The Santa Fe Institute's Short Course on Complexity: Exploring Complexity in Science and Technology - Networks

"Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. the great unexplored frontier is complexity."

Heinz Pagels, The Dreams of Reason

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September 4-6, 2013 

Topical Theme: Networks 

Austin, Texas

Hilton Garden Inn Austin Downtown

This two-and-a-half day 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 for professionals, faculty, students and others who are curious to explore and apply this new transdisciplinary scientific approach. This course has no prerequisites and requires no specific math or science background. 

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 agent-based 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.

Additional information about the course, a detailed schedule, and logistics can be found on our wiki.

Program Coordinator

Melanie Mitchell, Professor, Computer Science, Portland State University; External Professor, Santa Fe Institute; author of Complexity: A Guided Tour, winner of Phi Beta Kappa Society's 2010 Book Award in Science.

Speakers

Aaron Clauset, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder; External Faculty, Santa Fe Institute

Jennifer Dunne, Chair of Faculty, Santa Fe Institute; Co-Director, Pacific Ec informatics and Computational Ecology Lab

Paul Hines, Assistant Professor, School of Engineering, University of Vermont

Bernardo Huberman, Senior HP Fellow and Director of HP Social Computing Lab

Lauren Ancel Meyers, Professor and Director, Section of Integrative Biology and Division of Statistics and Scientific Computations, University of Texas at Austin; Science Board Member, External Professor, Santa Fe Institute 

Cris Moore, Resident Faculty, Santa Fe Institute 

Fees

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Program Tuition:

General: $1,200

Faculty/Postdocs: $800

Full-time Students: $500

Registration cancellations made before August 1, 2013 will be refunded 50% of the program tuition.  Beginning August 1, 2013 and after, no refunds will be made