CSSS 2006 Beijing-Schedule
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| CSSS 2006 Beijing |
This schedule will be updated frequently. Check this page often to make sure you have the latest version.
All CSSS events are open only to invited participants.
Week One
| TIME | ACTIVITY |
| Sunday 9 July | |
| 12:00-16:00 | Registration and Orientation |
| 17:00-18:30 | Dinner and Reception |
| 18:30-19:30 | Welcome/Opening Remarks: Dave FELDMAN and CHEN Xiaosong |
| 19:30-21:00 | Tutorial--Introduction to Mandarin: James WU |
| Monday 10 July | |
| 9:00-10:15 | Chaos: Dave FELDMAN |
| 10:30-11:45 | Statistics for Complex Systems: Cosma SHALIZI |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00-15:15 | Graph Theory and Biological Networks: Andreas WAGNER |
| 15:45-17:45 | Student Introductions |
| 18:00-19:30 | Dinner |
| Tuesday 11 July | |
| 9:00-10:15 | Information Theory: Dave FELDMAN |
| 10:30-11:45 | Coalescence: Jon WILKINS |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00-15:15 | Molecular Evolution of Biological Networks: Andreas WAGNER |
| 15:30-17:00 | English Language Brush-up Session |
| 18:00-19:30 | Dinner |
| Wednesday 12 July | |
| 9:00-10:15 | Computation Theory: Dave FELDMAN |
| 10:30-11:45 | Power Laws: What they are, what they mean, what they don't mean, and how to tell if you have one: Cosma SHALIZI |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00-15:15 | Raising Civilization I: Henry WRIGHT |
| 18:00-19:30 | Dinner |
| 19:45-21:00 | Research group facilitation |
| Thursday 13 July | |
| 9:00-10:15 | Measures of Complexity: Dave FELDMAN |
| 10:30-11:45 | Reconstructing Causal States: Theory and Applications: Cosma SHALIZI |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00-15:15 | Raising Civilization II: Henry WRIGHT |
| 15:30-17:00 | Tutorial--Introduction to Mandarin: James WU |
| 18:00-19:30 | Dinner |
| 19:45-20:45 | Informal discussion on measures of complexity: Dave FELDMAN and Cosma SHALIZI |
| Friday 14 July | |
| 9:00-10:15 | Jon WILKINS |
| 10:30-11:45 | Raising Civilization III: Henry WRIGHT |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00-15:15 | Roundtable discussion: SHALIZI, WILKINS, WRIGHT |
| 18:00-19:30 | Dinner |
| Saturday 15 July | |
| TBA | Transfer to Beijing location |
| Sunday 16 July | |
| Scavenger Hunt |
Week Two
| Monday 17 July | |
| 9:00-10:15 | Understanding Networks: Theory and Applications I: Raissa D'SOUSA |
| 10:30-11:45 | Population Dynamics I: Marc FELDMAN and LI Shuzhou |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00-15:15 | Population Dynamics II: Marc FELDMAN and LI Shuzhou |
| 15:45-17:45 | Group meetings, student-led tutorials |
| 18:00-19:45 | Dinner |
| Tuesday 18 July | |
| 9:00-10:15 | Introduction to Computational Mechanics I: Jim CRUTCHFIELD |
| 10:30-11:45 | Population Dynamics III: Marc FELDMAN and LI shuzhou |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15:15 | Control and Representation of Complex Systems I: HAN Jing |
| 15:45-17:45 | Research Group Meetings, Student-Led Tutorials |
| 18:00-19:45 | Dinner |
| Wednesday 19 July | |
| 9:00-10:15 | Understanding Networks: Theory and Applications: Raissa D'SOUSA |
| 10:30-11:45 | Research Group Meetings, Student-Led Tutorials |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00-15:15 | Control and Representation of Complex Systems II: HAN Jing |
| 18:00-19:45 | Dinner |
| 19:30-21:00 | Public Lecture: Pattern Discovery: Jim CRUTCHFIELD |
| Thursday 20 July | |
| 9:00-10:15 | Introduction to Computational Mechanics II: Jim CRUTCHFIELD |
| 10:30-11:45 | Control and Representation of Complex Systems III: HAN Jing |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00-15:15 | Roundtable Disussion: TBA |
| 15:45-17:45 | Research Group Meetings, Student-Led Tutorials |
| 18:00-19:45 | Dinner |
| Friday 21 July | |
| 9:00-10:15 | Understanding Networks: Theory and Applications: Raissa D'SOUSA |
| 10:30-11:45 | Control and Representation of Complex Systems IV: HAN Jing |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch |
| 20:00- | Pizza and Karoake |
| Saturday 22 July | |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch |
| 18:00-19:45 | Dinner |
| Sunday 23 July | |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch |
| 18:00-19:45 | Dinner |
Week Three
| Monday 24 July | |
| 9:00-10:15 | Evolutionary Dynamics I: Conceptual Framework: Representations, Operators, Selection and Evolvability: Lee ALTENBERG |
| 10:30-11:45 | Language Acquisition and Evolution I: William WANG and James MINETT |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00-15:15 | HAO Bai-Lin |
| 15:45-17:45 | Research Group Meetings, Student-Led Tutorials |
| 18:00-19:30 | Dinner |
| Tuesday 25 July | |
| 9:00-10:15 | Evolutionary Dynamics II: Higher Order Phenomena: Robustness vs. Evolvability: Lee ALTENBERG |
| 10:30-11:45 | Language Acquisition and Evolution: William WANG and James MINETT |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00-15:15 | HAO Bai-Lin |
| 15:45-17:45 | Research Group Meetings, Student-Led Workshops |
| 18:00-19:30 | Dinner |
| Wednesday 26 July | |
| 9:00-10:15 | Evoulation Dynamics III: More Higher Order Phenomena: Lee ALTENBERG |
| 10:30-11:45 | Language Acquisition and Evolution III: William WANG and James MINETT |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00-15:15 | HAO Bai-Lin |
| 15:45-17:45 | Research Group Meetings, Student-Led Workshops |
| 18:00- | Dinner at Beijing Restaurant |
| Thursday 27 July | |
| 9:00-10:15 | Scaling in Biology: Van SAVAGE |
| 10:30-11:45 | Language Acquisition and Evolution: William WANG and James MINETT |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00-15:15 | Research Group Meetings, Student-Led Workshops |
| 15:45-17:45 | Research Group Meetings, Student-Led Workshops |
| 18:00-19:30 | Dinner |
| Friday 28 July | |
| 9:00-10:15 | Scaling in Biology II: Van SAVAGE |
| 10:30-11:45 | Language Acquisition and Evolution: William WANG and James MINETT |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00-15:15 | Research Group Meetings, Student-Led Workshops |
| 15:45-17:45 | Research Group Meetings, Student-Led Workshops |
| 16:00-17:30 | Dinner |
| Saturday 29 July | |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch |
| 16:00-17:30 | Dinner |
| Sunday 30 July | |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch |
| 16:00-17:30 | Dinner |
Week Four
| Monday 31 July | |
| 9:00-10:15 | Research at the Santa Fe Institute: Chris WOOD |
| 10:30-11:45 | Networks: Michelle GIRVAN |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00-15:15 | The Maximum Entropy Method in Finance: Bernhard MEISTER |
| 15:45-17:45 | Research Group Meetings |
| 18:00-19:30 | Dinner |
| 19:30-21:00 | Public Lecture: Structural Conflicts among the Behavioral Disciplines: A Way Forward. Herb GINTIS |
| Tuesday 1 August | |
| 9:00-10:15 | Networks: Michelle GIRVAN |
| 10:30-11:45 | Univying the Behavioral Sciences: The role of Evolutionary Dynamics: Herb GINTIS |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00-16:00 | Research Group Meetings |
| 18:00 | Deadline to Submit Projects for Poster Presentations |
| 18:00-19:30 | Dinner |
| Wednesday 2 August | |
| 9:00-10:15 | Unifying the Behavioral Sciences: Resolving Paradigmatic Conflicts: Herb GINTIS</td. |
| 10:30-11:45 | Networks: Michelle GIRVAN |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch |
| 18:00-19:30 | Dinner |
| Thursday 3 August | |
| 9:00-11:45 | Student Group Presentations TBA |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch: Subway Sandwiches |
| 14:00-17:45 | Student Group Presentations TBA |
| 18:00-19:30 | Dinner |
| Friday 4 August | |
| 9:00-11:45 | Student Group Presentations TBA |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch |
| 16:00-19:00 | Poster Session and Cocktail Party |
| 19:00-21:00 | Final Banquet |