NEW ENGLAND COMPLEX SYSTEMS INSTITUTE
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPLEX SYSTEMS
OCTOBER 25-30, 1998
Preliminary Conference Program
The following program includes a current list of
confirmed speakers and session chairs (* indicates
confirmed) - titles in the program are all tentative.
For more information see http://necsi.org/html/iccs2.html
A few seats are still available. Early registration
deadline is September 1.
PRECONFERENCES (SEPARATE REGISTRATION AND DEADLINES)
Statistical Physics of Complex Systems - Oct 23-24:
http://www.necsi.org/events/spcs.html
*BRUCE BOGHOSIAN: Conference chair
Speakers:
*MICHEL BARANGER
*JEAN-PIERRE BOON
EDDIE COHEN
*PETER COVENEY
DANIEL FISHER
*DAVID LEVERMORE
*JON MACHTA
*DAVID SHERRINGTON
*CONSTANTINO TSALLIS
Complexity and Management - Oct 22-25:
http://lissack.com/managing.html
*MICHAEL LISSACK - Conference chair
Speakers and Activity Leaders:
*KEN BASKIN
*CHAUNCEY BELL
*MAX BOISSOT
*JEFFREY GOLDSTEIN
*KEN HEY
*PETER MOORE
*TOM PETZINGER
*JAN RIFKIN
ICCS CONFERENCE PROGRAM
SUNDAY October 25
9:00AM-5:00PM PEDAGOGICAL SESSIONS
*DAN STEIN - Pedagogical sessions: session chair.
*ALFRED HUBLER - Overview
*CRIS MOORE - Computational Complexity
*CHARLIE DOERING - Convection,Stability&Turbulence
*FRED NIJHOUT - Patterns in Development
*KEN KOLLMAN - Society & Economics
MIKE HASSELMO - Neural systems
GEOFFREY WEST - Scaling
5:00PM-8:00PM RECEPTION
MONDAY October 26
9:00AM-12:20PM EMERGENCE
*JEROME KAGAN - Emergence
*PHILIP ANDERSON -
STUART KAUFFMAN -
*STEPHEN KOSSLYN - The Visual Mind
*NORMAN I. BADLER - Virtual Humans
2:00PM-5:20PM DESCRIPTION AND MODELING
*STEVE LANSING - Description and Modeling
*JOHN STERMAN - System Dynamics
*DAVID HAREL - Statecharts
KARL SIGMUND - Evolutionary Game Theory
GEORGE GUMERMAN - Archeological Modeling
7:30PM-9:30PM FUNDING
*JAMES ANDERSON - NIH (NIGMS)
*MIKE MCCLOSKEY - NSF
TUESDAY October 27
9:00AM-12:20PM SELF-ORGANIZATION
*IRVING EPSTEIN - Self-Organization
*DAVID CAMPBELL
*J. A. SCOTT KELSO
LEV GINSBERG
MAX BOISOT
2:00PM-5:00PM AFTERNOON PARALLEL BREAKOUT SESSIONS
*BOB SAVIT - Modeling Social Systems
*BENNETT LEVITAN/STUART KAUFFMAN/JOSE LOBO,
*ALI MINAI/JAMES UBER/MARCO PROPATO,
*THAD BROWN, *DAVID MEYER, JOSH EPSTEIN
*SETH LLOYD - Quantum Information and Computation
*DAVID DIVINCENZO, JOHN PRESKILL
*THOMAS DEISBOECK - Medical Complexity
DOUGLAS A. LAUFFENBURGER, JOEL E. COHEN,
DAVID D. HO, DAVID E. AXELROD, RON KIKINIS,
PETER SZOLOVITZ
*SEAN RICE - Evolution: Multi Level Selection
and the Structure of Biological Systems
*LETICIA AVILES, *CHARLES GOODNIGHT,
*DAVID SLOAN WILSON, ELIZABETH LLOYD
*ROBERT BERWICK - A-Languages
7:00PM-10:00PM EVENING PARALLEL BREAKOUT SESSIONS
*DAN BRAHA - Modeling the Design Process
*BILL BIRMINGHAM, *DAVID BROWN,
*PRADEEP KHOSLA, JAMES RINDERLE
*TERRENCE DEACON - Conciousness
*RICHARD BAGELY - Symbolic Dynamics/Information
Mechanics
*TIM KEITT/*LES KAUFMAN - Dynamics in Ecological Networks
KALYANMOY DEB - Artificial Evolution and Optimization
WEDNESDAY October 28
9:00AM-12:20PM NETWORKS
*LARRY RUDOLPH - NETWORKS
ELI UPFAL - Structure and Analysis of Networks
DAVID CULLER - The Network is the Computer
ANTONIO CONIGLIO - Percolation and Fractal Networks
AFTERNOON EXCURSION
BANQUET
*DEAN LEBARON - Banquet Session
EDWARD N. LORENZ
THURSDAY October 29
9:00AM-11:40AM TIME SERIES
*RICHARD COHEN - Time Series
*DOYNE FARMER
*ANDREW LO
BILL DITTO
11:40AM-12:20PM MANAGING COMPLEXITY
*HARRIS BERMAN - Medical management
2:00PM-5:00PM AFTERNOON PARALLEL BREAKOUT SESSIONS
*KOSTA TSIPIS - Global Systems
*FRANK SCHWEITZER, *MANJULA WALDRON,
*SUSAN AARON, *ROBERTO SERRA
*PER BAK - Networks
*MAX GARZON - DNA Computing
*HELEN HARTE/*FARRELL JORGENSEN - Health Care Management
*MARK VAN KOOY, *MARTIN MERRY, *WILLIAM BRASWELL,
MARK SMITH, JEFF GOLDSTEIN
JAY LEE JAROSLAV - Artificial Minds
7:00PM-10:00PM EVENING PARALLEL BREAKOUT SESSIONS
*ANJELI SASTRY - System Dynamics
*GEORGE RICHARDSON, *CHRIS WHITE,
*JIM HINES/JODY HOUSE
*WALTER FREEMAN/*ALI MINAI - Neural Computation
*STEVE BRESSLER, *JOHN LISMAN, *RANDY MCINTOSH,
X.J. WANG
*MICHAEL JACOBSON - Education in Complex Systems
*WIN FARRELL, *MARSHALL CLEMENS, *JIM KAPUT,
*URI WILENSKY/KENNETH REISMAN
MIHAIL ROCO - Nanotechnology
FRIDAY October 30
9:00AM-12:20PM AGENTS IN ACTION
*WILLIAM FULKERSON - Agents in Action
THAD BROWN
PATTY MAES
JIM ODELL
VAN PARUNAK
12:20PM-5:20PM COMPLEXITY AND MANAGEMENT (EXTENDED SESSION
INCLUDING LUNCH)
*TOM PETZINGER - Complexity and Management
*MICHAEL HAMMER
*WILLIAM MCKELVEY
HENRY MINTZBERG
*LAURENCE PRUSAK
*PETER SENGE
HOWARD SHERMAN
POSTCONFERENCE (SEPARATE REGISTRATION AND DEADLINE)
Corporate Community Meeting October 30-November 1, 1998
http://www.necsi.org/events/iccs2_CC.html
Several seats remain for the Corporate Community meeting
immediately following ICCS.
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Yaneer Bar-Yam
President
New England Complex Systems Institute
http://necsi.org
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