Upcoming Events
LTC Book Group/Workshop: Complexity: A Guided Tour
From site: LTC Events Calendar
The notion of complexity is an attractive but yet fuzzy paradigm relevant to many fields. Complexity has been described as the name for those uneasy feelings people have when faced with a system whose components and interactions are known, but whose behavior adds up to more than the sum of its parts. Models arising from studies of complex systems consisting of interacting multi-component systems are varied in size and scope, and have been usefully applied to physical systems, the human brain, to political systems and economies, traffic flow, and social networking.
Date: Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
Time: 6:00 pm
Duration: 3 hours
Location: Alumni Guest House Meeting Room
Sponsored by: Perlman Learning/Teaching Ctr
Contact: Mary Drew, Mary Drew, Physics and Astronomy, x4192
Please join a faculty/staff complexity reading group to discuss the new book "Complexity: A Guided Tour" by Melanie Mitchell. The author is a practicing complex systems theorist (she is a computer scientist by training, who spent years at the Santa Fe Institute for Complex Systems). The book has been described as being clear and lucid and as having a focus on the 'common principles' of complex systems.
The group is facilitated by Professor Trish Ferrett and Professor Arjendu Pattanayak.