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'''Proposed Format'''
* This is proposed as a mix of discussion, tutorials and demonstrations.
* Maybe this will grow into a project.


'''Candiate Topics for Discusion'''
* There's a similar idea proposed by both Kai and Andrew in the "discussion" section, and interested people will meet at lunch on Friday .. maybe this could all be pooled together. [http://www.santafe.edu/events/workshops/index.php/Amelie_Veron Amelie]
* How to express complexity to people who ''are not'' adept at some of the tools we are using in the CSSS program - differential equations, MatLab, the vocabulary of complexity and chaos, ''etc''.  
* How to express complexity in the tools of everyday business and government workers - PowerPoint, Excel, etc.
* How to engage effectively with skilled professionals (engineers, economists, accounting/finance, ...) in their vocabulary
* Are there extensions to existing, relatively widely used, modeling tools such as flow charts, data flow diagrams, UML models, etc. that can properly express complex systems?
* How do we convey the key research topics worthy of pursuit to the research sponsors and similar stakeholders?


 
Merged content previously on this page with the [[Communicating complexity]] topic. - [[Brian Lawler]]
'''Interested Participants'''
* [[Brian Lawler]] - Proposed this topic. Lots of experience engaging multi-disciplinary (tech and non-tech) stakeholders, adept at UML/DFDs/etc.
 
* I would like to learn AS MUCH about it as possible ! [[Saleha Habibullah]]
 
* There's a similar idea proposed by both Kai and Andrew in the "discussion" section, and interested people will meet at lunch on Friday .. maybe this could all be pooled together. [http://www.santafe.edu/events/workshops/index.php/Amelie_Veron Amelie]

Revision as of 04:55, 7 June 2007

  • There's a similar idea proposed by both Kai and Andrew in the "discussion" section, and interested people will meet at lunch on Friday .. maybe this could all be pooled together. Amelie

Merged content previously on this page with the Communicating complexity topic. - Brian Lawler

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