Sunday, October 25

9:00AM-5:00PM PEDAGOGICAL SESSIONS

*Dan Stein - Pedagogical sessions

*Charlie Doering - Convection, Stability & Turbulence

*Gerard Vichniac - CA

*Alfred Hubler - Overview

*Geoffrey West - Scaling

*Cris Moore - Computational Complexity and Statistical Physics

*Fred Nijhout - Patterns in Development

*Matt Wilson - Neural systems

5:00PM-6:00PM PERSEUS BOOKS RECEPTION

6:00PM-7:30PM RECEPTION SESSION

*Jeffrey Robbins - Reception Chair

*Richard Wrangham - Primate behavior

Monday, October 26

9:00AM-12:20PM EMERGENCE

*Jerome Kagan - Emergence

*Philip Anderson - Emergence, Hierarchy, Complexity

*Stephen Kosslyn - The Visual Mind

*Norman I. Badler - Virtual Humans

*David Sloan Wilson - Altruism in Nature and Human Nature

2:00PM-5:20PM DESCRIPTION AND MODELING

*Steve Lansing - Description and Modeling

*John Sterman - System Dynamics

*David Harel - Statecharts

*Richard Palmer - Statistical Strategies

*Gerald Sussman - AI Perspectives

7:30PM-9:30PM FUNDING

*David Litster - Funding

*James Anderson - NIH (NIGMS)

*Mike McCloskey - NSF

Tuesday, October 27

9:00AM-12:20PM SELF-ORGANIZATION

*Irving Epstein - Self-Organization

*David Campbell - Physical Systems

*Leo Liu - Development of C. elegans

*Jerry Lettvin - Vision

*J. A. Scott Kelso - Patterns in the Brain

2:00PM-5:00PM AFTERNOON PARALLEL BREAKOUT SESSIONS

*Richard Bagley - Quantum Information and Computation

*David Divincenzo, *Seth Lloyd, *David Meyer, *Tim Havel

 

*Yasha Kresh - Medical Complexity

*Jason Haugh, *Steven Kleinstein/Jaswinder Pal Singh/Martin Weigert, *Andre Van Der Kouwe/Richard C. Burgess/Jeffrey I. Frank, *Ary Goldberger, *Donald Coffey

 

*Tim Keitt/*Les Kaufman - Ecology

*Nic Gotelli, *Jim Drake/Craig Zimmermann, *Jay Bancroft, *Frencesco Santini/Lodovico Galleni, Jordi Bascompte, *Brian Enquist/Geoffrey B. West/James H. Brown

 

*Mark Bedau - Artificial and Natural Evolution

*Lynn Caporale, *Dimitris Stassinopoulos, *Hiroki Sayama, *Wolfgang Banzhaf, *Carlo Maley

 

7:00PM-10:00PM EVENING PARALLEL BREAKOUT SESSIONS

*Dan Braha/Dan Frey - Modeling the Design Process

*Bill Birmingham, *David Brown, *Pradeep Khosla, *James Rinderle, *Seth Lloyd

 

*Sean Rice - Evolution: Multi Level Selection and the Structure of Biological Systems

*Leticia Aviles, *Charles Goodnight, *David Sloan Wilson

 

*Max Garzon - Complex Systems Aspects of DNA Computing

*Toni Kozic, *Laura Landweber, *Erik Winfree, *Natasha Jonoska/Max Garzon

 

*Bob Savit - Modeling Social Systems

*Bennett Levitan/Stuart Kauffman/Jose Lobo/Richard Schuler, Marco Propato/James Uber/*Ali Minai, *Thad Brown, *David Meyer, *Josh Epstein

 

Wednesday, October 28

9:00AM-11:40AM NETWORKS

*Larry Rudolph - Networks

*Eli Upfal - Structure and Analysis of Networks

*Kai Nagel - Transportation Network Simulations

*Walter Willinger - Internet traffic analysis

11:40AM-12:40PM POSTER SESSSION (RESERVED TIME)

2:00PM-5:00PM AFTERNOON PARALLEL SESSIONS

*Jerry Chandler - Session Chair

2:00	*Temple Smith - Nature's Legos	*Ernest Hartmann - Sleep and Dreaming	*Jim Stock - Economic Predictions
2:20	*William Gelbart - Genomes Proteomes and Phenomes	*Terrence Deacon - Consciousness	*Robert Savit - Adaptive Competition, Market Efficiency & Phase Transitions
2:40	*Irving Epstein - Waves in Inhomogeneous Biological Media	*Michael Jacobson - Learning the Sciences of Complexity	*Philip Auerswald - Industry Dynamics with Learning
3:00	*Yasha Kresh - Heart-Rate Dynamic Adaptation after Transplantation	*Walter Freeman - Neural Dynamics and Computation	*Michael Caramanis - Multi-scale Manufacturing
3:20	BREAK	BREAK	BREAK
3:40	*Steve Lansing - Energence of Cooperation	*Helen Harte - Medical Managment	*Atlee Jackson - Evolution of Nature's Dynamics
4:00	*Mark Bedau - Toward a Zeroth Law for Evolving Systems	*Susanne Kelly - Evolving the Enterprise	*Max Garzon - DNA Computing
4:20	*Sean Rice - Evolution of structure at different scales	*Juergen Kluever - Modeling Social Differentiation	*Edward Lowry - Optimum Data Objects
4:40	Les Kaufman - Ecosystem dynamics	*Eric Beinhocker - Complexity Consulting	Leonid Levitov -

6:15PM-7:45PM BANQUET

6:15 Cash Bar Reception

6:45 Dinner (reservations in advance)

7:45PM-9:00PM BANQUET SESSION

*Dean LeBaron - Complex Understandings of Global Economics Today

Thursday, October 29

9:00AM-11:40AM TIME SERIES

*Richard Cohen - Time series

*Doyne Farmer

*Andrew Lo

*Jim Collins

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

 

Walter Willinger - Networks

*Bruce Sawhill, *Daniel Coore, *Duncan Watts, Sergey Buldyrev

 

*Helen Harte/*Farrell Jorgensen - Health Care Management

*Mark Van Kooy, *Martin Merry, *William Braswell, *Mark Smith, Jeff Goldstein

 

*Joel Mac Auslan - Dynamics and Complexity of Physical Systems

*Hagai Arbell, *Jerzy Maselko, *Jay Palmer, *Richard Squire/Mariusz H. Jakubowski/Ken Steiglitz, *Martin Zwick

 

 

7:00PM-10:00PM EVENING PARALLEL BREAKOUT SESSIONS

*Anjeli Sastry - System Dynamics

*Chris White, *Jim Hines/Jody House

 

*Walter Freeman/*Ali Minai - Neural Computation

*Steve Bressler, *John Lisman, *Randy Mcintosh, *Mike Hasselmo, *Jorge Jose, *John Symons

 

*Michael Jacobson - Education in Complex Systems

*Win Farrell, *Marshall Clemens, *Uri Wilensky/Walter Stroup/Kenneth Reisman, *Kenneth Brecher, *Jim Kaput

 

*Michael Lissack - New Concepts in Human Organizations

*Jeho Lee, *Kurt Richardson, *Steve Maguire, *Chang-Hyeon Choi/E. Andres Garcia, *Vasant Honavar, *Hernan Lopez-Garay/Jose Joaquin Contreras Garcia

 

Friday, October 30

9:00AM-11:40PM AGENTS IN ACTION

*William Fulkerson - Agents in Action

*Rob Axtell - Emergence of Multi-Agent Institutions and Organizations

*Abhijit Deshmukh - Caution! Agents-based systems in operation

*Van Parunak - How to Model a Supply Chain

*Win Farrell (discussant)

11:40PM-5:20PM COMPLEXITY AND MANAGEMENT (EXTENDED SESSION INCLUDING LUNCH)

*Tom Petzinger - Complexity and Management

*Michael Hammer

*William Mckelvey

*Henry Mintzberg

*Laurence Prusak

*Peter Senge

*Ron Schultz (discussant)

 

Poster Session:

(RUNS MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY INCLUDING RESERVED TIMES ON CERTAIN DAYS)

Iqbal Adjali, D. Collings, A.A. Reeder, A. Karelas & M.H. Lyons - Analysing the Behaviour of an Evolutionary Macro-Economic Model of Innovation and Imitation

 

Prateek S. Aggarwal - A Recursive Stochastic Learning Model for Efficient Bayesian Estimation of Discrete Stochastic Variables

 

Mary Ann Allison - Relationships Among Communications Media,Transportation Methods, and Human Group Self Organization

 

Jay Bancroft - A Model System and Individual-Based Simulation for Developing Statistical Techniques and Hypotheses for Population Dynamics in Fragmented Populations

 

Wojciech Burkot - Feeding the Schroedinger Cat: On the Power of Structural Approach in Solving Hard Problems with Quantum Computers

 

Val Bykoski - Computer-Generated Physical Reality and its Applications

 

Dmitriy Chistilin - The Self-Organizing of USA Economy System as the Basis for Leading Position in the World Economy

 

Marshall Clemens - Working Towards an Integrated Picture of CSS

 

Brian Clouse & Manjula B. Waldron - Human Performance Technology from a Complex Adaptive Systems View

 

Raja Laifa Clouse & Manjula B. Waldron - The Effect of History to Achieve Self Adaptation

 

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson & Roger Vounckx - Diffuse Rationality

 

Gavin Crooks -

 

Robert Cutler - Analyzing Complexity in International Relations: A Theoretical Synthesis of Existing Systemic Approaches

 

Somalee Datta - Gradient Clogging in Depth Filtration

 

Alice Davidson, Yaneer Bar-Yam & Martin H. Teicher - Measuring Environmental Complexity as Related to the Well-Being of the Elderly

 

Tanya de Araujo - Conceptual Models as Emerging Complex Systems

 

Karl C. Diller -

 

John C. Gallagher - Does Evolution Make Sense? Finding Order in a Class of Evolved Continuous Time Recurrent Neural Network Central Pattern Generators

 

Ben Goertzel - Continuous Learning in Sparsely Connected ANN's, with Application to Hopfield Nets and the Webmind Architecture

 

Paul Halpern - Evolutionary Algorithms on a Self-Organized Dynamic Lattice

 

Karthik Balakrishnan, Rushi Bhatt & Vasant Honavar - Animal Spatial Learning: A Computational Model and Behavioral Experiments

 

Dirk Holste - Optimization and Redundancy of Composition Measures: Implications for Recognizing Coding DNA

 

Sui Huang & Don Ingber - Regulation of Gene Activation Patterns by Cell Shape

 

Stuart Kauffman, Jose Lobo & William Macready - Optimal Search on a Technology Landscape

 

Joel MacAuslan & Juan Sanchez - The Dimensionality and Tangent Space of Experimental Data

 

Ali Minai - Synchronization in Non-Homogeneous Arrays of Chaotic Maps

 

Paul W. Morris - Organizational Intelligence

 

Erik Rauch - Pattern Formation and Functionality in Swarms

 

Jonathan A Rees - A Time-Symmetric Interaction Calculus

 

Jeff Schank - A New Paradigm for Investigating Animal Social Systems

 

Rebecca Schulman & Jeremy Zucker - Towards an Understanding of the Principles of Pattern Formation

 

Mark Smith, Yaneer Bar-Yam & William Gelbart - Towards Quantitative Languages for Complex Systems

 

Vassilios Spyropoulos & G. Papagounos - Some Aspects of Decision Making in The Complex System "Hospital"

 

Christina Stoica - SOZAIN - Social Cellular Automaton with an Interactive Network

 

Hideaki Suzuki - One-Dimensional Unicellular Creatures Evolved with Genetic Algorithms

 

Yasuhiro Suzuki & Hiroshi Tanaka - Degree of Halting computation and complexity -- Halting property and behavior of Abstract Chemical System.

 

Andrew Tait, Chris Casement & Fran Ackermann - Creating "Real" Knowledge in Virtual Communities

 

Wilson A. Truccolo-Filho - Dynamics and Information Processing in a Generic Cortical Area Model

 

Burton Voorhees - Complexity, Complementarity, and Consciousness

 

Shi-ching (Billy) Wu - Chaos Theory May Provide an Answer to the Number of Hexagrams in I-ching

 

Tomohiko Yamaguchi, H. Kuriyama, D. Murray, T. Ohmori, T. Amemiya, T. Kanamori, M.Tanaka & Y. Mitsui - Respiration Dynamics in Yeast Culture

 

Martin Zwick - Structure and Dynamics of Elementary Cellular Automata