef. I think that gets my vote. -[[JP]]

This sounds great - I'd be interested too. Fran.

Epazote (Contemporary Mexican)
[http://www.epazotesantafe.com/epazotesantafe/epazote.html Menu]
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60958-d1742792-Reviews-Epazote-Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.html TripAdvisor]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/epazote-santa-fe Yelp]

La Plazuela (New Mexican)
[http://www.lafondasantafe.com/dining/laPlazuela.html Menu]
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60958-d477193-Reviews-La_Plazuela_at_La_Fonda-Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.html TripAdvisor]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/la-plazuela-dining-room-santa-fe Yelp]

Restaurant Martín (Contemporary American)
[http://www.restaurantmartinsantafe.com/ Menu]
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60958-d1539133-Reviews-Restaurant_Martin-Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.html TripAdvisor]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/restaurant-martin-santa-fe Yelp]

The Ore House (New Mexican, Steak)
[http://www.orehouseontheplaza.com/ Menu]
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60958-d459720-Reviews-Ore_House_On_The_Plaza-Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.html TripAdvisor]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/ore-house-on-the-plaza-santa-fe Yelp]

Other suggestions that are not necessarily New Mexican... 
Shibumi Ramen (cash only but supposedly awesome)
[http://www.shibumiramen.com/ Menu]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/shibumi-ramenya-santa-fe Yelp]

==Other Options==

Rafting down the Rio Grande Box.

[http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/events/SF/music.shtml Music on the Hill] Concert Series (at St. John's)

Great Sand Dunes (in Colorado)

Sandia Peak Tram (in Albuquerque)

[http://www.rodeodesantafe.org/ Rodeo de Santa Fe]

[http://ojospa.com/index.php Ojo Caliente hot springs Field Trip]

Chaco Canyon

[http://www.visitpagosasprings.com/things-to-do/activities/summer/hot-springs/ Soak in the Hot Springs at Pagosa Springs, CO]

==Mountain Biking==
I am looking for people interested in mountain biking either early morning, pre-dinner or on the weekend. If you don't have a bike there are a number of shops around town that rent. -Josh A

==Completed Events==

===SF Complex===
We're planning a trip to the [http://sfcomplex.org Santa Fe Complex] on Friday June 10 towards the evening.

UPDATE: We'll be making it an official trip. Shuttles will arrive at SJC 10 June at 6:00(18:00), return 8:00 (20:00).

===Soccer, Monday 13 June at 7 PM?===
(I saw this from Victor on the CSSS FB wall)

"Who's down for soccer this Monday evening, at 7?
Rsvp w/a comment
If you have a ball, bring it--and let us know in your rsvp
I think it makes sense if those of us who want to play meet up at the drop-off circle and then walk down to the athletic field cheers V"

===Who already presented their own research===

- Martin: the world's technological capacity to process information

- Yangjing: Relations Between Graphs

- Nadja: Coupling human-engineered systems to improve water management on mine sites

- Tomas: Chemical Organization Theory & Concept's Theory

- Stefani: Understanding prehistory through agent-based modeling and network analysis

===Ten Thousand Waves===

They say it's a "must-do" while here. Just put your name down here if interested. (Cristina M.)

How does Thursday after lectures sound? (JP)? 
//Cristina M: Thursday after lectures is perfect! Though they have this on Friday: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=151999048206158. Thanks [[JP]]!
Given the talks on Thursday, Friday (if there is time) may be better. Do we need to make a reservation (they recommend so on several places on their website) EH.

I'd be happy for Friday night. There are some fairly large private tubs available. We should look into that. (JP)

Website: http://www.tenthousandwaves.com/
Price list: http://www.tenthousandwaves.com/RATES/price_list_summary.php

JP's Car! (hurray!) 
1.John Paul Gonzales 
2.Cristina M. 
3.Nini 
4.Evelien 
5.Raghav 

People Who Need Rides
1. Fran

===Bandelier Field Trip===
Trip to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandelier_National_Monument Bandelier National Monument] on Sat. June 18.

We're splitting this into two groups, unofficially dubbed the Hardcore Hikers and the Happy Campers.

We might string a visit to the [http://www.vallescaldera.gov/ Valles Caldera] and [http://www.lanl.gov/museum/ Bradbury Science Museum/Los Alamos] in as well.

From Stefani: I know the head archaeologist at Bandelier. I'll see if I can get him or his assistant to give us a brief talk.

Bandelier Trip Sign Up.

Bandelier and Los Alamos: These Cars Will Leave At 10:00AM

Car 1: JP's Camry (5 seats) 
1. John Paul Gonzales 
2. Nini Zhang 
3. Raghav Chawla 
4. Miles Townes 

Car 3: Tom Carter's car (can fit 4 or 5) 
1. Tom 
2. Yangjing Long 
3. Nicolas Paez 
4. 
5. Shweta Singh 

Car 4: Juniper (can fit 2 or 3) '''Not going to Los Alamos''' 
1. Yasushi (driver) 
2. Juniper 
3. 
4. 
5. 

Car: Rental car, Evelien driving - staying as long as we like in Bandelier, might skip Alamos 

1. Evelien (driver) 
2. Navigator: Eugenia 
'Achterbank ensemble:' 
3. Martin Gould 
4. Ed 
5. Randy C 

Car: Rental car, Michael driving 
1. Michael Sachs 
2. Zoe Hamstead 
3. Nadja Kunz 
4. Alejandro Fajardo 
5. Ryan James 

Hardcore Hikers: THESE CARS WILL LEAVE AT 9:00AM

Stefani's Mazda only for a 13-mile hike: 
1. Stefani Crabtree 
2. Cali Ellis 
3. Andrew Tinka 
4. Anand 
5. David B 

Lydia's car only for a 13-mile hike 
1. Lydia 
2. Alexis Toda 
3. Antoine 
4. Anna 
5. Michael J 

Nora's car only for a 13-mile hike 
1. Nora 
2. Josh A 
3. Erik 
4. 
5. 

 People who need rides 

1. 
2. 
3. 
4... 

===Yo La Tengo in Santa Fe, 17 June===

For anyone interested, they're playing in town.

I might be interested in attending if others are going - Josh 

Anna, Eugenia, and I just got tickets. http://www.thirstyearfestival.com/concerts.html#yo We have 1 more seat left in the car. -Lydia

===Backpacking in the Pecos Wilderness===
I've been planning a full-weekend backpacking trip with a local friend of mine. We'd probably camp Friday night at the trailhead (or his parents cabin) to get an early start, set up camp, then do a lighter hike to summit Las Truchas, the second highest peak in NM. We'd return on Sunday. At a minimum, you'd need a backpack and sleeping bag. We might be able to rustle up other gear. Cars shouldn't be an issue.

Interest: 
1. Chris G. 
2. Kameron - I'm in! 
3. Fran (also have tent and stove if needed) 

===Los Alamos===

Los Alamos National Labs

From website: "Los Alamos National Laboratory is a premier national security research institution, delivering scientific and engineering solutions for the nation's most crucial and complex problems. Our primary responsibility is ensuring the safety, security, and reliability of the nation's nuclear deterrent. The Los Alamos of today emphasizes worker safety, effective operational safeguards & security, and environmental stewardship, while outstanding science remains the foundation of the Laboratory. In addition to supporting the Lab's core national security mission, our work advances bioscience, chemistry, computer science, earth and environmental sciences, materials science, and physics disciplines."

Check it out at lanl.gov

I'd like to go, and I can rent a car if there's an interested group. -Clio

I'd like to go too! -Raghav

count me in! -ryan j

If this is 25th or 26th, I'd love to join! - Taka

Some people are going on to Los Alamos from the Bandelier/Valles Caldera trip this Saturday. - Nini

Complex Systems Summer School 2011-TShirts

2011-06-21T05:25:04Z

Ehurk: /* Symbol Network by Topic */

Complex Systems Summer School 2011-TShirts

2011-06-21T05:23:32Z

Ehurk: /* Symbol Network by Topic */

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2011}}

== Symbol Network by Topic ==
Hi!
An idea for a T-shirt, just to start the creative process flowing, I guess.

What I noticed about former years (very cool) T-shirst, was that they were all focusing on one common theme. They had a network, or this chaos-picture in it. So they were focussed on representing Santa Fe or a complex System in some way - and off course this is what binds us all together.

My idea is, that maybe it would be cool if we would take a slightly different approach: instead of emphasizing what we all have in common, emphasizing how diverse our backgrounds are (and still we find each other in this complex system theme).

One way of doing that, is that we would use a network of logo's which would represent us.

Everyone would have at least one logo he/she can link to, but preferably more. For instance, we can have a logo representing geography, or maps, or people, or (difficult one) policy, or transport. So it could be either about the field, the method, or the application. We could even act leisure activities like hiking, or sports, or... the possibilities are endless.

Then, everyone would chose however many logo's he/she feels linked to. Based on the number of links, this logo would get a more prominent place on the T-shirt (e.g. bigger picture), and the network in between would give the connections between the specialties - we could even change the pointsize of the line to correspond to the number of people having this link - e.g. between 'geography' and 'graph theory'.

The T-shirt would then represent all the things we together cover and study with complex systems. I think it could be pretty cool!

I used the data from the survey to represent us by keyword (I hope 34 entries will represnet us sufficiently). It is not perfect yet: I would like to merge economy + business keywords, and I think something complexity (SFI logo?) should be in the middle. Also, the size of the symbols is correlated to the degree of the node (but I just approximated it). The graph is from Gephi, some other stuff could be done with it.

[[File:SymbolNetwork.png]]
[[Media:Slide-Version.ppt]]

If this would turn out to be our final design, I would very much love someone help with finalizing it, I guess we should be finished within an hour. (EH)

-- That's a pretty neat idea. [whoever got this idea] for president! -AA

== What does theory mean to you? #tweet ==

CSSS-ers,

Recently, we had a great conversation that illustrated how theory means very different things across disciplines. We want to capture these different meanings of theory in an artistic t-shirt design.

We need your help! We have created a very brief Survey Monkey survey. Please take a just a minute to describe what theory means to you, limiting your description to a tweet-length 140 characters.

[http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TFMXGKJ http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TFMXGKJ]

Since we want to make sure we don't miss anyone, we will hunt down and survey in person those who don't use the online survey. :)

Thanks so much for your help!

Zoe, Cali, Michael, and Lydia

== Another (probably obvious) idea ==

I thought it would be neat to take the social network some of us are working on of the group and make it into a pretty graphic, perhaps allowing each person to pick an icon or color to represent themselves. This could go on the T-Shirt, perhaps around or within another design or border.

[[User:Ronnie|Ronnie]] 17:21, 14 June 2011 (UTC) (U.N.M, K.S.C, P.O.E.E.)

== I Lorenz Chaos ==

Although I would never actually wear this.

[[File:ILorenzChaos.png]]

== Word maps & networks ==
We came up with a couple ideas. A word map based on Clio's keyword survey and a network based on geography (the countries where students are from and have studied or worked). Here is one version of a word map and a demo network with 10 people we sampled. The network has the people as unnamed nodes and places as named. The keywords show the breadth of study and the geography shows the international flavor of CSSS while highlighting that we are all connected through SFI. Geography could also be entered as a word map as SFI would still be by far the largest word. We could also combine keywords and geography in a word map. Lastly, one of these ideas could be used on the back of a shirt in concert with another design on the front.... And lastly lastly, the specific formats can definitely be modified. -Anna, Eugenia, and Michael J

[[File:Themewordle.png|left|400px]]

[[File:Csss11_geonet.png|left|400px]]

File:Slide-Version.ppt

2011-06-21T05:22:27Z

Ehurk: Here you can see how the network is build up, and which symbols link to which key word. You can use it to play around, if you want.

Here you can see how the network is build up, and which symbols link to which key word. You can use it to play around, if you want.

File:SymbolNetwork.png

2011-06-21T05:19:02Z

Ehurk: This is the concept for the symbol-network, representing our scientific-network in symbols. I think some complexity-symbol should be in the middle (SFI logo?)

This is the concept for the symbol-network, representing our scientific-network in symbols. I think some complexity-symbol should be in the middle (SFI logo?)

Complex Systems Summer School 2011-TShirts

2011-06-21T05:17:26Z

Ehurk: /* Symbol Network by Topic */

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2011}}

== Symbol Network by Topic ==
Hi!
An idea for a T-shirt, just to start the creative process flowing, I guess.

What I noticed about former years (very cool) T-shirst, was that they were all focusing on one common theme. They had a network, or this chaos-picture in it. So they were focussed on representing Santa Fe or a complex System in some way - and off course this is what binds us all together.

My idea is, that maybe it would be cool if we would take a slightly different approach: instead of emphasizing what we all have in common, emphasizing how diverse our backgrounds are (and still we find each other in this complex system theme).

One way of doing that, is that we would use a network of logo's which would represent us.

Everyone would have at least one logo he/she can link to, but preferably more. For instance, we can have a logo representing geography, or maps, or people, or (difficult one) policy, or transport. So it could be either about the field, the method, or the application. We could even act leisure activities like hiking, or sports, or... the possibilities are endless.

Then, everyone would chose however many logo's he/she feels linked to. Based on the number of links, this logo would get a more prominent place on the T-shirt (e.g. bigger picture), and the network in between would give the connections between the specialties - we could even change the pointsize of the line to correspond to the number of people having this link - e.g. between 'geography' and 'graph theory'.

The T-shirt would then represent all the things we together cover and study with complex systems. I think it could be pretty cool!

I used the data from the survey to represent us by keyword (I hope 34 entries will represnet us sufficiently). It is not perfect yet: I would like to merge economy + business keywords, and I think something complexity (SFI logo?) should be in the middle. Also, the size of the symbols is correlated to the degree of the node (but I just approximated it). The graph is from Gephi, some other stuff could be done with it.

[[File:SymbolNetwork.png]]
[[Media:Slide-Version.ppt]]

If this would turn out to be our final design, I would very much like some help with finilazing it, I guess we should be finished within an hour.

-- That's a pretty neat idea. [whoever got this idea] for president! -AA

== What does theory mean to you? #tweet ==

CSSS-ers,

Recently, we had a great conversation that illustrated how theory means very different things across disciplines. We want to capture these different meanings of theory in an artistic t-shirt design.

We need your help! We have created a very brief Survey Monkey survey. Please take a just a minute to describe what theory means to you, limiting your description to a tweet-length 140 characters.

[http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TFMXGKJ http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TFMXGKJ]

Since we want to make sure we don't miss anyone, we will hunt down and survey in person those who don't use the online survey. :)

Thanks so much for your help!

Zoe, Cali, Michael, and Lydia

== Another (probably obvious) idea ==

I thought it would be neat to take the social network some of us are working on of the group and make it into a pretty graphic, perhaps allowing each person to pick an icon or color to represent themselves. This could go on the T-Shirt, perhaps around or within another design or border.

[[User:Ronnie|Ronnie]] 17:21, 14 June 2011 (UTC) (U.N.M, K.S.C, P.O.E.E.)

== I Lorenz Chaos ==

Although I would never actually wear this.

[[File:ILorenzChaos.png]]

== Word maps & networks ==
We came up with a couple ideas. A word map based on Clio's keyword survey and a network based on geography (the countries where students are from and have studied or worked). Here is one version of a word map and a demo network with 10 people we sampled. The network has the people as unnamed nodes and places as named. The keywords show the breadth of study and the geography shows the international flavor of CSSS while highlighting that we are all connected through SFI. Geography could also be entered as a word map as SFI would still be by far the largest word. We could also combine keywords and geography in a word map. Lastly, one of these ideas could be used on the back of a shirt in concert with another design on the front.... And lastly lastly, the specific formats can definitely be modified. -Anna, Eugenia, and Michael J

[[File:Themewordle.png|left|400px]]

[[File:Csss11_geonet.png|left|400px]]

Complex Systems Summer School 2011-TShirts

2011-06-21T05:16:13Z

Ehurk: /* A first idea */

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2011}}

== Symbol Network by Topic ==
Hi!
An idea for a T-shirt, just to start the creative process flowing, I guess.

What I noticed about former years (very cool) T-shirst, was that they were all focusing on one common theme. They had a network, or this chaos-picture in it. So they were focussed on representing Santa Fe or a complex System in some way - and off course this is what binds us all together.

My idea is, that maybe it would be cool if we would take a slightly different approach: instead of emphasizing what we all have in common, emphasizing how diverse our backgrounds are (and still we find each other in this complex system theme).

One way of doing that, is that we would use a network of logo's which would represent us.

Everyone would have at least one logo he/she can link to, but preferably more. For instance, we can have a logo representing geography, or maps, or people, or (difficult one) policy, or transport. So it could be either about the field, the method, or the application. We could even act leisure activities like hiking, or sports, or... the possibilities are endless.

Then, everyone would chose however many logo's he/she feels linked to. Based on the number of links, this logo would get a more prominent place on the T-shirt (e.g. bigger picture), and the network in between would give the connections between the specialties - we could even change the pointsize of the line to correspond to the number of people having this link - e.g. between 'geography' and 'graph theory'.

The T-shirt would then represent all the things we together cover and study with complex systems. I think it could be pretty cool!

I used the data from the survey to represent us by keyword (I hope 34 entries will represnet us sufficiently). It is not perfect yet: I would like to merge economy + business keywords, and I think something complexity (SFI logo?) should be in the middle. Also, the size of the symbols is correlated to the degree of the node (but I just approximated it). The graph is from Gephi, some other stuff could be done with it.

If this would turn out to be our final design, I would very much like some help with finilazing it, I guess we should be finished within an hour.

-- That's a pretty neat idea. [whoever got this idea] for president! -AA

== What does theory mean to you? #tweet ==

CSSS-ers,

Recently, we had a great conversation that illustrated how theory means very different things across disciplines. We want to capture these different meanings of theory in an artistic t-shirt design.

We need your help! We have created a very brief Survey Monkey survey. Please take a just a minute to describe what theory means to you, limiting your description to a tweet-length 140 characters.

[http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TFMXGKJ http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TFMXGKJ]

Since we want to make sure we don't miss anyone, we will hunt down and survey in person those who don't use the online survey. :)

Thanks so much for your help!

Zoe, Cali, Michael, and Lydia

== Another (probably obvious) idea ==

I thought it would be neat to take the social network some of us are working on of the group and make it into a pretty graphic, perhaps allowing each person to pick an icon or color to represent themselves. This could go on the T-Shirt, perhaps around or within another design or border.

[[User:Ronnie|Ronnie]] 17:21, 14 June 2011 (UTC) (U.N.M, K.S.C, P.O.E.E.)

== I Lorenz Chaos ==

Although I would never actually wear this.

[[File:ILorenzChaos.png]]

== Word maps & networks ==
We came up with a couple ideas. A word map based on Clio's keyword survey and a network based on geography (the countries where students are from and have studied or worked). Here is one version of a word map and a demo network with 10 people we sampled. The network has the people as unnamed nodes and places as named. The keywords show the breadth of study and the geography shows the international flavor of CSSS while highlighting that we are all connected through SFI. Geography could also be entered as a word map as SFI would still be by far the largest word. We could also combine keywords and geography in a word map. Lastly, one of these ideas could be used on the back of a shirt in concert with another design on the front.... And lastly lastly, the specific formats can definitely be modified. -Anna, Eugenia, and Michael J

[[File:Themewordle.png|left|400px]]

[[File:Csss11_geonet.png|left|400px]]

Complex Systems Summer School 2011-After Hours

2011-06-21T04:12:52Z

Ehurk: /* After summerschool */

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2011}}

Use this space to organize your own after hours activities.
==Yoga Thursday, June 23rd, 7:30pm, soccer fields==

==Present your own research==

there are many others with very inspiring and ready to present research findings, so the idea would be to have a small session next '''Tuesday''' after lectures: let's say 4.30 - 6.00 (or longer, depending on how many of us want to / are ready to present) ...let's say 15 min each (so cut it down to the essentials! ...max 10 slides, if any!) and leave some room for discussion... so if you're ready and want some constructive feedback, just put here the title of your potential presentation, and we'll see if we get a critical mass that's interested:

- Aaron: Characterization of microbial promoter architectures for rational reengineering

- Cristina: "Marriage squeeze modeling" .

- Ed: "Shmoozing between enzyme kinetics and classical mechanics"

- Shweta: Role of bio-geochemical cycles in economic activities - Current inventory for US economy.

- Victor: current ideas in interdisciplinary education, as informed by case studies & interdisciplinarity philosophy

- Alexis: stuff related to maximum entropy, e.g., inductive reasoning, impossibility of scientific controversy, etc.

- ...

Week after (last week):

- Ryan: complexity

- Miles: "TCP/IP: Why the Internet is the internet." History of the early international spread of the Internet, and how the politics of the Cold War are embedded in the current network. 21 slides, 20 minutes, but it goes fast.

==Taos Earthships, Rio Grande Gorge, High Country==
Taos is a small town about 60 miles North of Santa Fe. It's known for the Taos Indian Pueblo, an artist colony, skiing, and the Taos Earthships. Depending on who's interested, we could stop by some wineries on the way up/down. The drive up alone is worth it.

Please add your car and seats if you have one 

Car 1: JP's Camry (4 seats) 
1. JP 
2. Nini 
3. Raghav 
4. Stefani 
5. David B 

Car 2: Chris's Versa 
1. Nicolas Paez 
2. Ed Reznik 
3. 
4. Cristina Metgher 

People who need rides:

==Community Lecture, 1930, 29 June==
From Democratic Consensus to Cannibalistic Hordes: The Principles of Collective Animal Behavior[http://santafe.edu/gevent/detail/public/408/] 
Presented by Ian Couzin (Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University) 

Anyone interested? - Nini

Yep, we have a shuttle already scheduled and seats reserved. No need to worry about transportation. -JP

==NRAO Very Large Array==

National Radio Astronomy Observatory - Very Large Array

Its a bit of a hike... about a 3 hour drive... but should be totally worth it. Perhaps we could do this and los alamos together on the same day. -Raghav

Heres the description from the website(http://www.vla.nrao.edu/)-

The Very Large Array, one of the world's premier astronomical radio observatories, consists of 27 radio antennas in a Y-shaped configuration on the Plains of San Agustin fifty miles west of Socorro, New Mexico. Each antenna is 25 meters (82 feet) in diameter. The data from the antennas is combined electronically to give the resolution of an antenna 36km (22 miles) across, with the sensitivity of a dish 130 meters (422 feet) in diameter.

I'd love to go and would be willing to rent a car and drive. Unfortunately Los Alamos is in a different direction (NW) than VLA by quite a lot. I suggest looking above for other trips in planning for Los Alamos.

I think this trip depends on when we go (when is Taos Earthships trip?) and whatever else people have planned for. Note that this trip is 3 hours and there's very little else besides VLA in that neighborhood of NM - this trip would be optimal if we can hook on this visit to any other attractions nearby (or in Albuquerque). Any suggestions? - Nini

If you do go to the VLA, I'd recommend combining it with a visit to Kelly Mine, an old ghost town near Magdalena which is pretty neat to poke around. There is also a great microbrewery in Socorro (called Socorro Springs). Also, the town of Magdalena is in the process of trying to make itself a mini-artists' haven, so it could be fun to poke around the galleries there. Any more questions about the region and I'll see what I can do; my mom is from Socorro, and I can ask her for further suggestions. -Nora

Mind signing up to indicate interest? 
1. Nini - Can rent a car 
2. Chris G - Have a car, but all depends on when we go... 
3. Cali - I would go, looks cool (can rent a car, don't have one) 
4. Raghav - Definitely wanna go... Can rent a car 

==Stargazing==

I'd like to spend an evening star-gazing - maybe try to get far enough out of town to avoid major light pollution. The next new moon is July 1st, so we might look to do it towards the end of the program.

UPDATE: Given folks' schedules, let's plan for stargazing the evening of Wednesday, June 29th. Those of us working on projects will want to have the evening of the 30th free. I will work on a location and further details with JP. I will also keep an eye on the weather, in case it looks like we might be clouded out. July 1 would be our fall back date. Check back later for more details.

NB: Some people have expressed concern (perhaps hope) that I am organizing this trip as an excuse to make out in a remote location. Sadly, no; I really am nerd enough to want a quasi-scientific look at a clear night's sky. That is my full agenda, and I'm slightly embarrassed I'm not able to say otherwise. Of course, you are welcome to make out on this trip, but please be considerate of those of us who are not planning to do so.

- Miles

I'd be interested, might be able to get a telescope, and know a few locations. (JP) 
Cristina M.: Count me in and keep me informed. Great idea, Miles! 

Shweta S : I am also interested, but I have an early morning flight on 2nd July . So, I have to be at Peterson circle by 4 Am for the Pick up shuttle to airport. If possible, I am certainly in for Star Gazing, haven't done it for years. 

I am also very interested... but may fly out on the 1st in the evening... Could we perhaps do this on a weeknight? -Raghav

count on me if it is before July 2... -----Yangjing

==Early morning hiking==

Would anybody would be interested in hiking the Atalaya Mountain Trail (or anywhere else) before dawn to watch the sunrise from the top?

When?

I am kind of tempted to do it on a weekday, but I may end up doing it alone. Unless a few people are interested, we could do it, let's say, this Saturday? The sun rises at about 5h45 these days.

==Swimming?==
Anyone want to go swimming with me (Ed)? There's a pool about 2 miles away that's open till 8:30, was thinking of walking down after class.

Count me in for the drowning. When? - Nini

I'd like to join -Yangjing

==Museum Trip Friday June 24th==
It's $8 for admission to the Georgia O'Keefe Museum. I want to go after lecture next week; sounds like a cool exhibit about the relationship between photography and contemporary art. Let's meet outside the student center at 4:30pm. The museum is open until 7pm. We can potentially grab dinner and drinks downtown afterwards.
I'll drive down in my car from St. Johns; I've got space for 4 more.

1. Nora 
2. David B 
3. Erik 
4. 
5. Yangjing 

==Rodeo de Santa Fe, June 22==

Sign up for the Rodeo! Opening night

JP's Camry 
1. [[JP]] 
2. Fran 
3. Nini 
4. Cristina M. 
5. Evelien 

People who need rides 
1. Raghav - Can rent a car if needed 
2. 
3. Michael J (Do we need cars? Is it in town?) 
4. Miles Townes

==Frisbee==
Ok, look. I (Ed) like frisbee. By virtue of being into science, you people must at some level also like frisbee. So, let's play frisbee. There are lots of ways to do this:
1) Throwing
2) Throwing with our arms tucked in like T-Rex's
3) Imbibing beverages and throwing
4) Spinning the disc on our fingers (ooo fancy) and then throwing it
5) Playing cower (ask me for details)

Who has a disc? - Ed

I would be up for throwing, and also for a game of Ultimate. Thursday evening (the 16th) is free on our schedule. We can buy a disc. -Miles

I've got a disc. Just let me know whenever you want it. -AA

I am soo in. Cristina M.

I want to play cower! With beverages! -Kam

==A Nice Dinner Out==

The St. John's cafeteria is great, but Santa Fe is also the home of many unique, world-class restaurants. I would like to go out for a nice dinner some night and would love company. Any of the places below are kind of pricey and will require reservations, so please post preferences for date and location and I'll pull something together. Here are a few to get you started, with reviews and menus. - Cali (weakly prefers La Plazuela or Martín)

Epazote is one of my favorites and I've always been treated very well by the chef. I think that gets my vote. -[[JP]]

This sounds great - I'd be interested too. Fran.

Epazote (Contemporary Mexican)
[http://www.epazotesantafe.com/epazotesantafe/epazote.html Menu]
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60958-d1742792-Reviews-Epazote-Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.html TripAdvisor]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/epazote-santa-fe Yelp]

La Plazuela (New Mexican)
[http://www.lafondasantafe.com/dining/laPlazuela.html Menu]
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60958-d477193-Reviews-La_Plazuela_at_La_Fonda-Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.html TripAdvisor]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/la-plazuela-dining-room-santa-fe Yelp]

Restaurant Martín (Contemporary American)
[http://www.restaurantmartinsantafe.com/ Menu]
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60958-d1539133-Reviews-Restaurant_Martin-Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.html TripAdvisor]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/restaurant-martin-santa-fe Yelp]

The Ore House (New Mexican, Steak)
[http://www.orehouseontheplaza.com/ Menu]
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60958-d459720-Reviews-Ore_House_On_The_Plaza-Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.html TripAdvisor]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/ore-house-on-the-plaza-santa-fe Yelp]

Other suggestions that are not necessarily New Mexican... 
Shibumi Ramen (cash only but supposedly awesome)
[http://www.shibumiramen.com/ Menu]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/shibumi-ramenya-santa-fe Yelp]

==Other Options==

Rafting down the Rio Grande Box.

[http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/events/SF/music.shtml Music on the Hill] Concert Series (at St. John's)

Great Sand Dunes (in Colorado)

Sandia Peak Tram (in Albuquerque)

[http://www.rodeodesantafe.org/ Rodeo de Santa Fe]

[http://ojospa.com/index.php Ojo Caliente hot springs Field Trip]

Chaco Canyon

[http://www.visitpagosasprings.com/things-to-do/activities/summer/hot-springs/ Soak in the Hot Springs at Pagosa Springs, CO]

==Mountain Biking==
I am looking for people interested in mountain biking either early morning, pre-dinner or on the weekend. If you don't have a bike there are a number of shops around town that rent. -Josh A

==Completed Events==

===SF Complex===
We're planning a trip to the [http://sfcomplex.org Santa Fe Complex] on Friday June 10 towards the evening.

UPDATE: We'll be making it an official trip. Shuttles will arrive at SJC 10 June at 6:00(18:00), return 8:00 (20:00).

===Soccer, Monday 13 June at 7 PM?===
(I saw this from Victor on the CSSS FB wall)

"Who's down for soccer this Monday evening, at 7?
Rsvp w/a comment
If you have a ball, bring it--and let us know in your rsvp
I think it makes sense if those of us who want to play meet up at the drop-off circle and then walk down to the athletic field cheers V"

===Who already presented their own research===

- Martin: the world's technological capacity to process information

- Yangjing: Relations Between Graphs

- Nadja: Coupling human-engineered systems to improve water management on mine sites

- Tomas: Chemical Organization Theory & Concept's Theory

- Stefani: Understanding prehistory through agent-based modeling and network analysis

===Ten Thousand Waves===

They say it's a "must-do" while here. Just put your name down here if interested. (Cristina M.)

How does Thursday after lectures sound? (JP)? 
//Cristina M: Thursday after lectures is perfect! Though they have this on Friday: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=151999048206158. Thanks [[JP]]!
Given the talks on Thursday, Friday (if there is time) may be better. Do we need to make a reservation (they recommend so on several places on their website) EH.

I'd be happy for Friday night. There are some fairly large private tubs available. We should look into that. (JP)

Website: http://www.tenthousandwaves.com/
Price list: http://www.tenthousandwaves.com/RATES/price_list_summary.php

JP's Car! (hurray!) 
1.John Paul Gonzales 
2.Cristina M. 
3.Nini 
4.Evelien 
5.Raghav 

People Who Need Rides
1. Fran

===Bandelier Field Trip===
Trip to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandelier_National_Monument Bandelier National Monument] on Sat. June 18.

We're splitting this into two groups, unofficially dubbed the Hardcore Hikers and the Happy Campers.

We might string a visit to the [http://www.vallescaldera.gov/ Valles Caldera] and [http://www.lanl.gov/museum/ Bradbury Science Museum/Los Alamos] in as well.

From Stefani: I know the head archaeologist at Bandelier. I'll see if I can get him or his assistant to give us a brief talk.

Bandelier Trip Sign Up.

Bandelier and Los Alamos: These Cars Will Leave At 10:00AM

Car 1: JP's Camry (5 seats) 
1. John Paul Gonzales 
2. Nini Zhang 
3. Raghav Chawla 
4. Miles Townes 

Car 3: Tom Carter's car (can fit 4 or 5) 
1. Tom 
2. Yangjing Long 
3. Nicolas Paez 
4. 
5. Shweta Singh 

Car 4: Juniper (can fit 2 or 3) '''Not going to Los Alamos''' 
1. Yasushi (driver) 
2. Juniper 
3. 
4. 
5. 

Car: Rental car, Evelien driving - staying as long as we like in Bandelier, might skip Alamos 

1. Evelien (driver) 
2. Navigator: Eugenia 
'Achterbank ensemble:' 
3. Martin Gould 
4. Ed 
5. Randy C 

Car: Rental car, Michael driving 
1. Michael Sachs 
2. Zoe Hamstead 
3. Nadja Kunz 
4. Alejandro Fajardo 
5. Ryan James 

Hardcore Hikers: THESE CARS WILL LEAVE AT 9:00AM

Stefani's Mazda only for a 13-mile hike: 
1. Stefani Crabtree 
2. Cali Ellis 
3. Andrew Tinka 
4. Anand 
5. David B 

Lydia's car only for a 13-mile hike 
1. Lydia 
2. Alexis Toda 
3. Antoine 
4. Anna 
5. Michael J 

Nora's car only for a 13-mile hike 
1. Nora 
2. Josh A 
3. Erik 
4. 
5. 

 People who need rides 

1. 
2. 
3. 
4... 

===Yo La Tengo in Santa Fe, 17 June===

For anyone interested, they're playing in town.

I might be interested in attending if others are going - Josh 

Anna, Eugenia, and I just got tickets. http://www.thirstyearfestival.com/concerts.html#yo We have 1 more seat left in the car. -Lydia

===Backpacking in the Pecos Wilderness===
I've been planning a full-weekend backpacking trip with a local friend of mine. We'd probably camp Friday night at the trailhead (or his parents cabin) to get an early start, set up camp, then do a lighter hike to summit Las Truchas, the second highest peak in NM. We'd return on Sunday. At a minimum, you'd need a backpack and sleeping bag. We might be able to rustle up other gear. Cars shouldn't be an issue.

Interest: 
1. Chris G. 
2. Kameron - I'm in! 
3. Fran (also have tent and stove if needed) 

===Los Alamos===

Los Alamos National Labs

From website: "Los Alamos National Laboratory is a premier national security research institution, delivering scientific and engineering solutions for the nation's most crucial and complex problems. Our primary responsibility is ensuring the safety, security, and reliability of the nation's nuclear deterrent. The Los Alamos of today emphasizes worker safety, effective operational safeguards & security, and environmental stewardship, while outstanding science remains the foundation of the Laboratory. In addition to supporting the Lab's core national security mission, our work advances bioscience, chemistry, computer science, earth and environmental sciences, materials science, and physics disciplines."

Check it out at lanl.gov

I'd like to go, and I can rent a car if there's an interested group. -Clio

I'd like to go too! -Raghav

count me in! -ryan j

If this is 25th or 26th, I'd love to join! - Taka

Some people are going on to Los Alamos from the Bandelier/Valles Caldera trip this Saturday. - Nini

Complex Systems Summer School 2011-After Hours

2011-06-21T04:12:30Z

Ehurk: /* Taos Earthships, Rio Grande Gorge, High Country */

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2011}}

Use this space to organize your own after hours activities.
==Yoga Thursday, June 23rd, 7:30pm, soccer fields==

==Present your own research==

there are many others with very inspiring and ready to present research findings, so the idea would be to have a small session next '''Tuesday''' after lectures: let's say 4.30 - 6.00 (or longer, depending on how many of us want to / are ready to present) ...let's say 15 min each (so cut it down to the essentials! ...max 10 slides, if any!) and leave some room for discussion... so if you're ready and want some constructive feedback, just put here the title of your potential presentation, and we'll see if we get a critical mass that's interested:

- Aaron: Characterization of microbial promoter architectures for rational reengineering

- Cristina: "Marriage squeeze modeling" .

- Ed: "Shmoozing between enzyme kinetics and classical mechanics"

- Shweta: Role of bio-geochemical cycles in economic activities - Current inventory for US economy.

- Victor: current ideas in interdisciplinary education, as informed by case studies & interdisciplinarity philosophy

- Alexis: stuff related to maximum entropy, e.g., inductive reasoning, impossibility of scientific controversy, etc.

- ...

Week after (last week):

- Ryan: complexity

- Miles: "TCP/IP: Why the Internet is the internet." History of the early international spread of the Internet, and how the politics of the Cold War are embedded in the current network. 21 slides, 20 minutes, but it goes fast.

==Taos Earthships, Rio Grande Gorge, High Country==
Taos is a small town about 60 miles North of Santa Fe. It's known for the Taos Indian Pueblo, an artist colony, skiing, and the Taos Earthships. Depending on who's interested, we could stop by some wineries on the way up/down. The drive up alone is worth it.

Please add your car and seats if you have one 

Car 1: JP's Camry (4 seats) 
1. JP 
2. Nini 
3. Raghav 
4. Stefani 
5. David B 

Car 2: Chris's Versa 
1. Nicolas Paez 
2. Ed Reznik 
3. 
4. Cristina Metgher 

People who need rides:

==Community Lecture, 1930, 29 June==
From Democratic Consensus to Cannibalistic Hordes: The Principles of Collective Animal Behavior[http://santafe.edu/gevent/detail/public/408/] 
Presented by Ian Couzin (Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University) 

Anyone interested? - Nini

Yep, we have a shuttle already scheduled and seats reserved. No need to worry about transportation. -JP

==NRAO Very Large Array==

National Radio Astronomy Observatory - Very Large Array

Its a bit of a hike... about a 3 hour drive... but should be totally worth it. Perhaps we could do this and los alamos together on the same day. -Raghav

Heres the description from the website(http://www.vla.nrao.edu/)-

The Very Large Array, one of the world's premier astronomical radio observatories, consists of 27 radio antennas in a Y-shaped configuration on the Plains of San Agustin fifty miles west of Socorro, New Mexico. Each antenna is 25 meters (82 feet) in diameter. The data from the antennas is combined electronically to give the resolution of an antenna 36km (22 miles) across, with the sensitivity of a dish 130 meters (422 feet) in diameter.

I'd love to go and would be willing to rent a car and drive. Unfortunately Los Alamos is in a different direction (NW) than VLA by quite a lot. I suggest looking above for other trips in planning for Los Alamos.

I think this trip depends on when we go (when is Taos Earthships trip?) and whatever else people have planned for. Note that this trip is 3 hours and there's very little else besides VLA in that neighborhood of NM - this trip would be optimal if we can hook on this visit to any other attractions nearby (or in Albuquerque). Any suggestions? - Nini

If you do go to the VLA, I'd recommend combining it with a visit to Kelly Mine, an old ghost town near Magdalena which is pretty neat to poke around. There is also a great microbrewery in Socorro (called Socorro Springs). Also, the town of Magdalena is in the process of trying to make itself a mini-artists' haven, so it could be fun to poke around the galleries there. Any more questions about the region and I'll see what I can do; my mom is from Socorro, and I can ask her for further suggestions. -Nora

Mind signing up to indicate interest? 
1. Nini - Can rent a car 
2. Chris G - Have a car, but all depends on when we go... 
3. Cali - I would go, looks cool (can rent a car, don't have one) 
4. Raghav - Definitely wanna go... Can rent a car 

==Stargazing==

I'd like to spend an evening star-gazing - maybe try to get far enough out of town to avoid major light pollution. The next new moon is July 1st, so we might look to do it towards the end of the program.

UPDATE: Given folks' schedules, let's plan for stargazing the evening of Wednesday, June 29th. Those of us working on projects will want to have the evening of the 30th free. I will work on a location and further details with JP. I will also keep an eye on the weather, in case it looks like we might be clouded out. July 1 would be our fall back date. Check back later for more details.

NB: Some people have expressed concern (perhaps hope) that I am organizing this trip as an excuse to make out in a remote location. Sadly, no; I really am nerd enough to want a quasi-scientific look at a clear night's sky. That is my full agenda, and I'm slightly embarrassed I'm not able to say otherwise. Of course, you are welcome to make out on this trip, but please be considerate of those of us who are not planning to do so.

- Miles

I'd be interested, might be able to get a telescope, and know a few locations. (JP) 
Cristina M.: Count me in and keep me informed. Great idea, Miles! 

Shweta S : I am also interested, but I have an early morning flight on 2nd July . So, I have to be at Peterson circle by 4 Am for the Pick up shuttle to airport. If possible, I am certainly in for Star Gazing, haven't done it for years. 

I am also very interested... but may fly out on the 1st in the evening... Could we perhaps do this on a weeknight? -Raghav

count on me if it is before July 2... -----Yangjing

==Early morning hiking==

Would anybody would be interested in hiking the Atalaya Mountain Trail (or anywhere else) before dawn to watch the sunrise from the top?

When?

I am kind of tempted to do it on a weekday, but I may end up doing it alone. Unless a few people are interested, we could do it, let's say, this Saturday? The sun rises at about 5h45 these days.

==Swimming?==
Anyone want to go swimming with me (Ed)? There's a pool about 2 miles away that's open till 8:30, was thinking of walking down after class.

Count me in for the drowning. When? - Nini

I'd like to join -Yangjing

==Museum Trip Friday June 24th==
It's $8 for admission to the Georgia O'Keefe Museum. I want to go after lecture next week; sounds like a cool exhibit about the relationship between photography and contemporary art. Let's meet outside the student center at 4:30pm. The museum is open until 7pm. We can potentially grab dinner and drinks downtown afterwards.
I'll drive down in my car from St. Johns; I've got space for 4 more.

1. Nora 
2. David B 
3. Erik 
4. 
5. Yangjing 

==Rodeo de Santa Fe, June 22==

Sign up for the Rodeo! Opening night

JP's Camry 
1. [[JP]] 
2. Fran 
3. Nini 
4. Cristina M. 
5. Evelien 

People who need rides 
1. Raghav - Can rent a car if needed 
2. 
3. Michael J (Do we need cars? Is it in town?) 
4. Miles Townes

==After summerschool ==
I (Evelien van der Hurk) have got a couple of days after the summer school, and am (kind of) planning to drive around to Mesa Verde, Monument Valley, and if there is time: sky highway/Silverton. Is supposed to be pretty amazing. I will arrange to be 'back' on wednesday 6 july at 14:00h at Albuquerque airport, or before that - leaving at least 4 days for traveling, when leaving on Saturday. So, if anyone is interested to join me to drive around (I will need to rent a car), let me know (ehurk at rsm dot nl). Some links to pictures are below.

[http://www.astronomynotes.com/nature/pic18f.htm Monument Valley 1]

[http://www.destination360.com/north-america/us/utah/monument-valley Monument Valley 2]

[www.visitmesaverde.com Mesa Verde]

And just google fot pictures at google : 'million dollar highway colorado'

==Frisbee==
Ok, look. I (Ed) like frisbee. By virtue of being into science, you people must at some level also like frisbee. So, let's play frisbee. There are lots of ways to do this:
1) Throwing
2) Throwing with our arms tucked in like T-Rex's
3) Imbibing beverages and throwing
4) Spinning the disc on our fingers (ooo fancy) and then throwing it
5) Playing cower (ask me for details)

Who has a disc? - Ed

I would be up for throwing, and also for a game of Ultimate. Thursday evening (the 16th) is free on our schedule. We can buy a disc. -Miles

I've got a disc. Just let me know whenever you want it. -AA

I am soo in. Cristina M.

I want to play cower! With beverages! -Kam

==A Nice Dinner Out==

The St. John's cafeteria is great, but Santa Fe is also the home of many unique, world-class restaurants. I would like to go out for a nice dinner some night and would love company. Any of the places below are kind of pricey and will require reservations, so please post preferences for date and location and I'll pull something together. Here are a few to get you started, with reviews and menus. - Cali (weakly prefers La Plazuela or Martín)

Epazote is one of my favorites and I've always been treated very well by the chef. I think that gets my vote. -[[JP]]

This sounds great - I'd be interested too. Fran.

Epazote (Contemporary Mexican)
[http://www.epazotesantafe.com/epazotesantafe/epazote.html Menu]
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60958-d1742792-Reviews-Epazote-Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.html TripAdvisor]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/epazote-santa-fe Yelp]

La Plazuela (New Mexican)
[http://www.lafondasantafe.com/dining/laPlazuela.html Menu]
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60958-d477193-Reviews-La_Plazuela_at_La_Fonda-Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.html TripAdvisor]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/la-plazuela-dining-room-santa-fe Yelp]

Restaurant Martín (Contemporary American)
[http://www.restaurantmartinsantafe.com/ Menu]
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60958-d1539133-Reviews-Restaurant_Martin-Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.html TripAdvisor]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/restaurant-martin-santa-fe Yelp]

The Ore House (New Mexican, Steak)
[http://www.orehouseontheplaza.com/ Menu]
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60958-d459720-Reviews-Ore_House_On_The_Plaza-Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.html TripAdvisor]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/ore-house-on-the-plaza-santa-fe Yelp]

Other suggestions that are not necessarily New Mexican... 
Shibumi Ramen (cash only but supposedly awesome)
[http://www.shibumiramen.com/ Menu]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/shibumi-ramenya-santa-fe Yelp]

==Other Options==

Rafting down the Rio Grande Box.

[http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/events/SF/music.shtml Music on the Hill] Concert Series (at St. John's)

Great Sand Dunes (in Colorado)

Sandia Peak Tram (in Albuquerque)

[http://www.rodeodesantafe.org/ Rodeo de Santa Fe]

[http://ojospa.com/index.php Ojo Caliente hot springs Field Trip]

Chaco Canyon

[http://www.visitpagosasprings.com/things-to-do/activities/summer/hot-springs/ Soak in the Hot Springs at Pagosa Springs, CO]

==Mountain Biking==
I am looking for people interested in mountain biking either early morning, pre-dinner or on the weekend. If you don't have a bike there are a number of shops around town that rent. -Josh A

==Completed Events==

===SF Complex===
We're planning a trip to the [http://sfcomplex.org Santa Fe Complex] on Friday June 10 towards the evening.

UPDATE: We'll be making it an official trip. Shuttles will arrive at SJC 10 June at 6:00(18:00), return 8:00 (20:00).

===Soccer, Monday 13 June at 7 PM?===
(I saw this from Victor on the CSSS FB wall)

"Who's down for soccer this Monday evening, at 7?
Rsvp w/a comment
If you have a ball, bring it--and let us know in your rsvp
I think it makes sense if those of us who want to play meet up at the drop-off circle and then walk down to the athletic field cheers V"

===Who already presented their own research===

- Martin: the world's technological capacity to process information

- Yangjing: Relations Between Graphs

- Nadja: Coupling human-engineered systems to improve water management on mine sites

- Tomas: Chemical Organization Theory & Concept's Theory

- Stefani: Understanding prehistory through agent-based modeling and network analysis

===Ten Thousand Waves===

They say it's a "must-do" while here. Just put your name down here if interested. (Cristina M.)

How does Thursday after lectures sound? (JP)? 
//Cristina M: Thursday after lectures is perfect! Though they have this on Friday: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=151999048206158. Thanks [[JP]]!
Given the talks on Thursday, Friday (if there is time) may be better. Do we need to make a reservation (they recommend so on several places on their website) EH.

I'd be happy for Friday night. There are some fairly large private tubs available. We should look into that. (JP)

Website: http://www.tenthousandwaves.com/
Price list: http://www.tenthousandwaves.com/RATES/price_list_summary.php

JP's Car! (hurray!) 
1.John Paul Gonzales 
2.Cristina M. 
3.Nini 
4.Evelien 
5.Raghav 

People Who Need Rides
1. Fran

===Bandelier Field Trip===
Trip to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandelier_National_Monument Bandelier National Monument] on Sat. June 18.

We're splitting this into two groups, unofficially dubbed the Hardcore Hikers and the Happy Campers.

We might string a visit to the [http://www.vallescaldera.gov/ Valles Caldera] and [http://www.lanl.gov/museum/ Bradbury Science Museum/Los Alamos] in as well.

From Stefani: I know the head archaeologist at Bandelier. I'll see if I can get him or his assistant to give us a brief talk.

Bandelier Trip Sign Up.

Bandelier and Los Alamos: These Cars Will Leave At 10:00AM

Car 1: JP's Camry (5 seats) 
1. John Paul Gonzales 
2. Nini Zhang 
3. Raghav Chawla 
4. Miles Townes 

Car 3: Tom Carter's car (can fit 4 or 5) 
1. Tom 
2. Yangjing Long 
3. Nicolas Paez 
4. 
5. Shweta Singh 

Car 4: Juniper (can fit 2 or 3) '''Not going to Los Alamos''' 
1. Yasushi (driver) 
2. Juniper 
3. 
4. 
5. 

Car: Rental car, Evelien driving - staying as long as we like in Bandelier, might skip Alamos 

1. Evelien (driver) 
2. Navigator: Eugenia 
'Achterbank ensemble:' 
3. Martin Gould 
4. Ed 
5. Randy C 

Car: Rental car, Michael driving 
1. Michael Sachs 
2. Zoe Hamstead 
3. Nadja Kunz 
4. Alejandro Fajardo 
5. Ryan James 

Hardcore Hikers: THESE CARS WILL LEAVE AT 9:00AM

Stefani's Mazda only for a 13-mile hike: 
1. Stefani Crabtree 
2. Cali Ellis 
3. Andrew Tinka 
4. Anand 
5. David B 

Lydia's car only for a 13-mile hike 
1. Lydia 
2. Alexis Toda 
3. Antoine 
4. Anna 
5. Michael J 

Nora's car only for a 13-mile hike 
1. Nora 
2. Josh A 
3. Erik 
4. 
5. 

 People who need rides 

1. 
2. 
3. 
4... 

===Yo La Tengo in Santa Fe, 17 June===

For anyone interested, they're playing in town.

I might be interested in attending if others are going - Josh 

Anna, Eugenia, and I just got tickets. http://www.thirstyearfestival.com/concerts.html#yo We have 1 more seat left in the car. -Lydia

===Backpacking in the Pecos Wilderness===
I've been planning a full-weekend backpacking trip with a local friend of mine. We'd probably camp Friday night at the trailhead (or his parents cabin) to get an early start, set up camp, then do a lighter hike to summit Las Truchas, the second highest peak in NM. We'd return on Sunday. At a minimum, you'd need a backpack and sleeping bag. We might be able to rustle up other gear. Cars shouldn't be an issue.

Interest: 
1. Chris G. 
2. Kameron - I'm in! 
3. Fran (also have tent and stove if needed) 

===Los Alamos===

Los Alamos National Labs

From website: "Los Alamos National Laboratory is a premier national security research institution, delivering scientific and engineering solutions for the nation's most crucial and complex problems. Our primary responsibility is ensuring the safety, security, and reliability of the nation's nuclear deterrent. The Los Alamos of today emphasizes worker safety, effective operational safeguards & security, and environmental stewardship, while outstanding science remains the foundation of the Laboratory. In addition to supporting the Lab's core national security mission, our work advances bioscience, chemistry, computer science, earth and environmental sciences, materials science, and physics disciplines."

Check it out at lanl.gov

I'd like to go, and I can rent a car if there's an interested group. -Clio

I'd like to go too! -Raghav

count me in! -ryan j

If this is 25th or 26th, I'd love to join! - Taka

Some people are going on to Los Alamos from the Bandelier/Valles Caldera trip this Saturday. - Nini

Complex Systems Summer School 2011-After Hours

2011-06-17T20:29:32Z

Ehurk: /* Bandelier Field Trip */

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2011}}

Use this space to organize your own after hours activities.

==Bandelier Field Trip==
Trip to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandelier_National_Monument Bandelier National Monument] on Sat. June 18.

We're splitting this into two groups, unofficially dubbed the Hardcore Hikers and the Happy Campers.

We might string a visit to the [http://www.vallescaldera.gov/ Valles Caldera] and [http://www.lanl.gov/museum/ Bradbury Science Museum/Los Alamos] in as well.

From Stefani: I know the head archaeologist at Bandelier. I'll see if I can get him or his assistant to give us a brief talk.

Bandelier Trip Sign Up.

Bandelier and Los Alamos: These Cars Will Leave At 10:00AM

Car 1: JP's Camry (5 seats) 
1. John Paul Gonzales 
2. Nini Zhang 
3. Raghav Chawla 
4. Miles Townes 
5.

Car 3: Tom Carter's car (can fit 4 or 5) 
1. Tom 
2. anand 
3. Nicolas Paez 
4. Cristina Metgher 
5. Shweta Singh 

Car: Rental car, Evelien driving - staying as long as we like in Bandelier, might skip Alamos 

1. Evelien (driver) 
2. Navigator: Eugenia 
'Achterbank ensemble:' 
3. Martin Gould 
4. Ed 
5. Randy C 

Car: Rental car, Michael driving 
1. Michael Sachs 
2. Zoe Hamstead 
3. Nadja Kunz 
4. Alejandro Fajardo 
5. Ryan James 

Hardcore Hikers: THESE CARS WILL LEAVE AT 9:00AM

Stefani's Mazda only for a 13-mile hike: 
1. Stefani Crabtree 
2. Cali Ellis 
3. Andrew Tinka 
4. 
5.

Lydia's car only for a 13-mile hike 
1. Lydia 
2. Alexis Toda 
3. Antoine 
4. Anna 
5. Yangjing 

Nora's car only for a 13-mile hike 
1. Nora 
2. Josh A 
3. David 
4. Erik 
5. 

 People who need rides 

1. 
2. 
3. 
4... 

==Present your own research==

there are many others with very inspiring and ready to present research findings, so the idea would be to have a small session next '''Tuesday''' after lectures: let's say 4.30 - 6.00 (or longer, depending on how many of us want to / are ready to present) ...let's say 15 min each (so cut it down to the essentials! ...max 10 slides, if any!) and leave some room for discussion... so if you're ready and want some constructive feedback, just put here the title of your potential presentation, and we'll see if we get a critical mass that's interested:

- Aaron: Characterization of microbial promoter architectures for rational reengineering

- Cristina: "Marriage squeeze modeling" .

- Ed: "Shmoozing between enzyme kinetics and classical mechanics"

- Shweta: Role of bio-geochemical cycles in economic activities - Current inventory for US economy.

- Victor: current ideas in interdisciplinary education, as informed by case studies & interdisciplinarity philosophy

- Alexis: stuff related to maximum entropy, e.g., inductive reasoning, impossibility of scientific controversy, etc.

- ...

Week after (last week):

- Ryan: complexity

==Yo La Tengo in Santa Fe, 17 June==

For anyone interested, they're playing in town.

I might be interested in attending if others are going - Josh 

Anna, Eugenia, and I just got tickets. http://www.thirstyearfestival.com/concerts.html#yo We have 2 more seats left in the car. -Lydia

==Taos Earthships, Rio Grande Gorge, High Country==
Taos is a small town about 60 miles North of Santa Fe. It's known for the Taos Indian Pueblo, an artist colony, skiing, and the Taos Earthships. Depending on who's interested, we could stop by some wineries on the way up/down. The drive up alone is worth it.

When is this happening? -N

Please add your car and seats if you have one 

Car 1: JP's Camry (4 seats) 
1. JP 
2. Nini 
3. Raghav 
4. Stefani 
5. David B 

Car 2: Chris's Versa 
1. Nicolas Paez 
2.Ed Reznik 
3. Evelien van der Hurk 
4. Cristina Metgher 

People who need rides:

==Community Lecture, 1930, 29 June==
From Democratic Consensus to Cannibalistic Hordes: The Principles of Collective Animal Behavior[http://santafe.edu/gevent/detail/public/408/] 
Presented by Ian Couzin (Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University) 

Anyone interested? - Nini

Yep, we have a shuttle already scheduled and seats reserved. No need to worry about transportation. -JP

==Los Alamos==

Los Alamos National Labs

From website: "Los Alamos National Laboratory is a premier national security research institution, delivering scientific and engineering solutions for the nation's most crucial and complex problems. Our primary responsibility is ensuring the safety, security, and reliability of the nation's nuclear deterrent. The Los Alamos of today emphasizes worker safety, effective operational safeguards & security, and environmental stewardship, while outstanding science remains the foundation of the Laboratory. In addition to supporting the Lab's core national security mission, our work advances bioscience, chemistry, computer science, earth and environmental sciences, materials science, and physics disciplines."

Check it out at lanl.gov

I'd like to go, and I can rent a car if there's an interested group. -Clio

I'd like to go too! -Raghav

count me in! -ryan j

If this is 25th or 26th, I'd love to join! - Taka

Some people are going on to Los Alamos from the Bandelier/Valles Caldera trip this Saturday. - Nini

==NRAO Very Large Array==

National Radio Astronomy Observatory - Very Large Array

Its a bit of a hike... about a 3 hour drive... but should be totally worth it. Perhaps we could do this and los alamos together on the same day. -Raghav

Heres the description from the website(http://www.vla.nrao.edu/)-

The Very Large Array, one of the world's premier astronomical radio observatories, consists of 27 radio antennas in a Y-shaped configuration on the Plains of San Agustin fifty miles west of Socorro, New Mexico. Each antenna is 25 meters (82 feet) in diameter. The data from the antennas is combined electronically to give the resolution of an antenna 36km (22 miles) across, with the sensitivity of a dish 130 meters (422 feet) in diameter.

I'd love to go and would be willing to rent a car and drive. Unfortunately Los Alamos is in a different direction (NW) than VLA by quite a lot. I suggest looking above for other trips in planning for Los Alamos.

I think this trip depends on when we go (when is Taos Earthships trip?) and whatever else people have planned for. Note that this trip is 3 hours and there's very little else besides VLA in that neighborhood of NM - this trip would be optimal if we can hook on this visit to any other attractions nearby (or in Albuquerque). Any suggestions? - Nini

Mind signing up to indicate interest? 
1. Nini - Can rent a car 
2. Chris G - Have a car, but all depends on when we go... 
3. Cali - I would go, looks cool (can rent a car, don't have one) 
4. Raghav - Definitely wanna go... Can rent a car 

==Backpacking in the Pecos Wilderness==
I've been planning a full-weekend backpacking trip with a local friend of mine. We'd probably camp Friday night at the trailhead (or his parents cabin) to get an early start, set up camp, then do a lighter hike to summit Las Truchas, the second highest peak in NM. We'd return on Sunday. At a minimum, you'd need a backpack and sleeping bag. We might be able to rustle up other gear. Cars shouldn't be an issue.

Interest: 
1. Chris G. 
2. Kameron - I'm in! 
3. Fran (also have tent and stove if needed) 

==Stargazing==

I'd like to spend an evening star-gazing - maybe try to get far enough out of town to avoid major light pollution. The next new moon is July 1st, so we might look to do it towards the end of the program. - Miles

I'd be interested, might be able to get a telescope, and know a few locations. (JP) 
Cristina M.: Count me in and keep me informed. Great idea, Miles! 

Shweta S : I am also interested, but I have an early morning flight on 2nd July . So, I have to be at Peterson circle by 4 Am for the Pick up shuttle to airport. If possible, I am certainly in for Star Gazing, haven't done it for years. 

I am also very interested... but may fly out on the 1st in the evening... Could we perhaps do this on a weeknight? -Raghav

==Early morning hiking==

Would anybody would be interested in hiking the Atalaya Mountain Trail (or anywhere else) before dawn to watch the sunrise from the top?

When?

I am kind of tempted to do it on a weekday, but I may end up doing it alone. Unless a few people are interested, we could do it, let's say, this Saturday? The sun rises at about 5h45 these days.

==Swimming?==
Anyone want to go swimming with me (Ed)? There's a pool about 2 miles away that's open till 8:30, was thinking of walking down after class.

Count me in for the drowning. When? - Nini

==Ten Thousand Waves==

They say it's a "must-do" while here. Just put your name down here if interested. (Cristina M.)

How does Thursday after lectures sound? (JP)? 
//Cristina M: Thursday after lectures is perfect! Though they have this on Friday: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=151999048206158. Thanks [[JP]]!
Given the talks on Thursday, Friday (if there is time) may be better. Do we need to make a reservation (they recommend so on several places on their website) EH.

I'd be happy for Friday night. There are some fairly large private tubs available. We should look into that. (JP)

Website: http://www.tenthousandwaves.com/
Price list: http://www.tenthousandwaves.com/RATES/price_list_summary.php

JP's Car! (hurray!) 
1.John Paul Gonzales 
2.Cristina M. 
3.Nini 
4.Evelien 
5.Raghav 

People Who Need Rides
1. Fran

==Museum Trip Friday June 24th==
It's $8 for admission to the Georgia O'Keefe Museum. I want to go after lecture next week; sounds like a cool exhibit about the relationship between photography and contemporary art. Let's meet outside the student center at 4:30pm. The museum is open until 7pm. We can potentially grab dinner and drinks downtown afterwards.
I'll drive down in my car from St. Johns; I've got space for 4 more.

1. Nora 
2. David B 
3. Erik 
4. 
5. 

==Rodeo de Santa Fe, June 22==

Sign up for the Rodeo! Opening night

JP's Camry 
1. [[JP]] 
2. Cali 
3. Nini 
4. Cristina M. 
5. Evelien 

People who need rides 
1. Raghav - Can rent a car if needed 
2. Fran Moore 
3. Michael J (Do we need cars? Is it in town?) 
4.... 

==After summerschool ==
I (Evelien van der Hurk) have got a couple of days after the summer school, and am (kind of) planning to drive around to Mesa Verde, Monument Valley, and if there is time: sky highway/Silverton. Is supposed to be pretty amazing. I will arrange to be 'back' on wednesday 6 july at 14:00h at Albuquerque airport, or before that - leaving at least 4 days for traveling, when leaving on Saturday. So, if anyone is interested to join me to drive around (I will need to rent a car), let me know (ehurk at rsm dot nl). Some links to pictures are below.

[http://www.astronomynotes.com/nature/pic18f.htm Monument Valley 1]

[http://www.destination360.com/north-america/us/utah/monument-valley Monument Valley 2]

[www.visitmesaverde.com Mesa Verde]

And just google fot pictures at google : 'million dollar highway colorado'

==Frisbee==
Ok, look. I (Ed) like frisbee. By virtue of being into science, you people must at some level also like frisbee. So, let's play frisbee. There are lots of ways to do this:
1) Throwing
2) Throwing with our arms tucked in like T-Rex's
3) Imbibing beverages and throwing
4) Spinning the disc on our fingers (ooo fancy) and then throwing it
5) Playing cower (ask me for details)

Who has a disc? - Ed

I would be up for throwing, and also for a game of Ultimate. Thursday evening (the 16th) is free on our schedule. We can buy a disc. -Miles

I've got a disc. Just let me know whenever you want it. -AA

I am soo in. Cristina M.

I want to play cower! With beverages! -Kam

==A Nice Dinner Out==

The St. John's cafeteria is great, but Santa Fe is also the home of many unique, world-class restaurants. I would like to go out for a nice dinner some night and would love company. Any of the places below are kind of pricey and will require reservations, so please post preferences for date and location and I'll pull something together. Here are a few to get you started, with reviews and menus. - Cali (weakly prefers La Plazuela or Martín)

Epazote (Contemporary Mexican)
[http://www.epazotesantafe.com/epazotesantafe/epazote.html Menu]
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60958-d1742792-Reviews-Epazote-Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.html TripAdvisor]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/epazote-santa-fe Yelp]

La Plazuela (New Mexican)
[http://www.lafondasantafe.com/dining/laPlazuela.html Menu]
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60958-d477193-Reviews-La_Plazuela_at_La_Fonda-Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.html TripAdvisor]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/la-plazuela-dining-room-santa-fe Yelp]

Restaurant Martín (Contemporary American)
[http://www.restaurantmartinsantafe.com/ Menu]
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60958-d1539133-Reviews-Restaurant_Martin-Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.html TripAdvisor]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/restaurant-martin-santa-fe Yelp]

The Ore House (New Mexican, Steak)
[http://www.orehouseontheplaza.com/ Menu]
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60958-d459720-Reviews-Ore_House_On_The_Plaza-Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.html TripAdvisor]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/ore-house-on-the-plaza-santa-fe Yelp]

Other suggestions that are not necessarily New Mexican... 
Shibumi Ramen (cash only but supposedly awesome)
[http://www.shibumiramen.com/ Menu]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/shibumi-ramenya-santa-fe Yelp]

==Other Options==

Rafting down the Rio Grande Box.

[http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/events/SF/music.shtml Music on the Hill] Concert Series (at St. John's)

Great Sand Dunes (in Colorado)

Sandia Peak Tram (in Albuquerque)

[http://www.rodeodesantafe.org/ Rodeo de Santa Fe]

[http://ojospa.com/index.php Ojo Caliente hot springs Field Trip]

Chaco Canyon

[http://www.visitpagosasprings.com/things-to-do/activities/summer/hot-springs/ Soak in the Hot Springs at Pagosa Springs, CO]

==Mountain Biking==
I am looking for people interested in mountain biking either early morning, pre-dinner or on the weekend. If you don't have a bike there are a number of shops around town that rent. -Josh A

==Completed Events==

===SF Complex===
We're planning a trip to the [http://sfcomplex.org Santa Fe Complex] on Friday June 10 towards the evening.

UPDATE: We'll be making it an official trip. Shuttles will arrive at SJC 10 June at 6:00(18:00), return 8:00 (20:00).

===Soccer, Monday 13 June at 7 PM?===
(I saw this from Victor on the CSSS FB wall)

"Who's down for soccer this Monday evening, at 7?
Rsvp w/a comment
If you have a ball, bring it--and let us know in your rsvp
I think it makes sense if those of us who want to play meet up at the drop-off circle and then walk down to the athletic field cheers V"

===Who already presented their own research===

- Martin: the world's technological capacity to process information

- Yangjing: Relations Between Graphs

- Nadja: Coupling human-engineered systems to improve water management on mine sites

- Tomas: Chemical Organization Theory & Concept's Theory

- Stefani: Understanding prehistory through agent-based modeling and network analysis

Complex Systems Summer School 2011-After Hours

2011-06-17T20:09:23Z

Ehurk: /* Bandelier Field Trip */

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2011}}

Use this space to organize your own after hours activities.

==Bandelier Field Trip==
Trip to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandelier_National_Monument Bandelier National Monument] on Sat. June 18.

We're splitting this into two groups, unofficially dubbed the Hardcore Hikers and the Happy Campers.

We might string a visit to the [http://www.vallescaldera.gov/ Valles Caldera] and [http://www.lanl.gov/museum/ Bradbury Science Museum/Los Alamos] in as well.

From Stefani: I know the head archaeologist at Bandelier. I'll see if I can get him or his assistant to give us a brief talk.

Bandelier Trip Sign Up.

Bandelier and Los Alamos: These Cars Will Leave At 10:00AM

Car 1: JP's Camry (5 seats) 
1. John Paul Gonzales 
2. Nini Zhang 
3. Raghav Chawla 
4. Miles Townes 
5. eugenia

Car 3: Tom Carter's car (can fit 4 or 5) 
1. Tom 
2. anand 
3. Nicolas Paez 
4. Cristina Metgher 
5. Shweta Singh 

Car: Rental car, Evelien driving - staying as long as we like in Bandelier, might skip Alamos 

1. Evelien (driver) 
2. Navigator: Eugenia 
'Achterbank ensemble:' 
3. Martin Gould 
4. 
5. Randy C 

Car: Rental car, Michael driving 
1. Michael Sachs 
2. Zoe Hamstead 
3. Nadja Kunz 
4. Alejandro Fajardo 
5. Ryan James 

Hardcore Hikers: THESE CARS WILL LEAVE AT 9:00AM

Stefani's Mazda only for a 13-mile hike: 
1. Stefani Crabtree 
2. Cali Ellis 
3. Andrew Tinka 
4. 
5.

Lydia's car only for a 13-mile hike 
1. Lydia 
2. Alexis Toda 
3. Antoine 
4. Anna 
5. Yangjing 

Nora's car only for a 13-mile hike 
1. Nora 
2. Josh A 
3. David 
4. Erik 
5. Ed 

 People who need rides 

1. 
2. 
3. 
4... 

==Present your own research==

there are many others with very inspiring and ready to present research findings, so the idea would be to have a small session next '''Tuesday''' after lectures: let's say 4.30 - 6.00 (or longer, depending on how many of us want to / are ready to present) ...let's say 15 min each (so cut it down to the essentials! ...max 10 slides, if any!) and leave some room for discussion... so if you're ready and want some constructive feedback, just put here the title of your potential presentation, and we'll see if we get a critical mass that's interested:

- Aaron: Characterization of microbial promoter architectures for rational reengineering

- Cristina: "Marriage squeeze modeling" .

- Ed: "Shmoozing between enzyme kinetics and classical mechanics"

- Shweta: Role of bio-geochemical cycles in economic activities - Current inventory for US economy.

- Victor: current ideas in interdisciplinary education, as informed by case studies & interdisciplinarity philosophy

- Alexis: stuff related to maximum entropy, e.g., inductive reasoning, impossibility of scientific controversy, etc.

- ...

Week after (last week):

- Ryan: complexity

==Yo La Tengo in Santa Fe, 17 June==

For anyone interested, they're playing in town.

I might be interested in attending if others are going - Josh 

Anna, Eugenia, and I just got tickets. http://www.thirstyearfestival.com/concerts.html#yo We have 2 more seats left in the car. -Lydia

==Taos Earthships, Rio Grande Gorge, High Country==
Taos is a small town about 60 miles North of Santa Fe. It's known for the Taos Indian Pueblo, an artist colony, skiing, and the Taos Earthships. Depending on who's interested, we could stop by some wineries on the way up/down. The drive up alone is worth it.

When is this happening? -N

Please add your car and seats if you have one 

Car 1: JP's Camry (4 seats) 
1. JP 
2. Nini 
3. Raghav 
4. Stefani 
5. David B 

Car 2: Chris's Versa 
1. Nicolas Paez 
2.Ed Reznik 
3. Evelien van der Hurk 
4. Cristina Metgher 

People who need rides:

==Community Lecture, 1930, 29 June==
From Democratic Consensus to Cannibalistic Hordes: The Principles of Collective Animal Behavior[http://santafe.edu/gevent/detail/public/408/] 
Presented by Ian Couzin (Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University) 

Anyone interested? - Nini

Yep, we have a shuttle already scheduled and seats reserved. No need to worry about transportation. -JP

==Los Alamos==

Los Alamos National Labs

From website: "Los Alamos National Laboratory is a premier national security research institution, delivering scientific and engineering solutions for the nation's most crucial and complex problems. Our primary responsibility is ensuring the safety, security, and reliability of the nation's nuclear deterrent. The Los Alamos of today emphasizes worker safety, effective operational safeguards & security, and environmental stewardship, while outstanding science remains the foundation of the Laboratory. In addition to supporting the Lab's core national security mission, our work advances bioscience, chemistry, computer science, earth and environmental sciences, materials science, and physics disciplines."

Check it out at lanl.gov

I'd like to go, and I can rent a car if there's an interested group. -Clio

I'd like to go too! -Raghav

count me in! -ryan j

If this is 25th or 26th, I'd love to join! - Taka

Some people are going on to Los Alamos from the Bandelier/Valles Caldera trip this Saturday. - Nini

==NRAO Very Large Array==

National Radio Astronomy Observatory - Very Large Array

Its a bit of a hike... about a 3 hour drive... but should be totally worth it. Perhaps we could do this and los alamos together on the same day. -Raghav

Heres the description from the website(http://www.vla.nrao.edu/)-

The Very Large Array, one of the world's premier astronomical radio observatories, consists of 27 radio antennas in a Y-shaped configuration on the Plains of San Agustin fifty miles west of Socorro, New Mexico. Each antenna is 25 meters (82 feet) in diameter. The data from the antennas is combined electronically to give the resolution of an antenna 36km (22 miles) across, with the sensitivity of a dish 130 meters (422 feet) in diameter.

I'd love to go and would be willing to rent a car and drive. Unfortunately Los Alamos is in a different direction (NW) than VLA by quite a lot. I suggest looking above for other trips in planning for Los Alamos.

I think this trip depends on when we go (when is Taos Earthships trip?) and whatever else people have planned for. Note that this trip is 3 hours and there's very little else besides VLA in that neighborhood of NM - this trip would be optimal if we can hook on this visit to any other attractions nearby (or in Albuquerque). Any suggestions? - Nini

Mind signing up to indicate interest? 
1. Nini - Can rent a car 
2. Chris G - Have a car, but all depends on when we go... 
3. Cali - I would go, looks cool (can rent a car, don't have one) 
4. Raghav - Definitely wanna go... Can rent a car 

==Backpacking in the Pecos Wilderness==
I've been planning a full-weekend backpacking trip with a local friend of mine. We'd probably camp Friday night at the trailhead (or his parents cabin) to get an early start, set up camp, then do a lighter hike to summit Las Truchas, the second highest peak in NM. We'd return on Sunday. At a minimum, you'd need a backpack and sleeping bag. We might be able to rustle up other gear. Cars shouldn't be an issue.

Interest: 
1. Chris G. 
2. Kameron - I'm in! 
3. Fran (also have tent and stove if needed) 

==Stargazing==

I'd like to spend an evening star-gazing - maybe try to get far enough out of town to avoid major light pollution. The next new moon is July 1st, so we might look to do it towards the end of the program. - Miles

I'd be interested, might be able to get a telescope, and know a few locations. (JP) 
Cristina M.: Count me in and keep me informed. Great idea, Miles! 

Shweta S : I am also interested, but I have an early morning flight on 2nd July . So, I have to be at Peterson circle by 4 Am for the Pick up shuttle to airport. If possible, I am certainly in for Star Gazing, haven't done it for years. 

I am also very interested... but may fly out on the 1st in the evening... Could we perhaps do this on a weeknight? -Raghav

==Early morning hiking==

Would anybody would be interested in hiking the Atalaya Mountain Trail (or anywhere else) before dawn to watch the sunrise from the top?

When?

I am kind of tempted to do it on a weekday, but I may end up doing it alone. Unless a few people are interested, we could do it, let's say, this Saturday? The sun rises at about 5h45 these days.

==Swimming?==
Anyone want to go swimming with me (Ed)? There's a pool about 2 miles away that's open till 8:30, was thinking of walking down after class.

Count me in for the drowning. When? - Nini

==Ten Thousand Waves==

They say it's a "must-do" while here. Just put your name down here if interested. (Cristina M.)

How does Thursday after lectures sound? (JP)? 
//Cristina M: Thursday after lectures is perfect! Though they have this on Friday: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=151999048206158. Thanks [[JP]]!
Given the talks on Thursday, Friday (if there is time) may be better. Do we need to make a reservation (they recommend so on several places on their website) EH.

I'd be happy for Friday night. There are some fairly large private tubs available. We should look into that. (JP)

Website: http://www.tenthousandwaves.com/
Price list: http://www.tenthousandwaves.com/RATES/price_list_summary.php

JP's Car! (hurray!) 
1.John Paul Gonzales 
2.Cristina M. 
3.Nini 
4.Evelien 
5.Raghav 

People Who Need Rides
1. Fran

==Museum Trip Friday June 24th==
It's $8 for admission to the Georgia O'Keefe Museum. I want to go after lecture next week; sounds like a cool exhibit about the relationship between photography and contemporary art. Let's meet outside the student center at 4:30pm. The museum is open until 7pm. We can potentially grab dinner and drinks downtown afterwards.
I'll drive down in my car from St. Johns; I've got space for 4 more.

1. Nora 
2. David B 
3. Erik 
4. 
5. 

==Rodeo de Santa Fe, June 22==

Sign up for the Rodeo! Opening night

JP's Camry 
1. [[JP]] 
2. Cali 
3. Nini 
4. Cristina M. 
5. Evelien 

People who need rides 
1. Raghav - Can rent a car if needed 
2. Fran Moore 
3. Michael J (Do we need cars? Is it in town?) 
4.... 

==After summerschool ==
I (Evelien van der Hurk) have got a couple of days after the summer school, and am (kind of) planning to drive around to Mesa Verde, Monument Valley, and if there is time: sky highway/Silverton. Is supposed to be pretty amazing. I will arrange to be 'back' on wednesday 6 july at 14:00h at Albuquerque airport, or before that - leaving at least 4 days for traveling, when leaving on Saturday. So, if anyone is interested to join me to drive around (I will need to rent a car), let me know (ehurk at rsm dot nl). Some links to pictures are below.

[http://www.astronomynotes.com/nature/pic18f.htm Monument Valley 1]

[http://www.destination360.com/north-america/us/utah/monument-valley Monument Valley 2]

[www.visitmesaverde.com Mesa Verde]

And just google fot pictures at google : 'million dollar highway colorado'

==Frisbee==
Ok, look. I (Ed) like frisbee. By virtue of being into science, you people must at some level also like frisbee. So, let's play frisbee. There are lots of ways to do this:
1) Throwing
2) Throwing with our arms tucked in like T-Rex's
3) Imbibing beverages and throwing
4) Spinning the disc on our fingers (ooo fancy) and then throwing it
5) Playing cower (ask me for details)

Who has a disc? - Ed

I would be up for throwing, and also for a game of Ultimate. Thursday evening (the 16th) is free on our schedule. We can buy a disc. -Miles

I've got a disc. Just let me know whenever you want it. -AA

I am soo in. Cristina M.

I want to play cower! With beverages! -Kam

==A Nice Dinner Out==

The St. John's cafeteria is great, but Santa Fe is also the home of many unique, world-class restaurants. I would like to go out for a nice dinner some night and would love company. Any of the places below are kind of pricey and will require reservations, so please post preferences for date and location and I'll pull something together. Here are a few to get you started, with reviews and menus. - Cali (weakly prefers La Plazuela or Martín)

Epazote (Contemporary Mexican)
[http://www.epazotesantafe.com/epazotesantafe/epazote.html Menu]
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60958-d1742792-Reviews-Epazote-Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.html TripAdvisor]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/epazote-santa-fe Yelp]

La Plazuela (New Mexican)
[http://www.lafondasantafe.com/dining/laPlazuela.html Menu]
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60958-d477193-Reviews-La_Plazuela_at_La_Fonda-Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.html TripAdvisor]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/la-plazuela-dining-room-santa-fe Yelp]

Restaurant Martín (Contemporary American)
[http://www.restaurantmartinsantafe.com/ Menu]
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60958-d1539133-Reviews-Restaurant_Martin-Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.html TripAdvisor]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/restaurant-martin-santa-fe Yelp]

The Ore House (New Mexican, Steak)
[http://www.orehouseontheplaza.com/ Menu]
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60958-d459720-Reviews-Ore_House_On_The_Plaza-Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.html TripAdvisor]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/ore-house-on-the-plaza-santa-fe Yelp]

Other suggestions that are not necessarily New Mexican... 
Shibumi Ramen (cash only but supposedly awesome)
[http://www.shibumiramen.com/ Menu]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/shibumi-ramenya-santa-fe Yelp]

==Other Options==

Rafting down the Rio Grande Box.

[http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/events/SF/music.shtml Music on the Hill] Concert Series (at St. John's)

Great Sand Dunes (in Colorado)

Sandia Peak Tram (in Albuquerque)

[http://www.rodeodesantafe.org/ Rodeo de Santa Fe]

[http://ojospa.com/index.php Ojo Caliente hot springs Field Trip]

Chaco Canyon

[http://www.visitpagosasprings.com/things-to-do/activities/summer/hot-springs/ Soak in the Hot Springs at Pagosa Springs, CO]

==Mountain Biking==
I am looking for people interested in mountain biking either early morning, pre-dinner or on the weekend. If you don't have a bike there are a number of shops around town that rent. -Josh A

==Completed Events==

===SF Complex===
We're planning a trip to the [http://sfcomplex.org Santa Fe Complex] on Friday June 10 towards the evening.

UPDATE: We'll be making it an official trip. Shuttles will arrive at SJC 10 June at 6:00(18:00), return 8:00 (20:00).

===Soccer, Monday 13 June at 7 PM?===
(I saw this from Victor on the CSSS FB wall)

"Who's down for soccer this Monday evening, at 7?
Rsvp w/a comment
If you have a ball, bring it--and let us know in your rsvp
I think it makes sense if those of us who want to play meet up at the drop-off circle and then walk down to the athletic field cheers V"

===Who already presented their own research===

- Martin: the world's technological capacity to process information

- Yangjing: Relations Between Graphs

- Nadja: Coupling human-engineered systems to improve water management on mine sites

- Tomas: Chemical Organization Theory & Concept's Theory

- Stefani: Understanding prehistory through agent-based modeling and network analysis

Complex Systems Summer School 2011-Projects & Working Groups

2011-06-17T06:43:31Z

Ehurk: /* The CSSS11-network challenge */

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2011}}

If you'd like to work on a project with other members of the group, please use this page to organize your thoughts and efforts. We'll schedule a time when we can show off your work towards the end of the program.

==Keywords==

Hey Guys! Some of your research interests have been entered. Hopefully this can give us a better idea of what we are studying, and how we can collaborate for the final challenge. They are organized in a [https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ak7533_HL5TadHdhRUFyWGVLRHlmN2liSEVtR2FDUEE&hl=en_US google doc].

Hey Again! Here are two versions of the GML. The first is non-editable, it works. The second can be messed around with like a normal sharable google doc. Please remember to cut and paste ALL of the text (No bracket left behind!) into a text editor of your choice (like notepad) and save it as a .gml. There is a code called "value", this is so you can manipulate the PeopleNodes and the SubjectNodes as separate variables. If you have trouble, let me know. Again, apologies for misspellings and mis-placing-you-in-the-mega-universe-of-stuff-to-study.

ALPHA:
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/15eViqP9BDEsDRqw1Z-R3LnOB04AN57o631YeCxTQQsk/edit?hl=en_US ALPHA GML KEYWORD NETWORK!]

BETA:
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PHDX8LJg-llngEe7tDuQrJTdi6i8q8xwsM7l6dB5oCE/edit?hl=en_US BETA GML KEYWORD NETWORK!]

-Clio

==Meeting with Geoffrey West==

A group of us were interested to continue a discussion with Geoffrey West following his lecture this evening. We will be meeting over lunch next Wednesday 15th June at SFI in the medium conference room. Please add your name to the below list if you would like to attend. 
Nadja Kunz 
Martin Hilbert 
Shweta Singh 
Fran Moore 
Matteo Gagliolo 
Kevin Carlson 
Raghad Chawla 
Jacob Jensen 
Cristina Metgher 
Alejandro Fajardo 
Lydia Smith 
Antoine Allard 
Michael Sachs 
Nicolas Paez 
Christian Gunning 
Nathan Wang 

==Chaotic DJs==

I'd like to play around with the idea of using chaotic attractors to create music, as introduced by Liz Bradley. If anyone else is interested, please say so below! Ideally, I'd love to create a new piece of music (perhaps even recording a few of the budding musicians at the summer school if possible!), pull the individual parts of the composition apart and then use chaotic attractors to put them back together in new (and constantly evolving) ways. I have music production software on my laptop that we can use as a backbone, but we'd need to work out how to program something so that the differential equations controlled it (or otherwise figure out how to use the DEs to make a composition that we then record within the software - perhaps an easier option!) I'd like to hear other people's ideas about what elements of the piece the chaotic attractors could be used to manipulate - Liz's example only used them to re-order pitch, but I'm sure there are other things that we could do too. Hopefully this could be a project that we could play with in our spare time - I'm also looking to join in with a more academic project too, but I think this could potentially be a very enjoyable side-project. -Martin Gould

Interested: 
Anna Deluca 
Nini Zhang (I'm particularly interested variations as defined computationally v musically) 
Stefani Crabtree (What a great idea! I'm a musician: www.stefanicrabtree.com) 
Lydia Smith (I hope it's not too late to jump on board!) 
Sean Roberts

How about having a quick meeting to discuss ideas on Thursday lunch time? Dining hall at noon? The original paper that Liz talked about is here: [http://www.aip.org/journals/chaos/95_1.pdf] perhaps we could discuss which of the original ideas we'd like to use and also brainstorm some new ones that we'd like to try out. -Martin

[[A Page for Mysterious Things]] 
In other words, it's the talk page for members of this group. It's not exciting, don't look at it.

==The CSSS11-network challenge==

'''MEETING TUESDAY 21 AFTER LECTURES''' 
Coming Tuesday, 20 minutes after the lectures end*, I will organize a get together on this project. Everyone interested, please feel welcome. I will announce the location later, here. 
Please, do the following three things: 

1) If you are interested in the analysis, if you have not yet done so, please feel in the survey (we need data!) 
2) Think about what kind of thing you want to bring to this group: passive discussion/knowledge, or active ideas, hands on data analysis, and such 
3) In the latter case of active participation, formulate your ideas in a less-than-5-minute (without slides) old fashioned talk/reasoning 

We will have approx. 5 min idea-statements followed by approx. 5 minute positive, constructive discussion (this will be like a brainstorm session, so all ideas are welcome). 
After we have heard all ideas, the people who want to actively participate will be strongly involved in making a practical schedule.
I plan to have a first (anonymous) data-set available on Tuesday, if I’m lucky, before that. 

*I know that this will coincide with the individual talks of us, which are really interesting, too. The schedule with the labs, evening lectures, and so on, is just too full to do anything else. If you now have a double appointment, one solution is always to (convince your favorite speaker) to present in the last week. 

Thank you for all your help and looking forward to Tuesday! 

Evelien 

PS 
We might need some help with getting the data into a nice structure and such. If converting excel files to graphs is something you like to do, please drop me an email.

'''About the project''' 
Today the Networks Module has started. One of the well-known examples of a network, is a social network.
Did you realize you have been working hard on an (almost) completely new social network in the past few days?

How do these networks come in to place? How do we make friends? Will we be a fully connected network? How many hubs do we have - and can we explain how these hubs come in to place?

This is an excellent opportunity to find some answers to these questions!

The idea is to base the results on the contacts people make. Simply put: who did you have a conversation with? By noting this regularly, we can see the connectedness and sorts of the network evolve over time.

The plan is to collect data on 
1) The evolvement of the network over time, in terms of nr of contacts (conversations lasting over 10 minutes) per approx. 2 days 
2) The 'final' network, as in the people you feel connected to (would like to contact for science or social activities) 

All results will be processed anonymously and will appear (at the end of the summerschool) on the wiki.

We need your help off course, to answer these questions. 
The first survey can be found at: www.thesistools.com/web/?id=20584 

If you are interested in this project, I will organize some discussion meeting (probably in the next week). For now: add your name to the list below, and send in the survey! (while encouraging as much of your connections as you can to do so, too ;) )

If you have any questions, send a message to ehuk at rsm dot nl.

Thank you so much for your help!

The CSSS11-network challenge team 
- Evelien 
- Tomas 
- Clio 
- Randy 
- Antoine 
- JP 
- Cristina M. 
- ....(put your name here if you are in any way interested) 

Hey Guys! Some of your research interests have been entered. Hopefully this can give us a better idea of what we are studying, and how we can collaborate for the final challenge. They are organized in a google doc for sorting, searching etc, and all should have editing privileges. Sorry for typos!

[https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ak7533_HL5TadHdhRUFyWGVLRHlmN2liSEVtR2FDUEE&hl=en_US LINK TO GOOGLE DOC SPREADSHEET]

CHECK BACK FOR A NETWORK OF OUR INTERESTS!!!!!!

-Clio

==Econophysics/Economics Working Group==

Akira, Veronica and I have been discussing some econophysics-type problems recently, and we are going to set up a small working group to meet and discuss our work and problems that we've been thinking about. We will be talking about using ideas from complex systems (such as agent-based modelling, statistical mechanics, etc.) to re-visit traditional problems from economics. We haven't set a date for our first meeting yet, but it's likely to be early next week. Please add your name to the list below if you'd like to come along, either to talk or just to listen! 
Martin Gould 
Akira Toda 
Veronica Gheorghiade 
Shweta Singh 
Matteo Gagliolo 
Fran Moore 
Ryan j 
Alejandro Fajardo (quietly attending)

Complex Systems Summer School 2011-Projects & Working Groups

2011-06-17T06:42:54Z

Ehurk: /* The CSSS11-network challenge */

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2011}}

If you'd like to work on a project with other members of the group, please use this page to organize your thoughts and efforts. We'll schedule a time when we can show off your work towards the end of the program.

==Keywords==

Hey Guys! Some of your research interests have been entered. Hopefully this can give us a better idea of what we are studying, and how we can collaborate for the final challenge. They are organized in a [https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ak7533_HL5TadHdhRUFyWGVLRHlmN2liSEVtR2FDUEE&hl=en_US google doc].

Hey Again! Here are two versions of the GML. The first is non-editable, it works. The second can be messed around with like a normal sharable google doc. Please remember to cut and paste ALL of the text (No bracket left behind!) into a text editor of your choice (like notepad) and save it as a .gml. There is a code called "value", this is so you can manipulate the PeopleNodes and the SubjectNodes as separate variables. If you have trouble, let me know. Again, apologies for misspellings and mis-placing-you-in-the-mega-universe-of-stuff-to-study.

ALPHA:
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/15eViqP9BDEsDRqw1Z-R3LnOB04AN57o631YeCxTQQsk/edit?hl=en_US ALPHA GML KEYWORD NETWORK!]

BETA:
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PHDX8LJg-llngEe7tDuQrJTdi6i8q8xwsM7l6dB5oCE/edit?hl=en_US BETA GML KEYWORD NETWORK!]

-Clio

==Meeting with Geoffrey West==

A group of us were interested to continue a discussion with Geoffrey West following his lecture this evening. We will be meeting over lunch next Wednesday 15th June at SFI in the medium conference room. Please add your name to the below list if you would like to attend. 
Nadja Kunz 
Martin Hilbert 
Shweta Singh 
Fran Moore 
Matteo Gagliolo 
Kevin Carlson 
Raghad Chawla 
Jacob Jensen 
Cristina Metgher 
Alejandro Fajardo 
Lydia Smith 
Antoine Allard 
Michael Sachs 
Nicolas Paez 
Christian Gunning 
Nathan Wang 

==Chaotic DJs==

I'd like to play around with the idea of using chaotic attractors to create music, as introduced by Liz Bradley. If anyone else is interested, please say so below! Ideally, I'd love to create a new piece of music (perhaps even recording a few of the budding musicians at the summer school if possible!), pull the individual parts of the composition apart and then use chaotic attractors to put them back together in new (and constantly evolving) ways. I have music production software on my laptop that we can use as a backbone, but we'd need to work out how to program something so that the differential equations controlled it (or otherwise figure out how to use the DEs to make a composition that we then record within the software - perhaps an easier option!) I'd like to hear other people's ideas about what elements of the piece the chaotic attractors could be used to manipulate - Liz's example only used them to re-order pitch, but I'm sure there are other things that we could do too. Hopefully this could be a project that we could play with in our spare time - I'm also looking to join in with a more academic project too, but I think this could potentially be a very enjoyable side-project. -Martin Gould

Interested: 
Anna Deluca 
Nini Zhang (I'm particularly interested variations as defined computationally v musically) 
Stefani Crabtree (What a great idea! I'm a musician: www.stefanicrabtree.com) 
Lydia Smith (I hope it's not too late to jump on board!) 
Sean Roberts

How about having a quick meeting to discuss ideas on Thursday lunch time? Dining hall at noon? The original paper that Liz talked about is here: [http://www.aip.org/journals/chaos/95_1.pdf] perhaps we could discuss which of the original ideas we'd like to use and also brainstorm some new ones that we'd like to try out. -Martin

[[A Page for Mysterious Things]] 
In other words, it's the talk page for members of this group. It's not exciting, don't look at it.

==The CSSS11-network challenge==

'''MEETING TUESDAY 21 AFTER LECTURES''' 
Coming Tuesday, 20 minutes after the lectures end*, I will organize a get together on this project. Everyone interested, please feel welcome. I will announce the location later, here. 
Please, do the following three things: 

1) If you are interested in the analysis, if you have not yet done so, please feel in the survey (we need data!) 
2) Think about what kind of thing you want to bring to this group: passive discussion/knowledge, or active ideas, hands on data analysis, and such 
3) In the latter case of active participation, formulate your ideas in a less-than-5-minute (without slides) old fashioned talk/reasoning 

We will have approx. 5 min idea-statements followed by approx. 5 minute positive, constructive discussion (this will be like a brainstorm session, so all ideas are welcome). 
After we have heard all ideas, the people who want to actively participate will be strongly involved in making a practical schedule.
I plan to have a first (anonymous) data-set available on Tuesday, if I’m lucky, before that. 

*I know that this will coincide with the individual talks of us, which are really interesting, too. The schedule with the labs, evening lectures, and so on, is just too full to do anything else. If you now have a double appointment, one solution is always to (convince your favorite speaker) to present in the last week. 

Thank you for all your help and looking forward to Tuesday! 

Evelien 

'''About the project''' 
Today the Networks Module has started. One of the well-known examples of a network, is a social network.
Did you realize you have been working hard on an (almost) completely new social network in the past few days?

How do these networks come in to place? How do we make friends? Will we be a fully connected network? How many hubs do we have - and can we explain how these hubs come in to place?

This is an excellent opportunity to find some answers to these questions!

The idea is to base the results on the contacts people make. Simply put: who did you have a conversation with? By noting this regularly, we can see the connectedness and sorts of the network evolve over time.

The plan is to collect data on 
1) The evolvement of the network over time, in terms of nr of contacts (conversations lasting over 10 minutes) per approx. 2 days 
2) The 'final' network, as in the people you feel connected to (would like to contact for science or social activities) 

All results will be processed anonymously and will appear (at the end of the summerschool) on the wiki.

We need your help off course, to answer these questions. 
The first survey can be found at: www.thesistools.com/web/?id=20584 

If you are interested in this project, I will organize some discussion meeting (probably in the next week). For now: add your name to the list below, and send in the survey! (while encouraging as much of your connections as you can to do so, too ;) )

If you have any questions, send a message to ehuk at rsm dot nl.

Thank you so much for your help!

The CSSS11-network challenge team 
- Evelien 
- Tomas 
- Clio 
- Randy 
- Antoine 
- JP 
- Cristina M. 
- ....(put your name here if you are in any way interested) 

Hey Guys! Some of your research interests have been entered. Hopefully this can give us a better idea of what we are studying, and how we can collaborate for the final challenge. They are organized in a google doc for sorting, searching etc, and all should have editing privileges. Sorry for typos!

[https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ak7533_HL5TadHdhRUFyWGVLRHlmN2liSEVtR2FDUEE&hl=en_US LINK TO GOOGLE DOC SPREADSHEET]

CHECK BACK FOR A NETWORK OF OUR INTERESTS!!!!!!

-Clio

==Econophysics/Economics Working Group==

Akira, Veronica and I have been discussing some econophysics-type problems recently, and we are going to set up a small working group to meet and discuss our work and problems that we've been thinking about. We will be talking about using ideas from complex systems (such as agent-based modelling, statistical mechanics, etc.) to re-visit traditional problems from economics. We haven't set a date for our first meeting yet, but it's likely to be early next week. Please add your name to the list below if you'd like to come along, either to talk or just to listen! 
Martin Gould 
Akira Toda 
Veronica Gheorghiade 
Shweta Singh 
Matteo Gagliolo 
Fran Moore 
Ryan j 
Alejandro Fajardo (quietly attending)

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2011-06-17T06:37:04Z

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2011-06-17T06:33:15Z

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2011-06-17T06:32:26Z

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Complex Systems Summer School 2011-After Hours

2011-06-17T06:20:07Z

Ehurk:

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2011}}

Use this space to organize your own after hours activities.

==Bandelier Field Trip==
[[JP]] would like to set up a trip to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandelier_National_Monument Bandelier National Monument] on Sat. June 18. We might string a visit to the [http://www.vallescaldera.gov/ Valles Caldera] and [http://www.lanl.gov/museum/ Bradbury Science Museum/Los Alamos] in as well.

From Stefani: I know the head archaeologist at Bandelier. I'll see if I can get him or his assistant to give us a brief talk.

Bandelier Trip Sign Up.

Car 1: JP's Camry (<strike>4</strike> 5 seats) 
1. John Paul Gonzales 
2. Nini Zhang 
3. Raghav Chawla 
4. Miles Townes 
5. Can you get a 5th in this car? Thanks! 

Car 2: Stefani's Mazda only for a 13-mile hike: 
1. Stefani Crabtree 
2. Cali Ellis 
3. 
4. Nicolas Paez 
5. Zoe Hamstead
THIS CAR IS FULL 

Car 3: Tom Carter's car (can fit 4 or 5) 
1. Tom 
2. anand 
3. Alejandro Fajardo 
4. Cristina Metgher 
5. Shweta Singh 

Car 4: Nora's car 
1. Nora 
2. Josh A 
3. David 
4. Erik 
5. Ed 

Car : Lydia's car only for a 13-mile hike 
1. Lydia 
2. Alexis Toda 
3. Antoine 
4. Anna 
5. Eugenia 

Car: Rental car, Evelien driving - staying as long as we like in Bandelier, might skip Alamos 

1. Evelien (driver) 
2. Navigator: ... (you?) 
'Achterbank ensemble:' 
3. 
4. 
5. 

 People who need rides 

6. Michael Sachs 
7. Evelien van der Hurk Can rent a car 
8. 
9. br>
10. Martin Gould 
11. Nadja Kunz 
12. Randy C (but I can rent a car as well...) 

==Present your own research==

there are many others with very inspiring and ready to present research findings, so the idea would be to have a small session next '''Tuesday''' after lectures: let's say 4.30 - 6.00 (or longer, depending on how many of us want to / are ready to present) ...let's say 15 min each (so cut it down to the essentials! ...max 10 slides, if any!) and leave some room for discussion... so if you're ready and want some constructive feedback, just put here the title of your potential presentation, and we'll see if we get a critical mass that's interested:

- Aaron: Characterization of microbial promoter architectures for rational reengineering

- Cristina: "Marriage squeeze modeling" .

- Ed: "Shmoozing between enzyme kinetics and classical mechanics"

- Shweta: Role of bio-geochemical cycles in economic activities - Current inventory for US economy.

- Victor: current ideas in interdisciplinary education, as informed by case studies & interdisciplinarity philosophy

- Alexis: stuff related to maximum entropy, e.g., inductive reasoning, impossibility of scientific controversy, etc.

- ...

Week after (last week):

- Ryan: complexity

==Yo La Tengo in Santa Fe, 17 June==

For anyone interested, they're playing in town.

I might be interested in attending if others are going - Josh 

Anna, Eugenia, and I just got tickets. http://www.thirstyearfestival.com/concerts.html#yo We have 2 more seats left in the car. -Lydia

==Taos Earthships, Rio Grande Gorge, High Country==
Taos is a small town about 60 miles North of Santa Fe. It's known for the Taos Indian Pueblo, an artist colony, skiing, and the Taos Earthships. Depending on who's interested, we could stop by some wineries on the way up/down. The drive up alone is worth it.

When is this happening? -N

Please add your car and seats if you have one 

Car 1: JP's Camry (4 seats) 
1. JP 
2. Nini 
3. Raghav 
4. Stefani 
5. David B 

Car 2: Chris's Versa 
1. Nicolas Paez 
2.Ed Reznik 
3. Evelien van der Hurk 
4. Cristina Metgher 

People who need rides:

==Community Lecture, 1930, 29 June==
From Democratic Consensus to Cannibalistic Hordes: The Principles of Collective Animal Behavior[http://santafe.edu/gevent/detail/public/408/] 
Presented by Ian Couzin (Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University) 

Anyone interested? - Nini

Yep, we have a shuttle already scheduled and seats reserved. No need to worry about transportation. -JP

==Los Alamos==

Los Alamos National Labs

From website: "Los Alamos National Laboratory is a premier national security research institution, delivering scientific and engineering solutions for the nation's most crucial and complex problems. Our primary responsibility is ensuring the safety, security, and reliability of the nation's nuclear deterrent. The Los Alamos of today emphasizes worker safety, effective operational safeguards & security, and environmental stewardship, while outstanding science remains the foundation of the Laboratory. In addition to supporting the Lab's core national security mission, our work advances bioscience, chemistry, computer science, earth and environmental sciences, materials science, and physics disciplines."

Check it out at lanl.gov

I'd like to go, and I can rent a car if there's an interested group. -Clio

I'd like to go too! -Raghav

count me in! -ryan j

If this is 25th or 26th, I'd love to join! - Taka

Some people are going on to Los Alamos from the Bandelier/Valles Caldera trip this Saturday. - Nini

==NRAO Very Large Array==

National Radio Astronomy Observatory - Very Large Array

Its a bit of a hike... about a 3 hour drive... but should be totally worth it. Perhaps we could do this and los alamos together on the same day. -Raghav

Heres the description from the website(http://www.vla.nrao.edu/)-

The Very Large Array, one of the world's premier astronomical radio observatories, consists of 27 radio antennas in a Y-shaped configuration on the Plains of San Agustin fifty miles west of Socorro, New Mexico. Each antenna is 25 meters (82 feet) in diameter. The data from the antennas is combined electronically to give the resolution of an antenna 36km (22 miles) across, with the sensitivity of a dish 130 meters (422 feet) in diameter.

I'd love to go and would be willing to rent a car and drive. Unfortunately Los Alamos is in a different direction (NW) than VLA by quite a lot. I suggest looking above for other trips in planning for Los Alamos.

I think this trip depends on when we go (when is Taos Earthships trip?) and whatever else people have planned for. Note that this trip is 3 hours and there's very little else besides VLA in that neighborhood of NM - this trip would be optimal if we can hook on this visit to any other attractions nearby (or in Albuquerque). Any suggestions? - Nini

Mind signing up to indicate interest? 
1. Nini - Can rent a car 
2. Chris G - Have a car, but all depends on when we go... 
3. Cali - I would go, looks cool (can rent a car, don't have one) 
4. Raghav - Definitely wanna go... Can rent a car 

==Backpacking in the Pecos Wilderness==
I've been planning a full-weekend backpacking trip with a local friend of mine. We'd probably camp Friday night at the trailhead (or his parents cabin) to get an early start, set up camp, then do a lighter hike to summit Las Truchas, the second highest peak in NM. We'd return on Sunday. At a minimum, you'd need a backpack and sleeping bag. We might be able to rustle up other gear. Cars shouldn't be an issue.

Interest: 
1. Chris G. 
2. Kameron - I'm in! 
3. Fran (also have tent and stove if needed) 

==Stargazing==

I'd like to spend an evening star-gazing - maybe try to get far enough out of town to avoid major light pollution. The next new moon is July 1st, so we might look to do it towards the end of the program. - Miles

I'd be interested, might be able to get a telescope, and know a few locations. (JP) 
Cristina M.: Count me in and keep me informed. Great idea, Miles! 

Shweta S : I am also interested, but I have an early morning flight on 2nd July . So, I have to be at Peterson circle by 4 Am for the Pick up shuttle to airport. If possible, I am certainly in for Star Gazing, haven't done it for years. 

I am also very interested... but may fly out on the 1st in the evening... Could we perhaps do this on a weeknight? -Raghav

==Early morning hiking==

Would anybody would be interested in hiking the Atalaya Mountain Trail (or anywhere else) before dawn to watch the sunrise from the top?

When?

I am kind of tempted to do it on a weekday, but I may end up doing it alone. Unless a few people are interested, we could do it, let's say, this Saturday? The sun rises at about 5h45 these days.

==Swimming?==
Anyone want to go swimming with me (Ed)? There's a pool about 2 miles away that's open till 8:30, was thinking of walking down after class.

Count me in for the drowning. When? - Nini

==Ten Thousand Waves==

They say it's a "must-do" while here. Just put your name down here if interested. (Cristina M.)

How does Thursday after lectures sound? (JP)? 
//Cristina M: Thursday after lectures is perfect! Though they have this on Friday: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=151999048206158. Thanks [[JP]]!
Given the talks on Thursday, Friday (if there is time) may be better. Do we need to make a reservation (they recommend so on several places on their website) EH.

I'd be happy for Friday night. There are some fairly large private tubs available. We should look into that. (JP)

Website: http://www.tenthousandwaves.com/
Price list: http://www.tenthousandwaves.com/RATES/price_list_summary.php

JP's Car! (hurray!) 
1.John Paul Gonzales 
2.Cristina M. 
3.Nini 
4.Evelien 
5.Raghav 

People Who Need Rides
1. Fran

==Museum Trip Friday June 17th==
It's $8 for admission to the Georgia O'Keefe Museum. I want to go after lecture tomorrow; sounds like a cool exhibit about the relationship between photography and contemporary art. Let's meet outside the student center at 4:30pm. The museum is open until 7pm. We can potentially grab dinner and drinks downtown afterwards.
I'll drive down in my car from St. Johns; I've got space for 4 more.

1. Nora 
2. David B 
3. Erik 
4. 
5. 

==Rodeo de Santa Fe, June 22==

Sign up for the Rodeo! Opening night

JP's Camry 
1. [[JP]] 
2. Cali 
3. Nini 
4. Cristina M. 
5. Evelien 

People who need rides 
1. Raghav - Can rent a car if needed 
2. Fran Moore 
3.... 

==After summerschool ==
I (Evelien van der Hurk) have got a couple of days after the summer school, and am (kind of) planning to drive around to Mesa Verde, Monument Valley, and if there is time: sky highway/Silverton. Is supposed to be pretty amazing. I will arrange to be 'back' on wednesday 6 july at 14:00h at Albuquerque airport, or before that - leaving at least 4 days for traveling, when leaving on Saturday. So, if anyone is interested to join me to drive around (I will need to rent a car), let me know (ehurk at rsm dot nl). Some links to pictures are below.

[http://www.astronomynotes.com/nature/pic18f.htm Monument Valley 1]

[http://www.destination360.com/north-america/us/utah/monument-valley Monument Valley 2]

[www.visitmesaverde.com Mesa Verde]

And just google fot pictures at google : 'million dollar highway colorado'

==Frisbee==
Ok, look. I (Ed) like frisbee. By virtue of being into science, you people must at some level also like frisbee. So, let's play frisbee. There are lots of ways to do this:
1) Throwing
2) Throwing with our arms tucked in like T-Rex's
3) Imbibing beverages and throwing
4) Spinning the disc on our fingers (ooo fancy) and then throwing it
5) Playing cower (ask me for details)

Who has a disc? - Ed

I would be up for throwing, and also for a game of Ultimate. Thursday evening (the 16th) is free on our schedule. We can buy a disc. -Miles

I've got a disc. Just let me know whenever you want it. -AA

I am soo in. Cristina M.

I want to play cower! With beverages! -Kam

==A Nice Dinner Out==

The St. John's cafeteria is great, but Santa Fe is also the home of many unique, world-class restaurants. I would like to go out for a nice dinner some night and would love company. Any of the places below are kind of pricey and will require reservations, so please post preferences for date and location and I'll pull something together. Here are a few to get you started, with reviews and menus. - Cali (weakly prefers La Plazuela or Martín)

Epazote (Contemporary Mexican)
[http://www.epazotesantafe.com/epazotesantafe/epazote.html Menu]
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60958-d1742792-Reviews-Epazote-Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.html TripAdvisor]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/epazote-santa-fe Yelp]

La Plazuela (New Mexican)
[http://www.lafondasantafe.com/dining/laPlazuela.html Menu]
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60958-d477193-Reviews-La_Plazuela_at_La_Fonda-Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.html TripAdvisor]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/la-plazuela-dining-room-santa-fe Yelp]

Restaurant Martín (Contemporary American)
[http://www.restaurantmartinsantafe.com/ Menu]
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60958-d1539133-Reviews-Restaurant_Martin-Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.html TripAdvisor]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/restaurant-martin-santa-fe Yelp]

The Ore House (New Mexican, Steak)
[http://www.orehouseontheplaza.com/ Menu]
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60958-d459720-Reviews-Ore_House_On_The_Plaza-Santa_Fe_New_Mexico.html TripAdvisor]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/ore-house-on-the-plaza-santa-fe Yelp]

Other suggestions that are not necessarily New Mexican... 
Shibumi Ramen (cash only but supposedly awesome)
[http://www.shibumiramen.com/ Menu]
[http://www.yelp.com/biz/shibumi-ramenya-santa-fe Yelp]

==Other Options==

Rafting down the Rio Grande Box.

[http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/events/SF/music.shtml Music on the Hill] Concert Series (at St. John's)

Great Sand Dunes (in Colorado)

Sandia Peak Tram (in Albuquerque)

[http://www.rodeodesantafe.org/ Rodeo de Santa Fe]

[http://ojospa.com/index.php Ojo Caliente hot springs Field Trip]

Chaco Canyon

[http://www.visitpagosasprings.com/things-to-do/activities/summer/hot-springs/ Soak in the Hot Springs at Pagosa Springs, CO]

==Mountain Biking==
I am looking for people interested in mountain biking either early morning, pre-dinner or on the weekend. If you don't have a bike there are a number of shops around town that rent. -Josh A

==Completed Events==

===SF Complex===
We're planning a trip to the [http://sfcomplex.org Santa Fe Complex] on Friday June 10 towards the evening.

UPDATE: We'll be making it an official trip. Shuttles will arrive at SJC 10 June at 6:00(18:00), return 8:00 (20:00).

===Soccer, Monday 13 June at 7 PM?===
(I saw this from Victor on the CSSS FB wall)

"Who's down for soccer this Monday evening, at 7?
Rsvp w/a comment
If you have a ball, bring it--and let us know in your rsvp
I think it makes sense if those of us who want to play meet up at the drop-off circle and then walk down to the athletic field cheers V"

===Who already presented their own research===

- Martin: the world's technological capacity to process information

- Yangjing: Relations Between Graphs

- Nadja: Coupling human-engineered systems to improve water management on mine sites

- Tomas: Chemical Organization Theory & Concept's Theory

- Stefani: Understanding prehistory through agent-based modeling and network analysis

Complex Systems Summer School 2011-Blog

2011-06-17T06:15:45Z

Ehurk:

Complex Systems Summer School 2011-Blog

2011-06-17T06:14:38Z

Ehurk:

Alfred Hubler's Nonlinear Dynamics Lab 2011

2011-06-16T16:47:40Z

Ehurk: /* Monday, June 20, 6:00pm */

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2011}}

==Thursday, June 16, 6:00pm==

1. Ronnie Garduño 
2. Martin Gould 
3.Chris Glazner 
4. Anna Deluca 
5. Ryan James 
6. Nora Connor 
7. Taka Sasaki 
8. Guido Montufar 
9. Michael Johansson 
10.Randy Casstevens 
11.Nathan Wang 
12. Josh Auerbach 
13. Cali Mortenson Ellis 
14. 
15. Sean Roberts 

==Friday, June 17 7:00am==
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS AN EARLY MORNING CLASS! 
1. Aaron Brooks 
2. Miles Townes 
3. NIcolas Paez 
4. Cristina Metgher 
5. Kameron Harris 
6. 
7. 
8. 
9. 
10. 
11. 
12. 
13. 
14. 
15. 

==Monday, June 20, 6:00pm==
1. Shweta Singh 
2. Zoe Hamstead 
3. Michael Sachs 
4. Evelien van der Hurk 
5. Nadja Kunz 
6. 
7. Lydia Smith 
8. Jason Veneman 
9. Leonida Gheorghiade 
10.Yangjing Long 
11. 
12. 
13. 
14. 
15. 

==Tuesday, June 21, 6:00pm==
1. Nini Zhang 
2. 
3. 
4. 
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Alfred Hubler's Nonlinear Dynamics Lab 2011

2011-06-16T16:47:22Z

Ehurk:

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2011}}

==Thursday, June 16, 6:00pm==

1. Ronnie Garduño 
2. Martin Gould 
3.Chris Glazner 
4. Anna Deluca 
5. Ryan James 
6. Nora Connor 
7. Taka Sasaki 
8. Guido Montufar 
9. Michael Johansson 
10.Randy Casstevens 
11.Nathan Wang 
12. Josh Auerbach 
13. Cali Mortenson Ellis 
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==Friday, June 17 7:00am==
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS AN EARLY MORNING CLASS! 
1. Aaron Brooks 
2. Miles Townes 
3. NIcolas Paez 
4. Cristina Metgher 
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==Monday, June 20, 6:00pm==
1. Shweta Singh 
2. Zoe Hamstead 
3. Michael Sachs 
4. Evelien 
5. Nadja Kunz 
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7. Lydia Smith 
8. Jason Veneman 
9. Leonida Gheorghiade 
10.Yangjing Long 
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==Tuesday, June 21, 6:00pm==
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Alfred Hubler's Nonlinear Dynamics Lab 2011

2011-06-16T16:43:27Z

Ehurk: /* Thursday, June 16, 6:00pm */

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2011}}

==Thursday, June 16, 6:00pm==

1. Ronnie Garduño 
2. Martin Gould 
3.Chris Glazner 
4. Anna Deluca 
5. Ryan James 
6. Nora Connor 
7. Taka Sasaki 
8. Guido Montufar 
9. Michael Johansson 
10.Randy Casstevens 
11.Nathan Wang 
12. Josh Auerbach 
13. Cali Mortenson Ellis 
14. Evelien van der Hurk 
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==Friday, June 17 7:00am==
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS AN EARLY MORNING CLASS! 
1. Aaron Brooks 
2. Miles Townes 
3. NIcolas Paez 
4. Cristina Metgher 
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==Monday, June 20, 6:00pm==
1. Shweta Singh 
2. Zoe Hamstead 
3. Michael Sachs 
4. Evelien 
5. Nadja Kunz 
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8. Jason Veneman 
9. Leonida Gheorghiade 
10.Yangjing Long 
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Complex Systems Summer School 2011-After Hours

2011-06-15T06:25:26Z

Ehurk: /* Present your own research */

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2011}}

Use this space to organize your own after hours activities.

==Bandelier Field Trip==
[[JP]] would like to set up a trip to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandelier_National_Monument Bandelier National Monument] on Sat. June 18. We might string a visit to the [http://www.vallescaldera.gov/ Valles Caldera] and [http://www.lanl.gov/museum/ Bradbury Science Museum/Los Alamos] in as well.

From Stefani: I know the head archaeologist at Bandelier. I'll see if I can get him or his assistant to give us a brief talk.

Bandelier Trip Sign Up.

Car 1: JP's Camry (<strike>4</strike> 5 seats) 
1. John Paul Gonzales 
2. Nini Zhang 
3. Raghav Chawla 
4. Miles Townes 
5. (Overload) 

Car 2: Stefani's Mazda: 
1. Stefani Crabtree 
2. Fran Moore 
3. Cristina Metgher 
4. Nicolas Paez 
5. Zoe Hamstead
THIS CAR IS FULL 

Car 3: Cali (I have a cancelable reservation for a GMC Yukon which seats a whopping 8 passengers, price is $146.72 + gas) 
*If you want to be in this vehicle, please move your name on the list. A GMC Yukon is way to big for just me.*
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 People who need rides 

1. Shweta Singh 
2. Ed Reznik 
3. David Borenstein Can rent a car 
4. Erik Edlund 
5. Antoine Allard 
6. Michael Sachs 
7. Evelien van der Hurk Can rent a car 
8. Anna Deluca 
9. Eugenia Polizzi 
10. Martin Gould 
11. Nadja Kunz 
12. Josh Auerbach Can rent a car or van (minivan rental this past weekend worked well) 

==Present your own research==

there are many others with very inspiring and ready to present research findings, so the idea would be to have a small session this Thursday after lectures: let's say 4.30 - 5.30 (or longer, depending on how many of us want to / are ready to present) ...let's say 15 min each (so cut it down to the essentials! ...max 10 slides, if any!) and leave some room for discussion... so if you're ready and want some constructive feedback, just put here the title of your potential presentation, and we'll see if we get a critical mass that's interested:

1) Martin: the world's technological capacity to process information

2) Yangjing: Relations Between Graphs

3) Nadja: Coupling human-engineered systems to improve water management on mine sites

4) Tomas: Chemical Organization Theory

5) Tomas: Concept's Theory

6) Stefani: Understanding prehistory through agent-based modeling and network analysis

7) Aaron: Characterization of microbial promoter architectures for rational reengineering

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Victor wont present anything at this session, but he'll attend!

Raghav will also attend..
I'm interested in attending, too (Evelien)

==Yo La Tengo in Santa Fe, 17 June==

For anyone interested, they're playing in town.

I might be interested in attending if others are going - Josh 

Anna, Eugenia, and I just got tickets. http://www.thirstyearfestival.com/concerts.html#yo We have 2 more seats left in the car. -Lydia

==Taos Earthships, Rio Grande Gorge, High Country==
Taos is a small town about 60 miles North of Santa Fe. It's known for the Taos Indian Pueblo, an artist colony, skiing, and the Taos Earthships. Depending on who's interested, we could stop by some wineries on the way up/down. The drive up alone is worth it.

When is this happening? -N

Please add your car and seats if you have one 

Car 1: JP's Camry (4 seats) 
1. JP 
2. Nini 
3. Raghav 
4. Stefani 
5. David B 

Car 2: Chris's Versa 
1. Nicolas Paez 
2.Ed Reznik 
3. Evelien van der Hurk 
4. Cristina Metgher 

People who need rides:

==Community Lecture, 1930, 29 June==
From Democratic Consensus to Cannibalistic Hordes: The Principles of Collective Animal Behavior[http://santafe.edu/gevent/detail/public/408/] 
Presented by Ian Couzin (Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University) 

Anyone interested? - Nini

Yep, we have a shuttle already scheduled and seats reserved. No need to worry about transportation. -JP

==Los Alamos==

Los Alamos National Labs

From website: "Los Alamos National Laboratory is a premier national security research institution, delivering scientific and engineering solutions for the nation's most crucial and complex problems. Our primary responsibility is ensuring the safety, security, and reliability of the nation's nuclear deterrent. The Los Alamos of today emphasizes worker safety, effective operational safeguards & security, and environmental stewardship, while outstanding science remains the foundation of the Laboratory. In addition to supporting the Lab's core national security mission, our work advances bioscience, chemistry, computer science, earth and environmental sciences, materials science, and physics disciplines."

Check it out at lanl.gov

I'd like to go, and I can rent a car if there's an interested group. -Clio

I'd like to go too! -Raghav

count me in! -ryan j

If this is 25th or 26th, I'd love to join! - Taka

==NRAO Very Large Array==

National Radio Astronomy Observatory - Very Large Array

Its a bit of a hike... about a 3 hour drive... but should be totally worth it. Perhaps we could do this and los alamos together on the same day. -Raghav

Heres the description from the website(http://www.vla.nrao.edu/)-

The Very Large Array, one of the world's premier astronomical radio observatories, consists of 27 radio antennas in a Y-shaped configuration on the Plains of San Agustin fifty miles west of Socorro, New Mexico. Each antenna is 25 meters (82 feet) in diameter. The data from the antennas is combined electronically to give the resolution of an antenna 36km (22 miles) across, with the sensitivity of a dish 130 meters (422 feet) in diameter.

I'd love to go and would be willing to rent a car and drive. Unfortunately Los Alamos is in a different direction (NW) than VLA by quite a lot. I suggest looking above for other trips in planning for Los Alamos.

I think this trip depends on when we go (when is Taos Earthships trip?) and whatever else people have planned for. Note that this trip is 3 hours and there's very little else besides VLA in that neighborhood of NM - this trip would be optimal if we can hook on this visit to any other attractions nearby (or in Albuquerque). Any suggestions? - Nini

Mind signing up to indicate interest? 
1. Nini - Can rent a car 
2. Chris G - Have a car, but all depends on when we go... 
3. Cali - I would go, looks cool (can rent a car, don't have one) 
4. Raghav - Definitely wanna go... Can rent a car 

==Backpacking in the Pecos Wilderness==
I've been planning a full-weekend backpacking trip with a local friend of mine. We'd probably camp Friday night at the trailhead (or his parents cabin) to get an early start, set up camp, then do a lighter hike to summit Las Truchas, the second highest peak in NM. We'd return on Sunday. At a minimum, you'd need a backpack and sleeping bag. We might be able to rustle up other gear. Cars shouldn't be an issue.

Interest: 
1. Chris G. 
2. Kameron (interested) 
3. Antoine (interested as well, the sleeping bag is an issue though) 
4. Fran (also have tent and stove if needed) 

==Stargazing==

I'd like to spend an evening star-gazing - maybe try to get far enough out of town to avoid major light pollution. The next new moon is July 1st, so we might look to do it towards the end of the program. - Miles

I'd be interested, might be able to get a telescope, and know a few locations. (JP) 
Cristina M.: Count me in and keep me informed. Great idea, Miles! 

Shweta S : I am also interested, but I have an early morning flight on 2nd July . So, I have to be at Peterson circle by 4 Am for the Pick up shuttle to airport. If possible, I am certainly in for Star Gazing, haven't done it for years. 

I am also very interested... but may fly out on the 1st in the evening... Could we perhaps do this on a weeknight? -Raghav

==Early morning hiking==

Would anybody would be interested in hiking the Atalaya Mountain Trail (or anywhere else) before dawn to watch the sunrise from the top?

When?

I am kind of tempted to do it on a weekday, but I may end up doing it alone. Unless a few people are interested, we could do it, let's say, this Saturday? The sun rises at about 5h45 these days.

==Swimming?==
Anyone want to go swimming with me (Ed)? There's a pool about 2 miles away that's open till 8:30, was thinking of walking down after class.

Count me in for the drowning. When? - Nini

==Ten Thousand Waves==

They say it's a "must-do" while here. Just put your name down here if interested. (Cristina M.)

How does Thursday after lectures sound? (JP)? 
//Cristina M: Thursday after lectures is perfect! Though they have this on Friday: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=151999048206158. Thanks [[JP]]!
Given the talks on Thursday, Friday (if there is time) may be better. Do we need to make a reservation (they recommend so on several places on their website) EH.

I'd be happy for Friday night. There are some fairly large private tubs available. We should look into that. (JP)

Website: http://www.tenthousandwaves.com/
Price list: http://www.tenthousandwaves.com/RATES/price_list_summary.php

JP's Car! (hurray!) 
1.John Paul Gonzales 
2.Cristina M. 
3.Nini 
4.Evelien 
5.Raghav 

People Who Need Rides
1. Fran

==Rodeo de Santa Fe, June 22==

Sign up for the Rodeo! Opening night

JP's Camry 
1. [[JP]] 
2. Cali 
3. Nini 
4. Cristina M. 
5. Evelien 

People who need rides 
1. Raghav - Can rent a car if needed 
2. Fran Moore 
3.... 

==After summerschool ==
I (Evelien van der Hurk) have got a couple of days after the summer school, and am (kind of) planning to drive around to Mesa Verde, Monument Valley, and if there is time: sky highway/Silverton. Is supposed to be pretty amazing. I will arrange to be 'back' on wednesday 6 july at 14:00h at Albuquerque airport, or before that - leaving at least 4 days for traveling, when leaving on Saturday. So, if anyone is interested to join me to drive around (I will need to rent a car), let me know (ehurk at rsm dot nl). Some links to pictures are below.

[http://www.astronomynotes.com/nature/pic18f.htm Monument Valley 1]

[http://www.destination360.com/north-america/us/utah/monument-valley Monument Valley 2]

[www.visitmesaverde.com Mesa Verde]

And just google fot pictures at google : 'million dollar highway colorado'

==Frisbee==
Ok, look. I (Ed) like frisbee. By virtue of being into science, you people must at some level also like frisbee. So, let's play frisbee. There are lots of ways to do this:
1) Throwing
2) Throwing with our arms tucked in like T-Rex's
3) Imbibing beverages and throwing
4) Spinning the disc on our fingers (ooo fancy) and then throwing it
5) Playing cower (ask me for details)

Who has a disc? - Ed

I would be up for throwing, and also for a game of Ultimate. Thursday evening (the 16th) is free on our schedule. We can buy a disc. -Miles

I've got a disc. Just let me know whenever you want it. -AA

I am soo in. Cristina M.

==Other Options==

Rafting down the Rio Grande Box.

[http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/events/SF/music.shtml Music on the Hill] Concert Series (at St. John's)

Great Sand Dunes (in Colorado)

Sandia Peak Tram (in Albuquerque)

[http://www.rodeodesantafe.org/ Rodeo de Santa Fe]

[http://ojospa.com/index.php Ojo Caliente hot springs Field Trip]

Chaco Canyon

[http://www.visitpagosasprings.com/things-to-do/activities/summer/hot-springs/ Soak in the Hot Springs at Pagosa Springs, CO]

==Mountain Biking==
I am looking for people interested in mountain biking either early morning, pre-dinner or on the weekend. If you don't have a bike there are a number of shops around town that rent. -Josh A

==Completed Events==

===SF Complex===
We're planning a trip to the [http://sfcomplex.org Santa Fe Complex] on Friday June 10 towards the evening.

UPDATE: We'll be making it an official trip. Shuttles will arrive at SJC 10 June at 6:00(18:00), return 8:00 (20:00).

===Soccer, Monday 13 June at 7 PM?===
(I saw this from Victor on the CSSS FB wall)

"Who's down for soccer this Monday evening, at 7?
Rsvp w/a comment
If you have a ball, bring it--and let us know in your rsvp
I think it makes sense if those of us who want to play meet up at the drop-off circle and then walk down to the athletic field cheers V"

Alfred Hubler's Nonlinear Dynamics Lab 2011

2011-06-14T20:51:21Z

Ehurk:

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2011}}

==Thursday, June 16, 6:00pm==

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Complex Systems Summer School 2011-After Hours

2011-06-14T06:18:24Z

Ehurk: /* Ten Thousand Waves */

Complex Systems Summer School 2011-Projects & Working Groups

2011-06-14T05:26:11Z

Ehurk:

Complex Systems Summer School 2011-After Hours

2011-06-14T04:56:32Z

Ehurk: /* Ten Thousand Waves */

Complex Systems Summer School 2011-After Hours

2011-06-14T04:54:23Z

Ehurk:

Complex Systems Summer School 2011-After Hours

2011-06-13T04:52:48Z

Ehurk: