2005 Complex Systems Summer School
June 5 to July 1, 2005
Santa Fe, NM
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Tentative Program Schedule
Week One | Week Two | Week Three | Week Four |
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Week One (June 4 - 10) |
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Saturday, June 4 | |
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6:00 pm - 8:00 pm |
Reception and buffet dinner at St. John\'s College |
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Sunday, June 5 | |
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9:00 am - 10:00 am |
Orientation, introduction to the CSSS Melanie Mitchell |
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10:00 am - 10:30 am |
Welcome Geoffrey West, President of the Santa Fe Institute |
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10:30 am - 12:00 noon | Brunch |
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12:00 noon - 1:15 pm | Student introductions |
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1:15 pm - 1:30 pm | Break |
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1:30 pm - 2:45 pm |
Unix tutorial Graham Ritchie |
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2:45 pm - 3:00 pm | Break |
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Student scavenger hunt |
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Scavenger hunt results, assignment of homework on social networks, organization of interest groups |
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7:30pm - 8:45pm |
Calculus review Luis Izquierdo and Chad Gonzales |
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Monday, June 6 | |
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9:00 am - 9:10 am |
Welcome Mike Peters, President, St. John\'s College, Santa Fe |
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9:15 am - 10:15 am |
Introduction to nonlinear dynamics
(Syllabus) Liz Bradley |
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10:15 am - 10:30 am | Break |
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10:30 am - 10:45 am |
CSSS staff introductions, overview of computer lab |
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10:45 am - 12:00 noon |
Basic processes in biological evolution Paul Hohenlohe |
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12:00 noon - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
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1:30 pm - 2:45 pm |
Information theory Tom Carter |
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2:45 pm - 3:00 pm | Break |
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3:00 pm - 3:30 pm |
Introduction to Santa Fe Patricia Mort Padilla, Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce |
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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Interest group meetings |
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7:30 pm - 8:45 pm |
Linear algebra review Dalia Terhesiu and Jim Fuite |
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Tuesday, June 7 | |
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9:00 am - 10:15 am |
Introduction to nonlinear dynamics
(Syllabus) Liz Bradley |
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10:15 am - 10:30 am | Break |
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10:30 am - 11:45 am |
Understanding complex systems Alfred Hubler |
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11:45 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
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1:30 pm - 2:45 pm |
Information theory Tom Carter |
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2:45 pm - 3:00 pm | Break |
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3:30-5:00 | Interest group meetings |
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7:30 pm - 8:45 pm |
Differential equations review Gordon Berman |
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Wednesday, June 8 | |
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9:00 am - 10:15 am |
Introduction to nonlinear dynamics
(Syllabus) Liz Bradley |
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10:15 am - 10:30 am | Break |
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10:30 am - 11:45 am |
Understanding complex systems Alfred Hubler |
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11:45 am - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
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1:30 pm - 2:45 pm |
Information theory Tom Carter |
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2:45 pm - 3:00 pm | Break |
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3:00 pm - 4:15 pm |
Guest lecture: Self-organization and the Internet Gary Flake |
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4:30 pm - 5:30 pm |
Tutorial on graph theory Nina Lehmann |
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7:00 - 10:00 pm |
Pizza night |
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Thursday, June 9 | |
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9:00 am - 10:15 am |
Introduction to nonlinear dynamics
(Syllabus) Liz Bradley |
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10:15 am - 10:30 am | Break |
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10:30 am - 11:45 am |
Understanding complex systems Alfred Hubler |
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11:45 am - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
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1:30 pm - 2:45 pm |
Introduction to modeling Tom Carter |
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2:45 pm - 3:00 pm | Break |
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3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | SFI colloquium (at SFI): Spatial networks Mark Newman |
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7:30 pm - 8:45 pm |
Introduction to Matlab Jonas Buchli |
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Friday, June 10 | |
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9:00 am - 10:15 am |
Introduction to nonlinear dynamics
(Syllabus) Liz Bradley |
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10:15 am - 10:30 am | Break |
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10:30 am - 11:45 am |
Understanding complex systems Alfred Hubler |
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11:45 am - 1:30 pm | Lunch in Great Hall, Discussion with Week 1 lecturers |
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1:30 pm - 2:45 pm |
Agent-based modeling: Introduction to Repast Balazs Adamcsek |
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2:45 pm - 3:00 pm | Break |
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Discussion; Report on social networks homework from teams |
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5:00 pm - 8:00 pm |
Reception and BBQ at SFI, T-shirt design contest |
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Week Two (June 13 - 17) |
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Monday, June 13 | |
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9:00 am - 10:15 am |
Structure and function of networks Mark Newman |
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10:15 am - 10:30 am | Break |
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10:30 am - 11:45 am |
Agent-based modeling, analysis, and visualization Owen Densmore/Stephen Guerin |
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11:45 am - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
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1:30 pm - 2:45 pm |
Evolutionary and adaptive computation Matt Glickman |
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2:45 pm - 3:00 pm | Break |
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm |
Experimental lab (Group 1) |
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Tuesday, June 14 | |
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9:00 am - 10:15 am |
Structure and function of networks Mark Newman |
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10:15 am - 10:30 am | Break |
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10:30 am - 11:45 am |
Agent-based modeling, analysis, and visualization Owen Densmore/Stephen Guerin |
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11:45 am - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
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1:30 pm - 2:45 pm |
Evolutionary and adaptive computation Matt Glickman |
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2:45 pm - 3:00 pm | Break |
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Experimental lab (Group 2) |
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7:00 pm - ?? |
Pizza night and movie night (movie starts at 8:30 pm) |
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Wednesday, June 15 | |
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9:00 am - 10:15 am |
Structure and function of networks Mark Newman |
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10:15 am - 10:30 am | Break |
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10:30 am - 11:45 am |
Ecological complexity I: The network structure of ecosystems Neo Martinez |
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11:45 am - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
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1:30 pm - 2:45 pm |
Evolutionary and adaptive computation Matt Glickman |
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2:45 pm - 3:00 pm | Break |
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Experimental lab (Group 3) |
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Thursday, June 16 | |
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9:00 am - 10:15 am |
Structure and function of networks Mark Newman |
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10:15 am - 10:30 am | Break |
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10:30 am - 11:45 am |
Ecological complexity II: The nonlinear dynamics of
ecological networks Neo Martinez |
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11:45 am - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
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1:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Experimental lab (Group 4) |
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3:30 pm - 4:45 pm |
Discussion with Week 2 lecturers |
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7:00 pm - 8:15 pm |
Guest lecture: Alternative culture histories created through
agent-based modeling George Gumerman |
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Friday, June 17 Student tutorials: |
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9:00 am - 10:15 am |
An introduction to systems biology Ronan Fleming |
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10:15 am - 10:30 am | Break |
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10:30 am - 11:45 am |
Introduction to statistical mechanics and renormalization group
theory Duygu Balcan |
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12:00 noon - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
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1:30 pm - 2:45 pm |
Evolution of networks Katharina Lehmann |
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2:45 pm - 3:00 pm | Break |
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3:00 pm - 4:15 pm |
Symbolic versus subsymbolic modeling of cognition / Introduction to agent theories Annerieke Heuvelink |
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Week Three (June 20 - 24) |
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Monday, June 20 | |
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9:00 am - 10:15 am |
Self-organized criticality Ole Peters |
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10:15 am - 10:30 am | Break |
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10:30 am - 11:45 am |
Nonextensive statistical mechanics: Introduction, foundations
and applications Constantino Tsallis |
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11:45 am - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
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1:30 pm - 2:45 pm |
Title TBA Michelle Girvan |
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2:45 pm - 3:00 pm | Break |
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3:00 - 5:00 | Experimental lab (Group 5) |
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7:00 pm - 8:15 pm |
Guest lecture: Cancer as an evolutionary system Carlo Maley |
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Tuesday, June 21 | |
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9:00 am - 10:15 am |
Self-organized criticality Ole Peters |
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10:15 am - 10:30 am | Break |
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10:30 am - 11:45 am |
Nonextensive statistical mechanics: Introduction, foundations,
and applications Constantino Tsallis |
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11:45 am - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
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1:30 pm - 2:45 pm |
Information science through a quantum lens David Bacon |
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Afternoon | Work on projects |
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7:00 pm - 8:15 pm |
Guest lecture: Modeling cancer as a complex system Carlo Maley |
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Wednsday, June 22 | |
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9:00 am - 10:15 am |
Computation in cellular automata Melanie Mitchell |
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10:15 am - 10:30 am | Break |
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10:30 am - 11:45 am |
The expectation-maximization algoroithm for parameter
estimation Jo-Anne Ting |
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11:45 am - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
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1:30 pm - 2:45 pm |
A networks approach to studying organizational robustness Jessica Flack |
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Afternoon | Work on projects |
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7:00 - 10:00 pm |
Pizza night |
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Thursday, June 23 | |
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9:00 am - 10:15 am |
Computation in cellular automata Melanie Mitchell |
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10:15 am - 10:30 am | Break |
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10:30 am - 11:45 am |
Detection of power laws in empirical data Alexander Hellervik |
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11:45 am - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
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1:30 pm - 2:45 pm |
Understanding the universals of metabolism Eric Smith |
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2:45 pm - 3:00 pm | Break |
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3:00 pm - 4:15 pm |
Discussion with Week 3 lecturers |
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Friday, June 24 | |
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Day Off ! |
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Week Four (June 27 - July 2) |
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Monday, June 27 | |
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9:00 am - 10:15 am |
Evolution and computation I: Compression and selection David Krakauer |
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10:15 am - 10:30 am | Break |
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10:30 am - 11:45 am |
Evolution and computation II: Redundancy and robustness
David Krakauer |
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11:45 am - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
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1:30 pm - 3:00 pm |
SFI faculty panel on complex systems |
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Tuesday, June 28 | |
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9:00 am - 10:15 am |
Computation in the wild Stephanie Forrest |
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10:15 am - 10:30 am | Break |
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10:30 am - 11:45 am |
Computer immunology Stephanie Forrest |
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11:45 am - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
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Afternoon |
Work on projects |
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Wednesday, June 29 | |
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9:00 am - 10:15 am |
Power laws: Why are they important for complex systems?
(Part 1) Doyne Farmer |
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10:15 am - 10:30 am | Break |
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10:30 am - 11:45 am |
Power laws: Why are they important for complex systems?
(Part 2) Doyne Farmer |
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11:45 am - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
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Afternoon |
Work on projects |
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Thursday, June 30 | |
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All day |
Student project talks |
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Friday, July 1 | |
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9:00 am - ?? |
Student project talks |
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5:30 pm - 9:00 pm |
Final banquet, talent show at SFI |
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Saturday, July 2 | |
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Departure | |