Here's a note of interest to the Northern New Mexico branch of FRIAM. -- rec --
Good Morning: As a reminder, the CNLS 26th Annual Conference on Socio-Technical Systems is starting today at the Oppenheimer Center of the LANL Library and will continue through Thursday. It is open to the public and there is no registration fee. Here is the agenda: http://cnls.lanl.gov/annual26/program.html Abstract: The conference will attempt to map out the fundamental difficulties in understanding, modeling and controlling agent-based systems with applications to socio-technical systems of national and global relevance. As human society becomes more and more interdependent and intertwined, presenting global vulnerabilities, the need for quantitative tools to understand and possibly predict complex dynamical phenomena has become urgent. We have chosen to focus on five cross-cutting areas (water, energy, urbanization, health and economics), each of which involves complex human, social and technical challenges. Our hope is to bring together experts in the subject matter and in state of the art computational technologies for gathering and analyzing data, to explore rules underlying complex social phenomena and examine tools useful for crisis mitigation, planning and decision making. We hope to see you there. Sincerely, Adam Shipman -- Adam Shipman LANL - Center for Nonlinear Studies PO Box 1663, MS-B258 Los Alamos, NM 87545 Ph# (505) 664-0187 Fax (505) 665-2659 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
