"Reckless Ideas" / blue sky seminars 2013 schedule Friday 23 August: Kyle Bocinksy ["Free nights and weekends" in the AD 1000s?] ================================================================== 2012 schedule Friday 20 January: David Wolpert [Distributed Information: a Way for the Second Law to Increase Complexity] Friday 10 February: Chris Wood [The Ubiquity of Search] Friday 9 March: David Wolpert [Networks in strategic interactions -- but not the kinds you think] Friday 28 June: Cris Moore [Messy Systems] Friday 7 September: Dave Ackley [Computation after correctness and efficiency] Friday 28 September: Clio Andris [The Color Project] ================================================================== 2011 schedule Friday 18 February: James O'Dwyer [What is expertise, and can we quantify it?] Friday 11 March: Seth Lloyd [Time Travel!] Friday 1 April: Rogier Braakman [Stars... Cities of the Sky?] Friday 22 April: Melanie Mitchell [Can computers gain knowledge and discover meaning from the Web?] Friday 27 May: Luis Bettencourt [bits in the swarm: information processing in simple models of collective behavior] Friday 24 June: Cosma Shalizi [Why observing social influence is so hard, and how community discovery might finally be good for something] Friday 5 August: Alexander (Sasha) Gutfraind [Predicting the winners of wars: an impossible dream?] Friday 7 October: HyeJin Youn [Is there such thing as a free school lunch?] Thursday 1 December: Bryan Daniels [Model Selection and the Theory of Everything] ================================================================== 2010 schedule Friday 5 March: Simon DeDeo [interstellar semiconductor life] Friday 26 March: David Krakauer [Why we are not born running and talking, why the congenitally blind do not regain perfect vision following corneal transplant, and why worm brains of a single species are identical.] Friday April 16: Jeremy Van Cleve [telepathy-like phenomena in social organisms, just like in avatar!] Friday May 7: Dan Dennett [Selfish neurons, selfish gangs of neurons, and "Darwinian paranoia": Who buys what with the "currency of reward"?] Thursday/Friday June 17/18: [CSSS -- no meeting] Friday 9 July: Doyne Farmer [The notion of the machine as the fundamental building block of adaptive complex systems] Thursday 22 July: Erica Jen [Path Dependence: Where do we go from here?] ================================================================== what: all things provisional, questionable, and wildly long-leap location: 3.05 pm, Pod B Convocation Area (Thursday/Friday stochastic wobble) ================================================================== Two Rules of Reckless Ideas: Presenter rule: one slide only (or chalk-and-talk.) Audience rule: "yeah, but" -> "yes! and. . ." ================================================================== Other notes: If you find an emergency and can not host on your scheduled day, you are responsible for finding an alternate. Reckless Ideas is like the Muppet Show, it must go on. ================================================================== 'What is a Caucus-race?' said Alice; not that she wanted much to know, but the Dodo had paused as if it thought that somebody ought to speak, and no one else seemed inclined to say anything. 'Why,' said the Dodo, 'the best way to explain it is to do it.' (And, as you might like to try the thing yourself, some winter day, I will tell you how the Dodo managed it.) First it marked out a race-course, in a sort of circle, ('the exact shape doesn't matter,' it said,) and then all the party were placed along the course, here and there. There was no 'One, two, three, and away,' but they began running when they liked, and left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know when the race was over. However, when they had been running half an hour or so, and were quite dry again, the Dodo suddenly called out 'The race is over!' and they all crowded round it, panting, and asking, 'But who has won?' This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought, and it sat for a long time with one finger pressed upon its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in silence. At last the Dodo said, 'everybody has won, and all must have prizes.' Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll Chapter Three: A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale ================================================================== Part of an international network: http://member.ipmu.jp/simon.dedeo/tunch_schedule.txt http://kicp.uchicago.edu/~tcrawfor/thunch_schedule.txt http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~thunch/thunch.guests_history