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Global IP Fellows Meeting


TIME ACTIVITY

Wednesday, September 13
8:30 - 5:00 Arrival of participants

Participants may take the shuttle from Hotel Santa Fe to SFI during the hours of 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. to get connected to the network and find a place to work

7:30 p.m SFI Public Lecture Series—Ulam Lecture given by Dr. Nina Fedoroff (see SFI website for more information)

Thursday, September 14
8:30 - 5:00 Arrival of participants

Participants may take the shuttle from Hotel Santa Fe to SFI during the hours of 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. to get connected to the network and find a place to work

7:30 p.m SFI Public Lecture Series—Ulam Lecture given by Dr. Nina Fedoroff (see SFI website for more information)

Friday, September 15
8:15 - 8:30 a.m. Transportation from Hotel Santa Fe to SFI via hotel shuttle
8:30 - 9:00 Registration, Welcome and Visa Check-In

Continental breakfast

9:00 - 9:15 Welcome, Objectives and Agenda Outline—Shannon Larsen
9:15 - 9:45 SFI’s Scientific Vision—Chris Wood, SFI Vice-President
9:45 - 10:15 Brief introductions by participants
10:15 - 10:30 A look back—What SFI has Learned From Our Fellows and International Activities—Shannon Larsen and Ginger Richardson
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:45 New Approaches in Complex Systems Education—Eric Klopfer, MIT and SFI Science Board
11:45-12:00 Explain afternoon exercise – Shannon Larsen and Stacey Lydon
12:00-1:00 p.m. Lunch with SFI community sponsored by International Program
1:00-2:00 Exercise—break-out session with partner
2:00-3:00 10-minute presentations from exercise
3:00-3:30 Tea with SFI Community
3:30-4:30 Continue 10-minute presentations from exercise
4:30-4:45 Summary—Shannon Larsen
4:45-5:00 Weekend logistics—Stacey Lydon and Laura Ware
5:00-5:30 Transport to Happy Hour

SFI cars and hotel shuttle

5:30 – 7:00 Happy Hour at El Farol sponsored by International Program
8:00 Bus #1 departs for Star Hill

Saturday, September 16
9:00 a. m. Bus #2 departs from Hotel Santa Fe for Star Hill

Other participants remain at hotel and are on their own for the weekend

11:00 Arrival and settling in at Star Hill
12:00-1:00 p.m. Lunch at Sunrise House
1:00-3:30 Free time for hiking/exploring
3:30-5:30 Group activity
5:30 International Wine Tasting Event
7:30 Catered New Mexican Dinner
9:30 Star Gazing for the not-so-serious and Astronomy/Astrology for the serious

Sunday, September 17
10:00 a.m. Brunch
12:00 p.m. Depart for Pecos Pueblo
1:00 Guided tour of Pecos Pueblo with Tim Kohler
4:00 Star Hill participants arrive back at Hotel Santa Fe—dinner on own

Monday, September 18
8:15-8:30 a.m. Transportation from Hotel Santa Fe to SFI via hotel shuttle
8:30-9:00 Continental breakfast
9:00 – 9:50 Gabriel Mindlin— The Physics and Neural Control of Birdsong

Nelley Kovalevskaya—Visual Modeling by Contextual Influences in Environmental Information Systems

9:50 - 9:55 Break
9:55 - 10:45 Sitabhra Sinha—Are Complex Systems Unstable?

Silvina Ponce Dawson—TBA

10:45 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:15 Scaling in Ecology Workshop Follow-up

Pablo Marquet—Towards a Unified Theory in Ecology

Beata Oborny—Contact Processes, Spreading of Populations in Space, and the Boundaries of Species Distributions

David Storch—Geometry of Species Distributions: Null Models of Biodiversity Patterns

12:15 - 1:30 p.m. Catered lunch on portal for participants and SFI faculty
1:30 - 2:20 Foundations of Cooperation in the Commons Workshop Follow-up

Juan Camilo-Cardenas—Experiments on Cooperation and Social Networks

Carlos-Rodriguez-Sickert— When in Rome, Do as the Romans DO: The Coevolution of Altruistic Punishment, Conformist Learning, and Cooperation

2:20 – 2:25 Break
2:25 - 3:15 LI Wei—Individual Strategies in Complementarity Games and Population Dynamics

Balazs Vedres—Politicized Business Ties: Business Groups in Post-Socialism

3:15 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 3:55 Miguel Fuentes—Effective Markovian Approximation: A Path Integral Approach 3:55 - 5:00 Future of SFI International Program
5:00-5:15 Transportation from SFI to Hotel Santa Fe via hotel shuttle
7:00 - 9:00 Dinner for SFI faculty and participants

Tuesday, September 19
8:15-8:30 a.m. Transportation from Hotel Santa Fe to SFI via hotel shuttle
8:30 - 9:00 Continental breakfast
9:00 – 9:50 HAO Bailin—Complexity of DNA and Protein Sequences: Observation of Real Data

Juan Pablo Paz - The Emergence of Classicality and the Quest for the Quantum Computer

9:50 -10:30 Gabriela Barrantes—Automated Methods for Creating Diversity in Computer Systems Claudia Codeco—Mathematical Modeling of Tropical Diseases
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:30

Trends on the Periphery of Science, Geoffrey West, SFI President

11:30 -12:00 Faculty and Fellow Round Table Discussion
12:00 p.m Adjourn meeting and lunch with SFI community
1:00 onward Time for informal break-out sessions or discussions