Complex Systems Summer School 2012-Glue Session Forum: Difference between revisions

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Complex Systems Summer School 2012

Please post your questions or additional comments on this page. This Friday this session of the Glue Session will be held as a forum, please post your questions below.

What are the limits of the methods (analysis, simulation, experiment, meta-analysis, ethnography) you use for the questions you are interested in?
What methods would you be excited to see supplement and complement your approach?

If emergence is not reducible to the property of the parts then where does it 'emerge' from?

If fundamental law is derived from symmetry relationships, then what is the 'law' that drives the process of 'symmetry-breaking'?

What systems are clearly not 'complex'?

What are the principles and mechanisms that lead to the emergence of robustness in biological systems?

Among the different measures of complexity, does the value for one measure of complexity give any information about the others or are they completely unrelated?

Regarding the tools and mathematical formalisms we use to model complex systems, does the fact that they apply to so many diverse types of systems (e.g., disease, culture, ecology) tell us anything deep about the structure of these systems, or about the mechanisms underlying them, or are these tools nothing more than simply very flexible and useful tools?

Knowledge is growing at a tremendous rate, which is reflected in an inflation of education. Nevertheless, our learning methods do not improve at the same rate. Which are or will be new more efficient ways to learn as students and in research driven academia?

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 ''Please post your questions or additional comments on this page. This Friday this session of the Glue Session will be held as a forum, please post your questions below.''
-==enfascination lectures==
+*What are the limits of the methods (analysis, simulation, experiment, meta-analysis, ethnography) you use for the questions you are interested in?
-I want to hear more from my fellow Summer Schoolers, and I know they are full of fascinating ideas related (or not at all related) to their research.  I'd like to propose that we use some or all of the glue session to give people exactly 5 minutes to share something they find fascinating.  The goal is to transmit the feeling of being fascinated.  Speakers take just one question before giving way to the next speaker.
+*What methods would you be excited to see supplement and complement your approach?
-Simon (DeDeo) and I were discussing something like this.  He wants the SFI faculty to be exposed to how neat he thinks we are, and he would make sure that faculty are present.  It will give us students practice reducing and articulating grand ideas.  It will give us an opportunity to learn from either (and the faculty an opportunity to learn from us)
+* If emergence is not reducible to the property of the parts then where does it 'emerge' from?
-I've seen this format before, and its fun.  Most people conceive a talk during the event (preparation is optional). Possible topics, sampled uniformly from the infinite, include Chili Peppers, How to cross a glacier, The Singularity, Indiana Jones, Rural desert water distribution systems, Hexaflexagons, Numismatism, DIY Cooking, Roman Emperor Deaths , Salt , Three Great Banquets in Italian History, How to Sharpen a Chisel, The Physiological Limits to Human Perception of Time, Geophagy, Pond Ecology, Superstition, Hydrodynamics, The Wolof Conception of Time, Arctic String Figures, The Seven Axioms of Mathematics, Dr Seuss, Motorcycle Life and Culture, Japanese culture, the Jim Henson Company, Female Orgasm, Insider Trading: For Fun and Profit, Film of Peter Greenaway, Tones in Mandarin, Unschooling and Deschooling, Fine Beer, DIY Backpacking, Chinese Nationalism in Tibet, Biofuels, The Yeti, The Health Benefits of Squatting, The Big Bang, How to Pick Stocks Like a Pro, Food Preservation Technique, Demonstrations in Number Theory, Rangolis Kolum; The Hollow Earth, Edible Mushrooms, Human Asexuality, A History of the California Central Valley Watershed, An Account of the Maidu Creation, Rural India, German Compound Words, Behaviorist Childrearing and Animal Training on Humans,  Physics of Time, Constructed Languages, This Week’s Weather, The XYZs of Body Language, Light Filtration Through Orchards, Our Limits in Visualizing High Dimensional Spaces,Twin Studies, and Bengime: a real fictional real language.
+* If fundamental law is derived from symmetry relationships, then what is the 'law' that drives the process of 'symmetry-breaking'?
+* What systems are clearly not 'complex'?
+* What are the principles and mechanisms that lead to the emergence of robustness in biological systems?
+* Among the different measures of complexity, does the value for one measure of complexity give any information about the others or are they completely unrelated?
+* Regarding the tools and mathematical formalisms we use to model complex systems, does the fact that they apply to so many diverse types of systems (e.g., disease, culture, ecology) tell us anything deep about the structure of these systems, or about the mechanisms underlying them, or are these tools nothing more than simply very flexible and useful tools?
+* Knowledge is growing at a tremendous rate, which is reflected in an inflation of education. Nevertheless, our learning methods do not improve at the same rate. Which are or will be new more efficient ways to learn as students and in research driven academia?

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