Exploring Complexity in Science and Technology from a Santa Fe Institute Perspective - Agenda 2012
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September 14-16, 2012
Stanford University
Stanford, California
This two-and-a-half fay course is an intensive tour of the sciences of complexity, a broad set of effort that seek to explain how large-scale complex, organized, and adaptive behavior can emerge from simple interactions among myriad individuals. This course, sponsored by the Santa Fe Institute, is specifically designed fro professionals, faculty, students and others who are curious to explore and apply this new transdisciplinary scientific approach.
This course will be taught by a group of Santa Fe Institute faculty and associates. The program has no prerequisites and requires no specific background in mathematics or science. Participants will be guided, via lectures and hands-on demonstrations, through major topics of complex systems science, including dynamics and chaos, networks, evolution and agent0based computer modeling, as well as the application of these areas to understanding complexity in biological, economic, social and technological systems. The course is aimed at participants who are interested in these topics but do not necessarily have any technical background. Examples of people who will particularly benefit from this course are managers and policy-makers in business, government, and non-profit organizations; industrial research and development staff; medical, social work, and education professionals; journalists; and university faculty and students in any area of science or social science
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| Friday, September 14, 2012 | |
| 8:30-8:45am | Welcome and Introduction to the Santa Fe Institute – Professor Melanie Mitchell, Portland State University and SFI |
| 8:45-10:00am | Complexity, Dynamics, and Chaos – Melanie Mitchell |
| 10:00-10:30am | Break |
| 10:30-12:00pm | Biologically Inspired Computing – Professor Stephanie Forrest, University of New Mexico and SFI |
| 12:00-1:00pm | Lunch served |
| 1:00-2:30pm | Biologically Inspired Computing (continued) – Stephanie Forrest |
| 2:30-3:00pm | Break |
| 3:00-4:30pm | Special Topics Lecture: Self-Organization in Ant Societies – Professor Deborah Gordon, Stanford |
| 4:30-5:00pm | Informal discussion/questions |
| 5:00-6:30pm | Reception in the Red Room at the Stanford Faculty Club |
| 6:30-8:00pm | Dinner in the Gold Room at the Stanford Faculty Club |
| Saturday, September 15, 2012 | |
| 8:30-10:00 am | Dynamics of Information and Computation – Melanie Mitchell |
| 10:00-10:30am | Break |
| 10:30-12:00pm | The Science of Networks – Professor Aaron Clauset, University of Colorado and SFI |
| 12:00-1:00pm | Lunch served |
| 1:00-2:30pm | The Science of Networks (continued) – Aaron Clauset |
| 2:30-3:00pm | Break |
| 3:00-4:30pm | Keynote Lecture: Information as a Commodity – Professor Kenneth Arrow, Stanford University and SFI |
| 4:30-5:00pm | Informal discussion/questions |
| Sunday September 16, 2012 | |
| 8:30-10:00am | Agent-Based Modeling – Melanie Mitchell |
| 10:00-10:30am | Break |
| 10:30-12:00pm | Special Topics Lecture: Cities as Complex Adaptive Systems – Professor Luis Bettencourt, SFI |
| 12:00-1:00pm | Lunch served; General discussion on Complexity (all participants and faculty) |
| 1:00pm | Adjourn |