Evolution of Collective Computational Abilities of (Pre)Historic Societies - Agenda

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TIME	SPEAKER	TITLE
	Monday, November 2
Chair	Darcy Bird
9:00-9:15 AM	David Wolpert	Welcome, Intro & Purpose, Ground Rules
9:15 - 9:45 AM	Tim Kohler	Welcome + Background to this Project & Scale/Information Thresholds
9:45 - 10:20 AM	Laura Ellyson	The Application of Gregory A. Johnson's Concepts to Social Organization Thresholds in Holocene Social Evolution
10:20 - 11:00 AM	Elizabeth Bradley	A quick introduction to nonlinear time-series analysis
11:00 - 11:40 AM	Break/Discussion
Chair	Elizabeth Bradley
11:40 AM - 12:20 PM	Michael E. Smith	The diversity of types of civic buildings in premodern cities
12:20 - 1:00 PM	David Wolpert	Artifacts in Statistical Analyses of Longitudinal Datasets
1:00 -1:40 PM	Stefani Crabtree	The role of information flow in the management of networked human-environment interactions
	Tuesday, November 3
Chair	David Wolpert
9:00-9:40 AM	Hajime Shimao	Using data to discover invariants within sociopolitical system dynamics
9:40 - 10:20 AM	David Carballo	Computational Systems in Prehispanic Mesoamerican Writing and Polities.
10:20 - 11:00 AM	Ian Morris	Scale, information-processing, and complementarities in Old World Axial Age societies
11:00 - 11:40 AM	Steven Wernke	Explosive expansion, sociotechnical diversity, and fragile sovereignty in the domain of the Inka
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM	Break/Discussion
Chair	Tim Kohler
12:00 - 12:40 PM	Miriam Stark	Scale Thresholds in Asian Archaeological Perspective: Angkor and a Lower Mekong Basin Case Study
12:40 - 1:20 PM	Juergen Jost	The history of science as collective computation. The example of chemistry
1:20 - 2:00 PM	Anna Frishman	Learning the drift and diffusion from stochastic trajectories
	Wednesday, November 4
Chair	Michael E. Smith
9:00-9:40 AM	Cameron Petrie and Adam Green	Technologies of transaction in the Indus Civilisation
9:40 - 10:20 AM	Johannes Mueller	Knowledge Transfer in Tripolye societies - failed prehistoric cities
10:20 - 11:00 AM	Marcus Hamilton	Scaling population structure across levels of human sociopolitical complexity
11:00 - 11:40 AM	Break/Discussion
Chair	Hajime Shimao
11:40 AM - 12:20 PM	Jin Hong Kuan	Learning understandable social science patterns in social science time series
12:20 - 1:00 PM	Gary Feinman	Polities and Information: A Multiscalar Vantage on the Prehispanic Mesoamerican World
1:00 -1:40 PM	James Evans	The Social Computation of Innovation