Just to remind you that tomorrow we have a guest speaker who
drives down especially from the Netherlands to present his very
interesting research to our group: I hope you will all try to be
there!
One technical issue: Gerard planned to bring his Powerpoint
presentation on a memory stick, and I said we would provide a PC to
connect to the beamer, assuming Carlos would be there with his
laptop. However, Carlos is still in Venice. Therefore, I would ask if
someone else can bring a laptop to the lecture room: Mixel, Klaas,
...? Or, to be on the safe side, Gerard, can you bring a laptop
yourself? There also seems to be a PC in the seminar room, but we
have never tried it out, and I have no idea whether it would accept a
memory stick as it seems to be an older model...
Closure and the modular
evolution of matter
by
Dr. Gerard Jagers op Akkerhuis
(Alterra, Wageningen University
& Research Center, The Netherlands)
Place: room 3C204 (building C, 3rd floor), VUB campus
Oefenplein
Time: Friday, May 20, at 17:30 h.
Abstract:
Ever since the big bang, the dynamic processes in the universe
have created a broad spectrum of systems that have been arranged from
quarks to hadrons, atoms, molecules, organelles, cells, organisms,
ecosystems, suns and planets, solar systems and galaxies.
More info:
- G. Jagers op Akkerhuis (2001): Extrapolating a Hierarchy of Building Block Systems Towards Future Neural Network Organisms, Acta Biotheoretica 49 (3): 171-189. As a preparation to the lecture you are invited to visit the site HYPERCYCLE.NL where you may find an introduction to the operator hypothesis and answers to frequently asked questions.
ECCO seminar
programme coming weeks
27 May: Lito Kyritsi: Systems
Modelling of Cancer
3 Jun: Laetitia De Jaegher: Towards
sustainable development: the precautionary principle as a call for a
new theory of law to support multi-dimensional governance
ECCO seminars normally take place each Friday at 17h30 in room
3C204 of the VUB Campus Etterbeek. Everyone interested is welcome.
The seminars are very interactive, with small groups (about 8-10
people). The intention is to discuss in depth the research being
proposed, and to look for interdisciplinary connections with other
ECCO-related themes. Seminars last about two hours, after which the
remaining participants go to take a drink or a snack in the Opinio
Café on the campus, to continue the discussion in a more relaxed
setting.
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Francis Heylighen
"Evolution, Complexity and Cognition" research group
Free University of Brussels
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html
Francis Heylighen
"Evolution, Complexity and Cognition" research group
Free University of Brussels
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html
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Francis Heylighen
Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group
Free University of Brussels
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html
Francis Heylighen
Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group
Free University of Brussels
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html