LINGUIST List 11.358

Fri Feb 18 2000

Calls: Complex Systems-Deadline, Celtic Linguistics

Editor for this issue: Jody Huellmantel <jodylinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Yaneer Bar-Yam, International Conference on Complex Systems - Friday Deadline
2. Cathal Doherty, Third Celtic Linguistics Conference (CLC3)

DEADLINE: ICCS ABSTRACT SUBMISSION THIS FRIDAY FEB 18th
 send by e-mail to iccsnecsi.org

The program committee meeting, which will assign additional speakers
to sessions, will be held this Friday, February 18.

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Attached is the preliminary program for the third International
Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS 2000) which will take place May
21-26, 2000 in Nashua, NH, near Boston, MA.

This ICCS, like the previous ones, is an unusual opportunity to form
collaborations and discuss advances in complex systems research. It is
also a remarkable opportunity for pedagogy. Proceedings will be
published in print and on-line.

There is still an opportunity to submit abstracts. Please submit them
soon so we can organize them for the program committee meeting.

Registering to attend the conference without giving a presentation 
is also still possible.

Students and postdocs are encouraged to submit papers about recent
advances in their research. Opportunities will be provided for them to
give short talks or to be assigned to the poster session.

We have funds to assist students and postdocs, junior faculty and
others who do not have sufficient financial resources to attend the
conference.

I have recently been notified that the National Science Foundation is
intending to co-sponsor the International Conference on Complex
Systems through the following directorates:

Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Directorate for Engineering
Directorate for Biological Sciences
Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering
Directorate for Geosciences

with participation from the following divisions:

Division of Atmospheric Sciences (GEO/ATM)
Division of Bioengineering & Environmental Systems (ENG/BES)
Division of Chemistry (MPS/CHE)
Division of Computer-Communications Research (CISE/CCR)
Division of Design, Manufacture, & Industrial Innovation (ENG/DMII)
Division of Integrative Biology and Neuroscience (DBS/IBN)
Division of Materials Research (MPS/DMR)
Division of Mathematical Sciences (MPS/DMS)
Division of Physics (MPS/PHY)
Office of Multidisciplinary Activities (OMA/PHY)

Several NSF program officers will be attending to present information
on current and future funding opportunities. Among others these
include Mariann (Sam) Jelinek -- Social, Behavioral & Economic Science

Additional information about NECSI and the ICCS conferences may be 
found at http://necsi.org

please send inquiries to iccsnecsi.org

Best,
Yaneer Bar-Yam
Conference Chair




INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPLEX SYSTEMS
 NASHUA,NH
 MAY 21-26, 2000

 Preliminary Conference Program
 (* indicates confirmed)
 Additional speakers are still to be assigned
 to sessions. Abstracts can still be submitted.

SUNDAY, May 21

9:00AM-5:00PM PEDAGOGICAL SESSION
 To be planned

6:00PM-7:30PM RECEPTION SESSION
 To be planned

MONDAY, May 22

9:00AM-12:20PM EMERGENCE

 *JOHN STERMAN - Welcome / Emergence

 *EDWARD LORENZ - Sensitivity to initial conditions
 *EUGENE STANLEY - Correlations and Dynamics
 Break
 *PER BAK - Self-organization
 *DAVE CLARK - Emergent dynamics of the internet

2:00PM-5:20PM DESCRIPTION AND MODELING

 *JACK COHEN - Description and Modeling

 *MURRAY GELL-MANN - complexity
 *MARTIN SHUBIK - Game theory
 Break
 *SIMON LEVIN - Mathematical studies of evolution
 *BHUBANESWAR MISHRA - Computer science in 
 biological and social systems

6:30PM-7:30PM POSTERS*

7:30PM-9:30PM MIND (NOTE: NOT FINAL)

 - Mind

 DOUG HOFSTADTER - Revisiting Godel Esher Bach
 DAN DENNETT - Consciousness and Mind
 General Discussion

TUESDAY, May 23

9:00AM-12:20PM SELF-ORGANIZATION

 DAVID CAMPBELL - Self Organization

 *GEORGE WHITESIDES - Complex chemical systems
 *IRV EPSTEIN - From nonlinear chemistry to biology
 *CHRIS ADAMI - Artificial life


2:00PM-5:00PM AFTERNOON PARALLEL BREAKOUT SESSIONS

 *JOHN SYMONS - Philosophy of Brain/Mind
 *JOHN BICKLE,*BILL BECHTEL,*JAAKKO HINTIKKA,
 *ALFREDO PEREIRA,*JOAO TEIXERA

 *JEFF CARES - Complex Military Systems

 - Defining Complexity


7:00PM-10:00PM EVENING PARALLEL BREAKOUT SESSIONS


 *JUERGEN KLUEVER - Social systems
 *DWIGHT READ

 *DAN FREY - Complexity in the Aerospace Industry
 *BOB WIEBE,

 - Dynamics and Patterns in Physical Systems

 - Neural Systems


WEDNESDAY, May 24

9:00AM-11:40AM COMPLEX ENGINEERED SYSTEMS

 *DAN BRAHA - Complex Engineered Systems

 *NAM SUH - Complexity and Design Engineering
 *STEVEN EPPINGER - 
 Break
 *BILL MITCHELL - Complexity in Architecture
 *MICHAEL CARAMANIS - Scale Decomposition of Production

 *HELEN HARTE - Afternoon Session Organization
 *ALI MINAI - Proceedings Organization

2:00PM-5:00PM AFTERNOON PARALLEL SESSIONS

 Thread A - Thread B - Thread C - Funding
 *DANIEL ROTHMAN - scaling in landscapes and river networks
 *EDGAR PETERS - Complexity Theory and the Austrian School 
 of Economics
 *MICHAEL SCHLESINGER - Fractal time
 *LIONEL SACKS - Planning and managing distributed networks 
 at British Telecom
 *LYNN ANDREA STEIN - Interacting computer systems
 *ROBERT BERWICK - Linguistics
 *MARIANN JELINEK, NSF - Innovation and Organizational Change

6:15PM-7:45PM BANQUET

7:45PM-9:30PM BANQUET SESSION

 *KENNETH ARROW - Economics


THURSDAY, May 25

9:00AM-11:40AM BIOCOMPLEXITY

 *TEMPLE SMITH Biocomplexity

 *LEROY HOOD - Complex biological systems
 *MARK ELLISMAN - Microscopy and imaging of neurons
 *STUART PIMM - Biodiversity and the construction of ecosystems

2:00PM-5:00PM AFTERNOON PARALLEL BREAKOUT SESSIONS

 *MARK W. McELROY - Knowledge Management

 - Biocomplexity

 - Networks

7:00PM-10:00PM EVENING PARALLEL BREAKOUT SESSIONS

 *PETRA AHRWEILER - Simulating Self-Organizing Innovation Networks
 *NIGEL GILBERT, *GUNTER KUPPERS, *PAUL WINDRUM, 
 *KOEN FRENKEN

 - Evolution


FRIDAY, May 26

9:00AM-11:40PM MEDICAL COMPLEXITY

 *THOMAS DEISBOECK / *YASHA KRESH Medical Complexity

 *JAMES B. BASSINGTHWAIGHTE - The physiome: Integrative biology
 *ALAN PERELSON - Theory of the immune system
 Break
 *JIM COLLINS - Dynamics in multiscale biology


11:40PM-5:20PM MEDICAL COMPLEXITY 2

 *TIMOTHY BUCHMAN -
 *ARY GOLDBERGER - 
 MARK SMITH - Medical Management



- ----------------------------------------------
Yaneer Bar-Yam
President
New England Complex Systems Institute
http://necsi.org
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THIRD CELTIC LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE - SECOND CALL

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN

12-14 MAY, 2000.


Invited Speakers include:

Prof. Stephen R. Anderson,
Yale University

Prof. Jim McCloskey,
University of California, Santa Cruz

Dr. Gillian Ramchand,
Oxford University

Dr. Maggie Tallerman,
University of Durham

Dr. David Willis,
University of Manchester

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The Third Celtic Linguistics Conference will be held at University
College Dublin, from 12-14 May 2000. In conjunction with Trinity
College Dublin, a special session on the acquisition of Celtic
languages will occur on Friday 12 May.

Abstracts for the general conference and for the acquisition session
are now invited. Electronic submissions are encouraged (Please send to:
Cathal.Dohertyucd.ie). Otherwise, please submit 4 copies of an anonymous
1 page abstract, with an index card indicating name and contact details.
An extra page for data may be appended. Talks are 45 minutes (30 plus 10
minutes discussion).

The deadline for receipt of abstracts is FRIDAY 3 MARCH, 2000.

Conference fees are 30 Irish pounds / 15 Irish pounds for students/unwaged.
Payment can be made in advance by cheque, or in cash at the conference.
To register, please send name, affiliation and contact details to either
the e-mail or postal address below, indicating whether student or
non-student.

The general session of the Celtic Linguistics Conference will be held in
historic Newman House (85-86 St. Stephen's Green) in Dublin city centre,
not on the Belfield Campus, as in previous years. As the conference
takes place during the academic year, no campus accommodation is available.
Participants need to make their own arrangements.

For further information on accommodation and registration please consult:
http://www.ucd.ie/~linguist/CLC3.html

or e-mail Cathal.Dohertyucd.ie

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Department of Linguistics,
University College Dublin
Belfield
Dublin 4
IRELAND

(Tel) +353-1-706-8477
(Fax) +353-1-706-1117
(Webpage) http://www.ucd.ie/~linguist/doherty.html