Santa Fe Institute

Organized by Aaron Clauset, (SFI) and Brian Tivnan, (MITRE)

Stefan Thurner (Complex Systems Research Group, HNO, Medical University of Vienna)

Jyrki Piilo (Department of Physics, University of Turku, Finland)

Valentyn Panchenko (Economics Dept., University of New South Wales)

Organized by Austin Gerig, (University of Technology, Australia)

Organized by Austin Gerig, (University of Technology, Australia)

Organized by Austin Gerig, (University of Technology, Australia)

Business Network Theme Week

Tobias Galla (School of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Manchester)

Business Network Theme Week

Chris Llewellyn-Smith and Mark Pagel

Business Network Theme Week

Chris Llewellyn-Smith and Mark Pagel

Business Network Theme Week

Chris Llewellyn-Smith and Mark Pagel

Organized by Lenka Zdeborova, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Michael Rose (University of California, Irvine)

Ariel Rubinstein (School of Economics, Tel Aviv University)

Misha (Michael) Chertkov (T-4/Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Steve Frank (University of California, Irvine) 

Organized by Jessica Flack

Thomas Reed

Paula Sabloff (Research Scientist, Santa Fe Institute)

Jason Johnson (Los Alamos National Laboratoary

David Field (Cornell University)

Annual Business Network and Board of Trustees' Symposium: Multi Dimensions of Evolution

November 12 - 14, 2009

A Celebration of the 25th Anniversaries of SFI and Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra, & Bicentenary Births of Charles Darwin and Felix Mendelssohn

Bernardo Huberman (HP Labs)

Alon Haley - Google

Hosted by Aaron Clauset

Organized by Sam Bowles

Gabriel Carceles (Santa Fe, NM)

Duncan Foley and Rae Silver (SFI External Professor and Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research; Columbia University)

David Pines, U C Davis, ICAM, UIUC, and SFI Science Board

Sam Bowles and Monique Borgerhoff Mulder (Santa Fe Institute)

John Gastil, Professor of Communication, University of Washington

SFI Host: C. C. Wood

Santo Fortunato, Institute for Scientific Interchange, Italy

SFI Host: Luis Bettencourt

Stuart Kauffman and Naresh Singh.

Sergei Maslov Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Host: Aaron Clauset

Herbert Van de Sompel, Digital Library Research and Prototyping, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Jeremy Sabloff, President - SFI

Josep Sardanyés Cayuela (Evolutionary Systems Virology Group; IBMCP, CSIC-UPV)

SFI Host: Santiago Elena

Alan Baker (Professor of Philosophy, Swarthmore College)

SFI Host: Aaron Clauset

Eric Goles (Valparaiso Complex Systems Institute)

SFI Host: C. C. Wood

Suzannah Rutherford (Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)

SFI Host: David Krakauer

Organized by Aaron Clauset and Nathan Eagle

David J. Field

Cornell University

SFI Host: David Krakauer

Dr. Zhe-Xi Luo Curator at Carnegie Museum of Natural History

SFI Hosts: Doug Erwin and Aaron Clauset

Organized by Jerry Sabloff and David Krakauer, Santa Fe Institute.

Tom Olszewski (Department of Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M University)

Daniel Dennett, University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University, Center for Cognitive Studies; Inaugural Miller Scholar, Santa Fe Institute

Justin Jungé (Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University; Psychology Department, Harvard University)

Working group sponsored by Immune Response Consortium, (IRC) at MIT

Organized by The Rocky Mountain Technology Alliance. Held at Buffalo Thunder Resort, Santa Fe, NM.

Speakers include J. Doyne Farmer (keynote) and Jim Rutt (moderator). 

Valentyn Panchenko (University of South Wales)

Rob Shaw (Santa Fe Complex)

Sonja Prohaska (University of Leipzig)

Peter Stadler (University of Leipzig)

Asif Ghazanfar (Neuroscience Institute, Departments of Psychology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University)

Charles A. Stafford (University of Arizona)

Michael E. Glinsky (Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Perth)

Jessica Green and Jennifer Dunne.

Jordi Bascompte (Integrative Ecology Group, Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC)

Host: Jennifer Dunne

Dr. Eske Willerslev (Evolutionary Biologist and Professor, Natural History and Zoological Museum of Denmark; Director, Centre for Ancient Genetics; Professor, Department of Biology/Institute of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Organized by Aaron Clauset and Nathan Eagle

David Schwab (Princeton University)

Ole Peters (Department of Mathematics and Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Imperial College, London)

  Frans de Waal (Director of the Living Links Center, part of the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, EMORY University, Atlanta, USA

SFI Hosts: Jessica Flack and Jeremy van Cleve

Stephen M. Younger (University of Hawaii; Former Associate Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

SFI Host:  C. C. Wood

What Are We Missing? Exploring Potential New SFI Science Areas

This event is by invitation only

Matthew Hurley

Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition, Indiana University

SFI Host:  Dan Dennett

 On Tuesday, May 4 from 5:00 to 6:30 pm, SFI and the Santa Fe Alliance for Science presents this annual award to graduating seniors from local high schools in Santa Fe. The award honors outstanding students who embody the spirit of scientific pursuit and acknowledges creativity, originality and academic excellence as recognized by their teachers. A prize for Outstanding Teacher in Mathematics or the Sciences will also be awarded to one of Santa Fe's teachers to acknowledge their creativity, originality, academic rigor and professional excellence in 2010.

Andreas Wagner (University of Zurich and SFI External Faculty)

SFI Host:  David Krakauer

Nathan Eagle, Omidyar Fellow - SFI

Michael Nielsen

SFI Host: Aaron Clauset

Held on May 10-14 at Argonne, IL.  Co-organized by SFI Business Network and Michael North and Charles Macal, Argonne National Laboratory.

Donald Saari (Distinguished Professor: Mathematics and Economics; Director: Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, University of California at Irvine) 

SFI Host:  David Krakauer

Organized by Aaron Clauset and Nathan Eagle

Henrik Jensen (Department of Mathematics and Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Imperial College, London)

SFI Host:  Geoffrey B. West

Erika DeBenedictis (Winner of the 2010 Intel Student Talent Search)

SFI Host:  Irene Lee

Co-organized by Jessica Flack, Santa Fe Institute, Eric Bonabeau, Icosystem, and the New America Foundation.  

Held at the New America Foundation, Washington, DC.  

Registration is open for Business Network members.

This two-and-a-half day course is an intensive, immersive tour of the sciences of complexity, a broad set of efforts that seek to explain how large-scale complex, organized, and adaptive behavior can emerge from simple interactions among myriad individuals. The course will be led by Melanie Mitchell, Professor at SFI and at Portland State University, and author of Complexity:  A Guided Tour (Oxford University Press, 2009).

Andrew J. Hanson (School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Bloomington)

SFI Host:  Geoffrey B. West

Rosie A. Fisher (Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

SFI Host:  Simon DeDeo

Willemien Kets

Held June 6-26 at St. John's College and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM.

To attend the school Business Network members can apply to the Business Network office. 

Research Collaboration

Organized by Aaron Clauset and Nathan Eagle

David G. Stork (Chief Scientist, Ricoh Innovations)

SFI Host:  C. C. Wood

Mark Johnson and Katherine Demuth.

Robert Smith (Program Director for Operations Research, Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering Directorate, National Science Foundation) (On leave from his position as the Altarum/ERIM Russell D. O'Neal Professor of Engineering, Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

SFI Host:  Elisabeth Johnson

Aaron Clauset, Omidyar Fellow - SFI

organized by Raissa D'Souza (University of California, Davis)

Paige Prescott,  Learn@SFI Team Member

Yonathan Schwarzkopf (Graduate Student, SFI)

SFI Host:  J. Doyne Farmer

Held July 11-24 at St. John's College and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM

To attend the school Business Network members can apply to the Business Network office.

Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

Dennis Meadows, former Director of the Institute for Policy and Social Science Research at the University of New Hampshire

Massimo Ricottilli (University of Bologna)

SFI Host:  J. Doyne Farmer

Mahzarin R. Banaji (Harvard University)

SFI Host:  Jerry Sabloff

Mahzarin Banaji, Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Department of Psychology, Harvard University

Introduction by:  Harold Morowitz (George Mason University)
Presentation by: John Allen, William Dempster and Mark Nelson, Biospheric Design Division, Global Ecotechnics Corporation (Santa Fe, NM) and Institute of Ecotechnics (U.K. and U.S.A.)

SFI Host:  J. Doyne Farmer

Co-organized by SFI Business Network and Eleanor Wynn, Intel. 

Held in Santa Clara, CA.  

Registration is open for Business Network members.

Elodie Djemai and Paul Seabright (Toulouse School of Economics)

SFI Host:  Sam Bowles

Jung-Kyoo Choi (School of Economics and Trade, Kyungpook National University)
and
T. K. Ahn (Department of Public Administration, Korea University)

SFI Host:  Sam Bowles

Jon Wilkins (Santa Fe Institute)

SFI Host:  Sam Bowles

Alexander "Sasha" Gutfraind (CNLS, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

SFI Host:  Aaron Clauset

Elodie Djemai (Toulouse School of Economics)

SFI Host:  Sam Bowles

Patricia McAnany (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

SFI Host:  Jerry Sabloff

Sam Bowles (Santa Fe Institute)

Bob Rowthorn (University of Cambridge)

SFI Host:  Sam Bowles

Claudio Cioffi-Revilla (Director, Center for Social Complexity, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University)

SFI Host:  Paula Sabloff

Anirvan Ghosh (University of California, San Diego)

SFI Host:  Chuck Stevens

Ken Pomeranz (University of California, Irvine)

SFI Host:  Jerry Sabloff

Liquin Luo (Stanford University)

SFI Host:  Chuck Stevens

Arthur Lander (Professor, Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, Director, Center for Complex Biological Systems, University of California, Irvine and SFI Science Board Member)

SFI Host:  David Krakauer

Eric Scott (Andrews University)

Mentor:  J. Doyne Farmer

SFI Host:  Ginger Richardson

Rob Boyd (University of California, Los Angeles)

SFI  Host:  Jerry Sabloff

Stefany M. Gomez (Universidad de Los Andes and Universidad Sergio Arboleda)

Mentors: Samuel Bowles and Jon Wilkins

SFI Host:  Ginger Richardson

Aaron Miller (University of New Mexico)

Mentor:  J. Doyne Farmer

SFI Host:  Ginger Richardson

Dan Smail (Harvard University)

SFI Host:  Jerry Sabloff

Gord Fishell (NYU School of Medicine)

SFI Host:  Chuck Stevens

Nathaniel Rodriguez (University of Redlands)

Mentor:  Luis Bettencourt

SFI Host:  Ginger Richardson

Amalie McKee (Case Western Reserve)

Mentors:  Jeremy Van Cleve and Jennifer Dunne

SFI Host:  Ginger Richardson

Avril Kenney (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Mentor:  Eric Smith

SFI Host:  Ginger Richardson

Abigail Jacobs (Northwestern University)

Mentors: Cosma Shalizi & Aaron Clauset

SFI Host:  Ginger Richardson

Elais Jackson (Tennessee State University)

Mentor:  John Miller

SFI Host:  Ginger Richardson

Ethan Fast (University of Virginia)

Mentor:  Stephanie Forrest

SFI Host:  Ginger Richardson

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

V. M. Kenkre (Distinguished Professor of Physics, Director, Consortium of the Americas for Interdisciplinary Science, University of New Mexico)

SFI Host:  C. C. Wood

Tim Buchman, Emory University; External Faculty, Santa Fe  Institute

organized by David Krakauer

Matteo Marsili (The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics)

Jeff Johnson (East Carolina University)

organized by Alan Perelson (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Adina Roskies, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Dartmouth College

Doug White (University of California, Irvine)

SFI Host:  David Krakauer

H. Russell Bernard (Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, University of Florida)

SFI Host:  Paula Sabloff

Murray Gell-Mann, George Gummerman, and Linda Cordell.

Mark Newman, University of Michigan, SFI External Faculty

Mark Newman University of Michigan, SFI External Faculty

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

Mark Newman University of Michigan, SFI External Faculty

Mathew J. Burrows (Counselor and Director, Analysis and Production Staff, National Intelligence Council)

Held at Google, Mountain View, CA

Organized by Graham Spencer, Trustee, Santa Fe Institute and Engineering Director, Google, David Krakauer, Chair of Faculty and Professor, Santa Fe Institute, and Chris Wood, Vice President of Administration and Director of Business Network, Santa Fe Institute.

Stefan Thurner (Science of Complex Systems, Medical University of Vienna)

David Klahr (Carnegie Mellon University)

Ricardo Hausmann (Harvard University)

Rudolf Hanel (Complex Systems Research Group, University of Vienna)

Bryan Daniels (Postdoctoral Fellow, Santa Fe Institute)

Alioscia Hamma (Perimeter Institute)

Stephen L. Sass (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University)

Organized by John Rundle and Michael Mauboussin.  

Held at Morgan Stanley, 1585 Broadway, New York, NY 10036.  

Yochai Benkler, Harvard University

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

Fotini Markopoulou Kalamara (Humboldt Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute and Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

Jiang Zhang (Beijing Normal University)

Richard Epstein (CEO of ThermoDynamic Films, LLC and Research Professor, UNM)

Christine Cassel (American Board of Internal Medicine)

Presented by the Santa Fe Institute and Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra.

Vladimir Filkov (Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis)

Complexity of Regulation

Held at Inn at Loretto, Santa Fe, NM. 

Organized by David Krakauer and Chris Wood, SFI.

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

Seth Lloyd (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and SFI External Professor)

Arjun Makijani (The Institute for Energy and Environmental Research)

Jared Saia (Computer Science Department, University of New Mexico)

Erik Winfree (California Institute of Technology)

Evandro Ferrada (University of Zurich)

Masoud Mohseni (MIT)

Bill Newsome (Professor of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine)

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

Christine K. Cassel, (President and CEO, American Board of Internal Medicine)

Shawn Carlson, (Founder and Director, LabRats Science Education Program, Society for Amateur Scientists)

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

Sid Redner (Physics Department, Boston University and SFI External Professor)

Tony Hey (Microsoft Research)

Reuben Hersh (Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, UNM) and Vera John-Steiner (Presidential Professor of Linguistics & Education, UNM)

Organized by SFI's Business Network and Education Offices

Held at the Santa Fe Institute

February 9-11, 2011, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Co-Organized by the Santa Fe Business Network and Humana Inc.

Healthcare Economic Forum

SFI Business Network Topical Meeting

Wednesday February 9

Humana Healthcare Simulator

Thursday and Friday February 10-11

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

Nitin Baliga (Institute for Systems Biology)

Lance R. Williams (Department of Computer Science,  University of New Mexico)

Achim Kempf (Professor and Canada Research Chair, Physics of Information and Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo)

William Frej (Career Minister in the United States Foreign Service, and Diplomat in Residence at Santa Fe Institute; USAID Mission Director of Afghanistan (2009-2010))

Chip Wills (co-Director of the Chaco Stratigraphy Project) and Patricia L. Crown (UNM Distinguished Professor of Anthropology)

Steven Lade (Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany; Participant in the 2009 Complex Systems Summer School)

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

James P. Crutchfield (Complexity Sciences Center and Physics Department, University of California at Davis, and SFI External Professor)

Sanjay Jain (Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi; Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore; and SFI External Professor)

Ben Allen  (Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Departments of Mathematics and Biology, Harvard University)

Luca Turin (Fleming Institute, Athens, Greece)

Kostas Alexandridis (Center for Marine and Environmental Studies and Department of Computational Sciences, College of Science and Mathematics, University of the Virgin Islands)

The primary questions we wish to explore include: (1) Are there fundamental units and network structures contributing to cultural systems and how might we identify them? (2) What are the rules of cultural transmission that operate on these units and networks? (3) How do these units and networks come together to assume new meanings, giving rise to new transmission mechanisms? (4) How do these units and networks change through time, and do they follow predictable trends?

Andrea Polli (Mesa Del Sol Chair of Digital Media; Associate Professor, Art & Art History and Engineering, UNM Center for the Arts, University of New Mexico)

Zack Powell (Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley)

Ricard Solé (Universitat Pompeu Fabra and SFI External Professor)

Melanie Moses (Department of Computer Science, UNM)

Mimi Koehl (Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, and SFI Science Board Member)

Seth Marvel (Center for Applied Mathematics, Cornell University)

Marcus Feldman (Stanford University and SFI Science Board Co-Chair, External Professor)

Cris Moore (Professor, Computer Science, Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico; Professor, Santa Fe Institute)

Thank you for participating in SFI's Annual Science Board Symposium and Meeting!  Stay tuned for 2011 event.

Highlighting SFI Omidyar and Program Postdoctoral Fellows

Tim Weaver (Associate Professor, eMAD/Digital Media Studies, School of Art & Art History, University of Denver)

Tim Weaver (Associate Professor, eMAD/Digital Media Studies, School of Art & Art History, University of Denver)

Post doc meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

Animesh Ray (Professor, Systems Biology, Director, Center for Networks Studies, Director of PhD Programs, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences)

Susanne Still (Department of Information and Computer Science, University of Hawaii)

Michael Mitzenmacher (Professor and Dean of Computer Science, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University)

Ryan Chisholm (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute)

Andreas Wagner (University of Zurich)

Melanie Mitchell (Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science, Portland State University)

Michael Glinsky (CSIRO Perth Australia)

The ever-increasing size and complexity of large-scale software systems is one of the greatest challenges facing business, government, and academia today. Such systems are "interdependent webs of software-intensive systems, people, policies, cultures, and economics", representing unprecedented aggregations of one or more of the following quantities": (1) lines of code; (2) amount of data stored, accessed, manipulated, and refined; (3) number of connections and interdependencies; (4) number of hardware elements; (5) number of computational elements; (6) number of system purposes and user perception of these purposes; (7) number of routine processes, interactions, and “emergent behaviors”; (8) number of (overlapping) policy domains and enforceable mechanisms; (9) number of people involved in some way ((DOD Study on Ultra-Large-Scale Software Systems).

This SFI Business Network Topical Meeting, jointly organized by Fidelity and SFI, will explore ways in which the study of complex systems in other domains of science and technology can be valuable for large-scale software systems, survey the state of the art in verification and validation of large-scale software systems from the academic and corporate perspectives, and consider implications of large-scale systems for the financial industry.

2011 Awards for Scientific Excellence

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

An intensive business applications-oriented introduction to agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS) based on Michael North and Charles Macal’s new book Managing Business Complexity: Discovering Strategic Solutions with Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation (Oxford 2007). The first half of the course will focus on ABMS concepts from the perspective of company managers and analysts. The second half of the course will focus on ABMS implementation from the perspective of company software developers and will include extensive hands-on exercises. Participants are invited to attend the first session, the second session, or both depending on their interests. Each participant will receive a copy of Managing Business Complexity and break refreshments.

Held on May 16-20 at Argonne, IL.  Co-organized by SFI Business Network and Michael North and Charles Macal, Argonne National Laboratory.

For more info and registration please visit the ABMS course page

David Wolpert (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Intelligent Systems Division Ames Research Center; Ulam Scholar, Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory [in collaboration with Dev Rajnarayan, Brendan Tracey, Charlie Strauss, Juan Alonso and Stefan Bieniawski])

Andrew Lo (Harris & Harris Group Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management; Director, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering)

Andrew Lo (Harris & Harris Group Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management; Director, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering)

Daniel Michael Weinreich (Assistant Professor of Biology; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Center for Computational Molecular Biology, Brown University)

Jai Ranganathan (National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California, Santa Barbara)

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

Elizabeth Ellsworth (Associate Provost for Curriculum and Learning and Professor of Media Studies, The New School, New York)

Iain Couzin (Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University)

Katherine Demuth (Macquarie University)

Mark Johnson (Macquarie University)

Caleb E. Finch (Andrus Gerontology Center, University of Southern California)

Steen Rasmussen (Center for Fundamental Living Technology, University of Southern Denmark and External Professor, Santa Fe Institute)

Lawrence Weschler (Director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University)

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

Peter Wills (Department of Physics, University of Auckland)

Dr. Erol Akçay (National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis [NIMBioS])

Dudley Herschbach (Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Harvard University)

Stephen Shennan (Professor of Theoretical Archaeology; Director, Institute of Archaeology, University College London)

Michael Hochberg (Institute of Evolutionary Sciences, University of Montpellier II, France)

Gil Weinberg (Director, Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology; Associate Professor, School of Music; Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Interactive Computing; Georgia Institute of Technology)

Willemien Kets (Northwestern University)

Suresh Naidu (Columbia University)

Glenn Loury (Brown University)

Alan Kirman (Professor and Director of Studies, GREQAM)

Michael Hochberg ( Université Montpellier II)

Rajiv Sethi (Columbia University)

Small meeting group with daily discussions on topics in neuroscience.

Vijay Balasubramanian (University of Pennsylvania)

Rajan Gupta (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Chuck Stevens (Salk Institute)

Robert Engle (New York University Stern School of Business)

Aristides Requicha (University of Southern California)

Thimo Rohlf (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, University of Leipzig)

Venkatesh Murthy (Harvard University)

Jonathan Rothwell (The Brookings Institution)

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

Jessica Green (Assistant Professor, Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Director, Biology and the Built Environment (bioBE) Center, both at the University of Oregon; External Professor, Santa Fe Institute)

Frank R. Baumgartner (Richard J. Richardson Distinguished Professor of Political Science, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

August 24, 2011

Held at National Semiconductor Corporation, 2900 Semiconductor Dr., Santa Clara, CA

Organized by Chander Chawla and David Hanson, National Semiconductor Corporation and Chris Wood, Santa Fe Institute

Bryan Daniels (Postdoctoral Fellow, Santa Fe Institute)

Torben C. Rick (Curator of North American Archaeology, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History)

Religion, beliefs, and polygyny are studied to explore causal graph approaches to human cultural evolution and dynamics and to complete articles for three separate journals, eventually to be combined into a book on the workshop topic: Causality in Human Behavior.

David Krakauer (Professor, Santa Fe Institute)

David Krakauer (Professor, Santa Fe Institute)

Dr. Andrea J. Dew (Co-Director, Center on Irregular Warfare & Armed Groups (CIWAG); Associate Professor in the Strategy & Policy Department at the US Naval War College)

David Krakauer (Professor, Santa Fe Institute)

Robert Bücker (Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology)

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

Alan J. Hurd (Director, Lujan Neutron Scattering Center at LANCE, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Craig D. Allen (U.S. Geological Survey, Jemez Mountains Field Station, Los Alamos, NM)

Richard Wolff (Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts)

“Complexity: Out of the Box Thinking Touching Tomorrow’s Science” is scheduled in Santa Fe Sunday, September 18 to Friday, September 23, 2011. The goal of the event is to bring a group of ~15 Dutch government and business executives into contact with transdisciplinary themes in complexity science and to experience the culture of the Santa Fe Institute. The program is coordinated by SFI external faculty member Sander Bais.

Kent Pavey (Partner, Small World Group Singapore Incubator)

September 21, 2011

Held at the Hilton Santa Fe, 100 Sandoval Street, Santa Fe, NM

Organized by Rick Stephens and Michael Richey, Boeing Inc., Nora Sabelli of SRI, and Ginger Richardson and Chris Wood, Santa Fe Institute

Mike Callen (Department of Economics, UCSD)

Pan-Jun Kim (Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

October 5, 2011

Held at Morgan Stanley World Headquarters, 1585 Broadway, 41st Floor, New York, NY

Organized by Michael Mauboussin, Legg Mason Capital Management and SFI, John Rundle, UC Davis and SFI, and Chris Wood, SFI

Molly Van Houweling (Faculty Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, University of California, Berkeley)

Complex systems ranging from ecosystems to financial markets and the climate may have tipping points where a sudden shift to a contrasting regime can occur. As such critical transitions can have dire consequences, being able to predict them is very important. Unfortunately, detecting critical points is extremely difficult as good predictive models are mostly lacking. However, recent work suggests that we may find empirical indicators to assess whether a system is approaching a tipping point (Scheffer 2009). Such generic early-warning indicators appear to work for all kinds of critical transitions and, in principle, can be identifiable in a wide range of complex systems like ecosystems, financial markets, or the climate.

Eric Drexler (Chief Technical Advisor to Nanorex)

Robert Sprague (University of Wyoming College of Business)

William Bialek (John Archibald Wheeler/Battelle Professor in Physics, Associate Director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, and a Faculty Fellow in the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton University)

Presented by the Santa Fe Institute and Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra

Al Crumbliss (Department of Chemistry, Duke University)

Tsvi Achler (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

November 3 - 5, 2011

Held at Bishop's Lodge, Santa Fe, NM

Organized by Doug Erwin and Chris Wood, Santa Fe Institute

Kazuo Nishimura (Institute of Economic Research and SFI External Professor)

Alex Bentley (University of Bristol)

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

Yong-Yeol Ahn (School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Bloomington)

Elizabeth Cashdan (Department of Anthropology, The University of Utah)

Alan Rogers (Department of Anthropology, The University of Utah)

Valerio Mante and David Sussillo (Stanford University)

R. Bhaskar (Independent Scholar)

Lily Blair (Yale University)

Rebecca Goldstein (Philosopher and Novelist)

Christopher Jarzynski (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland)

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

Santiago F. Elena (Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas [CSIC-UPV]; External Professor, Santa Fe Institute)

Brie Ann Linkenhoker (Former Senior Scenario Planner and Associate Partner, Global Business Network)

Terry Hwa (Center for Theoretical Biology Physics and Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego)

George Bezerra (Department of Computer Science, University of New Mexico)

Alex Adamou (ZONLab)

Jeff Stein (President, Cosanti Foundation)

Jean-Baptiste Michel (Postdoctoral Fellow, Psychology, Harvard University)

David Kaiser (Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science, Department Head, Program in Science, Technology, & Society and Senior Lecturer, Department of Physics,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

Jason Mitchell (Harvard University)

Robert Boyd (Distinguished Professor, Department of Anthropology, UCLA; SFI Cowan Professor)

Matina Donaldson-Matasci (University of Arizona)

Duncan Foley (New School for Social Research; SFI External Professor)

Cesar Andres Mantilla Ribero (Universidad de los Andes)

Marianna Belloc (University of Rome) and Samuel Bowles (Santa Fe Institute)

Carol R. Ember (Human Relations Area Files at Yale University)

Joe Breeden (Prescient Models)

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

Jeremy Van Cleve (Omidyar Fellow, Santa Fe Institute)

Karolina Safarzynska (Institute for the Environment and Regional Development, Vienna University of Economics and Business)

Charles Perreault (SFI Omidyar Fellow) and Sarah Mathew (Center for the Study of Cultural Evolution at Stockholm University)

Kevin N. Laland (University of St. Andrews)

Andrew Thomas (Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University)

Brian Christian is the author of The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Wired, The Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, and The Guardian.

Supported by the Jonathan and Kathleen Altman Foundation

Timothy Newman (University of Dundee)

Renato Vicente (University of Sao Paulo)

Simon DeDeo (Omidyar Fellow, Santa Fe Institute)

Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM

James Theiler (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Daniel Dennett (Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University; External Professor, Santa Fe Institute)

Peter Stadler (University of Leipzig; SFI External Professor)

Nathan Collins (University of California, Irvine)

Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM

Sabre Kais (Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University)

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Research Associate, Psychology, Harvard University. An author of both fiction and nonfiction, her books include The Mind-Body Problem, Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel, and Thirty-Six Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction.

Sponsored by Penelope Penland

Johannes Oberreuter (Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

Sergey Gavrilets (Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of Mathematics, National Institute For Mathematical and Biological Systems, University of Tennessee)

Pierpaolo Vivo (LPTMS-CNRS-Paris)

Philippe Cousteau (EarthEcho International, Co-Founder and President)

Geoffrey B. West (Santa Fe Institute)

Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM

Jeffrey D. Fisher, Ph.D. (Director, Center for Health, Intervention, and Prevention, The University of Connecticut)

Adam Powell (Department of Genetics, University College London)

Future Directions in SFI Science:  Potential Ideas

May 3-5, 2012, Santa Fe, NM

In 2012, the annual SFI Science Board meeting will focus on building a vision of possible directions that SFI research might take in coming years. Talks and discussions will consider both areas of study that SFI scientists are not currently engaged in, as well as new cutting-edge  directions in research areas that are already part of the SFI scientific portfolio.

Ricardo Hausmann (Professor of the Practice of Economic Development; Director, Center for International Development at Harvard University; SFI Cowan Professor)

The annual Santa Fe Institute and Santa Fe Alliance for Science Prize for Scientific Excellence and Prize for Outstanding Teacher awards recognizes those members of the local Santa Fe area high schools who best embody the spirit of scientific pursuit found at the Santa Fe Institute. Since 2008, the Santa Fe Alliance for Science has cosponsored the prize with the Santa Fe Institute. 

The Prize for Scientific Excellence is awarded to one graduating senior from each of the Santa Fe high schools.  The students are selected by their teachers for academic excellence, originality and creativity in either the sciences, mathematics, or computer science. The prize includes a cash award, a certificate of recognition, and an autographed copy of The Quark and the Jaguar by Murray Gell-Mann, SFI Distinguished Fellow and 1969 Nobel Laureate in Physics. 

The Prize for Outstanding Teacher is awarded to a single Santa Fe area high school teacher who demonstrates special achievement in advancing science education, as recognized by the educational community. The prize includes a cash award and a certificate of recognition.

Devin White (Research Associate, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center; Photogrammetric Scientist, Integrity Applications Incorporated)

Alan Hastings (Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis)

An intensive business applications-oriented introduction to agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS) based on Michael North and Charles Macal’s book Managing Business Complexity: Discovering Strategic Solutions with Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation (Oxford 2007). The first half of the course will focus on ABMS concepts from the perspective of company managers and analysts. The second half of the course will focus on ABMS implementation from the perspective of company software developers and will include extensive hands-on exercises. Participants are invited to attend the first session, the second session, or both depending on their interests. Business Network Members are invited to attend the course at a reduced rate.

Held on May 14-18, 2012 at Argonne, IL.  Co-organized by SFI Business Network and Argonne National Laboratory.

For more info and registration please visit the ABMS Course Page

Ricard Solé (Universitat Pompeu Fabra; SFI External Professor)

George Mason University
Arlington, Virginia

Register now for the Science of Complexity Short Course HERE

The Santa Fe Institute and the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George Mason University are offering a three day symposium entitled "The Science of Complexity: Understanding the Global Financial Crisis" May 16-18, 2012, at the spectacular new Founders Hall facility at the GMU Arlington campus. Through the lenses of finance, economics, complex systems, neuroeconomics, and computational social science, the symposium will explore the structure and dynamics of the 2008 financial crisis and its reverberations through time, including the current Eurozone crisis. Attendees will come away with a high-level understanding of the tools the sciences of complexity bring to an emerging view of these crises, including cutting-edge insights from the application of non-linear dynamics, social networks, systemic risk, experimental economics, and related approaches. 

More information about the course such as an agenda, information about local accommodations, and speaker bios can be found on our wiki page.

Fees

$1,500 before May 1, 2012

$1,700 May 1, 2012 and after

In the event of a cancellation before May 1, 2012, 50% of the program tuition will be refunded. Beginning May 1, 2012 and after no refunds will be made.

Raissa D'Souza (University of California, Davis; External Professor, Santa Fe Institute)

James Gleick, author, Chaos; Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman; Isaac Newton; Faster; What Just Happened, and The Information.

Sponsored by Joy and Phil LeCuyer

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

Murray Gell-Mann (Santa Fe Institute)

Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM

LANL and the SFI are both exceptional scientific institutions, with a long relationship and sharing several common goals. However in the last few years this relationship has depended exclusively on the initiative of individual scientists. We believe that there is great potential for the SFI and LANL to collaborate on a more institutional basis for the benefit of both institutions.

To capitalize on this potential we are organizing the one-day workshop. The format will include technical presentations by scientists of both institutions, together with an opportunity for managers of the two institutions to explore collaboration possibilities.

Peter Schuster (University of Vienna; SFI External Professor)

John Martin (Visiting Research Associate, School of Advanced Research; Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University)

SFI’s REU program provides an opportunity for young scientists from many disciplines to explore what a social science perspective brings to other fields and how traditionally quantitative disciplines can contribute to the social sciences. Each REU participant works with one or more SFI faculty mentors on a specific, mutually selected projects focusing on the computational properties of complex systems with particular, but not exclusive, emphasis on the social sciences.

The Complex Systems Summer School offers an intensive four week introduction to complex behavior in mathematical, physical, living, and social systems for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in the sciences and social sciences. The school is for participants who seek background and hands-on experience to help them prepare to conduct interdisciplinary research in areas related to complex systems.

The program consists of an intensive series of lectures, laboratories, and discussion sessions focusing on foundational ideas, tools, and current topics in complex systems research. These include nonlinear dynamics and pattern formation, scaling theory, information theory and computation theory, adaptation and evolution, network structure and dynamics, adaptive computation techniques, computer modeling tools and specific applications of these core topics to various disciplines. In addition, participants will formulate and carry out team projects related to topics covered in the program.

Joe Traub (Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University; External Professor, Santa Fe Institute)

Elhanan Borenstein (University of Washington; SFI External Professor)

The Santa Fe Institute is pleased to announce the 18th annual Graduate Workshop in Computational Social Science Modeling and Complexity. The workshop will bring together a group of advanced graduate students and a small faculty for an intensive two week study of computational social science modeling and complexity. The workshop will consist of lectures by faculty, special topic seminars by members of the Santa Fe Institute, and presentations of work in progress by graduate student participants. The primary goal of the summer workshop is to assist graduate students pursuing research agendas which includes a computational modeling component. A significant portion of the workshop will be devoted to analyzing and improving research being conducted by the graduate student participants.

Helmut Katzgraber (Department of Physics & Astronomy, Texas A&M University)

Dan Hruschka, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Arizona State University; author Friendship:  Development, Ecology and Evolution of a Relationship, SFI Omidyar Fellow Alumnus.

Sponsored in memory of Kate Klein, from the Kate Klein Fund at the Santa Fe Community Foundation

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

Didier Sornette (ETH Zurich)

Luis Bettencourt (Santa Fe Institute) and Jose Lobo (Arizona State University)

Arthur D. Lander (Center for Complex Biological Systems, and Departments of Developmental & Cell Biology and Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine; SFI Science Board)

Charles Efferson (University of Zurich)

Sylvie Thoron (Paris XII)

Mahzarin Banaji (Harvard University)

Joe Halpern (Cornell University) and Willemien Kets (Northwestern)

Rajiv Sethi (Columbia University)

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

Marc Lipsitch (Director, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard University; SFI External Professor)

Alan Kirman (Université d'Aix Marseille lll)

Marie LaLanne and Paul Seabright (Toulouse University)

Rob J. De Boer (Theoretical Biology & Bioinformatics, Utrecht University; SFI External Professor)

Duncan Watts, Principal Researcher, Microsoft; author, Everything Is Obvious Once You Know The Answer; and former SFI External Professor.

Sponsored by the Peters Family Foundation

Louis Theran (Freie Universität Berlin)

Sir Christopher Llewellyn Smith (Director of Energy Research, Oxford University; President SESAME Council; Director General, CERN 1994-1998)

Kyle Pate, Southern Oregon University

Panelists include Lord Colin Renfrew, Sir Christopher Llewellyn Smith, Nobel laureate Professor Murray Gell-Mann, Professor Melanie Mitchell, and Professor David Krakauer (moderator)

This event is generously supported by the John Templeton Foundation.

Madeleine Daepp, Washington University in St. Louis

SFI / NMC Program on Combining Information Theory and Game Theory

Organizers: David Wolpert (SFI External Faculty), Simon DeDeo (SFI Omidyar Fellow), Nils Bertschinger (Max Planck), Eckehard Olbrich (Max Planck), Eric Smith (SFI External Faculty), Luis Bettencourt (SFI)

How a single agent (human, firm, animal, etc.) behaves typically depends on what information it has about its environment, and on its preferences. Accordingly, the joint behavior of multiple interacting agents can depend strongly on the information available to the separate agents, both about one another, and about external random variables. Precisely how the joint behavior depends on the information available to the agents is determined by the preferences of those agents. So in general there is a strong interplay among the preferences of all the agents, their behavior, and the information structure connecting them.

One tool that might help us understand this interplay is Shannon information theory. In Shannon information theory, information is a function of a distribution. Increasing the amount of information in a distribution means making that distribution more tightly concentrated. This definition applies not only if the support of the distribution shrinks or expands, but also if it moves.

Another tool that might help us understand the interplay is game theory. In contrast to Shannon information theory, game theory does not quantify information in terms of properties of probability distributions. Rather the information available to a player is quantified as an "information set," specifying a set of states the world might be in. The amount of information available to a player increases if such an information set shrinks. In contrast to the case with Shannon information theory, the change in information for moving an information set is undefined.

There are other differences between information theory and game theory. For example, whereas the foundations of Shannon information theory concern a single player (the designer of a communication network), the foundations of game theory concern multiple players.

Reconciling the different perspectives on information in Shannon information theory and game theory could have many benefits. Most directly, it may help us understand the interplay among the preferences of a set of interacting players, their behavior, and the information structure connecting them. As potential examples, it might help us address issues like the following:

1. How do information theoretic quantifications of the joint behavior of a set of interacting players (e.g., mutual information between actions of pairs of them) vary with changes to the preferences of those players?

2. Can relating the philosophical foundations of the two fields improve them? For example, as Shannon himself emphasized, Shannon information is purely "syntactic," quantifying the amount of information in a distribution purely by how concentrated it is. Can the utility functions of game theory—which depend not just on how concentrated a distribution is, but also on where it is concentrated—be used to define a "semantic" variant of Shannon information?

3. Can relating the mathematical formalisms of the two fields improve them? For example, are there analogs of the powerful theorems of information theory for game-theoretic quantities, e.g., game theoretic versions of results concerning rate distortion tradeoffs, the data processing inequality, etc.?

More generally, greater understanding of the relation between information theory and game theory may generate breakthroughs in many disciplines, including economics, political science, cognitive sciences and artificial intelligence.

Full web page here.

Dr. Mathew Burrows, Counselor and Director, Analysis and Production Staff, National Intelligence Council

Space for this event is limited.  Please RSVP to Chris Wood at ccwood@santafe.edu.

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

George Starostin (Center for Comparative Linguistics, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow)

Emanuel Derman (Columbia University)

George Dyson (Author and Historian of Technology)

Richard Colbaugh (Sandia National Laboratories)

Herbert Maschner (Anthropology Research Professor; Director, Idaho Museum of Natural History; Director, Center for Archaeology, Materials, and Applied Spectroscopy)

Stephan Mertens (Theoretical Physics, Otto-von-Guericke University; External Professor, Santa Fe Institute)

Scott Ortman, Omidyar Fellow, Santa Fe Institute; Lightfoot Fellow, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center.

Nicolas Perony (ETH Zurich,  Chair of Systems Design)

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

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.

More information about the course can be found on our wiki page.

Graham Sack (Columbia University)

Luciano Costa (Institute of Physics at Sao Carlos, University of Sao Paulo)

Martin Davis (Professor Emeritus, Courant-NYU; Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley)

The Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) and the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) will kick off a lecture series, Chaos to Complexity: Artists & Scientists Share Insights Into the Creative Process

4:00 PM — Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (108 Cathedral Place, Santa Fe)

The series explores the creative process in art and science.

Robert May, Baron May of Oxford; Professor, Zoology, Oxford University and Imperial College; former president of Britain's Royal Society, and former Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government

Troy Day (Professor and Canada Research Chair (TII), Mathematical Biology, Queens University)

Aram Harrow (University of Washington)

Chen Hou (Department of Biological Sciences, Missouri University of Science and Technology)

Eric Friedman (International Computer Science Institute and Computer Science, UC Berkeley)

Chris Wood (Vice President, Administration and Director, Business Network, Santa Fe Institute)

Peter Loxley (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

Pierre Cartier (Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques)

André Martins (Complex System Modelling Program, School of Arts, Sciences, and Humanities, University of São Paulo)

Henry Wright (Professor of Anthropology and Curator of Near Eastern Archaeology, University of Michigan, Department of Anthropology and Museum of Anthropology; Science Board, External Professor, Santa Fe Institute)

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

Nikhil Kaza (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Rob Wilson (Project Director, Living Archives on Eugenics in Western Canada; Department of Philosophy, University of Alberta)

Bret Beheim (University of New Mexico)

Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, M.D. (Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCLA Division of Cardiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA) and Kathryn Bowers (University of California, Los Angeles)

Charles Stanish (Professor, Department of Anthropology; Director, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA)

George Gumerman (School for Advanced Research and SFI, External Professor)

Peter N. Peregrine (Professor of Anthropology, Lawrence University and External Professor, Santa Fe Institute)

Aram Galstyan (University of Southern California)

Greg Ver Steeg (University of Southern California)

Murray Gell-Mann (Distinguished Fellow, Santa Fe Institute)

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Jeremy Van Cleve and Laura Fortunato

Paul Falkowski (Depts. of Geological Sciences & Marine & Coastal Science, Institute of Marine & Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University)

Matthew O. Jackson (Department of Economics, Stanford University)

Cris Moore (Professor, Santa Fe Institute)

Eckehard Olbrich (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences)

Daniel Dennett (Tufts University)

Martin Strobel (Department of Economics, Maastricht University)

James Hansen (Columbia University Earth Institute)

Veit Elser (Cornell University)

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Evandro Ferrada and Paul Hooper

Leysia Palen (University of Colorado, Boulder)

Paula Sabloff (Professor, Santa Fe Institute)

Amos Golan (Department of Economics, American University)

Greer Garson Theater, 1600 St. Michaels Drive, Santa Fe (NOTE:  Change in Venue)

Palen is an associate professor of computer science and director of Project EPIC (Empowering the Public with Information during Crisis) at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Pascal Van Hentenryck (NICTA)

Peter F. Stadler (University of Leipzig; SFI External Professor)

Kevin Knuth (University at Albany - SUNY)