Int. Conference on COMPLEX SYSTEMS [fwd]

Francis Heylighen (fheyligh@VNET3.VUB.AC.BE)
Wed, 19 Mar 1997 12:45:00 +0100


From: Isabel Cunha-Vasconcelos <isabelcv@dynamics.bu.edu>
Subject: International Conference on Complex Systems

First Announcement
International Conference
on
COMPLEX SYSTEMS

Boston Area
September 21-26, 1997

Host: New England Complex Systems Institute
http://necsi.org
necsi@necsi.org
With: Oxford University Press

Conference Chairman: Yaneer Bar-Yam

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Philip Anderson - Princeton University
Kenneth J. Arrow - Stanford University
Per Bak - Niels Bohr Institute
Charles H. Bennett - IBM
William A. Brock - University of Wisconsin
Charles R. Cantor - Boston University
Noam A. Chomsky - MIT
Leon Cooper - Brown University
Daniel Dennett - Tufts University
Irving Epstein - Brandeis University
Michael S. Gazzaniga - Dartmouth College
William Gelbart - Harvard University
Murray Gell-Mann - CalTech / Santa Fe Institute
Pierre-Giles de Gennes - ESPCI
Stephen Grossberg - Boston University
Michael Hammer - Hammer & Co
John Holland - University of Michigan
John Hopfield - Princeton University
Jerome Kagan - Harvard University
Stuart A. Kauffman - Santa Fe Institute
Chris Langton - Santa Fe Institute
Richard C. Lewontin - Harvard University
Andrew W. Lo - MIT
Marvin Minsky - MIT
Alan Perelson - Los Alamos National Lab
Herbert A. Simon - Carnegie Mellon University
Temple F. Smith - Boston University
H. Eugene Stanley Boston University
John Sterman - MIT
James H. Stock - Harvard University
Gerald J. Sussman - MIT
Edward O. Wilson - Harvard University

SUBJECT AREAS: UNIFYING THEMES IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS
Sessions will be structured around both themes and systems.

The themes are:

EMERGENCE, STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION: substructure; the
relationship of component to collective behavior; the
relationship of internal structure to external influence.

INFORMATICS: structuring, storing, accessing, and
distributing information describing complex systems.

COMPLEXITY: characterizing the amount of information
necessary to describe complex systems, and the dynamics
of this information.

DYNAMICS: time series analysis and prediction, chaos,
temporal correlations, the time scale of dynamic processes.

SELF-ORGANIZATION: Evolution, development and adaptation.

The system categories are:

FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS: Complexity, emergence,
chaos, fractals, non-equilibrium processes, dynamic
scaling, information and computation in physical systems.

MOLECULAR SYSTEMS: Chemical dynamics, complex fluids,
molecular self-organization, membranes, protein and DNA
folding, bio-molecular informatics.

CELLULAR SYSTEMS: Cellular response and communication,
genetic regulation, gene-cytoplasm interactions,
development, cellular differentiation, primitive
multicellular organisms, the immune system.

PHYSIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS: Nervous system, neuro-muscular
control, neural network models of brain, cognition,
psychofunction, pattern recognition, man-machine
interactions.

HUMAN SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC SYSTEMS: Corporate and social
structures, markets, the global economy, the internet.

PEDAGOGICAL SESSIONS: The conference will include
pedagogical sessions on Sunday, Sept. 21.

** A detailed announcement including instructions
for submission of abstracts will follow.**

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