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Working Group/Workshop - Current and Upcoming Events - April 21, 2012

  • * 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.

May 7, 2012

Science
Complex Systems Thinking in Program Evaluation
Noyce Conference Room
May 7, 2012 - May 8, 2012
Workshop

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Doug Erwin, SFI and Nancy Deutsch, SFI

May 12, 2012

Science
Legacies of the Manhattan Project: A Case Study in the History of Science and in Consequences of Conflict
Collins Conference Room
May 12, 2012 - May 13, 2012
Working Group

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Linda Cordell, SFI & SAR and Ellen Bradbury-Reid, Recursos de Santa Fe

May 14, 2012

Business Network
Capturing Business Complexity with Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation: Useful, Usable, and Used Techniques
May 14, 2012 - May 18, 2012
Workshop

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

May 17, 2012

Science
Power Grids as Complex Networks: Formulating Problems for Useful Science and Science Based Engineering
Noyce Conference Room
May 17, 2012 - May 19, 2012
Workshop

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Christopher Moore, SFI

July 12, 2012

Science
Can There Be a Science of Cities?
Noyce Conference Room
July 12, 2012 - July 14, 2012
Workshop

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Geoffrey West, Luis Bettencourt and Jose Lobo

July 24, 2012

Science
Multi-Sampler Optimization
Collins Conference Room
July 24, 2012 - July 25, 2012
Working Group

SFI Host: David Wolpert

Aug. 4, 2012

Science
Neurobiology Working Group in Olfaction
Aug. 4, 2012 - Aug. 19, 2012
Working Group

SFI Host: Chuck Stevens

Aug. 6, 2012

Science
The Principles of Complexity: Life, Scale, and Civilization
Noyce Conference Room
Aug. 6, 2012 - Aug. 8, 2012
Workshop

SFI Host: Geoffrey West

Aug. 25, 2012

Science
Early Maya E-Groups, Solar Calendars and the Role of Astronomy in the Rise of Lowland Urbanism
Collins Conference Room
Aug. 25, 2012 - Aug. 26, 2012
Working Group
Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: David Freidel, SFI & Washington University

Sept. 17, 2012

Science
Out of the Box Thinking: Touching Tomorrow's World with Today's Science
Noyce Conference Room
Sept. 17, 2012 - Sept. 20, 2012
Workshop
SFI Host: Ginger Richardson
Science
SARC (Scientists/Artists Research Collaborations) Working Group
Collins Conference Room
Sept. 17, 2012 - Sept. 18, 2012
Working Group

SFI Host: Jennifer Dunne

Nov. 1, 2012

Science
Risk
Collins Conference Room
Working Group
SFI Host: John Rundle

Nov. 29, 2012

Science
Multi-Information Source Optimization
Noyce Conference Room
Nov. 29, 2012 - Nov. 30, 2012
Working Group

SFI Host: David Wolpert

Jan. 8, 2013

Science
Collection, Organization and Analyses of Community Based Survey Data from Informal Settlements
Collins Conference Room
Jan. 8, 2013 - Jan. 10, 2013
Working Group

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Luis Bettencourt

Jan. 25, 2013

Science
Self-Invention in Biological and Societal Systems
Collins Conference Room
Jan. 25, 2013 - Jan. 26, 2013
Working Group
SFI Host: Doug Erwin

Feb. 1, 2013

Science
Network Structure, Political Hierarchy and Economic Inequality
Noyce Conference Room
Feb. 1, 2013 - Feb. 3, 2013
Workshop

SFI Host: Sam Bowles & Paul Hooper

March 5, 2013

Science
Gradient-Based Ecological Network Research: Next Generation Data, Models, and Theory
Collins Conference Room
March 5, 2013 - March 7, 2013
Working Group
SFI Host: Jennifer Dunne

April 3, 2013

Science
Machine Learning for Materials Design
Collins Conference Room
April 3, 2013 - April 4, 2013
Working Group
SFI Host: David Wolpert, Frank Alexander and Turab Lookman

May 1, 2013

Science
Risk II
Noyce Conference Room
May 1, 2013 - May 2, 2013
Working Group
SFI Host: John Rundle

May 6, 2013

Science
Structure, Statistical Inference, and Dynamics in Networks: From Graphs to Rich Data
Noyce Conference Room
May 6, 2013 - May 9, 2013
Workshop
SFI Host: Cris Moore, Aaron Clauset, and Mark Newman

May 20, 2013

Business Network
Capturing Business Complexity with Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation: Useful, Usable, and Used Techniques
May 20, 2013 - May 24, 2013
Workshop

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

Purpose: Business Network

May 28, 2013

Science
Social Complexity at Cahokia
Collins Conference Room
May 28, 2013 - May 30, 2013
Working Group
SFI Host: Peter Peregrine, Scott Ortman, and Eric Rupley

July 29, 2013

Science
Algebra, Cryptography, and Quantum Algorithms
Pod A Conference Room
July 29, 2013 - Aug. 2, 2013
Working Group
SFI Host: Cris Moore

Aug. 1, 2013

Science
7:30 a.m.
The Principles of Complexity: Life, Scale, and Civilization II
Noyce Conference Room
Aug. 1, 2013 - Aug. 2, 2013
Workshop
SFI Host: Jerry Sabloff, Geoffrey West, David Krakauer, Ginger Richardson and Melanie Mitchell

Aug. 7, 2013

Science
Deep Computation in Statistical Physics
Pod A Conference Room
Aug. 7, 2013 - Aug. 10, 2013
Workshop
SFI Host: Cris Moore, Jon Machta, and Stephan Mertens
Science
Getting Inside the Black Box: Technological Evolution and Economic Growth
Noyce Conference Room
Aug. 7, 2013 - Aug. 30, 2013
Workshop
SFI Host: Doyne Farmer, Eric Beinhocker, Deborah Strumsky, and Jose Lobo

Aug. 11, 2013

Science
Big Data in the Brain
Aug. 11, 2013 - Aug. 24, 2013
Working Group
SFI Host: Charles F. Stevens

Aug. 23, 2013

Science
Early Maya E-Groups, Solar Calendars, and the role of Astronomy in the rise of Lowland Urbanism: The Second Working Group
Collins Conference Room
Aug. 23, 2013 - Aug. 25, 2013
Working Group
SFI Host: David Freidel and Jerry Sabloff

Sept. 19, 2013

Science
How Far Can “Big Data” Take Us Towards Understanding Cities?
Noyce Conference Room
Sept. 19, 2013 - Sept. 21, 2013
Workshop
SFI Host: Geoffrey West, Luis Bettencourt, and Jose Lobo

Sept. 23, 2013

Science
Gateways to Emergent Behavior in Science and Society
Noyce Conference Room
Sept. 23, 2013 - Sept. 26, 2013
Workshop
SFI Host: David Pines, John Holland, Simon Levin, and Donald Saari

Oct. 22, 2013

Science
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

Events News

Audio: Interview with Simon DeDeo on his presentation of 'Sneakers' May 8, 2013 -

The popular Science On Screen series continued Wednesday, May 8, with SFI's Simon DeDeo and the 1992 cult hacker ...

Video: How social media might help you survive the next big disaster March 25, 2013 -

SFI's 2013 Community Lecture series debuted March 14 with UC-Boulder's Leysia Palen describing how victims, observers, and “citizen-responders ...

Climate scientists James Hansen, at SFI, calls for energy sources to foot their 'true' costs Feb. 22, 2013 -

Speaking at SFI yesterday, noted climate scientist James Hansen told an overflow crowd that efforts to stem climate change will ...

SFI's successful crowdfunding campaign will help scientists study indigenous people Dec. 14, 2012 -

SFI's crowdfunding campaign has reached its goal. The resulting research will help scientists preserve the threatened landscapes on which ...

The Gods Must Be Crazy with Murray Gell-Mann Dec. 13, 2012 -

The 2012 Science On Screen series in Santa Fe wrapped up December 13 to a full house, with "The Gods ...

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