Santa Fe Institute

Organized by Sam Bowles

Sam Bowles and Monique Borgerhoff Mulder (Santa Fe Institute)

Stuart Kauffman and Naresh Singh.

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

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

Jessica Green and Jennifer Dunne.

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

Willemien Kets

Mark Johnson and Katherine Demuth.

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

Paige Prescott,  Learn@SFI Team Member

organized by Alan Perelson (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

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

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?

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

Small meeting group with daily discussions on topics in neuroscience.

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.

“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.

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.

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

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 20-24, 2013 at Argonne, IL.  Co-organized by SFI Business Network and Argonne National Laboratory.

For more info and registration please visit the ABMS Course Page