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CSAAW 2009 Spring Conference

Please join us this spring for a one-day conference of research in complex systems with a special focus on computational techniques.

This day-long event is an excellent opportunity to learn about state-of-the-art research in wide-ranging and overlapping disciplines including economics, policy, public health, engineering, natural resources, information, anthropology, computer science, biology and more. This unique forum is designed for complexity researchers to present their work in an inclusive, relaxed, and multidisciplinary environment. The conference will be held on the 3rd floor of West Hall (Room 340 and 337) from 9am-5pm on Saturday May 16th

Directions

• West Hall
• Please enter West hall via the door under the pedestrian bridge. Click here for a map.

9am-9:30am

Coffee and Bagels

Reproduction of Hierarchy? A social network analysis of the American Law Professoriate - Daniel Katz

9:55am-10:20am

Digital evolution of quorum sensing and its application - Benjamin Beckmann

10:20am-10:45am

Measures of tipping points, robustness, and path dependence - Aaron Bramson

10:45am-11:10am

Preliminary work on data-parallel execution of cellular potts models - Jose Juan tapia and Roshan D'Souza

11:10am-11:35am

New methods for developing design strategies for self-assembling patchy particles - Eric Jankowski

11:35am-12:00pm

Survivability of heterogeneous multi-agent supply networks - Kang Zhao

12:00pm-1:00pm

Lunch

1:00pm-1:25pm

From ODE's to ABM's: stochastic simulation software for a broad class of models in ecology and other fields - Edward Baskerville

1:25pm-1:50pm

Modeling the role of plant breeding system in the emergence of extinction risk - Christine Dumoulin

1:50pm-2:15pm

Towards adaptive computer hardware - Kenneth Zick

2:15pm-2:40pm

The foraging-predation risk tradeoff and the evolution of multiple-defense plasticity - Clay Cressler

2:40pm-3:05pm

Scientific grounding for complex agent based model development, reverse engineering, and redesign: use of NVivo + UML on the Long House Valley Artificial Anasazi Model as a round trip data tracking protocol - Jesse Voss

3:05pm-3:30pm

Maximizing performance in organizations: meeting the challenges presented when managing the routine to the extreme event - Dennis Tafoya

3:30pm-5:00pm

Computer methods demonstration session

5:00pm

Dinner

Questions? Email csaaw-conf2009@umich.edu

This conference is organized by CSAAW (the Complex Systems Advanced Academic Workshop) with generous support from the University of Michigan's Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop program and the Center for the Study of Complex Systems.