Complex Systems Summer School 2014-1-Minute Summaries

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1-Minute Summaries

• Michael: hiking, history, birds; ecology, population dynamics, stoachastic processes; interest in networks, time series data of birds etc
• Claudius: social science, econ, agent-based models of economy, levels of investigation, evolutionary game theory
• Blaz: nonlinear time series analysis, modeling electricity market; interest in networks, game theory
• Matt: cross-industry etc, diffusion/emergence of ideas, ML
• Hiroshi (hashika1@jhmi.edu): cardio-electric physician, predicting death, cells in heart as complex system; history, politics
• Renske: insect development of segmentation, model that explains observed behavior, interest in networks and lots of things; music, hiking, beauty
• Fahad: AI, parallel computing; similarities between design principles in biology and software; something with quantum computing? more scalable architectures
• Ali: resilience in networks, world resource trade networks e.g. energy; hiking, futbol
• Diana: marine bio, how simple orgs navigate complex environments, scaling of behavior; interest in networks; hiking, soccer
• Morgan: eng systems, env science - energy, env impacts of decisions; interest in biological systems or network theory
• Sarah L: water as physical and cultural factor/force, Cameroon flooding patterns, interactions with ecosystem and social dynamics
• Junjian: power systems, failure propagation in systems, how to mitigate; inter-dependent networks, predicting extreme events using time series or spatial data
• Bernardo: geography, econ; public policy in Brazil; interest in spatial analysis, tax collection etc, water, energy, sustainability; cycling
• Beth: physics, surgery; changes in metabolic networks in massive blood loss , scaling from sub-cell level processes and networks to physiological symptoms
• Vipin: interest in fractal-like structures in econ data, measuring fractal-ness; emergence of norms, how structure/dynamic of network affects this; playing soccer
• Emília: evolutionary biology; cultural evol of language using agent-based modeling; classical guitar
• Francesca: econ, social science; motivation of identity-based behavior social norms decision-making; public policy in developing countries; how beliefs are formed; manipulating norms
• Luis: physics (was astro, not anymore), networks and coop games, emegence of tolerance/intolerance, reputation; differences in cultures/societies; hiking
• Alberto: mathematics, game theory on networks; modeling of social and spatial networks; experimental econ; like futbol
• Nicholas: chem eng, econ; inter-bank networks, model trust; overlapping mutual funds; kinetic theory of gases for econ; hierarchies
• Degang/Samuel: physics; apply evol game theory to human activities; inferring influence in social networks; affect of memory capacity of players or other individual properties on overall dynamics; hiking
• Ana Maria: forensic anthropology, understanding cause of death; MFA in art; interest in scale as inter-disciplinary mode of analysis
• Diego: playing soccer, surfing; energy fluxes in coastal reef systems or human cultures; citations over time
• Flavia: biological networks; pollination, evolution; playing sports but not soccer
• James H: likes helping people, engineer; convexity of points in plane, plasma physics; agent-based modeling in macro-econ with apps in health care; how movement from local to centralized has hurt society; hiking
• Brais: role in information in different markets, evolution, evolutionary game theory; like sports
• Nhat: transmission dynamics in tropical regions; how pathogen emerges, theoretical epidemiology; long-term behaviors in time series data
• Claire: CS, mathematical models for growth of cities
• Catherine: chem, energy; distribution of energy in cities, policy, diffusion
• Sanja: ecology, inter-species interactions, parasites and how that affects ecosystem; interest in bipartite graphs and multi-layer networks
• Brian: computer science, algorithms, dynamic network models; detecting correlation and influence using temporal information; like all sports, ballroom dancing
• Ells: comp bio; video games; how social processes affect disease dynamics e.g. vaccines and autism scare
• Sarah M: ?; bio sensory systems; interest in something with networks
• Anna: math and CS; interest in how networks fail and how to make them more robust; cook, bake, calligraphy
• Sean H: ecological networks, predicting function from structure; how can constraints on function affect structure as network grows, stability; hiking, philosophy, interesting conversations
• Leto: ML, stat models for networks
• Andy: physics, fluid flow from inhalers, how drugs interact with human body and how different for different people
• Jenn: behavioral ecologist, how different levels of social structure interact, sex or status affecting sexual or other activities; ecology or evol bio; outdoor activities
• Alex: physics; geometric assymetries in branching networks; interest in fractal aspects of networks; rock-climbing
• Cecilia: ecology; coevolution in large ecol networks; interest in cascading effects and game theory
• Sean G: physics, micro bio; has large datasets; stochastic and deterministic models and phase transitions; outdoor activities
• Cole: emergence of life, transitions in chemical evolution, info processing; chem/bio simulations; data viz; hiking, backpacking, overnight?
• Alireza: signal processing to learn function; emergence of norms; predicting success of systems
• Heath: econ; poverty and inequality; inter-generational transition of wealth, agent-based; institutional emergence e.g. political - why some countries develop certain political structures; music
• James G: CS, national-scale agent-based modeling on order of 100 mil. agents; communication
• José: emergence and evolution, systems bio; how genotypes map into phenotypes, geometry of genotype networks; evol of complexity in biosphere; hiking
• Lin: statistical signal processing, information diffusion over networks, opinion dynamics in social networks using local interactions; interest in modeling and analyzing temporal and group dynamics, inter- and intra-relationships of groups; hiking
• Shai: econ, how society changes
• Jessica: info systems; failure in organizational networks; interest in learning about failure tolerance in non-social systems that can transfer to social systems
• Massimo: physics; condensation phenomena in networks; linguistic networks; interest in multi-layer networks, time-evolving graphs; has access to lots of data
• Ernest/Yu: econ, physics, math; collective animal behavior - birds, ants; apply concept of entropy to life; hiking, cooking
• George/Qiao: physics, stats; financial market, volatility, dynamics, entropy; access to stock market data
• Cornelia: physics, applied math, complexity econ - firm growth; hidden nodes/noise?; scale-free networks; interest in things other than econ, dynamics on networks, bio
• Rohan: evolution of early metabolic networks, how that shapes future of life; interest in networks, evol game theory, evol bio
• Stojan: stress tests on networks, can hopefully use to study bio networks; cycling, bouldering
• Pooya: electrical engineering; cascading blackouts in power networks; interest in infrastructure in networks, how they form and evolve; playing futbol
• Tom: applied math and complex systems; deconstructing bones, algorithms for ?; power grid and nonlinear dynamics, topological dynamics
• Glen: personalized genomics, correlations between ? and cancer; interest in self-identification and how that informs decisions e.g. semi-scientific beliefs; metabolic and infectious disease modeling
• Stefan: environmental science, adoption of renewable resources; social and political barriers for ?; interest in environmental management, ecology; mountains, running, hiking
• Leo: smooth dynamical systems, differential geometry, high-energy physics and quantum computation; hiking, back-packing, pen and paper discussions
• Matt: innovation, evolution, cellular automation, genetic algorythms, complex systems allpication, network analytics, self learning/machine learning, natural patterns taxonomy
• John B.: General evolution, evolvability, units of selection, evo of cooperation, genetic algorithms, CS education, philosophy of science, mtn biking, hiking, & lists like the above.