2014 Complexity and Modeling Program Schedule
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| 2014 Complexity and Modeling Program Navigation
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| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| Sunday, July 13 | |
| All events at Groton School | |
| 12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. | All students flying much arrive to Logan International Airport between 12:00p.m.-4:00p.m. |
| 6:00 p.m. | Welcome Dinner at Groton School |
| 7:30 p.m. | Discussion of goals and rules |
| Monday, July 14 | |
| 8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. | Breakfast |
| 9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. | Introduction to Complex Systems - Nick Bennett |
| 9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. | Quantitative Ecology: Ecological Feedback Loops, Exploring Patterns, Understanding System Dynamics - David Black |
| 10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. | NetLogo Modeling - JP Gonzales, Outdoor Complexity Games |
| 11:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. | Langton's Ants Model - Nick Bennett |
| 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. | SFI History and Education Programs - Juniper Lovato |
| 1:45 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. | Algorithms in NetLogo, Evolutionary Adaptation |
| 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. | Debunking peppered Moth |
| 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. | Swimming or field games |
| 5:45 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. | Dinner |
| 7:15 p.m. - 8:15 p.m. | Evening Session - NetLogo Activities |
| 8:15 - 10:30 p.m. | Games, work time, or movies |
| 10:30 p.m. | Lights out |
| Tuesday, July 15 | |
| 8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. | Breakfast |
| 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. | Chaos Game |
| 10:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. | Field Session 1 - Pollinators and Predators in an Old Field (60 Minutes) - Laboratory Session 1 Identifying the specimens and creating the database, Presentation: Using Data to Develop a Model (40 Minutes) |
| 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. | Game Theory: Attenborough Video: Fighting (20 mins), Animal Behavior and Evolutionary Stable Strategies (15 mins, and Prisoners' Dilemma (25mins) |
| 2:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. | Net Logo - Rock-Paper-Scissors and Others |
| 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. | Swimming or field games |
| 5:45 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. | Dinner |
| 7:15 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. | Evening Session - Game Theory: Wargames |
| 9:00 - 10:30 p.m. | Games, work time, or movies |
| 10:30 p.m. | Lights out |
| Wednesday, July 16 (Laundry Day) | |
| 8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. | Breakfast |
| 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Topics in Complexity: Field Work 2 - Application of fluorescent powders (weather dependent), Pollination Biology (networks, specialists and evolutionary risk), Clips from Attenborough's Life of Plants, and Modeling Complexity |
| 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. | Lorenz Water Wheel |
| 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. | Swimming or field games |
| 5:45 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. | Dinner |
| 7:15 p.m. - 8:15 p.m. | Evening Session - Optimal Foraging Strategies (video, presentation and model development) |
| 8:15 - 10:30 p.m. | Games, work time, or movies |
| 10:30 p.m. | Lights out |
| Thursday, Jule 17 | |
| 8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. | Breakfast |
| 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. | Field Day 3 - Mapping the pollinator networks (45mins), return to lab and build model (generalist and specialist plants and animals) |
| 10:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Modeling with Netlogo |
| 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. | Modeling Evolution with NetLogo: genetic drift and mutation |
| 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. | Swimming or field games |
| 5:45 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. | Dinner |
| 7:15 p.m. - 8:15 p.m. | Evening Session - Work on Hill Climb Challenge |
| 8:15 - 10:30 p.m. | Games, work time, or movies |
| 10:30 p.m. | Lights out |
| Friday, July 18 (Laundry Day) | |
| 8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. | Breakfast |
| 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. | Theory of Cooperation in Biology (and Economics): Naked Mole Rats and Army Ants, Experimental Economics Game |
| 10:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Modeling Evolution with NetLogo: evolution of cooperation |
| 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. | The Ecology of Habitat Selection: Turtle Trapping (75mins), Return to Lab: Population Estimation and Habitat Preference (15mins), Modeling Habitat Selection with NetLogo |
| 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. | Swimming or field games |
| 5:45 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. | Dinner |
| 7:15 p.m. - 8:15 p.m. | Evening Session - Work on Hill Climb Challenge |
| 8:15 - 10:30 p.m. | Games, work time, or movies |
| 10:30 p.m. | Lights out |
| Saturday, July 19 | |
| All Day | Sleep in and a relaxed brunch at 10 a.m. then Fun day at Groton School or hiking |
| Sunday, July 20 | |
| Morning: Sleep in and a relaxed brunch | Afternoon: Time to work on Hill Climb Challenge |
| 4:30p.m. | Hill Climb Challenge |
| Evening | Biology in invasion - Burmese pythons, Modeling Population growth in Excel and NetLogo: limiting factors and density dependent growth |
| Monday, July 21 | |
| 8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. | Breakfast |
| 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. | Outside - Check Pitfalls - patterns of vertebrate distribution, Classroom - using GIS in conservation biology: blue spotted salamander hybrids, Classroom - Using GIS in NetLogo modeling |
| 11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Go Over project initial presentations |
| 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. | CAMPers prepare project materials for presentation, Project presentations followed by project work time |
| 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. | Swimming or field games |
| 5:45 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. | Dinner |
| 7:15 p.m. - 8:15 p.m. | Work on Projects |
| 10:30 p.m. | Lights out |
| Tuesday, July 22 | |
| 8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. | Breakfast |
| 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Work on Projects |
| 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. | Collaborative Work on Projects - troubleshooting and problem solving |
| 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. | Swimming or field games |
| 5:45 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. | Dinner |
| 7:15 p.m. - 8:15 p.m. | Work on Projects |
| 10:30 p.m. | Lights out |
| Wednesday, July 23 (Laundry Day) | |
| 8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. | Breakfast |
| 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Work on Projects |
| 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. | Work on Projects |
| 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. | Swimming or field games |
| 5:45 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. | Dinner |
| 7:15 p.m. - 8:15 p.m. | Work on Projects |
| 10:30 p.m. | Lights out |
| Thursday, July 24 | |
| 8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. | Breakfast |
| 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Final Project Presentations |
| 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. | Final Project Presentations |
| 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. | Swimming or field games |
| 5:45 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. | Dinner |
| 7:15 p.m. - 8:15 p.m. | Complete Project Presentations - Farewells |
| 8:15 - 10:30 p.m. | Games, work time, or movies |
| 10:30 p.m. | Lights out |
| Friday, July 25 | |
| 8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. | Breakfast |
| 8:30 a.m. | Shuttle leaves to Logan International Airport |
| 10:00 a.m. | Shuttle arrives to Logan International Airport |

