Non-UM Complex Systems Studies
(Workshops, Summer Schools, etc.)

Complex Systems Summer Schools
Summer 2007


The annual Complex Systems Summer Schools provide an intensive
introduction to complex behavior in mathematical, physical, living,
and social systems for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
Schools will be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Beijing, China.
Applications are now available at http://www.santafe.edu/education/
indexCSSS.php.
Program Details

Santa Fe: June 3-29, 2007 at St John¡Çs College in Santa Fe, New
Mexico, USA. Directed by Dan Rockmore, Dartmouth College and Santa Fe
Institute (SFI); administered by the Santa Fe Institute (SFI).

Beijing: July 8 to August 4, 2007. Sponsored by SFI in cooperation
with The Institute of Theoretical Physics, the Chinese Academy of
Sciences (CAS). Co-directors: Dr. David P. Feldman, College of the
Atlantic and SFI, and Dr. Chen Xiao-song, Institute for Theoretical
Physics, CAS.

General Description

The Complex Systems Summer School offers an intensive four-week
introduction to complex behavior in mathematical, physical, living,
and social systems for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in
the sciences and social sciences. The schools are for participants
who want background and hands-on experience to help prepare them to
do interdisciplinary research in areas related to complex systems.

Each school consists of an intensive series of lectures,
laboratories, and discussion sessions focusing on foundational ideas,
tools, and current topics in complex systems research. These include
nonlinear dynamics and pattern formation, scaling theory, information
theory and computation theory, adaptation and evolution, network
structure and dynamics, adaptive computation techniques, computer
modeling tools, and specific applications of these core topics to
various disciplines. In addition, participants will formulate and
carry out team projects related to topics covered in the school.

Further details about topics and faculty at each school will be
posted as they become available.

Eligibility

Applications are welcome from all countries. Participants are
expected to attend one school for the full four weeks. All activities
will be conducted in English at both schools. No tuition is charged,
and some support for housing and travel expenses is available.
Enrollment is limited.

Applications are solicited from graduate students and postdoctoral
fellows in any discipline. Some background in science and mathematics
(including multi-variate calculus and linear algebra) is required.
Proficiency in English is also required.

Students should indicate school location preference when applying.
Placements may be influenced by restrictions in U.S. foreign visitor
policies.

Application Requirements

   1.  Current resume or CV. Include a clear description of your
current educational or professional status, and a list of
publications, if any.
   2.  A statement of your current research interests and comments
about why you want to attend the school (suggested length: one to two
pages).
   3.  Two letters of recommendation from scholars who know your work.

How to Apply

Online: Our online application form allows you to submit all of your
materials electronically (including a feature which allows your
recommenders to upload letters of recommendation directly to your
file). We strongly encourage you to apply online to expedite your
application. Apply Online

Postal Mail/Courier: Applications sent via postal mail will also be
accepted. Include a cover letter providing your e-mail address and
fax number, and specifying whether you wish to be considered for a
travel scholarship. (This will not influence the review of your
application.) Do not bind your application materials in any manner.
Send application materials to:

Summer Schools
Santa Fe Institute
1399 Hyde Park Road
Santa Fe, NM 87501 USA

If applying via post, letters of recommendation may be sent
separately to the address above, or included in your application
package in sealed envelopes.

Deadline

All application materials, including letters of recommendation, must
be received at SFI or electronically submitted no later than January
19, 2007.

Women, minorities, and students from developing countries are
especially encouraged to apply.

If you have further questions about the Complex Systems Summer
Schools, please e-mail summerschool@santafe.edu.

Research Experiences for Undergraduates
2006 Program Announcement

Undergraduate students work with faculty mentors on an individual
research project focused on some aspect of complex systems. SFI's
broad program of research is aimed at understanding both the common
features of complex systems and at comprehending the enormous
diversity of specific examples. Possible focus areas include adaptive
computation; computational aspects of complexity; energy and
information in biological computation; scaling laws in complex
phenomena; network structure and dynamics; robustness and innovation
in biological and social systems; and the dynamics of human social
interactions including state and market formation, economics as a
complex system, and the evolution of language.

This program is highly individualized. Each student works with one or
more faculty mentors on a specific, mutually selected project. The
project may be based on a suggestion from the SFI mentor, an idea
from the student intern, or a combination of the two. (You may find
it helpful to browse SFI's current research focus areas and past
intern projects to get a sense of possible project topics). The
initial weeks of the program will be devoted to meeting potential
mentors and determining the choice of project.

Participants are expected to be in residence approximately 10 weeks,
within an early-June to mid-August time frame.

Support

Housing and a partial board plan will be provided, at no cost to the
student, in single-occupancy rooms with shared bathrooms at St.
John's College. Modest living stipends will also be provided to
interns during their stay, along with some support of round-trip
travel expenses from the home institution. Because Santa Fe lacks a
full public transportation system, autos are provided to participants
on a shared basis. Those interns who can bring their private
transportation are urged to do so.

Eligibility

Undergraduate students who are citizens or permanent residents of the
US are eligible to apply under the guidelines of the National Science
Foundation's Research Experience for Undergraduates program. In
addition, thanks to modest funding from SFI's International Program,
undergraduate students who are citizens of a country in one of the
following international regions are eligible to apply for an
internship: Africa, China, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union,
India, or Latin America. Unfortunately, we are unable to support
undergraduate interns from other parts of the world at this time
(such as Australia, Canada, Japan, or Western Europe). Applications
will only be accepted from students who already hold a valid B-1 visa
to enter the US. The Santa Fe Institute is unable to sponsor
undergraduate students for US visas at this time.

For the purposes of this program, an undergraduate student is a
student who is enrolled in a degree program (part-time or full-time)
leading to a bachelor's degree. Students who are transferring from
one institution to another and are enrolled at neither institution
during the intervening summer may participate. College seniors
graduating in 2006 are not eligible for this program nor are
graduating high school students who have not yet enrolled as
undergraduates.

Mathematical or computational skills or experience (particularly
knowledge of the rudiments of the Unix operating system and/or a
programming language, such as C) are favorably considered.

Application Requirements

    *      A current resume (CV).
    *      A statement of your current research interests and what
you intend to accomplish during your internship (suggested length one
to two pages).
    *      Three (3) letters of recommendation from scholars who
know your work.
    *      Official transcripts from each college or university
attended.

How to Apply

Online: Our online application form allows you to submit most of your
materials electronically (including a feature which allows your
referees to upload letters of recommendation directly to your file).
We strongly encourage you to apply online in order to expedite your
application.

Postal Mail/Courier: Applications sent via postal mail will also be
accepted. Include your e-mail address and fax number. Do not bind
your application materials in any manner. Send application packages to:

Research Experience for Undergraduates
Santa Fe Institute
1399 Hyde Park Road
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 USA

Transcripts and letters of recommendation: Transcripts must be
official. If you apply by postal mail, transcripts and letters of
recommendation may be included in the application package in sealed
envelopes, or they may be sent directly to the address above.

Deadline: All application materials must be postmarked or
electronically submitted no later than February 17, 2006.

Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply.

For further information about the program, please e-mail
reuinfo@santafe.edu, or call (505) 946-2746.

NAACSOS - http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/naacsos/
The University of Bologna announces its first Summer School on "Aspects of
Organizational Complexity". The school will be held in Bertinoro (Forli,
Italy) July 18th to 28th.

The summer school on "Aspects of Organizational Complexity" will provide
lectures and laboratory classes on computational techniques for modelling
the emergence of structures out of local interactions. Applications will
range from the stock market to ant colonies to inter-State relations to
the dynamics of the Internet. The URL of the summer school is at:

http://www.cs.unibo.it/schools/AC2005

Guido Fioretti

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Summer School: Models for Complex Systems in Human and Social Sciences

Summer School: Models for Complex Systems in Human and Social Sciences
Ecole Normale Suprieure de Lyon
Ecole Normale Suprieure de Lettres et Sciences Humaines
July 19-31, 2004

Important dates
Deadline for application : May 7, 2004
Acceptation: May 28, 2004
School: July 19-31, 2004 at the Ecole Normale Suprieure Lettres et
Sciences Humaines
                        
Goals
Although complex systems based methods are more and more used to model
social phenomena, there is no place in Europe where there are thought as 
a whole.  The aim of the school will be to develop the technical abilities
of the participants to build a simple model and to use it at its maximal 
potential. The following aspects will be studied:

Description of the problem, modelling process, scaling aspects.
Choice of experimental protocols and of the best "measures"
in order to highlight observable phenomena via simulations.
Presentation of the main methods and their practical application,
without hoping exhaustivity during the 12 days of the school.
                        
Topics
As we have just said, there is no place in Europe where are taught
in a systematic way the methods that can be used to model complex
systems in human and social sciences. Since these methods usually come
from other fields (mathematics, physics, computer science...),
they are often unknown.

The school we propose to organize will have the role to fill this gap 
by proposing lectures given by world specialists of the domain and 
directed to an audience of researchers (including graduate students) 
working on modeling problems in human and social sciences.

The contents of the courses will relate more to the methods rather on the 
application fields. Of course, the presented methods will be illustrated on 
examples coming from human and social sciences, but our wish is to focus on 
the methods rather than on specific particular case.

Computer simulations and experimentations will be studied under the format 
of mini-projects.

Speakers
Lectures will be given in english, following the format of 4 sessions of 3 
hours for each course, by

  Robert Axtell, Brooking Institution, USA,
  Agent-Based Computational Modeling in the Social Sciences with
  Applications to Economics
          
  Rama Cont, Ecole Polytechnique, France,
  Agent-based models of financial markets
                              
  Sorin Solomon, Jerusalem University, Israel, Multi-agent theory,
  simulation and phenomena in Human and Social systems
                                        
  Alessandro Vespignani, 
  Laboratoire de Physique Th\x{FFFF}orique, Orsay, France,
  Structure and function of complex networks
                                          
  Sara Franceschelli (ENS LSH),
  Michel Morvan (ENS Lyon)
  and Gerard Weisbuch (ENS Ulm)
  will also teach and will ensure the scientific animation of the school.
                                                 
Organization
                                                  
The summer school will be organized by Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon
and hosted by the Ecole Normale de Lettres et Sciences Humaines. It will 
take place from July 19 to 31 2004 (22 half days) in the Ecole Normale 
Superieure de Lettres et Sciences Humaines, in Lyon, France. It will be one
of the major event organized in 2004 by the Institut des Systemes Complexes 
(Complex Systems Institute) of Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon.
    
The two Ecoles Normales Superieures in Lyon are two of the most prestigious 
places for higher education in France. One is specialized in sciences and the 
other in literature and human sciences. The summer school will be one of the 
first steps in the creation of long term collaborations between them.
   
They are installed on two campuses in the south of Lyon (close one to the 
other) and own residences allowing to propose good quality accomodations to 
the participants.
                                            
The organisation committee is composed by Sara Franceschelli (ENS LSH), Michel 
Morvan (ENS Lyon) and Gerard Weisbuch (ENS Paris).
                                      
Participants
The participants will mainly be modelers having reasonable mathematical skills 
(graduate education in Mathematics, or Computer Science or Physics). Researchers 
from human or social sciences already having collaboration experiences with modelers
and so having some basic mathematical culture can also apply.
The school will be organized for both junior and senior researchers.
The number of participants is limited to 50, mainly coming from european countries.
                        
Applications
Please send your short CV (no more than 2 pages)
and a half page of motivations to scshs@freesurf.fr 
before May 7, 2004.
                                                 
Financial support
Partial financial support (travel and/or accomodation) will be available for 
participants on request. The school is supported by the ACI "Systemes Complexes 
en Sciences Humaines et Sociales" and (tentative) by the European network 
Exystence.
                        
Fees
A low financial participation will be requested from participants. More specific 
information will be given in the next call for participation.

Tenth Annual Santa Fe Institute Graduate Workshop in Computational Social Science Modeling and Complexity

11-24 July, 2004, Santa Fe, NM
                                                      
The Santa Fe Institute is pleased to announce the tenth annual
Graduate Workshop in Computational Social Science Modeling
and Complexity. The workshop will bring together a group of advanced
graduate students and a small faculty for an intensive two week study
of computational economic and social science modeling. The workshop
will consist of lectures by faculty, special topic seminars by members
of the Santa Fe Institute, and presentations of work in progress by
graduate student participants. The primary goal of the summer workshop
is to assist graduate students pursuing research agendas which include
a computational component. A significant portion of the workshop will
be devoted to analyzing and improving research being conducted by the
graduate student participants.
                                               
To get a better idea about workshop activities and focus, please take
a look at the prior workshop pages at http://zia.hss.cmu.edu/econ/
                                                        
Participation at the workshop will be limited to fifteen graduate
students. Student travel (up to a reasonable limit), accommodations,
and living expenses will be supported by the workshop.
                                                
                                             
To Apply:
   
Applicants ideally should have completed a minimum of two years of
graduate study in economics or other social science fields and be
actively pursuing research in computational social science (though
quality applicants who do not meet these exact criteria will also
be considered). Interested students should submit a recent curriculum
vitae, at least one letter of recommendation, two other references,
and a one page outline of a current or proposed research project in
computational social science.  Preference will be given to applicants
who best demonstrate the ability to successfully complete research in
the area of computational economics.
                                                
Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.
     
Completed applications should be sent to Scott E. Page at the Michigan
address below.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
*** The application deadline is 9 April, 2004. ***
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
For more information contact either of the organizers.

John H. Miller <http://zia.hss.cmu.edu/miller>
Social and Decision Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 and
Santa Fe Institute
1399 Hyde Park Road
Santa Fe, NM 87501
miller@santafe.edu

Send applications to:
       
Scott E. Page
426 Thompson Street
CPS ISR
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48106
spage@umich.edu
(734) 615-2805

EITM Summer Institutes

Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM) Summer
Institutes 2003-2006

Washington University's Weidenbaum Center and Dept. of
Political Science will sponsor a summer institute on the problems 
of testing theoretical models of politics. The institute is designed 
for advanced graduate students and junior faculty whose research and
teaching would  benefit from training seminars on the link between 
methods of empirical analysis and theoretical models. Seminars combine 
both theory and method and several seminars address major substantive 
fields of application.

Each of the NSF-EITM Summer Institutes is comprised of four or five
seminars taught over the course of three weeks. The instructors and the
subjects addressed in the advanced seminars rotate over the four-year
period of the program, allowing students to attend more than  one institute.
All seminars will be held on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis.

We strongly encourage you to visit our website at http://wc.wustl.edu/eitm
for more detailed information on how to apply, seminar topics, seminar
instructors, and housing opportunities in St. Louis for the three
week program.

Alaska Complex Systems Summer School

See website: http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/complexsystems

Evolvable Hardware for Autonomous Systems - Short Course

UCLA Extension, Los Angeles, CA
August 18 - 20

Lecturer: Dr. Adrian Stoica, Jet Propulsion Lab

See website for details and registration: 

http://www.uclaextension.org/unexVirtual.cfm?d=/
shortcourses/summer2003/03SuP5502.cfm 

Complexity in Social Science (COSI) Summer School

27th July to 1st August, 2003, Baeza, Andalusia, Spain.

The COSI Summer School is organised by the Computer Architecture and
Technology Department (ATC), University of Granada and GRIC-IRIT, 
Toulouse, France.

Introduction

The complexity paradigm is based on a detailed description of the
interactions between elements of the system and between the system and its
environment, rather than on a purely functional description of building
blocks in abstract of its relationship with the external world. When 
applied to the social sciences this approach allows us to develop new ways 
of thinking about social processes and complex organisations. Armed with a
greater understanding of such situations and with the appropriate tools, 
we can help to redesign complex socio-organisational systems for greater
efficiency and safety.

Further details of the Summer School:
http://www.irit.fr/COSI/summerschool2/index.html

SFI Graduate Workshop in Computational Economics

	Graduate Workshop in Computational Economics
	Computational Modeling and Complexity
	July 13 - 26, 2003, Santa Fe, NM

The Santa Fe Institute Economics Program is pleased to announce the
ninth annual Graduate Workshop in Economics. The workshop will bring
together a group of advanced graduate students and a small faculty
for an intensive two week study of computational economics. The
workshop will consist of lectures by faculty, special topic seminars
by members of the Santa Fe Institute, and presentations of work in
progress by graduate student participants. The primary goal of the
summer workshop is to assist graduate students pursuing research
agendas which include a computational component. A significant
portion of the workshop will be devoted to analyzing and improving
research being conducted by the graduate student participants.

Participation at the workshop will be limited to fifteen graduate
students.  Student travel (up to a reasonable limit), accommodations,
and living expenses will be supported by the workshop.

For further details about the workshop, including application
instructions, please visit the program's website at:

http://www.santafe.edu/sfi/education/gwe/gwe03/announce03.html

The application deadline is April 11, 2003.

SFI Research Experiences for Undergraduates - 2003

RESEARCH EXPERIENCES FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS 
AT THE SANTA FE INSTITUTE, SUMMER 2003

Program Description:
Undergraduate students work with faculty mentors on an individual
project focusing on some aspect of the computational properties of
complex systems. SFI's broad program of research is aimed at
understanding both the common features of complex systems and at
comprehending the enormous diversity of specific examples. Projects
focus on adaptive computation; physics, mathematics, information
science, and computational aspects of complexity; economics as a
complex, adaptive system; and the life sciences including modeling of
the immune system, theoretical neurobiology, genetic data analysis,
theoretical ecology, and models of protein folding.

This program is highly individualized. Each student works with one or
more faculty mentors on a specific project. The project may be based
on a suggestion from the SFI mentor, an idea from the student intern,
or a combination of the two. Participants are expected to be in
residence approximately 10 weeks, within an approximate mid-May to
mid-August window. Internships may be part- or full-time, although it
is likely that most summer students will hold full-time positions.

Support:
Interns receive living stipends (from which housing costs are
deducted) during their stay, along with some support of round-trip
travel expenses from their home institution. The Institute will make
appropriate, affordable, shared housing arrangements in Santa Fe for
REU interns. Because Santa Fe lacks a full public transportation
system, autos are provided to participants on a shared basis. Those
interns who can bring their private transportation are urged to do so.

Eligibility:
Support for this program is provided by a grant from the National
Science Foundation (NSF) through the Research Experiences for
Undergraduates program.  Per NSF guidelines, it is open to U.S.
citizens and permanent residents only. For the purposes of this
program an undergraduate student is a student who is enrolled in a
degree program (part-time or full-time) leading to a bachelor's
degree. Students who are transferring from one institution to another
and are enrolled at neither institution during the intervening summer
may participate.  2003 graduating college seniors are not eligible
for this program; nor are graduating high school students who have
not yet enrolled as undergraduates.

Mathematical or computational skills or experience (particularly
knowledge of the rudiments of the Unix operating system and/or a
programming language such as C) are favorably considered.

To Apply:
Provide a current resume, official transcript, and a statement of
your current research interests and what you intend to accomplish
during your internship.  Also, please have three scientists who know
your abilities write letters recommending you for this program.

Online application is available at
http://www.santafe.edu/reuannounce.html.  We strongly encourage you
to apply online in order to expedite your application.

Applications sent via postal mail will also be accepted.  Include
your e-mail address and fax number.  Do not bind your application
materials in any manner.  Send application packages to:

Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates
Santa Fe Institute
1399 Hyde Park Road
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501

Official transcripts and letters of recommendation may be included in
the application package in sealed envelopes, or sent separately to
the address above.  Letters of recommendation may also be e-mailed
directly from the author to paul@santafe.edu.

All application materials must be postmarked or electronically
submitted no later than February 28, 2003.

Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply.

For further details about SFI's Resesarch Experiences for
Undergraduates program, please visit
http://www.santafe.edu/reuannounce.html, or contact Paul Brault,
(505) 984-8800 ext. 235, paul@santafe.edu.

The Santa Fe Institute is an equal opportunity employer.

Updated September 1, 2005