2000 Complex Systems Summer School

June 4 to June 30, 2000
Santa Fe, New Mexico USA

Program Schedule

Please Note: All events take place in the Forum at the College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, unless otherwise noted. 

Review Weekend (June 2-4)
Friday, June 2
12:00 - 6:00 p.m.  Registration - St. Michaels Hall 
Saturday, June 3
12:00 - 2:15 p.m.  Basic Calculus, Differential Equations
Sean Elicker
2:30-4:45 p.m.  Linear Algebra
Tom Carter
Sunday, June 4
10:00 - 12:15 p.m.  Basic Probability and Statistics
Cosma Shalizi
12:15-1:30 p.m.  Lunch 
1:30-2:30 p.m.  Stochastic Processes
Cosma Shalizi
2:45-5:00 p.m.  Complex Numbers, Linear Systems Theory, and Fourier Transforms
Lance Williams
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.  Registration - St. Michaels Hall 
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.  Opening Reception (St. Michaels Hall)
Summer school officially begins.
Week One (June 5 - 9)
Monday, June 5
8:15 - 9:00 a.m.  Welcome and Introduction:
Lynn Nadel with Ray Goldstein and Melanie Mitchell
9:00 - 9:45 a.m.  Introduction to computer resources, experimental laboratory 
9:45 - 10:00 a.m.  Break 
10:00 a.m. - Noon  Experimental Demos
Robert Ecke and Ray Goldstein
1:30 - 3:30 p.m.  Experimental Demos (cont.)
Robert Ecke and Ray Goldstein
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.  First meeting of student working groups (with mentors), discussion of plans for student projects, assignment for student proposals due on Monday, June 12. 
Tuesday, June 6
8:30 - 9:45 a.m.  Introduction to Nonlinear Dynamics
Elizabeth Bradley
9:45 - 10:00 a.m.  Break 
10:00 - 11:15 a.m.  Dynamics and Pattern Formation
David Campbell
11:15 - 11:30 a.m.  Break 
11:30 a.m. - Noon  Optional Math Help Session 
1:30 - 2:45 p.m.  Statistical Mechanics and Stochastic Processes
Ronnie Mainieri
2:45 - 3:00 p.m.  Break 
3:00 - 4:15 p.m.  An Introduction to Santa Fe
Andi Sutherland, Director, Visitor Programs, Santa Fe Institute
4:15 - 4:30 p.m.  Break 
4:30 - 5:45 p.m.  Information Theory and Theory of Computation
Tom Carter
Wednesday, June 7
8:30 - 9:45 a.m.  Introduction to Nonlinear Dynamics
Elizabeth Bradley
9:45 - 10:00 a.m.  Break 
10:00 - 11:15 a.m.  Dynamics and Pattern Formation
David Campbell
11:15 - 11:30 a.m.  Break 
11:30 a.m. - Noon  Optional Math Help Session 
1:30 - 2:45 p.m.  Statistical Mechanics and Stochastic Processes
Ronnie Mainieri
2:45 - 3:00 p.m.  Break 
3:00 - 4:15 p.m.  Adaptive Computation (1 of 3)
Melanie Mitchell
4:15 - 4:30 p.m.  Break 
4:30 - 5:45 p.m.  Information Theory and Theory of Computation
Tom Carter
Thursday, June 8
8:30 - 9:45 a.m.  Introduction to Nonlinear Dynamics
Elizabeth Bradley
9:45 - 10:00 a.m.  Break 
10:00 - 11:15 a.m.  Dynamics and Pattern Formation
David Campbell
11:15 - 11:30 a.m.  Break 
11:30 a.m. - Noon  Optional Math Help Session 
1:30 - 2:45 p.m.  Statistical Mechanics and Stochastic Processes
Ronnie Mainieri
2:45 - 3:00 p.m.  Break 
3:00 - 4:15 p.m.  Adaptive Computation (2 of 3)
Melanie Mitchell
4:15 - 4:30 p.m.  Break 
4:30 - 5:45 p.m.  Information Theory and Theory of Computation
Tom Carter
Friday, June 9
8:30 - 9:45 a.m.  Introduction to Nonlinear Dynamics
Elizabeth Bradley
9:45 - 10:00 a.m.  Break 
10:00 - 11:15 a.m.  Dynamics and Pattern Formation
David Campbell
11:15 - 11:30 a.m.  Break 
11:30 a.m. - Noon  Optional Math Help Session 
1:30 - 2:45 p.m.  Statistical Mechanics and Stochastic Processes
Ronnie Mainieri
2:45 - 3:00 p.m.  Break 
3:00 - 4:15 p.m.  Adaptive Computation (3 of 3)
Melanie Mitchell
4:15 - 4:30 p.m.  Break 
4:30 - 5:45 p.m.  Information Theory and Theory of Computation
Tom Carter
6:00 p.m.  Reception for summer school students at SFI, 1399 Hyde Park Road. 
Sunday, June 11
10:00 a.m. - Noon  Swarm Tutorial
Marcus G. Daniels, Alex Lancaster, and Benedikt Stefansson
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.  Swarm Tutorial Cont. 
Week Two (June 12 - 16)
Monday, June 12
9:00 a.m. - Noon  Economics and Complexity
Doyne Farmer/John Geanakoplos
1:00 - 4:00 p.m.  Working group meetings (approximately 2 per week);
Individual work on projects 
Tuesday, June 13
9:00 a.m. - Noon  Economics and Complexity
Doyne Farmer/John Geanakoplos
1:00 - 4:00 p.m.  Working group meetings (approximately 2 per week);
Individual work on projects 
7:00 p.m.  Guest Lecture
by Murray Gell-Mann
Wednesday, June 14
9:00 a.m. - Noon  Economics and Complexity
Doyne Farmer/John Geanakoplos
1:00 - 4:00 p.m.  Working group meetings (approximately 2 per week);
Individual work on projects 
7:30 p.m.  SFI Public Lecture
Evolutionary Innovations: How Ecology and Development Combine to Change the World
by Doug Erwin, James A. Little Theater at the New Mexico School for the Deaf
Thursday, June 15
9:00 a.m. - Noon  Economics and Complexity
Doyne Farmer/John Geanakoplos
1:00 - 4:00 p.m.  Working group meetings (approximately 2 per week);
Individual work on projects 
Friday, June 16
9:00 a.m. - Noon  Panel Discussion 
1:00 - 4:00 p.m.  Working group meetings (approximately 2 per week);
Individual work on projects 
Week Three (June 19 - 23)
Monday, June 19
9:00 a.m. - Noon  Scaling Laws in Biology
Geoffrey West/Tom Powers
1:00 - 4:00 p.m.  Working group meetings (approximately 2 per week);
Individual work on projects 
Tuesday, June 20
9:00 a.m. - Noon  Scaling Laws in Biology
Geoffrey West/Tom Powers
1:00 - 4:00 p.m.  Working group meetings (approximately 2 per week);
Individual work on projects 
7:00 p.m.  Guest Lecture
by Stephanie Forrest
Wednesday, June 21
9:00 a.m. - Noon  Scaling Laws in Biology
Geoffrey West/Tom Powers
1:00 - 4:00 p.m.  Working group meetings (approximately 2 per week);
Individual work on projects 
7:00 p.m.  Guest Lecture
by Stuart Kauffman
Thursday, June 22
9:00 a.m. - Noon  Scaling Laws in Biology
Geoffrey West/Tom Powers
1:00 - 4:00 p.m.  Working group meetings (approximately 2 per week);
Individual work on projects 
Friday, June 23
9:00 a.m. - Noon  Panel Discussion 
1:00 - 4:00 p.m.  Working group meetings (approximately 2 per week);
Individual work on projects 
Week Four (June 26 - 30)
Monday, June 26
  Individual work on projects 
Tuesday, June 27
  Individual work on projects 
Wednesday, June 28
  Working group meetings (approximately 2 per week);
Individual work on projects 
Thursday, June 29
9:00 - 9:15 a.m.  Social networks
Dennis Chao and Astrid Hopfensitz
9:15 - 9:30 a.m.  Dynamics of Paper Citations
Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, Wolfgang Wresch
9:30 - 9:45 a.m.  An Evolutionary Model of Unemployment Persistence
Antonio Falato
9:45 - 10:00 a.m.  An Artificial Stock-Market Model with Traders' Interactions
Norman Ehrentreich, Yuri Mansury, Srikanth Vadali
10:00 - 10:15 a.m.  Break 
10:15 - 10:30 a.m.  Modeling Task Switching Behavior
Sy Miin Chow
10:30 - 10:45 a.m.  Extending the Axelrod Cutural Diffusion Model
Doowan Lee, June Glass, Sampsa Samila
10:45 - 11:00 a.m.  Cooperative Stability in Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma -- The Effects of Topology
Joe Renes
11:00 - 11:15 a.m.  Pattern Dynamics in a 2D Reaction-Diffusion System
Robert Ghanea-Hercock
11:15 - 11:30 a.m.  Break 
11:30 - 11:45 a.m.  Capturing the Dynamics of Expressive Movement
Melissa Gross
11:45 - 12:00 p.m.  Neuronal Dynamics in Perirhinal Cortex
Mark C. Fuhs and Rafal Bogacz
12:00 - 12:15 p.m.  Neuronal activity and BOLD signal
Arun Bokde, Ileana Hancu, Joseph Holmgren
12:15 - 1:00 p.m.  Lunch
(provided at the forum)
1:00 - 1:15 p.m.  Towards a Proposed Dynamic Model of Mother-Infant Face-to-Face Play
Joshua Loewenstein
1:15 - 1:30 p.m.  A Neural Model for Chaotic Dynamics in Human Decision Tasks
Eric Brown and Alice Kelly
1:30 - 1:45 p.m.  Chain Whisper Dynamics in Homogenous and Heterogeneous Populations: A Swarm Model of Information Dissemination Patterns
Alice Kelly, Chris Ford, Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, and Sean McClennan
1:45 - 2:00 p.m.  Emotion in Goal Driven Behavior
Ase Innes-Ker
2:00 - 2:15 p.m.  Break
2:15 - 2:30 p.m.  Can the Notion of Information in an Information-Based Theory of Perception be Formalized?
Megan M. Cooper
2:30 - 2:45 p.m.  A Neural Network for Learning to Use "Integral" Versus "Non-Integral" Verbs in Spanish Sentences
Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Jan Copal, Tim Nokes
2:45 - 3:00 p.m.  Modeling Social Learning in Rats
Renato T. Ramos
3:00 - 3:15 p.m.  Neural Networks as Multiagent Systems
Sean McLennan, Damon Centola
3:15 - 3:30 p.m.  Break
3:30 - 3:45 p.m.  Evolving Ecosystem Networks
Chris Wilmers, Markus Brede, Sitabhra Sinha
3:45 - 4:00 p.m.  A Survey of Complex Natural Structures in Northern New Mexico
Denis Roze, Lowan Stewart, Brendon Larson
4:00 - 4:15 p.m.  Effects of Ecological Dynamics on the Evolution of Evolvability
Anastasoff, Steven Bao, Tan Nelson, Jennifer Nelson
4:15 - 4:30 p.m.  Modeling Deforestation Processes in the Amazon: Linking Empirical, Analytical, and Computational Methods
Luis Solorzano, Michael Westphal, Eric Brown, Alice Yuen
Friday, June 30
9:00 - 9:15 a.m.  Simulation of Praire Dog Behavior
Li Min Zheng
9:15 - 9:30 a.m.  Reverse Engineering of a Regulatory Network from Gene Expression Data
Rembrandt Bakker, Philip Page, Karen Schlauch, Aryaman Shalizi, Berend Snel
9:30 - 9:45 a.m.  Temporal Fractal Structure Originated from Spatial Fractal Structure.
---Evolution and evaluation via Adaptive Computation---
Masaki Hoshiyama
9:45 - 10:00a.m.  Three Part Survey: 
  • Java language level 
  • Java tools level 
  • Complexity issues in computing/networking 
Owen Densmore
10:00 - 10:15 a.m.  Break 
10:15 - 10:30 a.m.  Evolving Hierarchical Structure in Cellular Automata
Alex Penn, Caroline Colijn
10:30 - 10:45 a.m.  Coevolution in Genetic Algorithms
Jim Marshall
10:45 - 11:00 a.m.  Source Rate Regulation in Networks: Analytical and Simulation Studies
Andre Costa, Gaurav Raina
11:00-11:15 a.m.  An abstract model of speciation through specialisation
Sune Dano, Sevan Ficici and Sandeep Krishna
11:15 - 11:30 a.m.  Break 
11:30 - 11:45 a.m.  A Minimalistic Nonlinear Model of Glacial/Interglacial Periodicity
Cheryl Klipp
11:45 - 12:00 p.m.  A Non-Linear Timeseries Analysis of Greenland Ice Core Data: Is the Climate a Low-Dimensional Dynamical System?
Karen Lewis
12:00 - 12:15 p.m.  The Effects of Jurispathic and Jurisgenerative Decision Making on the Fitness of Heterogeneous Agents Living on a Heterogeneous Landscape
Matt Koehler
12:15 - 12:30 p.m.  Simulations of Strategic Voting 
Emily Clough
12:30 - 12:45 p.m.  Simple Spatial Models of Speciation
Alexei Drummond and Sampsa Samila 
1:00 p.m.  Final Barbecue