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Complex Systems Summer School 2012-Schedule

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Complex Systems Summer School 2012

Please plan to arrive June 2 and depart on June 30, 2012

The program lectures will be held from June 4 to June 29, 2012

Please note that dormitories will only be available from June 3 to June 30, 2012

For a list of local happenings in Santa Fe visit: http://www.santafe.com/


Time Activity

Sunday, June 3
All events at St. John's College Unless Otherwise Noted
11:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Registration and check-in at St. John's College in the Peterson Student Center.
5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Welcome Reception & Dinner in Peterson Student Center (upstairs) in Junior Commons Room

Monday, June 4
9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Welcome and Introduction by CSSS Director Sander Bais
9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Liz Bradley, Dynamics I
10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Liz Bradley, Dynamics II
12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Joshua Garland, Computer Lab I: Maps & Flows
2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Student Introductions
4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Navigating the Complex Systems Summer School
5:00 - 6:30 p.m. Dinner

Tuesday, June 5
9:00 a.m - 10:15 a.m. Liz Bradley, Dynamics III: Tools
10:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 am - 12:00 p.m. Alfred Hubler, Nonlinear Dynamics (In Action!)
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Joshua Garland, Data Analysis Lab
2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Andrew Lovato, Introduction to Santa Fe
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Dinner

Wednesday, June 6
9:00 a.m - 10:15 a.m. Liz Bradley, Dynamics IV: Applications
10:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 am - 12:00 p.m. Alfred Hubler, Nonlinear Dynamics: Care and Feeding of Nonlinear Systems
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Stephen Guerin, Agent-based Modeling
2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Josh Garland, "Opportunity Session" - Lab Continued (Optional)
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Dinner

Thursday, June 7
9:00 a.m - 10:15 a.m. Elhanan Borenstein - Modeling Microbial Metabolism
10:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 am - 12:00 p.m. Elhanan Borenstein -Modeling Microbial Metabolism
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Anne Kandler, Language Shift
2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Introduction to Student Projects
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Dinner

Friday, June 8 at Santa Fe Institute
8:30 a.m Shuttle leaves St. John's to go to SFI
9:00 a.m - 10:15 a.m. Elhanan Borenstein -Modeling Microbial Metabolism
10:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 am - 12:00 p.m. Simon DeDeo, Computation in the Natural World
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Stephanie Forrest, Computation
2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Glue Session with Sander Bais (discuss T-Shirt competition)
5:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. BBQ at SFI
8:00 p.m. Shuttle leaves SFI and goes back to St. John's College

Saturday, June 9
9:00 a.m - 5:00 p.m. Unofficial trip to Bandelier National Monument

Sunday, June 10
7:00 p.m - 8:30 p.m. John Rundle, Evening Lecture at St. John's College in the Great Hall

Monday, June 11
9:00 a.m - 9:15 a.m. Sander Bais Introduction to Week 2
9:15 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Break
9:30 am - 10:45 a.m. Jim Crutchfield, Complexity
10:45 am - 11:00 a.m. Break
11:00 am - 12:00 p.m. Jim Crutchfield, Complexity
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Jim Crutchfield, Complexity
2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Jim Crutchfield, Complexity/ Vote on T-Shirts
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Dinner
6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Jim Crutchfield/Ryan James, Complexity Lab

Tuesday, June 12
9:00 a.m - 10:15 a.m. Mark Newman, Networks
10:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 am - 12:00 p.m. Mark Newman, Networks
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Evandro Ferrada, Genotype-Phenotype Maps
2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. - 3:35 p.m. David Wolpert, LANL Presenter
3:35 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Nick Hengartner, LANL Presenter
4:15 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Time to work on projects
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Dinner

Wednesday, June 13
9:00 a.m - 10:15 a.m. Mark Newman, Networks
10:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 am - 12:00 p.m. Time to work on projects
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Mark Newman, Networks
2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Time to work on projects
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Nonlinear Dynamics Lab w. Alfred Hubler (moved from Monday)
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Dinner

Thursday, June 14
9:00 a.m - 10:15 a.m. Mark Newman, Networks
10:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 am - 12:00 p.m. Time to work on projects
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Simon DeDeo, Statistical Inference and Stochastic Processes
2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Time to work on Projects
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Dinner

Friday, June 15 at Santa Fe Institute
8:30 a.m Shuttle leaves St. John's to go to SFI
9:00 a.m - 10:15 a.m. Simon DeDeo, Statistical Inference and Stochastic Processes
10:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 am - 12:00 p.m. Time to work on projects
12:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. Lunch
1:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Simon DeDeo, Statistical Inference and Stochastic Processes
3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Tea w. SFI community
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Glue Session with Sander Bais
5:00 p.m. Shuttle back to St. John's College
5:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Dinner at St. John's College

Saturday, June 16
All Day Free

Sunday, June 17
7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Paula Sabloff, Evening Lecture in the Great Hall

Monday, June 18
9:00 a.m - 9:30 a.m. Sander Bais, Introduction to Week 3
9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 am - 12:00 p.m. Cris Moore, Algorithms and Landscapes
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Cris Moore, NP-Completeness and the P vs. NP Question
2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Infectious Disease
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Dinner
7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Super Duper Unofficial Python Programming with Ryan

Tuesday, June 19
9:00 a.m - 10:15 a.m. Cris Moore, Monte Carlo Algorithms and Phase Transitions
10:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 am - 11:20 p.m. Alan Perelson, LANL Presenter
11:20 am - 12:00 p.m. Eli Ben-Naim, LANL, Sports Leagues as Competitive Societies
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Cris Moore, The Power of Randomness
2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Rogier Braakman, Origins of Life
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Dinner
7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Information Theory for beginners: an informal chat with Ryan

Wednesday, June 20
10:00 a.m - 10:15 a.m. Ginger Richardson - Omidyar Fellowship Presentation
10:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 am - 12:00 p.m. Cris Moore, Quantum Computation
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Time to work on projects
1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. **Optional** NetLogo Workshop & Tutorial w. Tom & JP
2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Jeremy Van Cleve - Multilevel selection, evolution, and emergence
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Dinner
7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. John Harte, Evening lecture in the Great Hall

Thursday, June 21
9:00 a.m - 10:15 a.m. Time to work on Projects
10:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 am - 12:00 p.m. Jessica Flack, Resilience and Robustness
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Jessica Flack, Resilience and Robustness
2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Time to work on projects
3:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. (totally optional) Measures of Complexity & More Information Theory
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Dinner

Friday, June 22 at Santa Fe InstituteI
8:30 a.m Shuttles leave St. John's College to go to SFI
9:00 a.m - 10:15 a.m. Melanie Mitchell, Biologically Inspired Computing
10:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 am - 12:00 p.m. Time to work on projects
12:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. Lunch
1:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Melanie Mitchell, Biologically Inspired Computing
3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Glue Session with Sander Bais
5:00 p.m. Shuttle back to St. John's
5:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Dinner

Saturday, June 23
8:00 p.m. - 12:00a.m. CSSS Dance Party in the Coffeeshop at St. John's in the Peterson Student Center. (co-attended by the Bread Loaf School of English working group)

Sunday, June 24

Monday, June 25
9:00 a.m - 10:15 a.m. Sander Bais, Introduction to Week 4
10:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 am - 12:00 p.m. Simon DeDeo, Emergence 1: Coarse-Graining, Renormalization & Universality
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Simon DeDeo, Emergence 2: Effective Theories for Computational Systems
2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Geoffrey West, Searching for Simplicity and Unity in the Complexity of Life: Cells to Cities, Companies to Ecosystems, Milliseconds to Millennia
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Dinner
7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Unofficial Philosophy of Science Tutorial/Discussion

Tuesday, June 26
9:00 a.m - 10:15 a.m. Simon DeDeo, Emergence 3: Symmetry Breaking and Non-Equilibrium Phenomena
10:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 am - 12:00 p.m. Jenna Bednar, Social Dynamics
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Brian Arthur and Doug Erwin, Innovation in Technology
2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Brian Arthur and Doug Erwin, Innovation in Technology
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Dinner
6:00 - 6:45 (totally optional) Tutorial on recurrence plots (Non-linear measures of correlation)
7:00 - 8:30 Scott Page, Guest Lecture

Wednesday, June 27
9:00 a.m - 10:15 a.m. Dan Hruschka, Deprivation, Abundance and Obesity: testing hypotheses for the global increase in body fat
10:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 am - 12:00 p.m. Ole Peters, Non-ergodic Economics
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Ole Peters, Non-ergodic Economics
2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Laura Fortunato, Cultural Evolution
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Dinner
6:00 p.m. Shuttle leaves St. John's for Dan Hruschka Public Lecture at the James A. Little Theater
9:00 p.m. Shuttle leaves the James A. Little Theater for St. John's

Thursday, June 28
9:00 a.m - 4:15 a.m. Day to work on presentations

Friday, June 29 at Santa Fe Institute
8:30 a.m Shuttle leaves St. John's College for SFI
9:00 a.m - 10:15 a.m. Presentations
10:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 am - 12:00 p.m. Presentations
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. Group Photo
1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Presentations
2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Presentations and Closing Remarks
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Farewell BBQ at SFI
7:30 p.m. Shuttles go back to St. John's

Saturday, June 30
All Day Check-out and departure (don't forget to return your keys!)