Self-Organized Complexity in the Physical, Biological, and Social Sciences
Organized by Donald L. Turcotte, John Rundle and Hans Frauenfelder
March 22-24, 2001
Irvine, CA
Day 1:
Title TBA
James Bassingthwaighte, University of Washington
Fractal Scaling in Health and its Breakdown with Aging and Disease
Ary Goldberger, Harvard University
Origin of Universal Scaling in Biology
Geoffrey West, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Title TBA
Joel Cohen, The Rockefeller University
Protein Quakes Revisited
Hans Frauenfelder, Los Alamos National Laboratory
On the Role of Collective Dynamical Variables in Neurobiological Computation
John J. Hopfield, Princeton University
Quantifying Fluctuations in Economic Systems by Adapting Methods of Statistical Physics
Gene Stanley, Boston University
Predictability of Catastrophic Events: From Rupture to Crashes
Didier Sornette, University of California, Los Angeles
Title TBA
Doyne Farmer, Santa Fe Institute
Complexity and Robustness
Jean Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Scaling Phenomena in the Internet: When Criticality is not Critical
Walter Willinger, AT&T Labs
Exploring Complex Networks
Steve Strogatz, Cornell University
Theories and Experiments in Social Networks
Mark Newman, Santa Fe Institute
Day 2:
Geochemical Distribution in the Earth from Rocks to Ore Deposits
Claude Allègre, IPGP, Paris
Forest Fires, Measles, and the Structure of the Universe
Per Bak, Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Turbulence in Nature and in the Laboratory
Zellman Warhaft, Cornell University
Solitons, Fronts, and Vortices: Emergent Coherent Structures in Nonlinear Systems
David Campbell, Boston University
Lifting the Excuse of Chaos: Predictability, Uncertainty and Error
Lenny Smith, University of Oxford
Bifurcations and pattern formation in the atmospheres and oceans
Michael Ghil, University of California, Los Angeles
Understanding Old Faithful as a Complex System
Susan Kieffer, S. W. Kieffer Science Consulting, Inc.
Physics of Earthquakes
John Rundle, University of Colorado at Boulder
Why is Earthquake Prediction so Difficult?
Charlie Sammis, University of Southern California
Title TBA
Sidney Nagel, University of Chicago
Human Organizations as Fractally Scaled Structures
Kenneth Slocum, SENCORP
Signature of Self-organization in Climatology and Geomorphology
John D. Pelletier, University of Arizona
Self-organized Complexity in the Marine Sciences
Sarah F. Tebbens, University of South Florida
Self-organization of Natural Hazards
Donald L. Turcotte, Cornell University
