Exploring Complexity in Science and Engineering
from a Santa Fe Institute Perspective

Monday, May 23 – Wednesday, May 25, 2011
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

This two-and-a-half day course is an intensive, immersive tour of the sciences of complexity, a broad set of efforts that seek to explain how large-scale complex, organized, and adaptive behavior can emerge from simple interactions among myriad individuals. This course, sponsored by the Santa Fe Institute, is specifically designed for professionals, faculty, students, and others who are curious to explore and apply this new interdisciplinary scientific approach.

This course has no prerequisites and requires no specific math or science background.

Course director: Melanie Mitchell, Professor, Portland State University and Santa Fe Institute

Faculty and Topics: :

Aaron Clauset: Networks

Uri Wilensky: Agent-Based Modeling

David Krakauer: Complexity in Biology

W. Brian Arthur: The Nature of Technology

J. Doyne Farmer: Predicting Technological Progress

Melanie Mitchell: Dynamics and Chaos, Genetic Algorithms and Biologically Inspired Computing, Information Processing and Computation in Complex Systems

Tuition: General: $1,200; Faculty/Postdocs: $800; Full-time; Students: $500

For more information, go to http://www.santafe.edu/education/schools/short-course/ or e-mail education@santafe.edu.