Complex Systems Winter School 2015-Faculty

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Program Director

Somdatta Sinha, Program Director

Lecturers and Faculty

Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Theories and Treatment of Infectious Disease



Liz Bradley, Nonlinear Dynamics



Arkadev Chattopadhyay , Computational Complexity



Aaron Clauset, Four Lectures on Network Science



Simon DeDeo, Cognitive Science and Social Minds



Laurent Hebert-Dufresne, Statistical Physics and Complex Networks



Eric Libby Microbial Ecology



Olé Peters, Non-Ergodic Economics



Eleanor Power, Social Science



Rajiv Sethi, Agent-Based Computational Economics

These lectures will provide an introduction to agent-based computational modeling, drawing on applications in economics and finance. The first lecture will focus on the manner in which decentralized, uncoordinated choices can give rise to emergent properties such as residential segregation. The second and third lectures will examine financial markets, with a focus on how asset price dynamics depend on the composition of trading strategies, and how the composition of strategies itself evolves under pressure of differential profitability.


Andreas Wagner, Evolution and genotype networks

After a brief survey of important milestones in the history of evolutionary biology, these lectures will turn to the most fundamental problem of the field, namely how evolution creates new and beneficial features of organisms. This “innovation problem” has recently been tackled in different classes of complex molecular systems, including chemical reaction networks in metabolism, regulatory gene circuits, as well as protein and RNA macromolecules. I will discuss these efforts, the progress that has been made, and introduce the important role genotype networks play for innovation in all these systems. I will also touch upon other important tensions in modern evolutionary biology that relate to the innovation question, such as that between neutral and selected change, as well as that between a system’s robustness and its innovation ability. Time permitting, I will also discuss how recent insights into the innovation problem in biology could apply to technological evolution.

Staff

Juniper Lovato, Manager, Schools, Residencies, and Community Outreach, Santa Fe Institute