Seminars

Below please find a listing of upcoming and previous seminars related to Complex Systems.

Date/Time	Location	Speaker	Title
Spring 2013
Feb 22	Davis Auditorium	Seth Blumsack	Spire Speaker Series Towards Tractable Topology Control in Electrical Networks
Jan 25	Livak Ballroom, Davis Center	Gary An	Spire Speaker Series Beyond Big Data: Making Biomedical Science Scale Through the Use of In Silico Dynamic Knowledge Representation
Fall 2012
Nov 30	001 Kalkin Hall	René Doursat	Spire Speaker Series Morphogenetic Engineering: Toward Programmable Complex Systems via Biological and Artificial Development
Nov 9	Livak Ballroom, Davis Center	Ian Dobson	How can complex system feedbacks shape cascading failure blackout risk towards criticality?
Oct 19	Davis Auditorium	TEDxUVM	big SCALE... big FAIL?
Oct 10	001 Kalkin Hall	Wolfgang Banzhaf	Emergence and Genetic Programming
Sep 28	Livak Ballroom, Davis Center	Daniel H. Rothman	Spire Speaker Series Methanogenic Blow-up in the End-Permian Carbon Cycle: Microbial Prelude to Earth's Greatest Extinction
Spring 2012
May 11	Lafayette Hall, Rm 207	Dan Rockmore	Spire Speaker Series Computational Cultural Evolution: Two Textual Case Studies
Apr 13	Davis Auditorium, Fletcher Allen	Hilary Mason	Spire Speaker Series Data Science & bitly
Mar 23	Silver Maple Room, Davis Student Center	Robert J. Glass	Spire Speaker Series Designing Influence in Complex Adaptive Systems of Systems: CASoS Engineering
Feb 24	Davis Auditorium, Fletcher Allen	Terrence J. Sejnowski	Spire Speaker Series Suspicious Coincidences in the Brain
Jan 20	Mildred Livak Room, Davis Student Center	Leon Glass	Spire Speaker Series Predicting the Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death
Fall 2011
Dec 2	Frank Livak Room, Davis Student Center	Dr. Stuart Kauffman, Christopher Koliba & Brian Beckage	Spire Speaker Series The Re-Enchantment of Humanity
Nov 14	367 Votey	Margaret (Maggie) J. Eppstein	How to Search for Trouble … and Find It!
Oct 28	Davis Auditorium	TEDxUVM	big DATA, BIG stories
Oct 28	Jeffords 110	Jason Bates (UVM College of Medicine; UVM School of Engineering)	The Science of Complexity
Oct 27	Kalkin 110	Michael Chertkov (Los Alamos National Laboratory)	Optimization and Control Theory for Smart (Power) Grids
Spring 2011
April 4 7pm	Memorial Lounge, Waterman	Michael Batty	All the World's a Fractal: How Complexity Theory is Being Harnessed to Envision Urban Futures [see slides]
Feb 4 12:00 - 1:00pm	S359, Given Courtyard	Chris Danforth & Peter Dodds	Measuring Happiness the Big Data Way [see slides]
Fall 2010
Dec 10 9:00 - 10:00am	Perkins 101	Dr. Simon Haykin	Cognition Inspired by the Human Brain: A Novel Way of Building a New Generation of Dynamic Systems
Dec 8 2:30pm	HSRF 400	Dr. William Charles Earnshaw	Exploring the Random Forest in Search of the Mitotic Chromosome Proteome
Dec 3 12:50 - 1:40pm	004 Kalkin	Dr. Leon Glass	Dynamics in Model Genetic Networks: Evolution and the Inverse Problem
Nov 29 4:00pm	Davis Center, 419 Mildred Livak Rm	Dr. John W. Pepper	Applying Evolutionary Theory to Prevent Pathogens Drug Resistance
Oct 29 4:00 - 5:00pm	Kalkin 002	Dr. Stuart Kauffman	Random Boolean Networks: Disordered Dynamical Systems and the Order They Exhibit
Oct 20 12:00 - 1:00pm	Med Ed 300 Auditorium	Dr. James H. Kaufman	The SpatioTemporal Epidemiological Modeler
Oct 15 11:45am - 12:45pm	Davis Auditorium, Medical Education Center, Fletcher Allen Health Care/UVM (NOT the Davis Center)	Dr. Olaf Sporns	The Human Brain — A Complex Systems Perspective
Oct 7 5:30pm	Davis Center, Silver Maple Ballroom	Jonathan Harris	Exploring Inner Landscapes
Oct 1 12:50-1:40pm	207 Votey Hall	Dr. Mary Dunlop	Feedback Control Systems in Molecular Biology
Sept 22 12:50-1:40pm	207 Votey Hall	Dr. Wim Hordijk	Autocatalytic Sets and the Origin of Life
Sept 16 4:00pm	107 Jeffords Hall	Dr. Stuart Kauffman	Ideas on Development, Evolution and Community Assembly: For Discussion
Spring 2010
March 22 12:50-1:40pm	367 Votey Hall	Dr. John Rieffel, Union College	"Mechanisms as Minds: What Camping Tents and Caterpillars Can Teach Us About Soft Robotics"
March 12 8:00-9:00am	Davis Auditorium, Fletcher Allen Hospital	Dr. Jason Bates, UVM	"Systems Biology and the Behavior of Complex Dynamic Networks"
March 11 5:00-6:00pm	Hilton Hotel, Green Mountain Ballroom (Burlington, VT)	Dr. Stuart Kauffman, UVM	Keynote Address: "Coevolution to the Edge of Chaos" Vermont EPSCoR Annual State Meeting
Feb. 10 4:00pm	Davis Center, Jost Foundation Room A422	Dr. Daniel ben-Avraham, Clarkson University	"Finding Your Way in a Small World — Asymptotic Behavior of the Kleinberg Model"
Feb. 10 2:00pm	Votey 322	John Evans, UVM	"Looking Through Wavelets to View the Ising Problem"
Jan. 27 5:00 - 6:00pm	Memorial Lounge (338 Waterman)	Town Hall Meeting	"Transdisciplinary Research Inititative in Complex Systems"
Jan. 27 12:45-1:45pm	101 Stafford Hall	Dr. Amy Brock, Harvard University	"Dynamics and Heterogeneity in Cell Fate Decisions"
Fall 2009
Dec. 7 4:00 pm	Marsh Life Sciences 105	Dr. Andrew Kern, Dartmouth College	"The Tortoise and the Hare: Finding the Targets of Selection in Genomes"
Nov. 12 4:00 pm	Math/Stats Conference Rm, 16 Colchester Ave	Nick Allgaier, MS Candidate, UVM Math/Stats	"Where Forecasts Go Bad: Improving the State-of-the-Art Global Weather Model"
Summer 2009
August 10 10:00am	HSRF, Room 300	Dr. Tilo Winkler, Harvard Medical School & Mass General Hospital	"Bronchoconstriction, deep breaths, and emergent behavior in asthma"
Spring 2009
February 5 5:00pm	Memorial Lounge, Waterman	Dr. Scott Page, University of Michigan & Santa Fe Institute	"'The Difference': A New Way to Think About Diversity and Its Benefits"
Fall 2008
October 24 12:20-1:10pm	124 Marsh Life	Dr. Davnah Urbach, International Institute for Applied System Analysis, Austria	"Sexual Selection in Harvested Populations: Evolution of Female Mating Preference Under Size-Selective Fishing"
October 23	Billings North Lounge	Dr. Stuart Kauffman, University of Calgary	11:00am: "Are Cells Dynamically Critical?"   5:00pm: "Reinventing the Sacred"
Spring 2008
April 10 4:30pm	101 Fleming	Brian H. Wells, Raytheon H. Alex Sanchez, Raytheon	"Complex Systems: Modeling the U.S. Educational System and Student Interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)"
Mar 27 4:00pm	101 Perkins Hall	Dr. Hiroki Sayama Binghamton University, SUNY	"Self-Organization of Heterogeneous Self-Propelled Particle Swarms"
Feb. 13 11:15am	101 Perkins Hall	Dr. Joseph Sussman Jr. MIT	"Where Transportation Is Going: Transportation in the 'Complex, Large-Scale, Interconnected, Open, Sociotechnical' Systems Era"
Feb. 7 5:00pm	314 Dewey Hall	Dr. Eduardo Mercado III University at Buffalo, SUNY	"Learning to Recognize: How Brain Plasticity Impacts Cortical Processing"
Feb. 1 2:30pm	004 Kalkin Hall	Dr. Patrick M. Reed Pennsylvania State University	"Cyber-Enabled Discovery & Negotiation Given Conflicting Design Objectives"
Fall 2007
Nov. 7 5:00pm	002 Kalkin Hall	Dr. Ken McLeod Professor & Chair, Dept. of Bioengineering SUNY, Binghamton	"Complex Systems Science in Educational and Research Programs"
Oct. 5 11:00am	Math Conf Rm (16 Colchester Ave.)	Dr. Jeffrey S. Marshall Director, School of Engineering University of Vermont	"Complex Systems and Its Role in Fluid Dynamics"
Sept. 18 4:00pm	Davis Center, Sugar Maple Rm	V.S. Ramachandran Director, Center for Brain and Cognition Professor, UC San Diego Adjunct Professor, Salk Institute	"The Neurology of Human Nature"
Spring 2007
May 4 12:20-1:10pm	367 Votey Hall	Dr. Ferdinando Villa, UVM Dept. of Plant Biology	"Ecoinformatics: Knowledge Representation and Machine Reasoning for Sustainable Environmental Research and Decision Making"
May 4 12:20-1:10pm	367 Votey Hall	Dr. Ferdinando Villa, UVM Dept. of Plant Biology	"Ecoinformatics: Knowledge Representation and Machine Reasoning for Sustainable Environmental Research and Decision Making"
Apr 30 4 pm	Marsh Life Science 105	Andrés Varón, PhD Candidate, Am. Museum of Natural History / City University of New York	"Phylogenies and Complexity: A New Approach"
Apr 27 12:20pm	Perkins 101	Dr. Kostas Goulias	"Activity-Based Approaches to Travel Demand Forecasting: Research and Practice"
Apr 26 4 pm	Carpenter Auditorium	Dr. Kostas Goulias	"Science, Technology and Education in Transportation"
Apr 12 4 pm	Billings North Lounge	Dr. John Crittenden, Arizona State University	"Complex Systems Analysis and Development of a Metamodel for More Informed Sustainable Urban Development"
Mar 26 12:20pm	367 Votey Hall	Dr. Jason H. Moore, Dartmouth College	"Genome-Wide Genetic Analysis Using Genetic Programming: The Critical Need for Expert Knowledge"
Feb 12 12:20pm	Billings North Lounge	Dr. David C. Krakauer, Santa Fe Institute	"Theory and Strategy of Coding in Microbe Genomes: Case Studies in Informational Evolutionary Theory"