Complexity Conference

James L. Allen Center
Kellogg School of Management
Evanston Campus
October 29-30, 2004

All events will be held in Tribune Auditorium, with meals served in the Main Dining Room


Friday, October 29
3:00 - 3:30 p.m. Registration
3:30 - 3:45 p.m. Welcome:
Julio M. Ottino, R.R. McCormick Institute Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Chemical Engineering and Applied Sciences, Northwestern University
and
Daniel Diermeier, IBM Distinguished Professor of Regulation and Competitive Practice; Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
3:45 pm
introducer: Daniel Diermeier
 John Padgett, University of Chicago
4:45 pm Coffee Break
5:00 pm
introducer: Luis Amaral
 Carla Gomes, Cornell University
6:00 - 6:30 pm Panel A:
John Padgett
Carla Gomes
Wallace Hopp (participant)
Daniel Diermeier (moderator)
7:00 p.m. Complexity Dinner
Saturday, October 30
7:30 - 8:30 a.m. Breakfast
8:30 - 9:30 a.m.
introducer: Julio Ottino
 Bernhard Palsson, University of California at San Diego
9:30 - 10:30 a.m.
introducer: Luis Amaral
 Allessandro Vespingani, Indiana University
10:30 - 11:00 a.m. Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00 p.m.
introducer: Julio Ottino
 Zoltan Toroczkai, Los Alamos National Laboratory
12:00 - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 - 2:00 p.m. Panel B:
E. Terry Papoutsakis
Zoltan Toroczkai
Allessandro Vespingani
Uri Willensky (moderator)
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
introducer: Brian Uzzi
 Mark Newman, University of Michigan
3:00 - 3:30 p.m. Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
introducer: Janet Pierrehumbert
 Natalia Komarova, University of California, Irvine
4:30 - 5:30 p.m.
introducer: Daniel Diermeier
 Blake LeBaron, Brandeis University
5:30 - 6:00 p.m.
moderator: Janet Pierrehumbert
 Panel C:
Mark Newman
Natalia Komarova
Blake LeBaron
Daniel Diermeier (moderator)
6:00 - 6:15 p.m. Closing Remarks
6:30 p.m. Small group dinner (off campus)




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Complex Systems in the News

Complexity Digest

We're All on the Grid Together (pdf), The New York Times, August 16, 2003

First Cells, Then Species, Now the Web (pdf), The New York Times, December 26, 2000



Complex Systems Papers

Engineering Complex Systems (pdf), Nature, January 29, 2004
Scale-Free Networks (pdf), Scientific American, May 2003
AIChE Journal Cover, February 2003Perspective: Complex Systems (pdf), AIChE Journal, February 2003
Efficient system-wide coordination in noisy environments;
Moreia, A.;Mathur, A.; Diermeier, D.; Amaral, L.
Complex networks - augmenting the framework for the study of complex systems;
Amaral, LAN, & Ottino, JM
Self-assembling Fluidic Machines;
B.A. Grzybowski, M. Radkowski, C.J. Campbell, J.N. Lee, G.M. Whitesides


Multicolour micropatterning of thin films of dry gelatin;
R. Klajn, M. Fialkowski, I.T. Bensemann, A. Bitner, C.J. Campbell, K. Bishop, S. Smoukov, B.A. Grzybowski


Virtual round table on ten leading questions for network research;
Amaral, LAN, Barrat, A, Barabasi, AL, Caldarelli, G, De Los Rios, P, Erzan, A, Kahng, B, Mantegna, R, Mendes, JFF, Pastor-Satorras, R, & Vespignani, A


Microfludic mixers: from microfabricated to self-assembling devices;
C.J. Campbell, B.A. Grzybowski


Self-assembly at all scales;
G.M. Whitesides, B.A. Grzybowski


Sexual networks: implications for the transmission of sexually transmitted infections;
Liljeros, F, Edling, CR, & Amaral, LAN


Robust patterns in food web structure;
Camacho, J, Guimera, R, & Amaral, LAN


The web of human sexual contacts;
Liljeros, F, Edling, CR, Amaral, LAN, Stanley, HE, & Aberg, Y


Classes of small-world networks;
Amaral, LAN, Scala, A, Barthelemy, M, & Stanley, HE


Small-world networks: evidence for a crossover picture;
Barthelemy, M, & Amaral, LAN