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The Art of Simplexity Murray Gell-Mann, a Nobel Prize--winning physicist and a co-founder of SFI, and neuroscientist Chris Wood of the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) in New Mexico, "a [...]
SFI Researcher Harold Morowitz to appear on the History Channel on June 16

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June 1 to August 13, 2008
• Education Program Event—"Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)," Ginger Richardson (SFI), St John's College, Santa Fe & Santa Fe Institute.
June 2 to July 11, 2008
• Education Program Event—"Summer Internship Mentorship Program (SIM)," Irene Lee (SFI), 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, St John's College, Santa Fe & Santa Fe Institute.
June 30 to July 5, 2008
• Education Program Event—"Complex Systems Summer School 2008 - Beijing," Dr. David P. Feldman (College of the Atlantic and SFI), Dr. Chen Xiao-song (CAS), Institute of Theoretical Physics, Beijing, China.
July 7, 2008
• Seminar—"Behavior Discussion Group - The Vices and Virtues of Equilibrium, and the Future of Financial Economics," Doyne Farmer, Professor ( Santa Fe Institute ), 12:15 PM to 1:15 PM, Medium Conference Room, SFI.
July 8, 2008
• Education Program Event—"Project GUTS," Irene Lee (SFI), 9:00 AM to 12:00 AM, Medium Conference Room, SFI.
• Meeting—"Postdoctoral meeting," Austin Gerig and Nathan Eagle, 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM, Medium Conference Room, SFI.
July 9, 2008
• Seminar—"Patterns of Biomass, Resource and Species Diversity in Dryland Vegetation," Ehud Meron (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Isreal), 12:15 PM to 1:15 PM, Medium Conference Room, SFI.
July 10, 2008
• Seminar—"Behavior Discussion Group - The Social Foundations of Shared Delusions," Charles Efferson (SFI Postdoctoral Fellow), 12:15 PM to 1:15 PM, Medium Conference Room, SFI.
July 11, 2008
• Colloquium—"Computational Thinking and Thinking About Computing," Jeannette M. Wing (President's Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, and Associate Director, Computer & Information Science & Engineering, U.S. National Science Foundation), 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM, Robert N. Noyce Conference Room, SFI.
July 12, 2008
• Education Program Event—"Science Steering Committee," Doug Erwin (Smithsonian Institution & SFI), 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM, Medium Conference Room, SFI.
July 14 to July 16, 2008
• Workshop—"Principles of Repurposing," Jon Wilkins (SFI) & Jessika Trancik (SFI), 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Robert N. Noyce Conference Room, SFI.
July 14, 2008
• Business Network Meeting—"Language, Cognition and Social Change Topical Meeting," Shannon Larsen (SFI), THIS MEETING HAS BEEN POSTPONED.
July 15, 2008
• Meeting—"SFI Staff Meeting," Chris Wood (SFI), 10:00 AM to 12:00 AM, Medium Conference Room, SFI.
July 16, 2008
• Public Lecture—"Art, Optics and Human Vision," Charles Falco (Chair of Condensed Matter Physics and Professor of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona), 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM, James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf.
July 17, 2008
• Meeting—"SFI Faculty Meeting," Chris Wood (SFI), 12:15 PM to 1:15 PM, Medium Conference Room, SFI.
• Colloquium—"TBA," Lisa Randall (Harvard University), 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM, Robert N. Noyce Conference Room, SFI.
July 18 to July 21, 2008
• Working Group—"Comparative Study of Robustness, Resilience and Vulnerability among Five Prehistoric Societies in the Greter Southwest and Northern Mexico: The IHOPE Project," Sander van der Leeuw (ASU), 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Santa Fe Institute.
July 18, 2008
• Seminar—"Behavior Discussion Group -," Anna Dreber (Stockholm School of Economics), 12:15 PM to 1:15 PM, Medium Conference Room, SFI.
• Seminar—"Larry Summers and the Peacock Brain," Lucia Jacobs (University of California, Berkeley), 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM, Medium Conference Room, SFI.
July 25, 2008
• Seminar—"Behavior Discussion Group -," Willemien Kets, 12:15 PM to 1:15 PM, Medium Conference Room, SFI.
July 28 to August 1, 2008
• Working Group—"First Steps Toward Understanding Market Ecologies," Doyne Farmer (SFI), 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Medium Conference Room, SFI.
July 28, 2008
• Seminar—"Behavior Discussion Group -," Willemien Kets (Santa Fe Institute Postdoctoral Fellow), 12:15 PM to 1:15 PM, Medium Conference Room, SFI.
• Seminar—"Incentives and Pro-Social Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Blood Donations," Lorenz Goette (Boston Federal Reserve Bank), 3:30 PM to 4:30 AM, Robert N. Noyce Conference Room, SFI.
July 29, 2008
• Seminar—"Behavior Discussion Group -," Jung Kyoo Choi (Santa Fe Institute Postdoctoral Fellow), 12:15 PM to 1:15 PM, Medium Conference Room, SFI.
July 31, 2008
• Colloquium—"TBA," Herb Gintis (Emeritus Professor, University of Massachusetts; Professor, Central European University, Budapest; Visiting Professor, University of Siena), 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM, Robert N. Noyce Conference Room, SFI.
August 1, 2008
• Seminar—"Behavior Discussion Group -," Arthur Robson, 12:15 PM to 1:15 PM, Medium Conference Room, SFI.
August 4 to August 6, 2008
• Working Group—"Networks and Navigation," Aaron Clauset (SFI), Dmitri Krioukov & KC Claffy (UC San Diego - Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis), Cris Moore (SFI & UNM), 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Medium Conference Room, SFI.
August 4, 2008
• Seminar—"Behavior Discussion Group," Willemien Kets (SFI), 12:15 PM to 1:15 PM, Robert N. Noyce Conference Room, SFI.
August 7, 2008
• Business Network Meeting—"Innovation and the Pace of Change Topical Meeting," Shannon Larsen (SFI), venue TBA, Boston, MA.
August 12, 2008
• Seminar—"TBA," Georgiy Starostin (Center of Comparative Linguistics, Russian State University), 12:15 PM to 1:15 PM, Medium Conference Room, SFI.
• Meeting—"SFI Postdoctoral Meeting," Austin Gerig (SFI) and Nathan Eagle (SFI), 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM, Medium Conference Room, SFI.
August 13 to August 15, 2008
• Workshop—"Modeling Technological Innovation," Doyne Farmer (SFI) & Jessika Trancik (SFI), 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM, Robert N. Noyce Conference Room, SFI.
August 13, 2008
• Public Lecture—"The Geometry of Consonance: Music and Mathematics," Dmitri Tymoczko (Arthur Scribner Bicentennial Preceptor and Assistant Professor, Music, Princeton University ), 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM, James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf.
August 19, 2008
• Meeting—"SFI Staff Meeting," Chris Wood (SFI), 10:00 AM to 12:00 AM, Medium Conference Room, SFI.
August 21, 2008
• Meeting—"SFI Faculty Meeting," Chris Wood (SFI), 12:15 AM to 1:15 PM, Medium Conference Room, SFI.
• Colloquium—"TBA," Matthew O. Jackson (Stanford University), 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM, Robert N. Noyce Conference Room, SFI.
August 22, 2008
• Special Event—"Belizean Grove Visit and Tour," Shannon Larsen (SFI), 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM, Robert N. Noyce Conference Room, SFI.
August 28 to August 31, 2008
• Working Group—"International Affairs and Complexity," Joshua Cooper Ramo (Kissinger Associates), Simon Levin (Princeton University & SFI), Doug Erwin (Smithsonian Institution & SFI) & Geoffrey West (SFI), 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Robert N. Noyce Conference Room, SFI.
September 4, 2008
• Working Group—"Neuro-Cognitive Niche Construction," Marcus W. Feldman (Stanford University & SFI) and Mariam Reiner (Technion - Isreal Institute of Technology), 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Medium Conference Room, SFI.
September 5, 2008
• Working Group, continued —"Neuro-Cognitive Niche Construction," Marcus W. Feldman (Stanford University & SFI) and Mariam Reiner (Technion - Isreal Institute of Technology), 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Medium Conference Room, SFI.
September 8 to September 12, 2008
• Working Group—"Incorporating Body Size into Neutral Biodiversity Theory," Jessica Green (University Green & SFI), 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Medium Conference Room, SFI.
September 8 to September 10, 2008
• Workshop—"TENTATIVE: Cyber-Enabled Science: New Questions, New Opportunities," Chris Wood (SFI), George Djorgovski (CalTech) & Dan Fay (Microsoft), 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Robert N. Noyce Conference Room, SFI.
September 13, 2008
• Meeting—"Science Steering Committee," Doug Erwin (Smithsonian Institution & SFI), 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM, Medium Conference Room, SFI.
September 15 to September 19, 2008
• Business Network Meeting—"Understanding Complex Systems: The Future of Interactive Immersive Visualization," Shannon Larsen (SFI) and James Crutchfield (SFI and UC Davis), held at the, Santa Fe Institute.
September 16, 2008
• Meeting—"SFI Staff Meeting," Chris Wood (SFI), 10:00 AM to 12:00 AM, Medium Conference Room, SFI.
• Ulam Lecture—"A Cooperative Species—How We Got to Be Both Nasty and Nice," Samuel Bowles (Professor, Santa Fe Institute and University of Siena), 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM, James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf.
September 17, 2008
• Special Meeting—"First Born Group," Deborah Boldt (LANL Foundation), 9:45 AM to 4:45 PM, Robert N. Noyce Conference Room, SFI.
• Ulam Lecture—"A Cooperative Species—How We Got to Be Both Nasty and Nice.," Samuel Bowles (Professor, Santa Fe Institute and University of Siena), 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM, James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf.
September 18, 2008
• Meeting—"SFI Faculty Meeting," Chris Wood (SFI), 12:15 AM to 1:15 PM, Medium Conference Room, SFI.
• Ulam Lecture—"A Cooperative Species—How We Got to Be Both Nasty and Nice," Samuel Bowles (Professor, Santa Fe Institute and University of Siena), 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM, James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf.
October 7, 2008
• Public Lecture—"Our Inner Ape: On the Possibility of Empathy in Other Animals," Frans B. M. DeWaal (Living Links, Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, and Psychology Department, Emory University), 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM, James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf.
October 10, 2008
• Colloquium—"TBA," Larry Blume (Cornell University), 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM, Robert N. Noyce Conference Room, SFI.
October 14, 2008
• Meeting—"SFI Postdoctoral Meeting," Nathan Eagle and Austin Gerig, 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM, Medium Conference Room, SFI.
October 16, 2008
• Business Network Meeting—"Forum on Risk Topical Meeting," Shannon Larsen (SFI) - New York, NY.
• Meeting—"SFI Faculty Meeting," Chris Wood (SFI), 12:15 PM to 1:15 PM, Medium Conference Room, SFI.
October 21, 2008
• Meeting—"SFI Staff Meeting," Chris Wood (SFI), 10:00 AM to 12:00 AM, Medium Conference Room, SFI.
October 25, 2008
• Working Group—"Cosmology & Society in the Ancient Amerindian World," George Gumerman (SAR & SFI), Murray Gell-Mann (SFI), 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Medium Conference Room, SFI.
October 26, 2008
• Working Group, continued —"Cosmology & Society in the Ancient Amerindian World," George Gumerman (SAR & SFI), Murray Gell-Mann (SFI), 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Medium Conference Room, SFI.
November 6, 2008
• Meeting—"Science Steering Committee," Doug Erwin (Smithsonian Institution & SFI), 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM, Medium Conference Room, SFI.
November 7, 2008
• Business Network Meeting—"Annual Business Network Meeting "Open Questions in Science, Education and Business"," Shannon Larsen (SFI) - Eldorado Hotel, Santa Fe, NM.
November 8, 2008
• Business Network Meeting, continued —"Annual Business Network Meeting "Open Questions in Science, Education and Business"," Shannon Larsen (SFI) - Eldorado Hotel, Santa Fe, NM.
November 11, 2008
• Meeting—"SFI Postdoctoral Meeting," Nathan Eagle and Austin Gerig, 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM, Medium Conference Room, SFI.
November 17 to November 19, 2008
• Workshop—"TENTATIVE: The Human Impact of the Last Glacial Maximum," Murray Gell-Mann (SFI) & Henry Wright (University of Michigan & SFI), 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Robert N. Noyce Conference Room, SFI.
November 17, 2008
• Public Lecture—"Stumbling on Happiness," Daniel Gilbert (is the Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and Director of Harvard’s Hedonic Psychology Laboratory. He is the author of Stumbling on Happiness.), 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM, James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf.
November 18, 2008
• Meeting—"SFI Staff Meeting," Chris Wood (SFI), 10:00 AM to 12:00 AM, Medium Conference Room, SFI.
November 20, 2008
• Meeting—"SFI Faculty Meeting," Chris Wood (SFI), 12:15 PM to 1:15 PM, Robert N. Noyce Conference Room, SFI.
December 1 to December 14, 2008
• Education Program Event—"Complex Systems Summer School 2008 - San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina," Sponsored by SFI. Directors: Miguel A. Fuentes, SFI / CONICET-CAB IB and Pablo A. Marquet, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, CASEB / IEB.
December 9, 2008
• Meeting—"SFI Postdoctoral Meeting," Nathan Eagle and Austin Gerig, 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM, Medium Conference Room, SFI.
December 16, 2008
• Meeting—"SFI Staff Meeting," Chris Wood (SFI), 10:00 AM to 12:00 AM.
December 18, 2008
• Meeting—"SFI Faculty Meeting," Chris Wood (SFI), 12:15 PM to 1:15 PM, Medium Conference Room, SFI.
February 13 to February 15, 2009
• Working Group—"Emergence of Hierarchy and Inequality," organized by Sam Bowles (SFI), Medium Conference Room, SFI.
March 20 to March 22, 2009
• Working Group—"The Coevolution of Behaviors and Institutions," Sam Bowles (SFI), 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Medium Conference Room, SFI.
April 30, 2009
• Colloquium—"TBA," Jordi Bascompte (Estacion Bilogica de Donana, CSIC), Robert N. Noyce Conference Room, SFI.
