Complexity Conference

April 20-21, 2006

James L. Allen Center, 2169 Campus Drive
Northwestern University, Evanston Campus
Northwestern Institute for Complex Systems (NICO)

SCHEDULE


Seating is limited and registration is required.

Schedule PDF

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

1:00-1:30 p.m.
Registration

1:30-1:45 p.m.
Welcome

1:45-4:15 p.m.
Networks and Chains --- Suppliers and Customers
David Simchi-Levi, MIT
Duncan Watts, Columbia

4:15-4:45 p.m.
Break

4:45-5:30 p.m.
Student Presentations

Thursday, March 29, 2007

8:30-9:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast

9:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
Cortical Neural Circuits --- Structure and Function
Marcus Kaiser, Newcastle
Dietmar Plenz, NIH
Ivan Soltesz, UC Irvine

12:45-2:00 p.m.
Lunch

1:15-2:00 p.m.
Poster Session

2:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Firms and Markets
Robert Axtell, George Mason
J. Doyne Farmer, Santa Fe Institute
Felix Reed-Tsochas, Oxford

The Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems is offering students a chance to present their work at the conference. (For relevant topics, please view the NICO web site.) A two-page abstract (in pdf format) should be submitted via e-mail by March 9, 2007 to complexity-conference@northwestern.edu. Abstracts chosen by a selection committee will be asked to give a brief presentation. Nine finalists will be chosen: six will be invited to display posters at the conference and will be awarded $100; the top three submissions will be invited to present their work orally and will receive $300.


Complexity Conference March 28-29, 2007, James L. Allen Center, 2169 Campus Drive, Northwestern University, Evanston Campus Northwestern Institute for Complex Systems (NICO)