Sunday, Sept. 21

9:00AM-5:00PM PEDAGOGICAL SESSIONS (Preliminary)

*Michael Lissack - Pedagogical sessions: session chair.

*Atlee Jackson - nonlinear dynamics

*Richard J. Gaylord - cellular automata with mathematica

*Norm Margolus - cellular automata machines

*Richard Lewontin - evolution

*David Fogel - evolutionary computation

*Michael Gazzaniga - neuroscience

*Jeffrey Goldstein - psychology and corporations

*Seth Lloyd - complexity

5:00PM-6:00PM OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS RECEPTION

6:00PM-7:30PM RECEPTION SESSION

*Sean Pidgeon - Reception: session chair.

*Matthew Golombeck - Mars pathfinder

Monday, Sept. 22
9:00AM-12:20PM EMERGENCE

*Charles Cantor - Emergence: session chair

*Daniel Keyser - meteorology

*David Fell - biochemical emergence

*Steve Lansing - social emergence in anthropology

*Hayward Alker - political emergence at the world level

2:00PM-5:20PM COMPLEXITY

*Seth Lloyd - Complexity: session chair

*Charles Bennett - information and complexity

*Greg Chaitin - algorithmic complexity

*Murray Gell-Mann - patterns and complexity

*Dan McShea - estimated complexity of biological systems

8:00PM-9:30PM SCALING

*Michel Baranger - Scaling: session chair

*H. Eugene Stanley - when averaging does not apply

*Per Bak - self-organization and scaling

Tuesday, Sept. 23

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

*Melanie Mitchell - Self-organization: session chair

*Ken Showalter - chemical patterns

*Albert Goldbeter - modeling biological patterns

*Gunter Wagner - evolution

*Robert Berwick - evolution of language

1:40-2:50PM SELF-ORGANIZATION (CONTINUED)

*Tom Ray - evolution of artificial systems

*Margaret Geller - astrophysical patterns

3:20-5:20PM AFTERNOON BREAKOUT SESSIONS

*Stuart Kauffman - evolution and webs in economics: session chair

*Mark Newman, *Per Bak, *Stuart Pimm

 

*Mehran Kardar - scaling: session chair

*Geoffrey West, *Daniel H. Rothman, *Didier Sornette, *Vincent A. Billock/J. A. Scott Kelso/Gonzalo C. De Guzman

 

*Jim Crutchfield - measures of structural complexity: session chair

*Dave Feldman, *William Macready/David Wolpert, *Ing Ren Tsang/Ing Jyh Tsang, *Gad Yagil, *Martin Zwick

 

*Robert Axtell/*Kristian Lindgren - modeling social systems: session chair

*Jeff Schank, *James Uber/Ali Minai

7:45-9:45PM EVENING BREAKOUT SESSIONS

*Shuguang Zhang - biomolecular/cellular systems: session chair

*Don Ingber, *Hyman Hartman, *Christian Forst

 

*Gunter Wagner - evolution: session chair

*Elena Budrene, *David Gutnick/Eshel Ben Jacob, *Kei Tokita, *Lee Altenberg, *Andreas Wagner, *Raffaele Calabretta

 

*Piet Hut - modeling modeling: session chair

*Evelyn Fox Keller, *Javier Dolado, *Stuart Kauffman, *Christian Reidys

 

*Ken Showalter - controlling chaotic systems: session chair

*F. Tito Arecchi, *Mingzhou Ding, *Jim Collins, *Atlee Jackson

 

*Marshall VanAlstyne - organizational structure and behavior: session chair

*Jim Hines, *Michael Lissack, *Steve Maguire

Wednesday, Sept. 24

9:00AM-1:00PM INFORMATICS

*Richard Strohman - informatics: session chair

*David Kingsbury - information management

*William Gelbart - Drosophila

*Temple Smith - replication and compression

AFTERNOON EXCURSION

8:00PM-9:30PM ENGINEERING COMPLEXITY

*Seth Lloyd - engineering complexity: session chair

*Alex d'Arbeloff - Engineering management at Teradyne

*Frans Kaashoek - Software design

Thursday, Sept. 25

9:00AM-12:20PM TIME SERIES

*Jim Collins - Time series: session chair

*Jim Stock - economic time series

*Blake LeBaron - markets

*Richard Cohen - chaotic hearts

*Ary Goldberger - fractal hearts

2:00-2:50PM COMPUTATIONAL METHODS

*Bruce Boghosian - simulation and modeling: session chair

*Claudio Rebbi - simulations

*Melanie Mitchell - cellular automata / genetic algorithms

3:20-5:20 AFTERNOON BREAKOUT SESSIONS

*Harold Morowitz - origin of life: session chair

*Roland Somogyi, *Shuguang Zhang, *Peter Wills, *Stuart Kauffman

 

*Jim Stock/*Jim Collins - time series: session chair

*Tim Sauer, *Frank Moss, *Bruce Hansen, *Frank Diebold

 

*Lynn Stein / *Larry Rudolph - computational systems: session chair

*Mitchel Resnick, Kazuhiro Saitou, Yasuo Kuniyoshi

 

*Bruce Boghosian - simulation and modeling: session chair

*Frank Alexander, *David Meyer

BANQUET

*Jerome Kagan - banquet chair

*Herbert Simon - complexity and emergence

Friday, Sept. 26

9:00AM-12:20PM EMERGENCE IN MIND AND BRAIN

*Gerald J. Sussman - Emergence in mind and brain: session chair

*Michael Gazzaniga - evidence from split brains

*Marvin Minsky - specialization

*Stephen Grossberg - adaptive resonance

*Steve Pinker - language acquisition / how the mind works

12:20PM-2:00PM LUNCHTIME EXTENDED DISCUSSION: MIND AND BRAIN

*Dan Dennett, *William Sulis - Discussion chairs

 

PRELIMINARY POSTER SESSION LIST:

Petra Ahrweiler -- Modeling a Theory Agency as a Toolkit for Science Studies SiSiFOS: Simulating Studies on the internal Formation and the Organization of Science

Philippe Binder -- Droplet Breakdown in Cellular Automata

Bart de Boeck -- From Inductive Inference to the Fundamental Equation of Measurement

Stefan Boettcher -- Aging in a Model of Self-Organized Criticality

Valery K. Bykovsky -- Man-Made Structures Encoded with Molecular Information (Computer-Engineered Physical Reality: A Synthesized Complexity)

Chang H. Choi -- The Empirical Relationship of Self-Organizing System to Organizational Effectiveness

Marshall Clemens -- Toward a Model of the Complex Systems Domain

David R. Collins -- Stochastic bifurcations in biological coordination

Michael Chechelnitsky -- Error estimation in ocean circulation models

T. Gregory Dewey -- Algorithmic Complexity and Thermodynamics of Molecular Evolution

Michael Doebeli -- Controlling spatial chaos in metapopulation models with long-range interactions

Udo Erdmann -- Structure formation by Active Brownian particles with nonlinear friction

David Fell -- Systems properties of metabolic networks

Andrew M. Fraser -- Chaos and detection

Stefanie Fuhrman -- Genetic Network Modeling and Inference

Mario Giampietro -- Biophysical analyses of socioeconomic processes in relation to the sustainability issue

Paul Halpern -- Emergent Behavior in Structurally Dynamic Cellular Automata

Jeff Hausdorff -- Fractal Dynamics of Human Walking Rhythm

Collin Hill -- Transition to Chaos and Models of Genetic Networks

Vasant Honavar -- Kolmogorov Complexity, Simple Distributions, and Inductive Learning

Anders Irb\ack, Carsten Peterson, Frank Potthast and Ola Sommelius -- Local Interactions and Protein Folding: a 3D Off-Lattice Approach

Michael J. Jacobson -- Complex Systems, Cognition, and Problem Solving: A Preliminary Investigation

Mariusz H. Jakubowski -- Information transfer between solitary waves in the saturable Schroedinger equation

Viktor Jirsa -- A field theory of electromagnetic brain activity

Brian D. Josephson -- An integrated theory of nervous system functioning embracing nativism and constructivism

David Keirsey -- Toward the Physics of Death

Leonid Khaimovich -- Complexity of Analyzing Complexity: Dynamics of Root Cause Analysis in a Cross-Functional Business Process Re-Engineering Team

Brendan Kitts -- Regulation of Complex Systems

Guenter Kueppers Bielefeld -- Coping with Uncertainty: The Self-Organization of the Social

Jeho Lee -- Innovation, Increasing Returns and Industry Bifurcation: The Emergence of Strategic Groups

Steven Lehar -- Harmonic Resonance Standing Wave Patterns as a Representation of Geometrical Form in Biological Systems

Shoudan Liang -- Life at the Edge of Chaos: Analysis and Simulation of Kauffman Networks

Larry S. Liebovitch -- Cell Membrane Ion Channels: A Complex System at the Molecular Level

Michael R. Lissack -- The Fundierung of Emergence: Just what has 'Complexity' done to 'Organization Science'?

Marcial F. Losada -- The Complex Dynamics of High Performance Teams

Francisco Louca -- Ragnar Frisch at the edge of chaos

Steve Maguire -- A Rugged Landscape Framework for Understanding Configurations

Cameel H. Makhoul & Edward N. Trifonov-- Periodical recurrence of translation pause sties in mRNA and standard sizes of protein sequence segments and independently folding domains

Philip Maymin -- Programming Complex Systems

Kozo Mayumi -- Biophysical analyses of socioeconomic processes in relation to the sustainability issue

Jason G. Mezey & Gunter Wagner -- Canalization by Directional Selection Through Genetic Piracy

Kenneth J. Moriarty -- Parallel Computational Complexity in Statistical Physics

Jeff Morrow -- Estimating Product Line Architecture Complexity: Application to 'Sunset' Technology Gracefully

Danko Nikolic -- A dual processing theory of brain and mind: where is the limited processing capacity coming from?

Partha Niyogi and Robert C. Berwick -- Language Change and Dynamical Systems

Clemens Potter, Bernhard Sendhoff and Werner von Seelen -- The Role of Information in Evolving Biological Systems

Michael A. Riley -- Chaotic dynamics of rhythmic movements

Andrew J. Rixon -- Pattern Generation in Simulated Biological Systems

Luis Mateus Rocha -- Matter and Symbols: Requirements for Evolving Complexity

James N. Rose -- Robust Non-Fractal Complexity

Helge Rose -- Evolutionary Strategies of Optimization and the Complexity of Fitness Landscapes

Matthias Ruth -- Dynamic Modeling of Economy-Environment Interactions: The Case of Metals and Fuels in the US

Kazuhiro Saitou -- Conformational Switching as Assembly Instructions in Self-Assembling Mechanical Systems

Marie-Vee Santana -- Small scale oscillatory dynamics of the haptic perceptual system

Bruce K. Sawhill -- Statistical Mechanics of Boolean Nets

Jeff Schank -- Self-Organized Huddles of Rat Pups Modeled by Simple Rules of Individual Behavior

Bernard Sendhoff, Clemens Potter and Werner von Seelen -- The Role of Information in Evolving Biological Systems

Lawrence Kai Shih -- How you can get rich --slowly

Jacqueline Signorini -- Folded and Immersed Cellular Automata

Robin Snyder -- Cluster size in the contact process: a step toward understanding predator-prey individual-based models

Didier Sornette -- Emergence in earthquakes: from atomic scale transformations to mechanical rupture

W. Sulis and I. N. Trofimova -- TIGoRS as an Associative Memory in Complex Syste