Complexity Digest 2009.20

2009/09/26

Editor-in-Chief: Carlos Gershenson
Founding Editor: Gottfried Mayer

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Content

  1. Emergent or Just Complex?, Science
    1. Highly Variable Spread Rates in Replicated Biological Invasions: Fundamental Limits to Predictability, Science
  2. Seasonal transmission potential and activity peaks of the new influenza A(H1N1): a Monte Carlo likelihood analysis based on human mobility, arXiv
    1. A Race Against Time to Vaccinate Against Novel H1N1 Virus, Science
  3. On Universality in Human Correspondence Activity, Science
  4. Ten Simple Rules for Chairing a Scientific Session, PLoS Comput Biol
  5. A Year after Lehman's Collapse: What Does Wall Street Look Like?, Knowledge@Wharton
  6. Clearing the Air, Science
    1. Carbon Sequestration, Science
  7. The importance of niches for the maintenance of species diversity, Nature
  8. Parsing Social Network Survey Data from Hidden Populations Using Stochastic Context-Free Grammars, PLoS ONE
  9. A safe operating space for humanity, Nature
  10. The Evolution of Overconfidence, arXiv
  11. Looming Global-Scale Failures and Missing Institutions, Science
    1. A New Biology to Mend Society's Woes, Science
  12. An Adaptive Complex Network Model for Brain Functional Networks, PLoS ONE
  13. Cosmology at a Crossroads, Science
  14. Unraveling Traveling, Science
  15. Impact of Epistasis on Evolutionary Adaptation, arXiv
  16. Beyond Cell Doctrine Complexity Theor y Infor ms Alternate Models of the Body for Cross-Cultural Dialogue, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  17. How companies are benefiting from Web 2.0: McKinsey Global Survey Results, McKinsey Quaterly
  18. Attitudes and Action: Public Opinion and the Occurrence of International Terrorism, Science
  19. Book Announcements
    1. New Visions of Nature: Complexity and Authenticity, Springer
    2. Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals, University Of Chicago Press
    3. Computation, Cognition, and Pylyshyn, The MIT Press
    4. The Social Embeddedness of Industrial Ecology, Edward Elgar Publishing
    5. Are Science And Mathematics Socially Constructed?: A Mathematician Encounters Postmodern Interpretations of Science, World Scientific Publishing Company
  20. Links & Snippets
    1. Other Publications
    2. Conference Announcements
    3. Webcast Announcements
    4. Other Announcements

  1. Emergent or Just Complex?, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: The concept of emergence in the physical and biological sciences is an elusive one. The term refers to phenomena in which the complexity of structures or behaviors in systems with many interacting components exceeds that predicted from knowledge of the individual components and the forces between them. A recent conference (1) provided an opportunity to probe the notion of emergence from a wide range of viewpoints, loosely linked by the themes of increasing complexity and molecular organization. The scope of the conference is exemplified by S. Rasmussen's characterization of hydrogen as "a colorless, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people." Perhaps the prototypical emergent phenomenon is the origin of entities that can plausibly be called alive (2). How does one get from atoms to simple molecules to systems that can grow, reproduce, metabolize, move, and adapt?
    • Source: Emergent or Just Complex?, Anna C. Balazs and Irving R. Epstein, DOI: 10.1126/science.1178323, Science Vol. 325. no. 5948, pp. 1632 - 1634, 2009/09/25

    1. Highly Variable Spread Rates in Replicated Biological Invasions: Fundamental Limits to Predictability, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: The observed variation between replicate invasions cannot be explained by demographic stochasticity alone, which indicates inherent limitations to predictability in even the simplest ecological settings.

  2. Seasonal transmission potential and activity peaks of the new influenza A(H1N1): a Monte Carlo likelihood analysis based on human mobility, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: We use a global structured metapopulation model integrating mobility and transportation data worldwide in order to estimate the transmission potential and the relevant model parameters we used the data on the chronology of the 2009 novel influenza A(H1N1). (...) The analysis shows the potential for an early epidemic peak occurring in October/November in the Northern hemisphere, likely before large-scale vaccination campaigns could be carried out.

    1. A Race Against Time to Vaccinate Against Novel H1N1 Virus, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: The first report issued by the current President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), it made a stir because it highlighted a "plausible scenario" that the novel H1N1 virus could infect up to half the U.S. population in the next 6 months and kill as many as 90,000 people, most of them young. Some flu experts thought PCAST exaggerated the doomsday possibilities, and in the hubbub that erupted, a less contentiousâ€"and equally alarmingâ€"point of the report received scant attention: By the time a vaccine arrives, it may be too late to stop this wave of disease.

  3. On Universality in Human Correspondence Activity, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: We demonstrate that, like e-mail correspondence, the letter correspondence patterns of 16 writers, performers, politicians, and scientists are well described by the circadian cycle, task repetition, and changing communication needs. We confirm the universality of these mechanisms by rescaling letter and e-mail correspondence statistics to reveal their underlying similarity.

  4. Ten Simple Rules for Chairing a Scientific Session, PLoS Comput Biol Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Chairing a session at a scientific conference is a thankless task. If you get it right, no one is likely to notice. But there are many ways to get it wrong and a little preparation goes a long way to making the session a success. Here are a few pointers that we have picked up over the years.

  5. A Year after Lehman's Collapse: What Does Wall Street Look Like?, Knowledge@Wharton Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Summary: On September 14, President Barack Obama gave a speech in New York to mark the anniversary of the Lehman Brothers failure. It was a year ago when -- during the course of a single jaw-dropping week -- the investment bank declared bankruptcy; Bank of America took over Merrill Lynch; and the U.S. federal government bailed out American International Group. How has Wall Street changed during the past year, and what will these changes mean for investors? What new financial regulations have been discussed, and what remains to be done? How much longer will it take the U.S. economy to emerge from the woods? Knowledge@Wharton spoke with finance professors Jeremy Siegel and Richard Herring to get their take on these questions and more.

  6. Clearing the Air, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Carbon capture and sequestration, or storage, (CCS) is rapidly becoming a key element in our nascent efforts to minimize the amount of CO2 we emit and perhaps even to regulate the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
    This special issue aims to elucidate some of the main approaches to CCS and how they might be accomplished.
    • Source: Clearing the Air, H. Jesse Smith, Julia Fahrenkamp-Uppenbrink, Robert Coontz, DOI: 10.1126/science.325_1641, Science Vol. 325. no. 5948, p. 1641, 2009/09/25

    1. Carbon Sequestration, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: Science has created a map showing some of the major CCS projects around the world, either completed, in operation, or scheduled for the near future.
      See Also: Map
      • Source: Carbon Sequestration, DOI: 10.1126/science.325_1644, Science Vol. 325. no. 5948, pp. 1644 - 1645, 2009/09/25

  7. The importance of niches for the maintenance of species diversity, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Summary: If organisms are involved in a perpetual struggle for existence, how is it that communities are so diverse? The traditional answer is the ecological niche but this has recently been challenged by the neutral theory of biodiversity, which explains coexistence with the equivalence of competitors. Here, theory and experimentation are integrated in order to explore this problem; the results show that diversity declines when niches are removed.

  8. Parsing Social Network Survey Data from Hidden Populations Using Stochastic Context-Free Grammars, PLoS ONE Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: [...] public health agencies are presently adopting modern survey techniques that traverse social networks in hidden populations by soliciting individuals to recruit their peers, e.g., respondent-driven sampling (RDS). [...] Here, we develop a new methodology based on stochastic context-free grammars (SCFGs), which are well-suited to modeling tree-like structure of the RDS recruitment process.

  9. A safe operating space for humanity, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Summary:
    The inner green shading represents the proposed safe operating space for nine planetary systems. The red wedges represent an estimate of the current position for each variable. The boundaries in three systems (rate of biodiversity loss, climate change and human interference with the nitrogen cycle), have already been exceeded.
    * New approach proposed for defining preconditions for human development
    * Crossing certain biophysical thresholds could have disastrous consequences for humanity
    * Three of nine interlinked planetary boundaries have already been overstepped

  10. The Evolution of Overconfidence, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Confidence is an essential ingredient of success in a wide range of domains including job performance, mental health, sports, business, and combat. Many authors have suggested that overconfidence--defined here as believing you are better than you are in reality--is advantageous because it serves to increase ambition, resolve, morale, persistence, and/or the bluffing of opponents. However, too much overconfidence can cause arrogance, market bubbles, financial collapses, policy failures, disasters, and wars, so it remains a puzzle how such a false belief could evolve or remain stable in a population of competing accurate beliefs. Here, we present an evolutionary model that shows overconfidence actually maximizes individual fitness and populations will tend to become overconfident, as long as the resources at stake during conflicts exceed twice the cost of competition.

  11. Looming Global-Scale Failures and Missing Institutions, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Energy, food, and water crises; climate disruption; declining fisheries; increasing ocean acidification; emerging diseases; and increasing antibiotic resistance are examples of serious, intertwined global-scale challenges spawned by the accelerating scale of human activity. They are outpacing the development of institutions to deal with them and their many interactive effects. The core of the problem is inducing cooperation in situations where individuals and nations will collectively gain if all cooperate, but each faces the temptation to take a free ride on the cooperation of others.

    1. A New Biology to Mend Society's Woes, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: When a National Academies panel was created last year to examine where to go next in life sciences, some thought it would focus on biomedicineâ€"or merely ask for more money. So many science advocates were pleased last week when the panel called for a multidisciplinary initiative to address four major societal problems involving food, energy, the environment, and health. The report likens these goals to sending a man to the moon and the Human Genome Project.

  12. An Adaptive Complex Network Model for Brain Functional Networks, PLoS ONE Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Brain functional networks are graph representations of activity in the brain, where the vertices represent anatomical regions and the edges their functional connectivity. [...] In order to understand the basic ingredients necessary for the emergence of these complex network structures we present an adaptive complex network model for human brain functional networks.

  13. Cosmology at a Crossroads, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Summary: A fundamental question in cosmology is, "How did the universe begin?" The two pivotal ideas of inflation and cold dark matter (CDM), combined with extensive observational results, including the unpredicted accelerated expansion of the universe, underpin a new standard model of cosmology.
    • Source: Cosmology at a Crossroads, Charles L. Bennett, DOI: 10.1126/science.1172427, Science Vol. 325. no. 5946, pp. 1347 - 1348, 2009/09/11

  14. Unraveling Traveling, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Summary: There are few more awesome sights in the animal world than the seasonal mass migrations of the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus, from the northern United States and southern Canada to its overwintering grounds in central Mexico (1). As with other insect orientations, the monarch uses the position of the Sun to calculate where it should be going. However, as the Sun moves across the sky during the day, the monarch must continuously adjust its calculations, which it does by using its 24-hour circadian clock. So where is this time-compensated clock located? On page 1700 of this issue, Merlin et al. reveal that it's in the antennae (2).
    • Source: Unraveling Traveling, Charalambos P. Kyriacou, DOI: 10.1126/science.1178935, Science Vol. 325. no. 5948, pp. 1629 - 1630, 2009/09/25

  15. Impact of Epistasis on Evolutionary Adaptation, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: We investigate the impact of epistasis on adaptive evolution in a multiplicative NK model, by evolving a population of asexual haploid organisms with circular binary genomes of length N, where each locus interacts with K neighbors. We use a quantitative measure of epistasis and find that epistasis is a monotonically increasing function of K. At high mutation rates selection favors epistatic interactions between mutations, whereas at low mutation rates epistatic interactions hinder adaptation, and are selected against. Higher fitness is attained when more epistatic interactions are possible, with an optimum at an intermediate amount of epistasis. Increasing epistasis transforms the fitness landscape from smooth to rugged, and it is this ruggedness that enables mutations to have a larger fitness effect compared to non-epistatic landscapes. (...)

  16. Beyond Cell Doctrine Complexity Theor y Infor ms Alternate Models of the Body for Cross-Cultural Dialogue, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: Cell doctrine is the foundational paradigm of Euro-American medicine and biology. Even without stepping outside that tradition, one may imagine alternate models of the body such as a ïŹ‚uid model in which cells do not exist or a model wherein cells are described as overlapping ïŹelds of molecular organization in space and time. With a complexity analysis of cell biology, we ïŹnd that the existence of cells as unitar y entities, as things, is contingent on the level of scale at which the body is observed. Therefore, al- ternate models of the body may be conceived that are speciïŹc and appropriate to other levels of scale. These ideas suggest that some bodily phenomena, particularly from Asian traditions, which have previously resisted explanation from within the cell-based Euro-American tradition (e.g., acupuncture) may be productively investigated with one or more of these other models. Additionally, the seemingly metaphorical concepts from Tibetan medicine of the coarse, energy, and subtle bodies may represent precise, though somewhat poetically expressed representations of the body at dif ferent levels of scale.

  17. How companies are benefiting from Web 2.0: McKinsey Global Survey Results, McKinsey Quaterly Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Over the past three years, we have tracked the rising adoption of Web 2.0 technologies, as well as the ways organizations are using them. This year, we sought to get a clear idea of whether companies are deriving measurable business benefits from their investments in the Web. Our findings indicate that they are.

  18. Attitudes and Action: Public Opinion and the Occurrence of International Terrorism, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: The predictors of terrorism are unclear. This paper examines the effect of public opinion in one country toward another country on the number of terrorist attacks perpetrated by people or groups from the former country against targets in the latter country. Public opinion was measured by the percentage of people in Middle Eastern and North African countries who disapprove of the leadership of nine world powers. Count models for 143 pairs of countries were used to estimate the effect of public opinion on terrorist incidents, controlling for other relevant variables and origin-country fixed effects. We found a greater incidence of international terrorism when people of one country disapprove of the leadership of another country.
    Editor's Note: This study confirms the common sense idea that---in order to fight terrorism---changing foreign policy would be more effective than any military action.

  19. Book Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

    1. New Visions of Nature: Complexity and Authenticity, Springer Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      "New Visions of Nature" focuses on the emergence of these new visions of complex nature in three domains. The first selection of essays reflects public visions of nature, that is, nature as it is experienced, encountered, and instrumentalized by diverse publics. The second selection zooms in on micro-nature and explores the world of contemporary genomics. The final section returns to the macro-world and discusses the ethics of place in present-day landscape philosophy and environmental ethics. The contributions to this volume explore perceptual and conceptual boundaries between the human and the natural, or between an ‘out there’ and ‘in here’.

    2. Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals, University Of Chicago Press Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      Scientists have long counseled against interpreting animal behavior in terms of human emotions, warning that such anthropomorphizing limits our ability to understand animals as they really are. Yet what are we to make of a female gorilla in a German zoo who spent days mourning the death of her baby? Or a wild female elephant who cared for a younger one after she was injured by a rambunctious teenage male? Or a rat who refused to push a lever for food when he saw that doing so caused another rat to be shocked?

    3. Computation, Cognition, and Pylyshyn, The MIT Press Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      Zenon Pylyshyn is a towering figure in cognitive science; his book Computation and Cognition (MIT Press, 1984) is a foundational presentation of the relationship between cognition and computation. His recent work on vision and its preconceptual mechanism has been influential and controversial. In this book, leading cognitive scientists address major topics in Pylyshyn's work and discuss his contributions to the cognitive sciences. As Jerry Fodor argues, in the introduction to this book, Pylyshyn’s recent work may well solve one of the fundamental problems and puzzles in cognitive science: how our minds are, after all, connected to the external world.

    4. The Social Embeddedness of Industrial Ecology, Edward Elgar Publishing Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      From its inception, the field of industrial ecology has taken a distinctly technological approach to understanding and improving ecological consequences of industrial activities. Increasingly however, scholars and practitioners are developing perspectives on the social embeddedness of industrial ecology: the ways in which material and energy flows in regions and product chains are shaped by the social context in which they occur. This book presents empirical work addressing how cognitive, cultural, political and structural mechanisms condition the emergence and operation of industrial ecology.

    5. Are Science And Mathematics Socially Constructed?: A Mathematician Encounters Postmodern Interpretations of Science, World Scientific Publishing Company Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      This book is a history, analysis, and criticism of what the author calls postmodern interpretations of science and the closely related sociology of scientific knowledge. This movement traces its origin to Thomas Kuhn's revolutionary work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), but is more extreme. It believes that science is a social construction , having little to do with nature, and is determined by contextual forces such as the race, class, gender of the scientist, laboratory politics, or the needs of the military industrial complex. The book is both an intellectual and a political history.

  20. Links & Snippets Next Article Bookmark and Share

    1. Other Publications Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. On the Potential of the Irreducible Description of Complex Systems for the Modeling of the Global Financial System, Galina and Victor Korotkikh, 2009/09/09, arXiv:0909.1667
      2. Proteins with greater influence on network dynamics evolve more slowly but are not more essential, Ryan N. Gutenkunst, 2009/09/09, arXiv:0909.2889
      3. On the Origin of Chaos in Autonomous Boolean Networks, Hugo L. D. de S. Cavalcante, Daniel J. Gauthier, Joshua E. S. Socolar, Rui Zhang, 2009/09/11, arXiv:0909.2269
      4. MITEs—The Ultimate Parasites, Josefa González and Dmitri Petrov, 2009/09/11, Science Vol. 325. no. 5946, pp. 1352 - 1353, DOI: 10.1126/science.1179556
      5. Evolutionary Reduction of Mutation Rates in a Multivariate, Multilocus Model, Lee Altenberg, 2009/09/14, arXiv:0909.2454
      6. Resolving the network synchronization landscape: Compensatory structures, quantization, and the positive effect of negative interactions, Takashi Nishikawa, Adilson E. Motter, 2009/09/15, arXiv:0909.2874
      7. Violation of Bell's inequality in Josephson phase qubits, Markus Ansmann et al., 2009/09/24, Nature 461, 504-506, DOI: 10.1038/nature08363

    2. Conference Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. 4th Annual Singularity Summit, New York City, NY, USA, 09/10/3-4
      2. IC3K 2009 - Int'l Joint Conf. on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, Madeira, Portugal, 09/10/6-8
      3. OPEN SYSTEMS SCIENCE : From Understanding Principles to Solving Problems, Paris, France, 09/10/08
      4. Future Internet Architectures Summit, Arlington, VA, USA, 09/10/12-15
      5. Systems Chemistry II: Evolution and Systems, BalatonfĂŒred/Lake Balaton, Hungary, 09/10/18-23
      6. First Discussion Meeting on Patterning, Segregation and Differentiation in Complex Networks, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico, 09/10/19-21
      7. Workshop: Computing action policies that ensure resilience of social and ecological systems, Madeira, Portugal, 09/10/21-22
      8. Econophysics Colloquium 2009, Erice, Sicily, Italy, 09/10/25-31
      9. Natural and Biomimetic Mechanosensing, Dresden, Germany, 09/10/26-28
      10. Lyapunov analysis, from theory to geophysical applications, Paris, France, 09/10/26-30
      11. The 11th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2009) , Lyon, France, 09/11/03-06
      12. International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS 2009) , Barcelona, Spain, 09/11/4-6
      13. the 9th Asia-Pacific Complex Systems Conference Complex'09 How to Manage Complexity? , Tokyo, Japan, 09/11/4-7
      14. CAS in the Natural and Social Sciences, AAAI Fall Symposium Arlington, VA, USA, 09/11/5-7
      15. Ninth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems, Venice, Italy, 09/11/12-14
      16. 1st Global Peter F. Drucker Forum, ‘Managing the Future’, Vienna, Austria, 09/11/19-20
      17. Darwin09, International Workshop on 150 Years after Darwin: From Molecular Evolution to Language, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 09/11/23-27
      18. Health and Complex Systems Workshop, Lyon, France, 09/11/30-12/01
      19. 9th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, Pisa, Italy, 09/11/30-12/02
      20. World Congress on Nature & Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC 2009), Coimbatore, India, 09/12/9-11
      21. Dynamics Days 2010, Evanston, IL, USA, 10/01/04-07
      22. 5th Biennial Convention about the philosophical, epistemological, and methodological implications of the Theory of Complexity, Havana, Cuba, 10/01/6-8
      23. 2nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2010), Valencia, Spain, 10/01/22-24
      24. 20th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research, EMCSR 2010, University of Vienna, Austria, 10/04/6-9
      25. EvoStar 2010 , Istanbul, Turkey, 10/04/7-10
      26. International Conference on Computer Supported Education, Valencia, Spain, 10/04/7-10
      27. The IV International Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization - NICSO 2010, Granada, Spain, 10/05/12-14
      28. ICEIS 2010 (12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems), Funchal-Madeira, Portugal, 10/06/6-10
      29. 2010 World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Barcelona, Spain, 10/07/18-23
      30. European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI), Copenhagen, Denmark, 10/08/09-20
      31. Artificial Life XII (ALife XII), Odense, Denmark, 10/08/19--23
      32. European Conference on Complex Systems, Lisbon, Portugal, 2010

    3. Webcast Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. ASSYST Digital Library. Since 09/09

      2. Complex Systems Teleconferences. Since 09/09

      3. Symmetry Festival 2009, Budapest, Hungary, 09/08/1-4.

      4. International Workshop on Coping with Crises in Complex Socio-Economic Systems, Zurich, Switzerland, 09/06/8-12

      5. Memorial Service for Dr Gottfried Mayer, Founding Editor Complexity Digest, Taipei, Taiwan (1954-2009). Video [RM], 09/02/13

      6. Making Connections: In Memory and Celebration of the Life of Dr. Gottfried Mayer (1954-2009). Video [RM] [MPG], 09/02/13

      7. Eulogy for Gottfried Mayer by Dean LeBaron [WMV, 25 Mb], [RM, 10 Mb], 09/02/10

      8. Can Ants Solve Traffic Jams?, Danielle Parsons, Slatev.com, 08/07/22

      9. Reseau Nationale des Systemes Complexes , (in French), 2007
      10. World Economic Forum , Davos, Switzerland, 08/01/22-27
      11. TED Talks, TED Conferences LLC , since 2006
      12. Talking Robots: The PodCast on Robotics and AI, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, 06/11/03
      13. Potentials of Complexity Science for Business, Governments, and the Media 2006, Budapest, Hungary, 06/08/03-05
      14. 6th Intl Conf on Complex Systems (ICCS), Boston, MA, 06/06/25-30
      15. Artificial Life X, 10th Intl Conf on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Bloomington, IN, USA. 2006/06/03-07
      16. 6th Understanding Complex Systems Symposium, Urbana-Champaign, Il, 06/05/15-18
      17. Ralph Abraham on Complexity Digest, , Calcutta, India, 05/12/27
      18. An Afternoon with Michael Crichton, Washington, 05/11/06
      19. Illuminating the Shadow of the Future, Ann Arbor, Mi 05/09/23-25
      20. Open Network of Centres of Excellence in Complex Systems - Brainstorming Meeting, Paris, France 05/09/19-23
      21. Complexity, Science & Society Conference 2005, U. Liverpool, UK 2005/09/11-14
      22. ECAL 2005 - VIIIth European Conference on Artificial Life, Canterbury, Kent, UK 2005/09/5-9
      23. T. Irene Sanders, Executive Director and Founder, The Washington Center for Complexity & Public Policy, 05/08/27, QuickTime video (10:38 min), Podcast
      24. North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity 2005 Conference, Virtual Conference Network, St. Pete's Beach, Florida, 05/06/09-11
      25. Understanding Complex Systems - Computational Complexity and Bioinformatics, Virtual Conference Network, Urbana-Champaign, Il, UIUC, 05/05/16-19
      26. Nonlinearity, Fluctuations, and Complexity, with a celebration of the 65th birthday of Gregoire Nicolis. , Complexity Session, Universite' Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, 05/03/16
      27. 1st European Conference on Complex Systems, Torino, Italy, 04/12/5-7
      28. From Autopoiesis to Neurophenomenology: A Tribute to Francisco Varela (1946-2001), Paris, France, 2004/06/18-20
      29. Evolutionary Epistemology, Language, and Culture, Brussels, Belgium, 04/05/26-28
      30. International Conference on Complex Systems 2004, Boston, 04/05/16-21
      31. Nonlinear Dynamics And Chaos: Lab Demonstrations, Strogatz, Steven H., Internet-First University Press, 1994
      32. CERN Webcast Service, Streamed videos of Archived Lectures and Live Events
      33. Dean LeBaron's Archive of Daily Video Commentary, Ongoing Since February 1998
      34. Edge Videos

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