Organizational Dynamics Theme Week - Agenda

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TIME	ACTIVITY
	Sunday, January 27
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.	Welcme Reception, Canyon Room, Hotel Santa Fe
	Monday, January 28
Models of Organizational Dynamics
9:00 a.m.	Welcome: Geoffrey West, President and Distinguished Professor, Santa Fe Institute
9:30 a.m.	Introduction and Conceptual Overview: Shannon Larsen, Executive Director, Development and Corporate Relations
10:00 a.m.	"Simple Models of Institutional Dynamics," Speaker TBD
11:00 a.m.	Business Network Speaker TBD
11:30 a.m.	Group Discussion
12:00 p.m.	Lunch with SFI Community
1:00 p.m.	"Dynamical Processes in Organizations," Speaker TBD
2:00 p.m.	Group Discussion
3:00 p.m.	Tea with SFI Community
4:00 p.m.	Unscheduled Block
5:00 p.m.	Adjourn
	Tuesday, January 29
Social Organization and Evolution of Cooperation
9:00 a.m.	"Social Organizations in Ant Populations," Speaker TBD
10:00 a.m.	"Spatial Learning and Organization in Rodents," Speaker TBD
11:00 a.m.	Business Network Presentation
12:00 p.m.	Lunch with SFI Community
1:00 p.m.	TBD: Trip to Bandalier National Monument/ Guided Tour and Lecture by George Gumerman, SFI and School for Advanced Research
4:30 p.m.	Margaritas and Dinner at Rancho de Chimayo
	Wednesday, January 30
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 Pavilion), "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 by Michael Mauboussin, Chief Investment Strategist, Legg Mason Capital Management
9:30 a.m.	Overview: "Brain Origins of Behavioral Diversity," Charles Stevens, External Professor, Santa Fe Institute and The Salk Institute
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.	"The Adaptive Portfolio/Team/Ecosystem: Diversity Maintenance and Collective Performance in Complex Environments," 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.	Introduction 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
4:30 p.m.	Adjourn / Coffee in Tesuque Pavilion
5:00 p.m.	Business Network Meeting & Cocktails, Alcove of Las Fuentes Restaurant