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Current and Upcoming Science Events - May 5, 2013

  • * SFI community lectures are free, open, & accessible to the public.
  • * Seminars & colloquia are geared for scientists but free & open to the interested public.
  • * All other SFI events are by invitation only.
  • * Note: We are unable to accommodate members of the public for SFI's limited lunch service; you're welcome to bring your own.

May 6, 2013

Science
Structure, Statistical Inference, and Dynamics in Networks: From Graphs to Rich Data
Noyce Conference Room
May 6, 2013 - May 9, 2013
Workshop
SFI Host: Cris Moore, Aaron Clauset, and Mark Newman

May 7, 2013

Science
12:30 p.m.
Why Children are Better (or at Least More Open-Minded) Learners than Adults Are: Search, Temperature and the Origins of Human Cognition
Noyce Conference Room
Colloquium

Alison Gopnik (University of California, Berkeley)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Geoffrey West

May 8, 2013

Science
12:15 p.m.
Evolution of Multicellularity: Performance Consequences of Being Unicellular vs. Colonial in Protozoan Ancestors of Animals
Collins Conference Room
Seminar

Mimi Koehl (University of California, Berkeley; SFI Science Board)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Jennifer Dunne

May 10, 2013

Science
12:15 p.m.
Simulating Long-Distance Dispersal of Larvae from Coral Reefs in the Coral Triangle of the Western Pacific
Collins Conference Room
Seminar

Thomas M. (Zack) Powell (University of California, Berkeley)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Jennifer Dunne

May 13, 2013

Science
3:30 p.m.
Cost Estimating is a Stealth Discipline
Collins Conference Room
Seminar

Stefan Pickl (Universität der Bundewehr München; Munich, Germany) and Dr. Daniel A. Nussbaum (Naval Postgraduate School)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Jerry Sabloff

May 15, 2013

Science
12:15 p.m.
The Evolution of Fragility
Collins Conference Room
Seminar

Norman Yoffee (Prof. emeritus, Depts of Near Eastern Studies and Anthropology, University of Michigan)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Jerry Sabloff

May 20, 2013

Science
12:15 p.m.
Islands of Order
Collins Conference Room
Seminar

Steve Lansing (University of Arizona; SFI External Professor)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Jennifer Dunne

May 21, 2013

Science
12:15 p.m.
Hierarchy and Complex Networks: The Actual and the Possible
Collins Conference Room
Seminar

Bernat Corominas-Murta (Medical University of Vienna)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Stefan Thurner

May 24, 2013

Science
12:15 p.m.
Cultural Morphospace and Technological Evolution
Collins Conference Room
Seminar

Peter N. Peregrine (Lawrence University; SFI External Professor)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Jerry Sabloff

May 28, 2013

Science
Social Complexity at Cahokia
Collins Conference Room
May 28, 2013 - May 30, 2013
Working Group
SFI Host: Peter Peregrine, Scott Ortman, and Eric Rupley

June 6, 2013

Science
3:30 p.m.
Post Doc Meeting
Collins Conference Room
Meeting

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Evandro Ferrada and Paul Hooper

Purpose: Research Collaboration

June 10, 2013

Science
12:15 p.m.
The Slum as Organism
Collins Conference Room
Seminar

Jan Nijman (Director, Center for Urban Studies, University of Amsterdam)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Geoffrey West

June 18, 2013

Science
3:30 p.m.
Life in Earth's Deep Biosphere: From Bacterial Finches to Bactivorous Meiofauna
Noyce Conference Room
Colloquium

Tullis Onstott (Princeton University)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Rogier Braakman

June 19, 2013

Science
12:15 p.m.
Requisite Organization and Requisite Variety: Organizing principals of human behavioral complexity
Collins Conference Room
Seminar

Christophe G. Lambert (Golden Helix Inc.)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Scott Ortman

June 24, 2013

Science
12:15 p.m.
Fisheries and Global Warming Impact on Global Ecosystems
Collins Conference Room
Seminar

Daniel Pauly (The University of British Columbia)

SFI Host: Jennifer Dunne

July 10, 2013

Science
12:15 p.m.
TBA
Collins Conference Room
Seminar

Catie Grasso (Oregon Health & Science University)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Cris Moore

July 11, 2013

Science
3:30 p.m.
Post Doc Meeting
Pod A Conference Room
Meeting

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Evandro Ferrada and Paul Hooper

Purpose: Research Collaboration

July 22, 2013

Science
12:15 p.m.
Epidemics on Networks with Applications to Network Robustness against Malware Spread and to Information Dissemination in Social Networks
Collins Conference Room
Seminar

Piet Van Mieghem (Professor, Delft University of Technology; Chair, Network Architectures and Services (NAS))

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Jennifer Dunne

July 23, 2013

Science
3:30 p.m.
TBA
Noyce Conference Room
Colloquium

Michael E. Smith (Arizona State University)

Purpose: Colloquium
SFI Host: Scott Ortman and Luis Bettencourt

July 26, 2013

Science
12:15 p.m.
Truth, Lies and Randomness
Collins Conference Room
Seminar

Jarad Saia (University of New Mexico)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Cris Moore

July 29, 2013

Science
Algebra, Cryptography, and Quantum Algorithms
Pod A Conference Room
July 29, 2013 - Aug. 2, 2013
Working Group
SFI Host: Cris Moore

Aug. 1, 2013

Science
7:30 a.m.
The Principles of Complexity: Life, Scale, and Civilization II
Noyce Conference Room
Aug. 1, 2013 - Aug. 2, 2013
Workshop
SFI Host: Jerry Sabloff, Geoffrey West, David Krakauer, Ginger Richardson and Melanie Mitchell
Science
3:30 p.m.
Post Doc Meeting
Collins Conference Room
Meeting

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Evandro Ferrada and Paul Hooper

Purpose: Research Collaboration

Aug. 6, 2013

Science
12:15 p.m.
TBA
Collins Conference Room
Seminar

Marc Kirschner (Harvard University)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Jerry Sabloff

Aug. 7, 2013

Science
Deep Computation in Statistical Physics
Pod A Conference Room
Aug. 7, 2013 - Aug. 10, 2013
Workshop
SFI Host: Cris Moore, Jon Machta, and Stephan Mertens
Science
Getting Inside the Black Box: Technological Evolution and Economic Growth
Noyce Conference Room
Aug. 7, 2013 - Aug. 30, 2013
Workshop
SFI Host: Doyne Farmer, Eric Beinhocker, Deborah Strumsky, and Jose Lobo
Science
12:15 p.m.
Cancer as a Failure of Multicellularity: The Role of Cellular Evolution
Collins Conference Room
Seminar

John Pepper (National Cancer Institute)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Jennifer Dunne

Aug. 11, 2013

Science
Big Data in the Brain
Aug. 11, 2013 - Aug. 24, 2013
Working Group
SFI Host: Charles F. Stevens

Aug. 23, 2013

Science
Early Maya E-Groups, Solar Calendars, and the role of Astronomy in the rise of Lowland Urbanism: The Second Working Group
Collins Conference Room
Aug. 23, 2013 - Aug. 25, 2013
Working Group
SFI Host: David Freidel and Jerry Sabloff

Aug. 26, 2013

Science
3:30 p.m.
TBA
Noyce Conference Room
Colloquium

Albert Goldbeter (University of Brussels)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Jennifer Dunne

Aug. 27, 2013

Science
12:15 p.m.
The Reduction Phenomenon
Collins Conference Room
Seminar

Lee Altenberg (Associate Editor, BioSystems)

Purpose: Research Collaboration
SFI Host: Jennifer Dunne

Sept. 5, 2013

Science
3:30 p.m.
Post Doc Meeting
Collins Conference Room
Meeting

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Evandro Ferrada and Paul Hooper

Purpose: Research Collaboration

Sept. 19, 2013

Science
How Far Can “Big Data” Take Us Towards Understanding Cities?
Noyce Conference Room
Sept. 19, 2013 - Sept. 21, 2013
Workshop
SFI Host: Geoffrey West, Luis Bettencourt, and Jose Lobo

Sept. 23, 2013

Science
Gateways to Emergent Behavior in Science and Society
Noyce Conference Room
Sept. 23, 2013 - Sept. 26, 2013
Workshop
SFI Host: David Pines, John Holland, Simon Levin, and Donald Saari

Oct. 3, 2013

Science
3:30 p.m.
Post Doc Meeting
Collins Conference Room
Meeting

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Evandro Ferrada and Paul Hooper

Purpose: Research Collaboration

Oct. 22, 2013

Science
Theory and Knowledge Systems for Sustainability Science
Noyce Conference Room
Oct. 22, 2013 - Oct. 24, 2013
Workshop
SFI Host: Nina Federoff, Luis Bettencourt, and Molly Jahn

Nov. 7, 2013

Science
3:30 p.m.
Post Doc Meeting
Collins Conference Room
Meeting

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Evandro Ferrada and Paul Hooper

Purpose: Research Collaboration

Dec. 5, 2013

Science
3:30 p.m.
Post Doc Meeting
Collins Conference Room
Meeting

Post Doc Meeting, Organized by Evandro Ferrada and Paul Hooper

Purpose: Research Collaboration

Events News

SFI Community Lecture Thursday night: Zoobiquity with Barbara Natterson-Horowitz May 24, 2013 -

In an SFI Community Lecture on Thursday evening, May 30, in Santa Fe, Barbara Natterson-Horowitz draws from the latest in medical and veterinary science to propose an approach to health ...

Simon DeDeo's presentation of 'Sneakers' May 23, 2013 -

The popular Science On Screen series continued Wednesday, May 8, with SFI's Simon DeDeo and the 1992 cult hacker film Sneakers. If you missed the event, you can read ...

Video: How social media might help you survive the next big disaster March 25, 2013 -

SFI's 2013 Community Lecture series debuted March 14 with UC-Boulder's Leysia Palen describing how victims, observers, and “citizen-responders” are using modern technology to participate in disaster response. Watch ...

Climate scientists James Hansen, at SFI, calls for energy sources to foot their 'true' costs Feb. 22, 2013 -

Speaking at SFI yesterday, noted climate scientist James Hansen told an overflow crowd that efforts to stem climate change will be ineffectual as long as fossil fuels remain the cheapest ...

SFI's successful crowdfunding campaign will help scientists study indigenous people Dec. 14, 2012 -

SFI's crowdfunding campaign has reached its goal. The resulting research will help scientists preserve the threatened landscapes on which indigenous human groups depend. 

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