| Date |
Author |
Title |
| Spring 2009 |
| April 8 |
Schmidt & Lipson |
"Distilling free-form natural laws from experimental data" |
| Feb 25 |
Kearns, Judd, Tan & Wortman |
"Behavioral experiments on biased voting in networks" |
| Feb 11 |
Fowler & Christakis |
"Dynamic spread of happiness in a large social network: Longitudinal analysis over 20 years in the Framingham Heart Study" |
| Feb 4 |
Braess et al. |
"On a paradox of traffic planning" (read the original in German)
Commentary: "Preface to 'On a paradox of traffic planning'" |
| Jan 21 |
Kashtan & Alon |
"Spontaneous evolution of modularity and network motifs" |
| |
| Fall 2008 |
| Oct 29 |
Guimera, Uzzi, Spiro & Amaral |
"Team assembly mechanisms determine collaboration network structure and team performance" |
| Oct 22 |
Wuchty, Jones & Uzzi |
"The increasing dominance of teams in production of knowledge" |
| Oct 8 |
Youn, Gastner & Jeong |
"The price of anarchy in transportation networks: Efficiency and optimality control" |
| Oct 1 |
Hill, Bentley & Dunbar |
"Network scaling reveals consistent fractal pattern in hierarchical mammalian societies" |
| Sept 24 |
Kemp & Tenenbaum |
"The discovery of structural form" + appendix |
| Sept 17 |
Gonzalez, Hidalgo & Barabasi |
"Understanding individual human mobility patterns" |
| Sept 10 |
Chris Anderson |
"The end of theory: The data deluge makes the scientific method obsolete" |
| |
| Spring 2008 |
| April 24 |
S. C. Albright
S. Arbesman & S. Strogatz
|
"A statistical analysis of hitting streaks in baseball"
"A journey to baseball's alternate universe" |
| April 3 |
Richard Breen |
"Social mobility in Europe" |
| Feb 21 |
Michael Batty
Makse et al.
|
"The size, scale, and shape of cities"
"Modelling urban growth patterns"
|
| Feb 7 |
Lieberman, Michel, Jackson, Tang1 & Nowak
Atkinson, Meade, Venditti, Greenhill, & Pagel
|
"Quantifying the evolutionary dynamics of language"
"Languages evolve in punctuational bursts"
|
| Jan 24 |
W. B. Rouse |
"Complex engineered, organizational and natural systems: Issues underlying the complexity of systems and fundamental research needed to address these issues" |
| |
| Fall 2007 |
| Nov 07 |
K. Zhang & T. J. Sejnowski
Chen, Hall, & Chklovskii |
"A universal scaling law between gray matter and white matter of cerebral cortex"
"Wiring optimization can relate neuronal structure and function" |
| Oct. 24 |
R. D'Souza et al.
A.-L. Barabasi & R. Albert |
"Emergence of tempered preferential attachment from optimization"
"Emergence of scaling in random networks"
|
| Oct 10 |
Liu et al.
Hidalgo et al.
|
"Complexity of coupled human and natural systems"
"The product space conditions the development of nations"
|
| Sept 26 |
Lim, Metzler, & Bar-Yam |
"Global pattern formation and ethnic/cultural violence" |
| Sept 12 |
Michel Balinski & Rida Laraki |
"A theory of measuring, electing, and ranking" |
| |
| Spring 2007 |
| Apr 25 |
Bettencourt, Lobo, Helbing, Kuhnert, & West |
"Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities" |
Apr 11
|
Michael Gastner & Mark Newman
|
"Shape and efficiency in spatial distribution networks"
"The spatial structure of networks"
"Optimal design of spatial distribution networks"
|
Mar 28
|
Shen-Orr, Milo, Mangan, & Alon
Itzkovitz, Levitt, Kastan, Milo, Itzkovitz, & Alon |
"Network motifs in the transcriptional regulation network of Escherichia coli"
"Coarse-graining and self-dissimilarity of complex networks" |
Mar 07
|
Philip Ball |
"The physical modelling of human social systems" |
Feb 21
|
D. Rind
Kerry Emanuel
|
"Complexity and climate"
"Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30 years" |
Feb 07
|
Weng, Bhalla, & Iyengar
Koch & Laurent |
"Complexity in biological signaling systems"
"Complexity and the nervous system" |
| Jan 24 |
George M. Whitesides, et al. |
"Complexity in chemistry" |
| Jan 10 |
P.W. Anderson |
"More is different" |
