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CSSS 2010 Santa Fe-Readings

2010-05-24T23:47:21Z

Laurafortunato:

{{CSSS 2010 Santa Fe}}

Please review readings before lectures. Supplemental material may be posted as well.

===Liz Bradley===

*[http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~lizb/na/ode-notes.pdf Numerical Solution of Differential Equations] 
*[http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~lizb/papers/ida-chapter.pdf Time Series Analysis]
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===Tom Carter===
Here is a link to a page with various background readings -- I'll be talking about some of this material, watch the wiki for days/times
* [http://csustan.csustan.edu/~tom/SFI-CSSS/index.html Summer School readings.]
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===Doug Erwin===
* [[Media:Davidson_Erwin_113_S74_lsh.pdf|Evolution]]
* [[Media:Erwin_2008_TREE.pdf|Niche Construction & Diversity]]
* [[Media:Erwin_2009_Nature_.pdf|Modeling Biodiversity]]
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===Duncan Foley===
* [[Media:Lec1.pdf| Labor, Capital and Land in the New Economy]]
* [[Media:Albin-FoleyIntro.pdf‎|Economic Complexity and Dynamics in Interactive Systems]]
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===Laura Fortunato===
* [[Media:Lansing2003.pdf| Complex Systems in Anthropology]]
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===John Harte===
* [[Media:MaxEntEcology.pdf|Maximum Entropy and the State-Variable Approach to Macroecology]]
* [[Media:Univ_SAR_Ecol_Lett.pdf|Biodiversity Scaling]]
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===Jure Leskovec===
1) -- models and link prediction in large social networks:

* [http://cs.stanford.edu/people/jure/pubs/kronecker-jmlr10.pdf Kronecker Graphs]
* [http://cs.stanford.edu/people/jure/pubs/microEvol-kdd08.pdf Microscopic Evolution of Social Networks ]
* [http://arxiv.org/abs/0810.1355 Community Structure in Large Networks]

2) -- tracking information diffusion, finding influencers and
detecting disease outbreaks in networks
* [http://cs.stanford.edu/people/jure/pubs/quotes-kdd09.pdf Meme Tracking & News Cycle Dynamics]
* [http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/kdd03-inf.pdf Maximizing the Spread of Influence through a Social Network]
* [http://cs.stanford.edu/people/jure/pubs/detect-kdd07.pdf Outbreak Detection in Social Networks]
* [http://www.blogpulse.com/papers/2005/AdamicGlanceBlogWWW.pdf 2004 Election Political Blogger Networks ]

3) -- models of networks with positive and negative ties
* [http://www.iw3c2.org/WWW2004/docs/1p403.pdf Trust & Distrust]
* [http://cs.stanford.edu/people/jure/pubs/triads-chi10.pdf Signed Networks & Social Media:]
* [http://cs.stanford.edu/people/jure/pubs/signs-www10.pdf Predicting Postive & Negative Links in Online Social Networks]
* [http://cs.stanford.edu/people/jure/pubs/voting-icwsm10.pdf Governance in Social Media]
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===Cosma Shalizi===
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems 
* [http://arxiv.org/abs/nlin.AO/0409024 Quantifying Self-Organization with Optimal Predictors] 
* [http://arxiv.org/abs/nlin.AO/0307015 Methods and Techniques of Complex Systems Science: An Overview] 
Artificial Intelligence 
* [http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.LG/0406011 Blind Construction of Optimal Nonlinear Recursive Predictors for Discrete Sequences] 
Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases 
* [http://arxiv.org/abs/nlin.CG/0508001 Automatic Filters for the Detection of Coherent Structure in Spatiotemporal Systems] 
Statistical/Computational Mechanics 
* [http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9907176 Statistical Mechanics/Computational Mechanics: Pattern and Prediction, Structure and Simplicity] 
Neurons and Cognition 
* [http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.0036 The Computational Structure of Spike Trains] 
* [http://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio.NC/0609008 Discovering Functional Communities in Dynamical Networks] 
* [http://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio.NC/0506009 Measuring Shared Information and Coordinated Activity in Neuronal Networks] 

Probability 
* [http://arxiv.org/abs/math.PR/0305160 Optimal Nonlinear Prediction of Random Fields on Networks]
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===Eric Smith===
* [[Media:Croft2008ARA.pdf‎|Evolutionary Linguistics]]
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2010-05-24T23:44:45Z

Laurafortunato:

Laura Fortunato

2010-05-24T23:40:17Z

Laurafortunato:

I am an Omidyar Fellow at SFI, working on the evolution of kinship and marriage systems. My background is in biology and anthropology. Prior to joining SFI, I obtained various degrees in these areas from the University of Padova [http://www.unipd.it] and from University College London [http://www.ucl.ac.uk]; I also spent a few months in the Laland Lab [http://lalandlab.st-andrews.ac.uk/] at the University of St Andrews. I attended the CSSS in Beijing in 2006 :)

Laura Fortunato

2010-05-24T23:38:06Z

Laurafortunato:

I am an Omidyar Fellow at SFI, working on the evolution of kinship and marriage systems. My background is in biology and anthropology. Prior to joining SFI, I obtained various degrees in these areas from the University of Padova [http://www.unipd.it] and from University College London [http://www.ucl.ac.uk]. I also spent a few months in the Laland Lab [http://lalandlab.st-andrews.ac.uk/] at the University of St Andrews. I attended the CSSS in Beijing in 2006 :)

CSSS 2010 Santa Fe-Faculty

2010-05-19T01:18:02Z

Laurafortunato:

{{CSSS 2010 Santa Fe}}

[http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~lizb/ Liz Bradley] University of Colorado, Boulder

[http://www.santafe.edu/about/people/profile/Tanmoy%20Bhattacharya Tanmoy Bhattacharya] SFI

[http://csustan.csustan.edu/~tom/ Tom Carter] California State University

[http://www.unm.edu/~wcroft/ Bill Croft] University of New Mexico

[http://www.princeton.edu/~icouzin/ Iain Couzin] Princeton University

[http://www.santafe.edu/about/people/profile/Simon%20DeDeo Simon DeDeo] SFI Omidyar Fellow

[http://redfish.com/owenDensmore.htm Owen Densmore] Redfish Group

[http://www.santafe.edu/about/people/profile/Jennifer%20A.%20Dunne Jennifer Dunne] SFI

[http://www.uvm.edu/~cems/?Page=employee/profile.php&SM=employee/_employeemenu.html&EmID=1011 Peter Dodds] University of Vermont

[http://www.santafe.edu/about/people/profile/Nathan%20Eagle Nathan Eagle] SFI Omidyar Fellow

[http://www.santafe.edu/about/people/profile/Douglas%20H.%20Erwin Doug Erwin] Smithsonian, SFI

[http://www.santafe.edu/about/people/profile/J.%20Doyne%20Farmer Doyne Farmer] SFI

[http://www.santafe.edu/about/people/profile/Jessica%20Flack Jessica Flack] SFI

[http://www.santafe.edu/about/people/profile/Duncan%20Foley Duncan Foley] The New School

[http://www.santafe.edu/about/people/profile/Laura%20Fortunato Laura Fortunato] SFI Omidyar Fellow

[http://redfish.com/stephen.htm Stephen Guerin] Redfish Group

[http://erg.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/harte.shtml John Harte] UC Berkeley

[http://www.santafe.edu/about/people/profile/David%20Krakauer David Krakauer] SFI

[http://www.mementosecurity.com/about_us/management.php Greg Leibon] Memento Security

[http://cs.stanford.edu/people/jure/ Jure Leskovec] Stanford University

[http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/people/person_detail.php?person=23 Ian Maddieson] University of New Mexico

[http://www.santafe.edu/about/people/profile/Cristopher%20Moore Cris Moore] University of New Mexico, SFI

[http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~pauls/ Scott Pauls] Dartmouth College

[http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~rockmore Dan Rockmore] Dartmouth College

[http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/ Cosma Shalizi] Carnegie Mellon University

[http://www.santafe.edu/about/people/profile/D.%20Eric%20Smith Eric Smith] SFI

[http://www.santafe.edu/about/people/profile/Geoffrey%20West Geoffrey West] SFI

[http://www.santafe.edu/about/people/profile/Jon%20Wilkins Jon Wilkins] SFI

Laura Fortunato

2006-06-28T12:05:28Z

Laurafortunato:

I am a PhD student in Biological Anthropology at the Centre for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/cecd/home/] and the Human Evolutionary Ecology Group [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/heeg/] at UCL [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/]. My background lies within integrative biology and evolutionary anthropology. My research focuses on understanding patterns of variation in human cultural behaviour through the analysis of variation in cultural practices.

In particular, I am looking at variation in marriage practices in Indo-European societies: why do some groups settle for monogamy, while most human societies practice polygyny? What factors determine patterns of wealth transfers at marriage? The models developed to understand behavioural variation in non-human species provide the basis for understanding behaviour and decision-making at the individual level; I am interested in modelling how the patterns emerging at the level of societies from individual behaviours feed back to influence those behaviours.

My answers to the 5 questions:

'''1. What topics do you have some expertise in and would you be willing to help others learn them?'''

*Evolutionary approaches to human (cultural) behaviour, in particular human behavioural ecology.
*Application of phylogenetic methods to the study of cross-cultural variation.

'''2. What do you want to learn at the CSSS?'''

I would like to learn modelling skills to link behaviour at the individual level (e.g. individual decision-making) with group-level behaviour codified as social norms and cultural practices. I would also like to learn how to assess the validity of the models in view of the available data on human cross-cultural variation.

'''3. Do you have any projects or research interests that would benefit from an interdisciplinary approach?'''

*Modelling the conditions required at the level of both individuals and populations for the evolution of human socially imposed monogamy (SIM), i.e. a system of monogamous marriage socially enforced through legal sanctions. SIM represents a puzzle because of its rarity (polygyny is allowed in over 80% of human societies) and uneven distribution (SIM is not found in Africa and New Guinea). As yet, it is not clear whether the processes leading to the evolution of social and/or sexual monogamy in other species also operate in the evolution of human SIM.

*Modelling the transmission of cultural traits between populations. Cultural traits can be acquired via inheritance from the parent generation (vertical transmission) or via diffusion from neighbouring populations (horizontal transmission). Whether different sets of traits, e.g. marriage and kinship customs, economic systems, religious beliefs etc, require different explanatory models represents a central issue in understanding the evolution of human cultural diversity.

'''4. Do you have any ideas for what sort of project you would like to do this summer?'''

The projects in 3. above or anything to do with modelling behaviour.

'''5. Suppose you could travel one-hundred years in the future and ask researchers any three questions. What would those questions be?'''

*Where we are in understanding the origin of life on Earth.
*Where we are in understanding how humans came to be the weird animal they are.
*To what extent scientific knowledge has informed public policy, if at all...

Laura Fortunato

2006-04-04T12:26:40Z

Laurafortunato:

I am a PhD student in Biological Anthropology at the Centre for the Evolutionary Analysis of Cultural Behaviour [http://www.ceacb.ucl.ac.uk/home/] and the Human Evolutionary Ecology Group [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/heeg/] at UCL [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/]. My background lies within integrative biology and evolutionary anthropology. My research focuses on understanding patterns of variation in human cultural behaviour through the analysis of variation in cultural practices.

In particular, I am looking at variation in marriage practices in Indo-European societies: why do some groups settle for monogamy, while most human societies practice polygyny? What factors determine patterns of wealth transfers at marriage? The models developed to understand behavioural variation in non-human species provide the basis for understanding behaviour and decision-making at the individual level; I am interested in modelling how the patterns emerging at the level of societies from individual behaviours feed back to influence those behaviours.

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2006-04-04T12:15:22Z

Laurafortunato:

Laura Fortunato

2006-04-04T12:06:41Z

Laurafortunato:

I am a PhD student in Biological Anthropology at the Centre for the Evolutionary Analysis of Cultural Behaviour (CEACB) and the Human Evolutionary Ecology Group (HEEG) at UCL. My background lies in integrative biology and evolutionary anthropology. My research focuses on understanding patterns of variation in human cultural behaviour through the analysis of variation in cultural practices.

In particular, I am looking at variation in marriage practices in Indo-European societies: why do some groups settle for monogamy, while most human societies practice polygyny? What factors determine patterns of wealth transfers at marriage? The models developed to understand behavioural variation in non-human species provide the basis for understanding behaviour and decision-making at the individual level; I am interested in modelling how the patterns emerging at the level of societies from individual behaviours feed back to influence those behaviours.