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2003 Complex Systems Summer School

June 8 to July 5, 2003
Santa Fe, New Mexico USA

Program Schedule

Please Note: All events will be held at St. John's College, Santa Fe, New Mexico unless otherwise noted.
Week One (June 8 - 13)
spacer picture Sunday, June 8
spacer picture 12:00 - 8:00 Arrival
spacer picture 6:00 p.m. Opening Reception/Dinner
spacer picture Monday, June 9
spacer picture 9:00 - 9:30 Overview of school
Jonathan Shapiro
spacer picture 9:30 - 10:00 Introduction to experimental lab
Ray Goldstein
spacer picture 10:00 - 10:30 Introduction to computer lab
Brent Jones
spacer picture 10:30-10:45 Break
spacer picture 10:45 - 11:00 Welcome Address
Robert Eisenstein, President, Santa Fe Institute
spacer picture 11:00 - 12:15 Introduction to Complexity/SFI
J. Doyne Farmer
spacer picture 12:15 - 1:45 Lunch
spacer picture 1:45 - 2:30 Introduction and Guide to Santa Fe
Sarah Hayes
spacer picture Tuesday, June 10
spacer picture 9:00 - 10:30 Nonlinear Dynamics
Tom Peacock
spacer picture 10:30 - 10:45 Break
spacer picture 10:45 - 12:15 Laboratory Tours
spacer picture 12:15 - 1:45 Lunch
spacer picture 1:45 - 3:15 Laboratory Tours
spacer picture 3:15 - 3:30 Break
spacer picture 3:30 - 5:00 Laboratory Tours
spacer picture 7:30 Guest Lecture: Molecular Autonomous Agents
Stuart Kauffman
spacer picture Wednesday, June 11
spacer picture 9:00 - 10:30 Nonlinear Dynamics
Tom Peacock
spacer picture 10:30 - 10:45 Break
spacer picture 10:45 - 12:15 Information Theory
Tom Carter
spacer picture 12:15 - 1:45 Lunch
spacer picture 1:45 - 3:15 Elements of Statistical Mechanics
Jonathan Shapiro
spacer picture 3:15 - 3:30 Break
spacer picture 3:30 - 5:00 Organization of Working Groups
spacer picture Thursday, June 12
spacer picture 9:00 - 10:30 Nonlinear Dynamics
Tom Peacock
spacer picture 10:30 - 10:45 Break
spacer picture 10:45 - 12:15 Information Theory
Tom Carter
spacer picture 12:15 - 1:45 Lunch
spacer picture 1:45 - 3:15 Computational Mechanics
Jim Crutchfield
spacer picture 3:15 - 3:30 Break
spacer picture 3:30 - 5:00 Meetings of working groups
spacer picture Friday, June 13
spacer picture 9:00 - 10:30 Nonlinear Dynamics
Tom Peacock
spacer picture 10:30 - 10:45 Break
spacer picture 10:45 - 12:15 Computational Mechanics
Jim Crutchfield
spacer picture 12:15 - 1:45 Lunch
spacer picture 1:45 - 3:15 Pattern Formation
Ray Goldstein and Andrew Belmonte
spacer picture 3:15 - 3:30 Break
spacer picture 3:30 - 5:00 Working Groups
spacer picture 6:00 Reception and Dinner, Santa Fe Institute
Week Two (June 16 - 20)
spacer picture Monday, June 16
spacer picture 9:00 - 10:30 RNA Structure and Molecular Evolution
Paul Higgs
spacer picture 10:30 - 10:45 Break
spacer picture 10:45 - 12:15 Pattern Formation
Ray Goldstein and Andrew Belmonte
spacer picture 12:15 - 1:45 Lunch
spacer picture 1:45 - 3:15 Pattern Formation
Ray Goldstein and Andrew Belmonte
spacer picture 3:15 - 3:30 Break
spacer picture 3:30 - 5:30 Laboratory Exercise: Group 1
spacer picture 8:00 Movie Night, Great Hall, St. John's College
spacer picture Tuesday, June 17
spacer picture 9:00 - 10:30 RNA Structure and Molecular Evolution
Paul Higgs
spacer picture 10:30 - 10:45 Break
spacer picture 10:45 - 12:15 Reinforcement Learning and Time Perception
Jonathan Shapiro
spacer picture 12:15 - 1:45 Lunch
spacer picture 1:45 - 3:15 Agent-based Modelling
Mike North
spacer picture 3:15 - 3:30 Break
spacer picture 3:30 - 5:30 Laboratory Exercise: Group 2
spacer picture Wednesday, June 18
spacer picture 9:00 - 10:30 RNA Structure and Molecular Evolution
Paul Higgs
spacer picture 10:30 - 10:45 Break
spacer picture 10:45 - 12:15 Adaptive Computation
Melanie Mitchell
spacer picture 12:15 - 1:45 Lunch
spacer picture 1:45 - 3:15 Agent-based Modelling
Mike North
spacer picture 3:15 - 3:30 Break
spacer picture 3:30 - 5:30 Laboratory Exercise: Group 3
spacer picture 7:30 Public Lecture: Spacesuit: 21 Stories and Statements on Technology and Design
Nicholas de Monchaux, Architecture, University of Virginia, James A. Little Theater, NM School for the Deaf
spacer picture Thursday, June 19
spacer picture 09:00-10:30 RNA Structure and Molecular Evolution
Paul Higgs
spacer picture 10:30 - 10:45 Break
spacer picture 10:45 - 12:15 Adaptive Computation
Melanie Mitchell
spacer picture 12:15 - 1:45 Lunch
spacer picture 1:45 - 3:15 Agent-based Modelling
Mike North
spacer picture 3:15 - 3:30 Break
spacer picture 3:30 - 5:30 Laboratory Exercise: Group 4
spacer picture 4:00 SFI Colloquium: The Science of Optics, The History of Art
Charles Falco, Physics, U of Arizona. Santa Fe Institute
spacer picture Friday, June 20
spacer picture 09:00 - 10:30 Agent-based Modelling
Mike North
spacer picture 10:30 - 10:45 Break
spacer picture 11:00 Student Tutorials
Week Three (June 23 - 27)
spacer picture Monday, June 23
spacer picture 9:00 - 10:30 Games, Evolution, and Institutions
H. Peyton Young
spacer picture 10:30 - 10:45 Break
spacer picture 10:45 - 12:15 Neuro-economics
Kevin McCabe
spacer picture 12:15 - 1:45 Lunch
spacer picture Afternoon Laboratory work and project work
spacer picture Tuesday, June 24
spacer picture 9:00 - 10:30 Games, Evolution, and Institutions
H. Peyton Young
spacer picture 10:30 - 10:45 Break
spacer picture 10:45 - 12:15 Neuro-economics
Kevin McCabe
spacer picture 12:15 - 1:45 Lunch
spacer picture Afternoon Laboratory work and project work
spacer picture Wednesday, June 25
spacer picture 9:00 - 10:30 Games, Evolution, and Institutions
H. Peyton Young
spacer picture 10:30 - 10:45 Break
spacer picture 10:45 - 12:15 Neuro-economics
Kevin McCabe
spacer picture 12:15 - 1:45 Lunch
spacer picture 2:00 - 3:15 Guest Lecture: Adaptation to the Edge of Chaos
Alfred Hubler
spacer picture Afternoon Laboratory work and project work
spacer picture Thursday, June 26
spacer picture 9:00 - 10:30 Games, Evolution, and Institutions
H. Peyton Young
spacer picture 10:30 - 10:45 Break
spacer picture 10:45 - 12:15 Neuro-economics
Kevin McCabe
spacer picture 12:15 - 1:45 Lunch
spacer picture Afternoon Laboratory work and project work
spacer picture 3:15 SFI Colloquium, Title TBA
V. S. Ramachandran, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, UCSD. Santa Fe Institute.
spacer picture Friday, June 27 - Open
Week Four (June 30 - July 5)
spacer picture Monday, June 30
spacer picture 9:00 - 10:30 Emergent Engineering
Neil Gershenfeld
spacer picture 10:30 - 10:45 Break
spacer picture 10:45 - 12:15 Emergent Engineering
Neil Gershenfeld
spacer picture 12:15 - 1:45 Lunch
spacer picture Afternoon Project work
spacer picture Tuesday, July 1
spacer picture 9:00 - 10:30 Emergent Engineering
Neil Gershenfeld
spacer picture 10:30 - 10:45 Break
spacer picture 10:45 - 12:15 Emergent Engineering
Neil Gershenfeld
spacer picture 12:15 - 1:45 Lunch
spacer picture Afternoon Project work
spacer picture Wednesday, July 2
spacer picture   Work on Projects
spacer picture Thursday, July 3
spacer picture   Project presentations
spacer picture Friday, July 4: Holiday
spacer picture Saturday, July 5
spacer picture   Project Presentations
spacer picture Evening Final Banquet
spacer picture Sunday, July 6
spacer picture   Depart
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