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October 2013

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Working Group/Workshop - Current and Upcoming Events - Oct. 1, 2013

* SFI community lectures are free, open, & accessible to the public.
* Seminars & colloquia are geared for scientists but free & open to the interested public.
* All other SFI events are by invitation only.
* Note: We are unable to accommodate members of the public for SFI's limited lunch service; you're welcome to bring your own.

Sept. 16, 2013

From Co-Infection to Cultural Dissonance: New Challenges for Biological and Cultural Evolution

Sept. 16, 2013 - Oct. 14, 2013

Working Group

Purpose: Research Collaboration

SFI Host: Ben Althouse, Laurent Hébert-Dufrense, and Simon DeDeo

Oct. 8, 2013

Information Theory of Sensorimotor Loops

Collins Conference Room

Oct. 8, 2013 - Oct. 11, 2013

Working Group

SFI Host: Nihat Ay and Friedrich T. Sommer

Oct. 14, 2013

9 a.m.

Similarity and Divergence in post-Neolithic Europe: Mediterranean and Carpathian Comparisons

Collins Conference Room

Oct. 14, 2013 - Oct. 16, 2013

Working Group

Purpose: Research Collaboration

SFI Host: Eric Rupley and Jerry Sabloff

Oct. 22, 2013

Theory and Knowledge Systems for Sustainability Science

Noyce Conference Room

Oct. 22, 2013 - Oct. 24, 2013

Workshop

SFI Host: Nina Federoff, Luis Bettencourt, and Molly Jahn

Jan. 7, 2014

9 a.m.

Conceptual Innovation and Major Transitions in Human Societies

Collins Conference Room

Jan. 7, 2014 - Jan. 9, 2014

Working Group

SFI Host: Scott Ortman and Eric Rupley and Jerry Sabloff (all SFI)

Jan. 13, 2014

9 a.m.

Coevolution of Behaviors and Institutions

Jan. 13, 2014 - Jan. 15, 2014

Working Group

SFI Host: Sam Bowles, Peyton Young, Larry Blume, Herb Gintis, and Rob Boyd

May 5, 2014

9 a.m.

Perspectives on Cultural Evolution

Collins Conference Room

May 5, 2014 - May 9, 2014

Working Group

SFI Host: Daniel Dennett

May 8, 2014

9 a.m.

Statistical Mechanics Foundations of Complexity — Where Do We Stand?

Noyce Conference Room

May 8, 2014 - May 10, 2014

Workshop

SFI Host: Stefan Thurner, Constantino Tsallis and Murray Gell-Mann

May 13, 2014

9 a.m.

Settlement Scaling in the Ancient World

Collins Conference Room

May 13, 2014 - May 17, 2014

Working Group

Purpose: Research Collaboration

SFI Host: Luis Bettencourt, Scott Ortman, Jose Lobo, and Michael Smith

July 28, 2014

9 a.m.

Collective Cognition Working Group — Quantifying Distributed Inference

July 28, 2014 - July 30, 2014

Workshop

SFI Host: Jessica Flack, Bryan Daniels, Chris Ellison, and Philip Poon

Events News

SFI lecture November 6: The geniuses who invented the digital universe Oct. 1, 2013 -

In an SFI Community Lecture on Wednesday evening, November 6, in Santa Fe, historian George Dyson tells the story of ...

Video: Is the human conscience led by the head or the heart? Sept. 23, 2013 -

In an SFI Community Lecture in Santa Fe, Steven Pinker and Rebecca Newberger Goldstein asked whether human moral progress is ...

Science symphony November 2: The Majesty of Music and Mathematics Sept. 23, 2013 -

On Saturday, November 2, the Santa Fe Institute and the Santa Fe Symphony present a unique immersion in sound and ...

Video: SFI's Stephanie Forrest on complexity and the biology of computation Sept. 19, 2013 -

In a series of three lectures September 10-12 in Santa Fe, SFI’s Stephanie Forrest revealed surprising commonalities between computers ...

Hundreds of girls to expand their scientific horizons Oct. 5 in Santa Fe Sept. 19, 2013 -

Hundreds of 5th-8th grade girls will spend Saturday, October 5, with New Mexico women who have chosen careers in science ...