Understanding Complex Systems: The Future of Interactive Immersive Visualizations - Agenda
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AGENDA
Visualizing Complex Systems and the Complexity of Vision
Business Network Theme Week
SFI Theme Weeks provide Business Network members and other supporters of SFI the opportunity to engage in an informal setting with researchers and each other. This week presents new technology to aid visualization of complex systems and discusses latest research in principles of digital perception and pattern recognition.
September 15 - 19, 2008
Venue: SFI unless otherwise noted
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| TIME | ACTIVITY |
| Sunday, September 14, 2008 | |
| 6-8pm | Welcome Reception, Hotel Santa Fe |
| Monday, September 15, 2008 | |
| 8:15 am | Shuttle from Hotel Santa Fe to SFI / Continental Breakfast at SFI |
| 9:00 | Welcome to Santa Fe Institute, Geoffrey West, President and Distinguished Professor |
| 10:00 | Introduction to the SFI Business Network, Shannon Larsen, Executive Director, Development and Corporate Relations |
| 10:15 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 | Understanding Complex Systems: The Future of Interactive Immersive Visualization, Jim Crutchfield, SFI External Professor and UC-Davis |
| 12:00 p.m. | Lunch with SFI Community |
| 1:00 - 3:00 | Concurrent Sessions, Sing up sheets will be available Monday morning at SFI: CAVE Introductory Sessions (Required) and CASITA (Complex Addaptive Systems IT Area) Demo |
| 3:00 | Tea with SFI Community |
| 3:30 | Facilitated Discussion (CAVE Introductory Sessions Continue, Virginia Ludvik, The Grove Consultants International |
| 5:00 | Adjourn / Shuttle to Hotel Santa FE or remain at SFI |
| OPTIONAL OPEN HOUSE | |
| 6:00 p.m. | Open House and informal dinner at SFI |
| Tuesday, September 16, 2008 | |
| 8:15 a.m. | Shuttle from Hotel Santa Fe to SFI / Continental Breakfast at SFI |
| 9:00 | Insights on Networks and Phase Transition via Visualization, Raissa D'Souza, SFI External Professor and UC-Davis |
| 10:00 | Coffee Break |
| 10:15 | Understanding Dynamics of Earthquake and Pattern Analysis of Complex Systems, John Rundle, UC-Davis and The California Institute for Hazards Research |
| 11:15 | Open Discussion / Questions for Morning Speakers |
| 12:00 p.m. | Lunch with SFI Community |
| Optional Advanced Visualization Environment Demos ongoing | Complex Systems, Software Development, Molecular Design, Games, Geology & Geophysics, Cave Futures |
| 1:00 | Facilitated Discussion, Virginia Ludvik, The Grove Consultants International |
| 3:00 | Tea with SFI Community |
| 4:30 | Adjourn / Shuttle to Hotel Santa FE |
| OPTIONAL EVENING RECEPTION & LECTURE | |
| 5:00 p.m. | Shuttle from Hotel Santa Fe to Kooi Reception |
| 5:30 p.m. | Reception at the home of Mari Kooi - Please RSVP to Casey Cox at casey@santafe.edu for directions and transport assistance. |
| 6:45 p.m. | Shuttle from Hotel Santa Fe to James A. Little Theatre |
| 7:30 | 2008 Annual Ulam Lecture Series - A Cooperative Species: How We Go to Be Both Nasty and Nice, Samuel Bowles, SFI and University of Sienna - Lecture I: A Cooperative Species (Or Are We Just Afraid Someone May Be Looking?) |
| 9:00 | Shuttle to Hotel Santa Fe |
| Wednesday, September 17, 2008 | |
| 8:15 a.m. | Shuttle from Hotel Santa Fe to SFI / Continental Breakfast at SFI |
| 9:00 | Cracking the Neural Code, Garrett T. Kenyon, PhD., Biological and Quantum Physics, Los Alamos National Lab |
| 10:00 | Coffee Break |
| 10:15 | Prospects for Human-level Computer Vision, Melanie Mitchell, SFI External Professor and Portland State University |
| 11:15 | Open Discussion / Questions for Morning Speakers |
| 12:00 p.m. | Lunch with SFI Community |
| 1:00 | Facilitated Discussion, Virginia Ludvik, The Grove Consultants International |
| 3:00 | Tea with SFI Community |
| 3:30 | Discussion continues, Virginia Ludvik, The Grove Consultants International |
| 4:30 | Adjourn / Shuttle to Hotel Santa FE or remain at SFI |
| OPTIONAL EVENING LECTURE | |
| 6:45 p.m. | Shuttle from Hotel Santa Fe to James A. Little Theatre |
| 7:30 | 2008 Annual Ulam Lecture Series - A Cooperative Species: How We Go to Be Both Nasty and Nice, Samuel Bowles, SFI and University of Sienna - Lecture II: Alturism, Parochialism, and War: Rambo Meets Mother Teresa |
| 9:00 | Shuttle to Hotel Santa Fe |
| Thurssday, September 18, 2008 | |
| 8:15 a.m. | Shuttle from Hotel Santa Fe to SFI / Continental Breakfast at SFI |
| 9:00 | Complexity and Artificial Life, David Ackley, SFI External Professor and SFI |
| 10:00 | Coffee Break |
| 10:15 | Advanced CAVE Interfaces, CAVE Team |
| 12:00 p.m. | Lunch with SFI Community |
| 1:00 | Facilitated Discussion, Virginia Ludvik, The Grove Consultants International |
| 3:00 | Tea with SFI Community |
| 3:30 | Unscheduled Time |
| 4:30 | Adjourn / Shuttle to Hotel Santa FE |
| OPTIONAL EVENING LECTURE | |
| 6:45 p.m. | Shuttle from Hotel Santa Fe to James A. Little Theatre |
| 7:30 | 2008 Annual Ulam Lecture Series - A Cooperative Species: How We Go to Be Both Nasty and Nice, Samuel Bowles, SFI and University of Sienna - Lecture III: Machiavelli's Mistake: Why Policies Designated for Wicked Men Fail |
| 9:00 | Shuttle to Hotel Santa Fe |
| Friday, September 19, 2008 | |
| 8:15 a.m. | Shuttle from Hotel Santa Fe to SFI / Continental Breakfast at SFI |
| 9:00 | The Future of Visualizing Complexity, Jim Crutchfield, SFI External Professor and UC-Davis |
| 10:00 | Facilitated Discussion of next steps, Virginia Ludvik, The Grove Consultants International |
| 12:00 p.m. | Lunch with SFI Community |
| 1:00 | Adjourn |