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2011 Presentation Schedule

2011-07-01T03:39:40Z

Mgagliol: modeling more correct

{{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: "SFI explanations of music neuroscience." Martin Gould, Sean Roberts 

10:15-10:30: Victor Quintanar-Zilinskas 

10:30-10:45 "Reconciling determinism and free will – hubris and the art of science." Christian Gunning 

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 "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 

1::30-1:45: "CSSS (social) network challenge" Anand, Cali, Evelien Van der Hurk, Randy, Taka, Stefani 

Closing:
"Chaotic music generation, aka DJ Chaos(es)" Anna Deluca, Martin Gould, Sean Roberts, Nini Zhang 

Special Presentation

Matteo Gagliolo

2011-06-16T19:47:38Z

Mgagliol:

[[File:mgagliol.jpg]]

I am a postdoc researcher at the [http://como.vub.ac.be CoMo] lab ([http://www.vub.ac.be Vrije Universiteit Brussel]).

I am currently working at applying Reinforcement Learning in a single and multi-agent setting, in the context of the [http://www.lecopro.org LeCoPro] project.

My [http://como.vub.ac.be/~mgagliol/thesis.html PhD thesis] was about [http://www.scholarpedia.org/Metalearning metalearning], in particular on algorithm portfolios,
and was defended last year at [http://www.idsia.ch IDSIA].

My current main interests are related to multi-agent learning, reinforcement learning, social vs. individual learning, evolutionary game theory.

I am also interested in social sciences and ethology, especially of "socially intelligent" animals (e.g. ants).

My background also includes information theory, kolmogorov complexity, bandit problems, and survival analysis,

I use [http://www.citeulike.org/user/gagliol/tags citeulike] to organize my bibliography.

My address is mgagliol at vub dot ac dot be.

More info on my [http://como.vub.ac.be/~mgagliol/ home page].

Complex Systems Summer School 2011-Projects & Working Groups

2011-06-16T00:06:58Z

Mgagliol: /* Econophysics/Economics Working Group */

{{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 

==Potential Project==

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!) 

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

==The CSSS11-network challenge==

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

Complex Systems Summer School 2011-Projects & Working Groups

2011-06-13T07:49:30Z

Mgagliol: /* Meeting with Geoffrey West */ just corrected my name :)

Matteo Gagliolo

2011-06-11T23:49:41Z

Mgagliol: added my email address

[[File:mgagliol.jpg]]

I am a postdoc researcher at the [http://como.vub.ac.be CoMo] lab ([http://www.vub.ac.be Vrije Universiteit Brussel]).

I am currently working at applying Reinforcement Learning in a single and multi-agent setting, in the context of the [http://www.lecopro.org LeCoPro] project.

My [http://como.vub.ac.be/~mgagliol/thesis.html PhD thesis] was about [http://www.scholarpedia.org/Metalearning metalearning], in particular on algorithm portfolios,
and was defended last year at [http://www.idsia.ch IDSIA].

My current main interests are related to multi-agent learning, reinforcement learning, social vs. individual learning, evolutionary game theory.

I am also interested in social sciences and ethology, especially of "socially intelligent" animals (e.g. ants).

My background also includes information theory, kolmogorov complexity, bandit problems, and survival analysis,

My address is mgagliol at vub dot ac dot be.

More info on my [http://como.vub.ac.be/~mgagliol/ home page].

Complex Systems Summer School 2011-Participants

2011-06-09T16:57:27Z

Mgagliol: added research interests

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2011}}

Also see the [http://www.facebook.com/pages/SFI-Complex-Systems-Summer-School/195552467134324?sk=wall&filter=2 Facebook Complex Systems Summer School Page] to get to know the participants.

At the very least, post a photo and answer the questions below:

* What are your main interests? Feel free to include a "pie in the sky" big idea!
* What sort of expertise can you bring to the group?
* What do you hope to get out of the CSSS?
* Do you have any possible projects in mind for the CSSS?

'''[[Elliot Aguilar]]''' City University of New York, Biology

'''[[Antoine Allard]]''' Laval University, Physics

'''[[Clio Andris]]''' Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Urban Studies and Planning

'''[[Joshua Auerbach]]''' University of Vermont, Computer Science

'''[[Ryan Baird]]''' JWAC

'''[[David Borenstein]]''' Princeton University, Quantitative and Computational Biology

'''[[Cristina Bradatan]]''' Texas Tech University, Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work

'''[[Amy Braun]]''' Stanford University, Neuroscience

'''[[Aaron Brooks]]''' University of Washington, Molecular and Cellular Biology

'''[[Tom Carter]]''' Santa Fe Institute

'''[[Randy Casstevens]]''' George Mason University, Computational Social Science

'''[[Nora Connor]]''' University of Colorado at Boulder, Interdisciplinary Quantitative Biology

'''[[Stefani Crabtree]]''' Washington State University, Anthropology

'''[[Raghav Chawla]]''' Fidelity

'''[[Anna Deluca]]''' Centre de Recerca Matematica, Complex Systems Group

'''[[Erik Edlund]]''' Chalmers University of Technology, Energy and Environment

'''[[Alejandro Fajardo]]''' Universidad de los Andes, Biology

'''[[Alejandro Feged]]''' Stanford University, Anthropology

'''[[Matteo Gagliolo]]''' Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Multiagent/Social/Reinforcement Learning

'''[[Leonida Gheorghiade]]''' University of Guelph, Mathematics and Statistics

'''[[Chris Glazner]]''' MITRE

'''[[Martin Gould]]''' University of Oxford, Industrial and Applied Mathematics

'''[[John Paul Gonzales]]''' Santa Fe Institute

'''[[Christian Gunning]]''' University of New Mexico, Biology

'''[[Zoe Hamstead]]''' University of Illinois at Chicago, Urban Planning and Policy

'''[[Kameron Harris]]''' University of Vermont, Mathematics and Statistics

'''[[Martin Hilbert]]''' University of Southern California, Annenberg School of Communication

'''[[Ryan James]]''' University of California, Davis, Physics

'''[[Michael Johansson]]''' Center for Disease Control, Division of Vector-Borne Diseases

'''[[Nadja Kunz]]''' University of Queensland, Center for Water in Minerals Industry, Sustainable Minerals Institute

'''[[Michael Lightfoot]]''' NASA

'''[[Yangjing Long]]''' Max Planck Society, Mathematics

'''[[Cristina Metgher]]''' George Mason University, Computational Social Science

'''[[Guido Montufar]]''' Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences

'''[[Frances Moore]]''' Stanford University, Environment and Resources

'''[[Anand Murugesan]]''' University of Maryland, Agriculture and Resource Economics

'''[[Gustavo Nicolas Paez Salamanca]]'''Universidad de los Andes

'''[[Eugenia Polizzi di Sorrentino]]''' National Research Council, Cognitive Science

'''[[Victor Quintanar-Zilinskas]]''' University of California Irvine, Complex Biological Systems

'''[[Ed Reznik]]''' Boston University, Biomedical Engineering

'''[[Sean Roberts]]''' University of Edinburgh, Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Science

'''[[Michael Sachs]]''' University of California Davis, Physics

'''[[Takao Sasaki]]''' Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences

'''[[Shweta Singh]]''' The Ohio State University, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

'''[[Lydia Smith]]''' University of California Berkeley, Energy and Resources

'''[[Andrew Tinka]]''' University of California Berkeley, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

'''[[Alexis Akira Toda]]''' Yale University, Economics

'''[[Miles Townes]]''' The George Washington University, Political Science

'''[[Evelien Van der Hurk]]''' Erasmus University Rotterdam, Management, Information Science

'''[[Tomas Veloz]]''' University of British Columbia

'''[[Jason Veneman]]''' MITRE

'''[[Ninghua Wang]]''' San Diego State University, UC Santa Barbara, Geography

'''[[Wenshuo Zhang]]''' University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Political Science

File:Mgagliol.jpg

2011-06-06T15:59:04Z

Mgagliol: Matteo Gagliolo picture (Zeebrugge)

Matteo Gagliolo picture (Zeebrugge)

Matteo Gagliolo

2011-06-06T15:58:14Z

Mgagliol: my stub

[[File:mgagliol.jpg]]

I am a postdoc researcher at the [http://como.vub.ac.be CoMo] lab ([http://www.vub.ac.be Vrije Universiteit Brussel]).

I am currently working at applying Reinforcement Learning in a single and multi-agent setting, in the context of the [http://www.lecopro.org LeCoPro] project.

My [http://como.vub.ac.be/~mgagliol/thesis.html PhD thesis] was about [http://www.scholarpedia.org/Metalearning metalearning], in particular on algorithm portfolios,
and was defended last year at [http://www.idsia.ch IDSIA].

My current main interests are related to multi-agent learning, reinforcement learning, social vs. individual learning, evolutionary game theory.

I am also interested in social sciences and ethology, especially of "socially intelligent" animals (e.g. ants).

My background also includes information theory, kolmogorov complexity, bandit problems, and survival analysis,

More info on my [http://como.vub.ac.be/~mgagliol/ home page].

Complex Systems Summer School 2011-Travel

2011-06-01T14:44:29Z

Mgagliol: updated sandia shuttle price (just booked)

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2011}}

TRAVEL TO SANTA FE: We expect that you will reserve and purchase your own air and ground travel and pay for them directly. As soon as you have made your travel plans, please send your itinerary to Juniper Lovato juniper@santafe.edu. We need to know your means of travel, and date and times of your arrival and departure.

NEAREST AIRPORT: The closest major airport connection to Santa Fe is Albuquerque, New Mexico, approximately 60 miles south of Santa Fe. Most major airlines, including Southwest Airlines, fly into Albuquerque. A limited number of flights arrive at the small (and predominantly general aviation) Santa Fe Airport.

Arrival/Departure Dates: Rooms are not available at St. John's before June 7, 2011 or after July 2, 2011, if you will arriving early or staying late you will have to make other lodging arrangements.

GROUND TRANSPORTATION FROM ALBUQUERQUE INTERNATIONAL SUNPORT: You may reach St. John's College from the Albuquerque International Sunport (approximately 90 minutes) with Sandia Shuttle (www.sandiashuttle.com or toll free 888-775-5696). The cost is $27.00 one way or $47.00 round trip. With the busy summer tourist season in Santa Fe, reservations are mandatory. The Sandia Shuttle desk is located in the baggage claim area at the Albuquerque airport. Be sure to indicate St John's College as your "Drop Off Location" when making the reservation. Ask the driver to take you to the parking circle for Peterson Student Center.

GROUND TRANSPORTATION FROM SANTA FE AIRPORT: Road Runner Shuttle can take you from the Santa Fe airport to St. John's College. For reservations call (505) 424-3367.

CAR RENTAL: Car rental is available at both airports. You must be 21 or older to rent a car. It is possible to rent a car just for a weekend in Santa Fe. Refer to information on http://www.santafe.edu/about/contact-us.php regarding SFI's corporate rates with Enterprise Rent-a-Car.

PERSONAL VEHICLE: If you are driving your car to Santa Fe and would like riders, we suggest you contact fellow participants in your area. Free long-term parking is available at the College with a parking permit (assigned on arrival). If you let Juniper know in advance that you will be arriving with a personal or rental car, she would be happy to secure the proper documents for you prior to check in.

TRAIN/BUS: You can travel to nearby Lamy Station by Amtrak; however, ground transportation from Lamy to Santa Fe and especially to St John's College is sometimes undependable. Call the Lamy Shuttlebus at (505) 982-8829 for shuttle reservations. Greyhound also travels to Santa Fe; should you use Greyhound the only way to get from the bus station to the campus is by taxi (Capital City Cab, (505) 438-0000).