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Events
Complexity Science in Eastern Europe

conference

14/05/2001 18/05/2001

Complexity Science in Eastern Europe

MPI für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften Leipzig

G3 10 (Lecture hall)

Joint Workshop: Complexity Science in Eastern Europe
Complexity - Unifying Themes for the Sciences and New Frontiers for Mathematics

Santa Fe Institute for the Sciences of Complexity (SFI)
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (MPI)

May 14, 2001
09:00	Ellen Goldberg (Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe Institute) Introduction: The Santa Fe Institute and its International Program
09:30	Jürgen Jost Introduction to the Meeting
10:55	Cognitive systems and the need for interdisciplinary cooperations
11:00	Olaf Breidbach System dynamics, the brain and the evolution of biological structures
15:00	Ivan Havel Transdisciplinarity and the fragmented view of the world
16:30	Miroslav Holeèek Horizon as part of the natural world
May 15, 2001
08:55	Formal tools from mathematics and physics and computer models: What general mechanisms can be proposed for understanding complex systems, and what are their respective scopes?
09:15	Sanjay Jain Origin and evolution of complexity in dynamical networks
10:45	Cosma Shalizi Computational mechanics and pattern discovery
14:00	Imre Kondor Spin-glass-like complex optimisation problems in finance
16:00	Andreas Dress Measures of complexity of set systems as a tool in phylogenetic analysis
May 16, 2001
09:00	Putting it to work: Artificial complex systems in the computer
09:15	Maciej Komosinski The role of genetics in evolution of stick agents
10:45	Frank Pasemann Evolved neurodynamics, embodied cognition and the control of autonomous robots
May 17, 2001
09:00	The really complex systems: Social and ecological systems. What phenomena can be discovered here, and what tools can be used?
09:15	Sander van der Leeuw The complexities of integrating social and natural systems
10:45	Laszlo Bruszt Heterarchy as a concept for the analysis of political systems
14:00	David Storch Macroecological patterns in distribution of organisms: Complex patterns with simple explanations and simple patterns with complex explanations
16:00	Beata Oborny Information processing and adaptive behavior in plants
May 18, 2001
09:00	Biological systems: Evolution and development - what makes them different and what do they have in common?
09:15	John Pepper The evolution of evolvability: Two case studies
10:30	Gheorghe Paun Molecular computing: DNA and membrane computing
11:45	Geoff West The origin of universal scaling laws in biology from molecules & cells to whales & ecosystems
14:00	Peter Stadler Generic properties of genotype-phenotype maps: The example of biopolymers
16:00	Tom Kepler Stochasticity in transcriptional regulation: origins, consequences and mathematical representation

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Jürgen Jost

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