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G3 10 (Lecture hall)

conference

14.05.01 18.05.01

Complexity Science in Eastern Europe

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

09:00 - 10:00	Ellen Goldberg (Santa Fe Institute) Introduction: The Santa Fe Institute and its International Program
09:30 - 10:30	Jürgen Jost (MPI MIS Leipzig) Introduction to the Meeting
	Cognitive systems and the need for interdisciplinary cooperations
11:00 - 12:00	Olaf Breidbach (Univ. Jena / Theorie Labor Jena) System dynamics, the brain and the evolution of biological structures
15:00 - 16:00	Ivan Havel (Center for Theoretical Study, Prague) Transdisciplinarity and the fragmented view of the world
16:30 - 17:30	Miroslav Holeèek (Univ. of West Bohemia, Pilsen) Horizon as part of the natural world

	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 - 10:15	Sanjay Jain (Indian Institute of Science and Santa Fe Institute) Origin and evolution of complexity in dynamical networks
10:45 - 11:45	Cosma Shalizi (Santa Fe Institute) Computational mechanics and pattern discovery
14:00 - 15:00	Imre Kondor (Eotvos Univ., Budapest) Spin-glass-like complex optimisation problems in finance
16:00 - 17:00	Andreas Dress (Univ. Bielefeld) Measures of complexity of set systems as a tool in phylogenetic analysis

	Putting it to work: Artificial complex systems in the computer
09:15 - 10:15	Maciej Komosinski (Poznan Univ. of Technology) The role of genetics in evolution of stick agents
10:45 - 11:45	Frank Pasemann (Theorie Labor Jena / MPI Leipzig) Evolved neurodynamics, embodied cognition and the control of autonomous robots

	The really complex systems: Social and ecological systems. What phenomena can be discovered here, and what tools can be used?
09:15 - 10:15	Sander van der Leeuw (Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and Santa Fe Institute) The complexities of integrating social and natural systems
10:45 - 11:45	Laszlo Bruszt (Central European University, Budapest) Heterarchy as a concept for the analysis of political systems
14:00 - 15:00	David Storch (Center for Theoretical Study, Prague) Macroecological patterns in distribution of organisms: Complex patterns with simple explanations and simple patterns with complex explanations
16:00 - 17:00	Beata Oborny (Eotvos University, Budapest) Information processing and adaptive behavior in plants

	Biological systems: Evolution and development - what makes them different and what do they have in common?
09:15 - 10:15	John Pepper (Santa Fe Institute) The evolution of evolvability: Two case studies
10:30 - 11:30	Gheorghe Paun (Romanian Academy, Bucuresti) Molecular computing: DNA and membrane computing
11:45 - 12:45	Geoff West (Santa Fe Institute) The origin of universal scaling laws in biology from molecules & cells to whales & ecosystems
14:00 - 15:00	Peter Stadler (Univ. Vienna and Santa Fe Institute) Generic properties of genotype-phenotype maps: The example of biopolymers
16:00 - 17:00	Tom Kepler (Santa Fe Institute) Stochasticity in transcriptional regulation: origins, consequences and mathematical representation

Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften