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TIME ACTIVITY

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 to Theme Week and CASITA Content Management: Shannon Larsen, Executive Director, Development and Corporate Relations
10:00 a.m. "Simple Models of Institutions," Dan Hruschka, Postdoctoral Fellow
10:45 a.m. "The Long View on Dynamical Processes in Organizations: States, Churches and Firms," Peter Turchin, Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut
11:30 a.m. Discussion, Facilitated by Dan Hruschka and Peter Turchin
12:00 p.m. Lunch with SFI Community
1:00 p.m. "How Information and Energy Exchange Shape Organisms and Societies," Melanie Moses, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of New Mexico
2:00 p.m. Discussion, Facilitated by Chris Wood, Vice President, SFI
3:00 p.m. Tea with SFI Community
4:00 p.m. Adjourn
Tuesday, January 29 - Evolution of Cooperative and Competitive Behavior
9:00 a.m. "Cache Economics," Lucia Jacobs, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
10:00 a.m. "Evolution of Personalities: Lessons from the Animal Kingdom," Sander van Doorn, Postdoctoral Fellow, SFI
11:00 a.m. Business Network Member Presentation
12:00 p.m. Lunch and Lecture: Social Organization and Cooperation in the Anasazi

George Gumerman, External Faculty, SFI and School for Advanced Research

1:00 p.m. Guided Tour at the Bandelier National Monument
4:30 p.m. Margaritas and Dinner at Rancho de Chimayo
Wednesday, January 30 - Understanding Evolution and Diffusion of Information
9:00 a.m. Unstructured time
12:00 p.m. Lunch with SFI Community
1:00 p.m. "Shared Information in an Uncertain World: Experimental Studies of Cultural Evolution," Charles Efferson, Postdoctoral Fellow
2:00 p.m. "Information Aggregation in Diverse Groups," Willemien Kets, Postdoctoral Fellow
3:00 p.m. Break / Tea with SFI Community
3:30 p.m. Business Network Member Presentation, Eleanor Wynn, Principal Engineer, IT Research, Intel
5:00 p.m. Adjourn
Thursday, January 31 - Networks and Organizational Learning
9:00 a.m. "Networks and Strategic Interactions," Willemien Kets, Postdoctoral Fellow
10:00 a.m. “The Changing Speed of Organizational Learning,” Tiha von Ghyczy, Lecturer and Director of Business Projects, Darden School of Business and BCG

Strategy Institute

11:00 a.m. "Lessons from the Gene," Jon Wilkins, Professor
12:00 p.m. Lunch with SFI Community
1:00 p.m. "Innovation from an Ecosystem Perspective," Martin Waszak, Senior Research Engineer, NASA
2:00 p.m. “Malicious Behavior: Challenges Faced by Online Social Networks,” Virgilio Almeida, Professor, Computer Science Department, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
3:00 p.m. Break / Tea with SFI Community
3:30 p.m. Unstructured time
6:30 p.m. Group Dinner - Pink Adobe Restaurant (Shuttles from Hotel Santa Fe depart at 6:15 p.m.)
Friday, February 1 - Scaling, Innovation and Organizational Structure
9:30 a.m. "The Open Systems Organizational Learning Model: One Way to Learn, Adopt, and Change in Dynamic Environment," Christopher Chaves, University of New Mexico and Learn.Apply.Change


10:30 a.m. "The Scale and Unity of Life From Cells to Cities: Growth, Innovation and Pace of Living," Geoffrey West, President and Distinguished Professor, Santa Fe Institute
12:00 p.m. Lunch with SFI Community
1:00 p.m. Wrap-up Session and Next Steps