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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