Complex Systems Summer School 2011-Projects & Working Groups
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| Complex Systems Summer School 2011 |
If you'd like to work on a project with other members of the group, please use this page to organize your thoughts and efforts. We'll schedule a time when we can show off your work towards the end of the program.
Keywords
Hey Guys! Some of your research interests have been entered. Hopefully this can give us a better idea of what we are studying, and how we can collaborate for the final challenge. They are organized in a google doc.
Hey Again! Here are two versions of the GML. The first is non-editable, it works. The second can be messed around with like a normal sharable google doc. Please remember to cut and paste ALL of the text (No bracket left behind!) into a text editor of your choice (like notepad) and save it as a .gml. There is a code called "value", this is so you can manipulate the PeopleNodes and the SubjectNodes as separate variables. If you have trouble, let me know. Again, apologies for misspellings and mis-placing-you-in-the-mega-universe-of-stuff-to-study.
ALPHA: ALPHA GML KEYWORD NETWORK!
BETA: BETA GML KEYWORD NETWORK!
-Clio
Meeting with Geoffrey West
A group of us were interested to continue a discussion with Geoffrey West following his lecture this evening. We will be meeting over lunch next Wednesday 15th June at SFI in the medium conference room. Please add your name to the below list if you would like to attend.
Nadja Kunz
Martin Hilbert
Shweta Singh
Fran Moore
Matteo Gagliolo
Kevin Carlson
Raghad Chawla
Jacob Jensen
Cristina Metgher
Alejandro Fajardo
Lydia Smith
Antoine Allard
Michael Sachs
Nicolas Paez
Christian Gunning
Nathan Wang
Potential Project
I'd like to play around with the idea of using chaotic attractors to create music, as introduced by Liz Bradley. If anyone else is interested, please say so below! Ideally, I'd love to create a new piece of music (perhaps even recording a few of the budding musicians at the summer school if possible!), pull the individual parts of the composition apart and then use chaotic attractors to put them back together in new (and constantly evolving) ways. I have music production software on my laptop that we can use as a backbone, but we'd need to work out how to program something so that the differential equations controlled it (or otherwise figure out how to use the DEs to make a composition that we then record within the software - perhaps an easier option!) I'd like to hear other people's ideas about what elements of the piece the chaotic attractors could be used to manipulate - Liz's example only used them to re-order pitch, but I'm sure there are other things that we could do too. Hopefully this could be a project that we could play with in our spare time - I'm also looking to join in with a more academic project too, but I think this could potentially be a very enjoyable side-project. -Martin Gould
Interested:
Anna Deluca
Nini Zhang (I'm particularly interested variations as defined computationally v musically)
Stefani Crabtree (What a great idea! I'm a musician: www.stefanicrabtree.com)
Lydia Smith (I hope it's not too late to jump on board!)
How about having a quick meeting to discuss ideas on Thursday lunch time? Dining hall at noon? The original paper that Liz talked about is here: [1] perhaps we could discuss which of the original ideas we'd like to use and also brainstorm some new ones that we'd like to try out. -Martin
The CSSS11-network challenge
Today the Networks Module has started. One of the well-known examples of a network, is a social network. Did you realize you have been working hard on an (almost) completely new social network in the past few days?
How do these networks come in to place? How do we make friends? Will we be a fully connected network? How many hubs do we have - and can we explain how these hubs come in to place?
This is an excellent opportunity to find some answers to these questions!
The idea is to base the results on the contacts people make. Simply put: who did you have a conversation with? By noting this regularly, we can see the connectedness and sorts of the network evolve over time.
The plan is to collect data on
1) The evolvement of the network over time, in terms of nr of contacts (conversations lasting over 10 minutes) per approx. 2 days
2) The 'final' network, as in the people you feel connected to (would like to contact for science or social activities)
All results will be processed anonymously and will appear (at the end of the summerschool) on the wiki.
We need your help off course, to answer these questions.
The first survey can be found at: www.thesistools.com/web/?id=20584
If you are interested in this project, I will organize some discussion meeting (probably in the next week). For now: add your name to the list below, and send in the survey! (while encouraging as much of your connections as you can to do so, too ;) )
If you have any questions, send a message to ehuk at rsm dot nl.
Thank you so much for your help!
The CSSS11-network challenge team
- Evelien
- Tomas
- Clio
- Randy
- Antoine
- JP
- Cristina M.
- ....(put your name here if you are in any way interested)
Hey Guys! Some of your research interests have been entered. Hopefully this can give us a better idea of what we are studying, and how we can collaborate for the final challenge. They are organized in a google doc for sorting, searching etc, and all should have editing privileges. Sorry for typos!
LINK TO GOOGLE DOC SPREADSHEET
CHECK BACK FOR A NETWORK OF OUR INTERESTS!!!!!!
-Clio
Econophysics/Economics Working Group
Akira, Veronica and I have been discussing some econophysics-type problems recently, and we are going to set up a small working group to meet and discuss our work and problems that we've been thinking about. We will be talking about using ideas from complex systems (such as agent-based modelling, statistical mechanics, etc.) to re-visit traditional problems from economics. We haven't set a date for our first meeting yet, but it's likely to be early next week. Please add your name to the list below if you'd like to come along, either to talk or just to listen!
Martin Gould
Akira Toda
Veronica Gheorghiade
Shweta Singh
Matteo Gagliolo
Fran Moore
Ryan j