Complex Systems Advanced Academic Workshop

Presenting your work is good for your health!
CSAAW provides a relatively gentle, friendly environment in which to present your work. Most of the work presented for CSAAW is unfinished (not ready for prime time). We often see projects in their most preliminary stages, when there is nothing but a shell of an idea!

List your name here if you'd like to present. Write what you will present, and weeks that are good for you. (Meetings are roughly biweekly)

GPUs and ABMs

Members.EricJankowski
A short description of GPUs, how they work, and why they're good for ABM's. I think we'll plan to do this in the near future so a more in-depth talk about GPU's for Sugarscape from MTU will be more accessible.

Matthew Riddle - I would like to present a project that is part of my disseration research. I'm an economics student at UMass Amherst, but am living in Ann Arbor while I work on my dissertation. It involves a simple adaptive agent-based model of investor behavior in oil futures markets. It looks at the interaction between investors who use different time frames in evaluating what the current price of oil should be, and at the relevance of these prediction rules in understanding how markets adjust to oil scarcity. The best time for me to present would probably be early March. Late March or late February should also work.

Generation of spatial structure in a coffee agroecosystem, or Evolution in a host-pathogen model
(whichever is ready)
Doug Jackson
This will be be a presentation of some work related to spatially-explicit modeling of the self-organization of ant nests in a coffee agroecosystem. Or, if I make significant progress by the time I present, I might talk about a more theoretical project that I've been thinking about related to evolution in a spatially-structured host-pathogen model.
I won't be ready to present until the middle of November at the earliest.

Presenting 2007