The Santa Fe Institute's Short Course on Complexity: Exploring Complexity in Science and Technology

"Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. the great unexplored frontier is complexity."

Heinz Pagels, The Dreams of Reason

September 14-16, 2012

Stanford University
Palo Alto, California 

Register now for the Santa Fe Institute Short Course on Complexity HERE

This two-and-a-half day course is an intensive tour of the sciences of complexity, a broad set of effort 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 fro professionals, faculty, students and others who are curious to explore and apply this new transdisciplinary scientific approach.

This course will be taught by a group of Santa Fe Institute faculty and associates. The program has no prerequisites and requires no specific background in mathematics or science. Participants will be guided, via lectures and hands-on demonstrations, through major topics of complex systems science, including dynamics and chaos, networks, evolution and agent-based computer modeling, as well as the application of these areas to understanding complexity in biological, economic, social and technological systems. The course is aimed at participants who are interested in these topics but do not necessarily have any technical background. Examples of people who will particularly benefit from this course are managers and policy-makers in business, government, and non-profit organizations; industrial research and development staff; medical, social work, and education professionals; journalists; and university faculty and students in any area of science or social science.

More information about the course can be found on our wiki page.

Program Coordinator

Melanie Mitchell, Professor, Computer Science, Portland State University; External Professor, Santa Fe Institute; author of Complexity: A Guided Tour, winner of Phi Beta Kappa Society's 2012 Book Award in Science.

Speakers

Kenneth Arrow, Joan Kenney Professor of Economics (Emeritus), Stanford University; Science Board and External Faculty (Emeritus), Santa Fe Institute 

Luis Bettencourt, Professor, Santa Fe Institute

Aaron Clauset, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder, and former SFI Omidyar Fellow

Stephanie Forrest, Professor, University of New Mexico; External Faculty, Santa Fe Institute

Deborah Gordon, Professor, Stanford University, and member of the Science Board, Santa Fe Institute 

Melanie Mitchell, Professor, Computer Science, Portland State University; External Professor, Santa Fe Institute

Fees

Program Tuition:

General: $1,200

Faculty/Postdocs: $800

Full-time Students: $500

Registration cancellations made before September 1, 2012 will be refunded 50% of the program tuition.  Beginning September 1, 2012 and after, no refunds will be made