This schedule will be updated frequently. Check this page often to make sure you have the latest version.
All CSSS events are open only to invited participants.
Week One
| TIME |
ACTIVITY |
|
Sunday 9 July |
| 12:00-16:00 |
Registration and Orientation |
| 17:00-18:30 |
Welcome/Opening Remarks: Dave FELDMAN and CHEN Xiaosong |
| 18:30-19:30 |
Dinner |
| 19:30-21:00 |
Tutorial--Introduction to Mandarin: James WU
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|
Monday 10 July |
| 9:00-10:15 |
Chaos: Dave FELDMAN |
| 10:30-11:45 |
Power Laws: What they are, what they mean, what they don't mean, and how to tell if you have one:: Cosma SHALIZI |
| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
| 14:00-15:15 |
Graph Theory and Biological Networks: Andreas WAGNER |
| 15:45-17:45 |
Student Introductions |
| 18:00-19:30 |
Dinner |
| 19:45-21:00 |
Ice Breaking Activity |
|
Tuesday 11 July |
| 9:00-10:15 |
Information Theory: Dave FELDMAN |
| 10:30-11:45 |
Raising Civilization I: Henry WRIGHT |
| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
| 14:00-15:15 |
Molecular Evolution of Biological Networks: Andreas WAGNER |
| 15:30-17:00 |
English Language Brush-up Session |
| 18:00-19:30 |
Dinner |
|
Wednesday 12 July |
| 9:00-10:15 |
Computation Theory: Dave FELDMAN |
| 10:30-11:45 |
Statistics for Complex Systems: Cosma SHALIZI |
| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
| 14:00-15:15 |
Coalescence: Jon WILKINS |
| 18:00-19:30 |
Dinner |
| 19:45-21:00 |
Research group facilitation |
|
Thursday 13 July |
| 9:00-10:15 |
Measures of Complexity: Dave FELDMAN |
| 10:30-11:45 |
Reconstructing Causal States: Theory and Applications: Cosma SHALIZI |
| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
| 14:00-15:15 |
Raising Civilization II: Henry WRIGHT |
| 15:30-17:00 |
Roundtable discussion: SHALIZI, WILKINS, WRIGHT |
| 18:00-19:30 |
Dinner |
| 19:45-20:45 |
Informal discussion on measures of complexity: Dave FELDMAN and Cosma SHALIZI |
|
Friday 14 July |
| 9:00-10:15 |
Jon WILKINS |
| 10:30-11:45 |
Raising Civilization III: Henry WRIGHT |
| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
| 14:00-15:15 |
Mandarin Lesson |
| 15:45 |
T-shirt design |
| 18:00-19:30 |
Dinner |
|
Saturday 15 July |
| TBA |
Transfer to Beijing location |
|
Sunday 16 July |
|
Scavenger Hunt |
Week Two
|
Monday 17 July |
| 9:00-10:15 |
Understanding Networks: Theory and Applications I: Raissa D'SOUSA |
| 10:30-11:45 |
Population Dynamics I: Marc FELDMAN and LI Shuzhou |
| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
| 14:00-15:15 |
Population Dynamics II: Marc FELDMAN and LI Shuzhou |
| 15:45-17:45 |
Group meetings, student-led tutorials |
| 18:00-19:45 |
Dinner |
|
Tuesday 18 July |
| 9:00-10:15 |
Introduction to Computational Mechanics I: Jim CRUTCHFIELD |
| 10:30-11:45 |
Population Dynamics III: Marc FELDMAN and LI shuzhou |
| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15:15 |
Control and Representation of Complex Systems I: HAN Jing |
| 15:45-17:45 |
Research Group Meetings, Student-Led Tutorials |
| 18:00-19:45 |
Dinner |
|
Wednesday 19 July |
| 9:00-10:15 |
Understanding Networks: Theory and Applications: Raissa D'SOUSA |
| 10:30-11:45 |
Research Group Meetings, Student-Led Tutorials |
| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
| 14:00-15:15 |
Control and Representation of Complex Systems II: HAN Jing |
| 18:00-19:45 |
Dinner |
| 19:30-21:00 |
Public Lecture: Pattern Discovery: Jim CRUTCHFIELD |
|
Thursday 20 July |
| 9:00-10:15 |
Introduction to Computational Mechanics II: Jim CRUTCHFIELD |
| 10:30-11:45 |
Control and Representation of Complex Systems III: HAN Jing |
| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
| 14:00-15:15 |
Roundtable Disussion: TBA |
| 15:45-17:45 |
Research Group Meetings, Student-Led Tutorials |
| 18:00-19:45 |
Dinner |
|
Friday 21 July |
| 9:00-10:15 |
Understanding Networks: Theory and Applications: Raissa D'SOUSA |
| 10:30-11:45 |
Roundtable Discussion: Advice for Complex Systems Researchers |
| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
| 20:00- |
Pizza and Karoake |
|
Saturday 22 July |
|
Breakfast |
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Sunday 23 July |
|
Breakfast |
Week Three
|
Monday 24 July |
| 9:00-10:15 |
Evolutionary Dynamics I: Conceptual Framework: Representations, Operators, Selection and Evolvability: Lee ALTENBERG |
| 10:30-11:45 |
Language Acquisition and Evolution I: William WANG and James MINETT |
| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
| 14:00-15:15 |
HAO Bai-Lin |
| 15:45-17:45 |
Research Group Meetings, Student-Led Tutorials |
| 18:00-19:30 |
Dinner |
|
Tuesday 25 July |
| 9:00-10:15 |
Evolutionary Dynamics II: Higher Order Phenomena: Robustness vs. Evolvability: Lee ALTENBERG |
| 10:30-11:45 |
Language Acquisition and Evolution: William WANG and James MINETT |
| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
| 14:00-15:15 |
HAO Bai-Lin |
| 15:45-17:45 |
Research Group Meetings, Student-Led Workshops |
| 18:00-19:30 |
Dinner |
|
Wednesday 26 July |
| 9:00-10:15 |
Evoulation Dynamics III: More Higher Order Phenomena: Lee ALTENBERG |
| 10:30-11:45 |
Language Acquisition and Evolution III: William WANG and James MINETT |
| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
| 14:00-15:15 |
HAO Bai-Lin |
| 15:45-17:45 |
Research Group Meetings, Student-Led Workshops |
| 18:00- |
Dinner at Beijing Restaurant |
|
Thursday 27 July |
| 9:00-10:15 |
Scaling in Biology: Van SAVAGE |
| 10:30-11:45 |
Language Acquisition and Evolution: William WANG and James MINETT |
| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
| 14:00-15:15 |
Research Group Meetings, Student-Led Workshops |
| 15:45-17:45 |
Research Group Meetings, Student-Led Workshops |
| 18:00-19:30 |
Dinner |
|
Friday 28 July |
| 9:00-10:15 |
Scaling in Biology II: Van SAVAGE |
| 10:30-11:45 |
Language Acquisition and Evolution: William WANG and James MINETT |
| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
| 14:00-15:15 |
Research Group Meetings, Student-Led Workshops |
| 15:45-17:45 |
Research Group Meetings, Student-Led Workshops |
| 16:00-17:30 |
Dinner |
|
Saturday 29 July |
|
Breakfast |
|
Sunday 30 July |
|
Breakfast |
Week Four
|
Monday 31 July |
| 9:00-10:15 |
Research at the Santa Fe Institute: Chris WOOD |
| 10:30-11:45 |
Networks: Michelle GIRVAN |
| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
| 14:00-15:15 |
The Maximum Entropy Method in Finance: Bernhard MEISTER |
| 15:45-17:45 |
Research Group Meetings |
| 18:00-19:30 |
Dinner |
| 19:30-21:00 |
Public Lecture: Structural Conflicts among the Behavioral Disciplines: A Way Forward. Herb GINTIS |
|
Tuesday 1 August |
| 9:00-10:15 |
Networks: Michelle GIRVAN |
| 10:30-11:45 |
Univying the Behavioral Sciences: The role of Evolutionary Dynamics: Herb GINTIS |
| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
| 14:00-16:00 |
Research Group Meetings |
| 18:00 |
Deadline to Submit Projects for Poster Presentations |
| 18:00-19:30 |
Dinner |
|
Wednesday 2 August |
| 9:00-10:15 |
Unifying the Behavioral Sciences: Resolving Paradigmatic Conflicts: Herb GINTIS</td.
|
| 10:30-11:45 |
Networks: Michelle GIRVAN |
| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
| 18:00-19:30 |
Dinner |
|
Thursday 3 August |
| 9:00-11:45 |
Student Group Presentations TBA |
| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch: Subway Sandwiches |
| 14:00-17:45 |
Student Group Presentations TBA |
| 18:00-19:30 |
Dinner |
|
Friday 4 August |
| 9:00-11:45 |
Student Group Presentations TBA |
| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
| 16:00-19:00 |
Poster Session and Cocktail Party |
| 19:00-21:00 |
Final Banquet |
