Concerning the participation to the ECCO team seminars, unfortunately I should annouce that until I get my bureaucratic documents completed, I can not be there to join you. On the other hand, as a consequence of the present situation, I may not be able to do a seminar until January, 2005. But in any case, I will accept the weekly seminar days selected and agreed on by the team.
Erden
Francis Heylighen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Because of our busy activities, things have been delayed a bit, but we now finally hope to start with our weekly series of seminars, normally in December.Place and timeSeminars will probably take place from 17-19h in the seminar room of the Psychology faculty (building C, 3rd floor). However, there is still a choice of weekday:Monday:Tuesday:Wednesday:Thursday:Friday:Ideally, all ECCO members should be able to participate in the seminars. So, I would ask all of you to indicate which days:1) are difficult or impossible for you ( indicate with a - minus sign);2) are preferable for you (+ sign).3) I assume that the other days are neither generally good nor generally bad.For example, my own preferences are:Monday:Tuesday: +Wednesday: -Thursday: +Friday:I'll then add up all the votes, try to avoid days that have one or more minuses, choose the one with most pluses, and check whether that also matches with the availability of the seminar rooms to make the final choice. From what I have heard from ECCO members until now, it seems Thursday is a good candidate.People and topicsSecond issue is the actual program. I assume that all local (living around Brussels) ECCO members will sooner or later want to present their research to the others, and thus get the chance to get some in-depth feedback. Moreover, we will of course invite outside people working on related subjects. So, what I ask of you is:1) your preferred period to give a seminar;2) a provisional title or subject;3) suggestions for other people to invite.A preliminary list could look as follows, where I have indicated the general area on which people might lecture (no period means that people can start in December, ? means that I don't yet know about their constraints or readiness to give a seminar):- Andreas Loengarov (has already given an informal seminar just before leaving for Scotland): network analysis of food webs- Francis Heylighen: the origins of organization. A general introduction to the ECCO theme- Marko Rodriguez: computer-support systems for societal decision-making- Carlos Gershenson: self-organizing traffic streams: a concrete simulation of mediator evolution- Klaas Chielens: empirical measurement of memetic selection criteria- Frank Van Overwalle (invited): a connectionist simulation of distributed cognition- Mixel Kiemen: (after Dec.) harvesting awareness- Nathalie Gontier (Jan. or Feb.): A systems/symbiotic view of the evolution of: 1) language; 2) knowledge; or 3) organisms (subject still to be chosen: you may express your preferences ;-)- Nick Deschacht: (after Jan.) A systems view of Marxist theory- Laetitia De Jaegher (after Jan.): The need for new systems of governance in a complex, changing society- Julien Libbrecht (?): Application of cybernetic principles to the organization of health care- Erden Göktepe (?): Complex systems models of the emergence of actors in international relations- Bertin Martens (?): the cognitive mechanics of economic and institutional development- Geert Vancronenburg (?): System dynamics and changing a world view (?)- Dirk Bollen (?): situated and embodied cognition- Karl Tuyls (?):- Gustaaf Geeraerts (?)- Kurt Laforce
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