
Readings in Complexity Seminars
William Griffin, Dieter Armbruster, and Jennifer Fewell
I.G. Kevrekidis, C.W. Gear, and G. Hummer, “Equation-free: The computer-aided analysis of complex multiscale systems,” AIChE Journal, vol. 50, 2004, pp. 1346-1355.
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Time and location:
Thursday, April 23, 2009
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
ISTB-1, Room 412
April 9, 2009
Bedau, M.A. (1999). Can Unrealistic Computer Models Illuminate Theoretical Biology?
In Proceedings of the 1999 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
Workshop Program, Orlando, FL, July 13, 1999, Annie S. Wu, ed., pp20-23.
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Time and location:
Thursday, April 9, 2009
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
ISTB-1, Room 412
March 26, 2009
Camazine, S., Deneubourg, J.L., Franks, N.R., Sneyd, J., Theraulaz, G. &
Bonabeau, E. (2001). Self-Organization in Biological Systems (pp 257-283).
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (see attached).
Pepper, J.W., & Hoelzer, G. (2001). Unveiling Mechanisms of Collective
Behavior, Science, 294, 1466-67.
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Time and location:
Thursday March 26, 2009
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
ISTB-1, Room 401
March 19, 2009
Sumpter, D. J. T. (2005). The principles of collective animal behaviour.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: Series B, 361, 5-22.
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Time and location:
Thursday March 19, 2009
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
ISTB-1, Room 401
March 5, 2009
Superfamilies of Evolved and Designed Networks
Ron Milo, Shalev Itzkovitz, Nadav Kashtan, Reuven Levitt,
Shai Shen-Orr, Inbal Ayzenshtat, Michal Sheffer, Uri Alon
Science, 303, 1538-1541.
Self-correcting networks:
Function, robustness, and motif distributions in biological signal processing (2008)
Pablo Kaluza, Martin Vingron, Alexander Mikhailov
Chaos, 18, 026113
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Time and location:
Thursday March 5, 2009
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
ISTB-1, Room 401
February 26, 2009
Network Motifs: Simple Building Blocks of Complex Networks
R. Milo,S. Shen-Orr, S. Itzkovitz, N. Kashtan, D. Chklovskii, U. Alon, Science, 298, 824-27.
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Time and location:
Thursday February 26, 2009
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
ISTB-1, Room 401
February 12, 2009
Manson, S.M. (2001) Simplifying complexity: A review of complexity theory. Geoforum, 32, 405-14.
Manson, S. M. (2003) Epistemological possibilities and imperatives of complexity research: A reply to Reitsma. Geoforum, 34, 17-20.
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Time and location:
Thursday February 12, 2009
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
ISTB-1, Room 401
February 5, 2009
Heylighen F. (2001): "The Science of Self-organization and Adaptivity", in:
L. D. Kiel, (ed.) Knowledge Management, Organizational Intelligence and
Learning, and Complexity, in: The Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems
((EOLSS), (Eolss Publishers, Oxford).
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Time and location:
Thursday February 5, 2009
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
ISTB-1, Room 401



