https://wiki.santafe.edu/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=John_Balwit 2026-04-26T12:30:40Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.40.1 https://wiki.santafe.edu/index.php?title=John_Balwit&diff=54288&oldid=prev 2014-06-15T23:05:39Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 23:05, 15 June 2014</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l3">Line 3:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 3:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:balwit.jpg|150px|{border}]]&lt;br&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:balwit.jpg|150px|{border}]]&lt;br&gt;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Interests </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">computer </del>science education<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, esp</del>. agent based modeling<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">; evolvability </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">evolution of cooperation; teaching interests </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">complexity science concepts for </del>K-12 and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">undergrad ed</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">I am interested, </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the evolution of modularity and hierarchy in various systems. I hoping to understanding and model the mechanisms that support what John Maynard Smith calls “transitions” in evolution.  I have been considering game theory, Reconstructability Analysis, cellular automata, genetic algorithms, information theory and machine learning techniques as tools to support my investigations. Ultimately, I am hopeful of developing models and formalisms that might offer insight into the mechanisms responsible for novel structures and subsystems that emerge within natural or artificial systems. </ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">I have a second set of research interests that have grown out of my exposure to the various techniques that are taught and used in the Systems Science department and complexity science, generally.  These research interests tie into my decades long involvement with education and educational research. As a former high school physics and biology teacher I have a deep commitment to understanding the nature of effective </ins>science education. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">I have found great personal value in the use of modeling and simulation tools (specifically </ins>agent based modeling<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, genetic algorithms </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">other computational methods). In recent years, I have become increasingly interested </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">offering these tools to K-12 and undergraduate teachers and students. I currently work with the Santa Fe Institute learning lab offering professional development to </ins>K-12 <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">science teachers. Our curriculum teaches science and computer science as students create agent based models of epidemics, chemical reactions </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ecosystems</ins>.</div></td></tr> </table>

Balwit https://wiki.santafe.edu/index.php?title=John_Balwit&diff=52179&oldid=prev 2014-02-24T21:15:33Z

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