The Reading Group meets biweekly on Wednesdays, 11:45am-12:35pm, in the Decision Theater (first floor) in Farrell Hall (Trinity Campus).
| Date |
Author |
Title |
| Spring 2013 |
| May 15 |
Dirk Helbing |
"Globally networked risks and how to respond" |
| April 24 |
Daniel W. McShea, Wim Hordijk |
"Complexity by Subtraction" |
| April 10 |
Thomas Grund, Christian Waloszek, Dirk Helbing |
"How Natural Selection Can Create Both Self- and Other-Regarding Preferences, and Networked Minds" |
| March 27 |
Joshua M. Epstein |
"Agent-Based Computational Models and Generative Social Science" |
| Feb 27 |
Stefan Thurner, J. Doyne Farmer, John Geanakoplos |
"Leverage causes fat tails and clustered volatility" |
| Feb 13 |
Jeff Clune, Jean-Baptiste Mouret and Hod Lipson |
"The evolutionary origins of modularity" |
| Jan30 |
Tobias Galla and J. Doyne Farmer |
"Complex dynamics in learning complicated games" |
| Fall 2012 |
| Dec 5 |
Sugihara et al |
Detecting Causality in Complex Ecosystems |
| Nov 7 |
Dobson et al |
Complex systems analysis of series of blackouts: Cascading failure, critical points, and self-organization |
| Oct 24 |
Torres-Sosa, Huang & Aldana |
Criticality is an emergent property of genetic networks that exhibit evolvability |
| Sept 26 |
Bond et al |
A 61-million-person experiment in social influence and political mobilization (see also: supplement; press [Markoff, NYTimes]) |
| Sept 12 |
ENCODE Project Consortium |
An integrated encyclopedia of DNA elements in the human genome
(see also: press [Maher, Nature]; press [Kolata, NY Times])
|
| Spring 2012 |
| June 20 |
Feng et al |
Linking agent-based models and stochastic models of financial markets |
| June 6 |
Bettencourt et al |
Urban Scaling and Its Deviations: Revealing the Structure of Wealth, Innovation and Crime Across Cities
(see also: Commentary [by authors]) |
| May 23 |
Gallup et al |
Visual attention and the acquisition of information in human crowds
(see also: press) |
| May 2 |
Ugander et al |
Structural Diversity in Social Contagion
(see also: press) |
| Apr 11 |
Johnson, Zhao, Hunsader, Meng, Ravindar, Carran & Tivnan |
"Financial black swans driven by ultrafast machine ecology"
(see also: press) |
| Mar 28 |
Thurner, Szell & Sinatra |
Emergence of Good Conduct, Scaling and Zipf Laws in Human Behavioral Sequences in an Online World (see also: press) |
| Mar 14 |
Simini, Gonzalez, Maritan & Barabasi |
A universal model for mobility and migration patterns
(see also: supplement; press) |
| Feb 22 |
Nishimoto, Vu, Naselaris, Benjamini, Yu & Gallant |
Reconstructing Visual Experiences from Brain Activity Evoked by Natural Movies
(see also: group website; press release; Youtube clip) |
| Feb 8 |
Thomas C. Schelling |
Dynamic Models of Segregation |
| Jan 25 |
Couzin et al |
Uninformed Individuals Promote Democratic Consensus in Animal Groups
(see also: Commentary: Can Ignorance Promote Democracy? [West & Bergstrom]) |
| Jan 11 |
Reshef et al |
Detecting Novel Associations in Large Data Sets
(see also: Commentary by Philip Ball; Commentary in Science) |
| Fall 2011 |
| Nov 30 |
Khatiba et al & Foldit Players |
Algorithm discovery by protein folding game players |
| Nov 9 |
Pickard et al |
Time-critical social mobilization |
| Oct 26 |
Petersen et al |
Statistical laws governing fluctuations in word use from word birth to word death
(see also: Google's Ngram Viewer; related work with Google Books: Quantitative analysis of culture using millions of digitized books) |
| Oct 12 |
Crane & Sornette |
Robust dynamic classes revealed by measuring the response function of a social system
(see also: Endogenous versus exogenous origins of crises) |
| Sept 28 |
Johnson & Fowler |
The evolution of overconfidence
(see also: News & Views perspective) |
| Sept 7 |
Hsiang, Meng & Cane |
Civil conflicts are associated with the global climate
(see also: News & Views perspective and Criticism & response [see comment #5]) |
| Summer 2011 |
| Aug 25 |
Ott, Choi, Cardie & Hancock |
Finding Deceptive Opinion Spam by Any Stretch of the Imagination
(see also: In a Race to Out-Rave, 5-Star Web Reviews Go for $5) |
| July 28 |
Sparrow, Liu & Wegner |
Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips
(see also: Commentary and Forbes' article) |
| June 30 |
Romero, Meeder & Kleinberg |
"Differences in the Mechanics of Information Diffusion Across Topics: Idioms, Political Hashtags, and Complex Contagion on Twitter"
(see also: Jon Kleinberg's website) |
| June 16 |
Liu, Slotine & Barabasi |
"Controllability of complex networks"
(see also: companion website) |
| June 2 |
Helbing & Yu |
"The outbreak of cooperation among success-driven individuals under noisy conditions" |
| May 19 |
Waibel, Floreano, & Keller |
"A Quantitative Test of Hamilton's Rule for the Evolution of Altruism" + Additional Reading (Aatish) |
| Spring 2011 |
| May 5 |
Mlot, Tovey & Hu |
"Fire ants self-assemble into waterproof rafts to survive floods" + Additional Reading (Grossman) |
| April 21 |
Quentin D. Atkinson |
"Phonemic Diversity Supports a Serial Founder Effect Model of Language Expansion from Africa" + Additional Reading (Wade) |
| April 21 |
M. Dunn et al |
"Evolved structure of language shows lineage-specific trends in word-order universals" + Additional Reading (Keim) |
| April 7 |
M.S. Harr'e et al |
"The aggregate complexity of decisions in the game of Go" |
| March 24 |
Wilf & Evans |
"There's plenty of time for evolution" |
| Feb 24 |
John Geanakoplos |
"Solving the Present Crisis and Managing the Leverage Cycle" |
| Feb 10 |
S. Cauchemez et al. |
"Role of social networks in shaping disease transmission during a community outbreak of 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza" [see article on results] |
| Jan 27 |
J.-B. Michel et al. |
"Quantitative analysis of culture using millions of digitized books" |
| |
| Fall 2010 |
| Dec 8 |
Stuart Kauffman |
Presentation: "Res Extensa and Res Potentia: A Theory of Consciousness" |
| Nov 17 |
(no paper) |
Roundtable discussion: Current boundaries of complexity science, big and small |
| Nov 3 |
Wang, Liao & Zhang |
"Genomic patterns of pleiotropy and the evolution
of complexity" |
| Oct 20 |
Buldyrev, Parshani, Paul, Stanley & Havlin |
"Catastrophic cascade of failures in interdependent networks"
Commentary: "Networked Networks Are Prone to Epic Failure" |
| Oct 6 |
Woolley, Chabris, Pentland, Hashmi & Malone |
"Evidence for a collective intelligence factor in the performance of human groups" |
| Sept 22 |
Espinosa-Soto & Wagner |
"Specialization can drive the evolution of modularity" |
| Sept 8 |
Nowak, Tarnita & Wilson |
"The evolution of eusociality"
Commentary: "Scientists square off on evolutionary value of helping relatives" |
| |
| 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" |