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The Series for 2007-2008
Friday October 12, 2007 (1:30-3:00)
Dario Nardi (UCLA, Human Complex Systems) "Title TBA" Bio
Friday October 26, 2007 (1:30-3:00 )
Laurent Tambayong (MBS, UCI) "Simulating Micro Trade Networks; the Dynamics of Macro Trade Networks" Bio
Friday November 9, 2007 (1:00-3:00)
Friday November 16, 2007 (1:30-3:00)
Demetri Terzopoulos, UCR. Simulating Pedestrians.
Demetri Terzopoulos is an expert in multi-agent simulations of humans in environments and has done a very interesting presenting on pedestrians in the old NYC Penn Station. The paper for this is on his website.
Winter Quarter
Friday January 11, November 16, 2007 (1:30-3:00)
Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison t
"Complexity Works: Rain Forest / Meadow / Eco-Urban Edge / Glacial Melt and Sponge" -
Abstract We present four illustrative projects in which we have been invited to intervene on a large ecological scale in the aftermath of massive resource extractions from diverse environments whose sustainability is profoundly compromised. Each work proposes a response and new proposal to four different large systems at risk. These are the North American Rain Forest, the Endangered Meadows of Europe, the Green Heart of Holland, and the water sources of Peninsula Europe in relationship to global warming and glacial meltdown. Includes discourse, presentation of readings & imagery, discussion.
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UCI Conference and catered lunch
Saturday January 12, 9:45-2:30 -
Saturday was chosen to allow more undergrads to attend (the afternoon segment may be extended if more speakers are added to the schedule). The name of our bldg is the Anteater Instructional & Research Bldg (formerly 18C parking lot) on East Peltason Drive, between Gabrielino Drive & Los Trancos Drive. There is a new 4-story parking structure built right next to us. Adjacent to our bldg is a sign marked Henry Samueli School of Engineering. Once in the bldg, take the elevator to the 3rd floor and once you step out of the elevator turn left. The entrance into the video teleconference center is door #3030. Lunch is at 12:20 in room 3010 Anteater I&R room over.
During and after our catered lunch (The Asian Delight sweet and sour chicken) we will have three discussionsDiscussion of Materiality and Cognition
- Materiality in Cognition
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- Nicholas Gessler "Intermediated Cultural Cognition: Putting Materiality back into Simulations"
- 9:45-11:00
- Short Abstract. Simulations in evolutionary computation, artificial life and artificial culture create emergent global patterns of behavior not evident from their underlying local rules. However, emergence rarely climbs higher than one level. Higher levels are reached in natural systems by the capture of emergences from their native media, to new media with different material and physical properties. This is intermediation, a process lacking in most simulations.."
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- ]Edwin Hutchins, UCSD, "Material anchors for conceptual blends
- 11:15-12:30
- Abstract. Conceptual blends are ways that networks or relations as metaphors are used to generate and map our thought. In this talk I will explore some ways that systems of human cultural practice bring simple perceptual abilities into coordination with the social and material world to produce complex cognitive accomplishments.
- (A new paper by Murray Leaf on Empirical Formalism is nicely complementary to these two talks, e.g. "Abandoning the traditional view that minds are the essentially passive contemplators of independently existing objects, .... that objects are constructs in which the activity of minds plays an essential part” (1975: xx)." p. 9
- Discussant: Malcolm Dean
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- Larry Li's suggestion that we coordinate, across the 4 campuses, a proposal to the "Ten plus Ten" alliance with China for an enhanced social science, environment and sustainable development, being coordinated throgh UCOP and UCR.
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- Duran Bell's report on potentials for developing Minor programs in Human Complex Systems
UC Irvine 3030 Anteater I&R Bldg http://www.uci.edu/campusmaps.shtml
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Friday January 25, 1:30-3:00
Laurent Tambayong UCI "Simulating Game Theoretic Micro Trade Networks as the Dynamics of Entrepreneurial Organization Formations"
Friday February 8, 1:30-3:00
Cosma Shalizi University of Michigan, "Methods and Techniques of Complex Systems Science: An Overview"
See:"Methods and Techniques of Complex Systems Science: An Overview", chapter 1 (pp. 33-114) in Thomas S. Deisboeck and J. Yasha Kresh (eds.), Complex Systems Science in Biomedicine (NY: Springer, 2006).
Abstract: A summary of the tools people should use to study complex systems, covering statistical learning and data-mining, time series analysis, cellular automata, agent-based models, evaluation techniques and simulation, information theory and complexity measures.
Friday February 22, 1:30-3:00
Mark Handcock "A simple model for complex networks with arbitrary degree distribution and clustering"
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UCLA Conference and catered lunch
Saturday March 8, 1:30-3:00
The more virtual an organization becomes, the more its people need to meet in person" (Handy, 1995, Harvard Business Review 73(3):40-60
- 9am: Continental Breakfast.
- 9:15am: Prologue: Dwight Read (UCLA Anthro and UCLA HCS Chair).
- 9:30am: Michalis Faloutsos (UCR Computer Science) , "Systematizing the analysis of complex networks, mainly Internet and biological networks"
- 10:45am: Break.
- 11am: Stephen Lansing (U of Arizona Anthro and SFI), "Complexity: Balinese and Elsewhere".
- 12:15pm: Catered lunch at the meeting room.
- 1pm William I. Newman (UCLA Math, Astronomy, and Earth & Space Sciences), topic along the lines of : "Gang Recruitment and Growth: A Cellular Automata and Directed Graph Approach to the Statistics of Gang Sizes".
- 2:15pm: Break.
- 2:30pm: Paul Jorion (Anthropologist, Financial Analyst, UCLA HCS Research Affiliate): "Complexity analysis of the sub-prime mortgage melt-down in the U.S. and its consequences".
- 3:45pm: Epilogue: Doug White (UCI Anthro & HSC Video Conference Chair).
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Friday, April 4 2008, 4:00-5:30
HSC - Calit2 Videoconference
Telecast from Calit2 Auditorium, UCSD, Atkinson Hall
Charles Kemp, Cognitive Science/Computer Science, MIT, Now at CMU
Friday April 18 2008 , 1:30-3:00
Friday May 2 2008, 1:30-3:00
HSC ULCA only UCLA Haines 352, the Anthro Reading Roomm, not 285 Powell Library
Ioannis Katerelos - Scholar from Greece visiting UCLA spring 2008
"Multiple Equilibria Regulation Model in Cellular Automata Topology" Ioannis D. Katerelos; Andreas Koulouris, Greece
Friday May 9 2008, 2:00-3:30
HSC - Calit2 Telecast from Calit2 Auditorium, UCSD, Atkinson Hall
Friday May 16 2008, 1:30-3:00
Friday May 30 2008, 1:30-3:00
UCLA Haines 352, the Anthro Reading Roomm, not 285 Powell Library
June 6 , 2008
Calit2
Hal Varian, Economics, Berkeley/Google
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