Complex Systems Summer School 2012-Glue Session Forum

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Please post your questions or additional comments on this page. This Friday this session of the Glue Session will be held as a forum, please post your questions below.

enfascination lectures

I want to hear more from my fellow Summer Schoolers, and I know they are full of fascinating ideas related (or not at all related) to their research. I'd like to propose that we use some or all of the glue session to give people exactly 5 minutes to share something they find fascinating. The goal is to transmit the feeling of being fascinated. Speakers take just one question before giving way to the next speaker.

Simon (DeDeo) and I were discussing something like this. He wants the SFI faculty to be exposed to how neat he thinks we are, and he would make sure that faculty are present. It will give us students practice reducing and articulating grand ideas. It will give us an opportunity to learn from either (and the faculty an opportunity to learn from us)

I've seen this format before, and its fun. Most people conceive a talk during the event (preparation is optional). Possible topics, sampled uniformly from the infinite, include Chili Peppers, How to cross a glacier, The Singularity, Indiana Jones, Rural desert water distribution systems, Hexaflexagons, Numismatism, DIY Cooking, Roman Emperor Deaths , Salt , Three Great Banquets in Italian History, How to Sharpen a Chisel, The Physiological Limits to Human Perception of Time, Geophagy, Pond Ecology, Superstition, Hydrodynamics, The Wolof Conception of Time, Arctic String Figures, The Seven Axioms of Mathematics, Dr Seuss, Motorcycle Life and Culture, Japanese culture, the Jim Henson Company, Female Orgasm, Insider Trading: For Fun and Profit, Film of Peter Greenaway, Tones in Mandarin, Unschooling and Deschooling, Fine Beer, DIY Backpacking, Chinese Nationalism in Tibet, Biofuels, The Yeti, The Health Benefits of Squatting, The Big Bang, How to Pick Stocks Like a Pro, Food Preservation Technique, Demonstrations in Number Theory, Rangolis Kolum; The Hollow Earth, Edible Mushrooms, Human Asexuality, A History of the California Central Valley Watershed, An Account of the Maidu Creation, Rural India, German Compound Words, Behaviorist Childrearing and Animal Training on Humans, Physics of Time, Constructed Languages, This Week’s Weather, The XYZs of Body Language, Light Filtration Through Orchards, Our Limits in Visualizing High Dimensional Spaces,Twin Studies, and Bengime: a real fictional real language.

--I really like this idea! (Joanne Rodrigues)