Friends: In January, I -- along with six other Americans (as in "U.S.A. Americans") -- was able to participate in a conference on Complexity Theory in Havana. There were about 225 scholars from all of Latin America at the meeting; roughly half were Cubans. We found that they are very strong in terms of Complexity Theory, but lack experience in what is coming to be called the "Santa Fe Approach" to Complexity or "Applied Complexity Studies." That is, marrying the theory with data analysis and simulations, especially as those methods can be applied in the social and medical sciences.
Contacts made at the meeting resulted in our being invited to assemble a team local researchers and practitioners -- plus two high school students from New Mexico's Super-computing Challenge <http://www.challenge.nm.org/>-- to conduct a series of workshops at a large complexity conference in Camagüey, Cuba in February 2009. We think this is a great idea, but one that requires money. I have a generic letter for potential funders that can be found at http://complexityincuba.notlong.com If you find the concept intriguing, please take a look at the letter. If you think the idea has potential, I would appreciate it if you could point me to any potential funders. All the best, Tom Johnson ========================================== J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA www.analyticjournalism.com 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) http://www.jtjohnson.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." -- Buckminster Fuller ==========================================
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