Diversity Collapse: Causes Connections and Consequences - Agenda

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TIME	ACTIVITY
	Thursday, November 1
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.	Cocktail Reception, Bishop's Lodge Resort & Spa
	Friday, November 2
8:00 a.m.	Full Breakfast - Las Fuentes Restaurant / Continental Breakfast & Registration - Tesuque Pavilion
9:00 a.m.	Welcome: Geoffrey West, President and Distinguished Professor, Santa Fe Institute
9:30 a.m.	Introduction and Conceptual Overview: D. Eric Smith, Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Collapse of Diversity – Wild Ecosystems and Natural Experiments
10:00 a.m.	Narrative by Jennifer Dunne, Research Fellow, Santa Fe Institute and Co-Director, Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab
10:10 a.m.	"How do Natural Ecosystems Collapse, and What are the Likely Economic Consequences?," Andrew P. Dobson, Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
11:00 a.m.	Break
11:30 a.m.	"Diversity in Ecological and Evolutionary Networks: Some Insights from Food Webs and Flu," Mercedes Pascual, External Faculty, Santa Fe Institute and Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan
12:15 p.m.	Lunch - El Charro Lounge and Thunderbird Room
1:15 p.m.	"Extinction and the Loss of Evolutionary Diversity," Douglas H. Erwin, Professor, Santa Fe Institute and Senior Scientist, and Curator of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution
States of Health and Pathology
2:00 p.m.	Narrative by David Krakauer, Professor, Santa Fe Institute
2:10 p.m.	"Missed Opportunities," Timothy G. Buchman, External Professor, Santa Fe Institute and Professor, Department of Surgery/ General Surgery - Acute and Critical Care Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
3:00 p.m.	Break
Managed Ecosystems: The Bridge from Ecology to Nutrition
3:30 p.m.	"Agricultural Biodiversity: Linking the Neolithic to a Climate-changed World," Cary Fowler, Executive Director, Global Crop Diversity Trust
4:15 p.m.	"Random is Beautiful," Jeremiah Tower, Author of "New American Classics" and one of the founders of New American Cooking and California Cuisine
5:00 p.m.	Adjourn
	Friday, November 2
6:00 p.m. - 9 p.m.	"Impact and Influence," Multi-media Exhibit and Open House at the Santa Fe Institute (cocktails and dinner served)
	Saturday, November 3
7:00 a.m.	Full Breakfast - Las Fuentes Restaurant / Continental Breakfast - Tesuque Pavilion
Session Continues:
Managed Ecosystems: The Bridge from Ecology to Nutrition
8:00 a.m.	(Optional Breakfast Discussion, Tesuque Pavillion), "A Disconnected Food System Is Out of Joint," Joel Salatin, Proprietor, Polyface Farms
8:50 a.m.	Short break
Diversity and Functionality in Algorithms and Behavior
9:00 a.m.	Overview: "Brain Origins of Behavioral Diversity," Charles Stevens, External Professor, Santa Fe Institute and The Salk Institute
9:30 a.m.	Introduction by Michael Mauboussin, Chief Investment Strategist, Legg Mason Capital Management
9:45 a.m.	"Induced Collapse of Genetic Diversity in Honey Bee Colonies Lowers Disease Resistance and Foraging Success," Tom Seeley, Professor, Cornell University
10:30 a.m.	"Averaging Difference, Evolving Populations," Scott E. Page, External Professor, Santa Fe Institute and Research Professor and Associate Director, Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan
11:15 a.m.	Break
11:30 a.m.	"Promiscuous Interoperability Engenders Unexpected Uses," Virgil Griffith, California Institute of Technology
12:15 p.m.	Lunch - El Charro Lounge and Thunderbird Room
1:15 p.m.	"Diversity and Evolution in an Online Marketplace," Neel Sundaresan, Distinguished Research Professor and Director, eBay Research Labs
2:00 p.m.	"Generating Diversity in Computing Systems - An Automated Response" Gabriela Barrantes, Associate Professor, University of Costa Rica, with comments by Stephanie Forrest, External Professor, Santa Fe Institute and University of New Mexico
2:30 p.m.	Narrative by Douglas H. Erwin, Professor, Santa Fe Institute and Senior Scientist and Curator of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution
2:45 p.m.	"Where Have all the Languages Gone? Global Perspectives on Biolinguistic Diversity and the Decline of the World's Languages," Suzanne Romaine, Merton Professor of English Language, University of Oxford, UK
3:30 p.m.	Break
3:45 p.m.	Wrap-up Session: D. Eric Smith, Douglas H. Erwin, David Krakauer, Jennifer Dunne, Michael Mauboussin or Scott Page
4:30 p.m.	Adjourn / Coffee in Tesuque Pavilion
5:00 p.m.	Business Network Meeting & Cocktails, Alcove of Las Fuentes Restaurant