Second Complexity Mini-Conference

Room 411 West Hall
Ann Arbor, 13 May 2013
Time Activity Speaker Title
08:30-09:20amContinental Breakfast
09:20-10:00amKeynote SpeakerDr. Ana Diez-Roux (UMich)Transcending impasses in health disparities research: can complex systems approaches help?
10:00-10:20amContributed TalkMichele Battle-Fisher (Wright State) The structural and ethical complexity of private and public health
10:20-10:40amContributed TalkMichelle Saksena (Ohio State)An Agent-Based Modeling Approach to Understanding the Obesity Epidemic in the US
10:40-11:00amCoffee Break
11:00-11:40pmKeynote SpeakerDr. Eric Rabkin (UMich)People Hear the Title First: A Mixed-Method Study of the Cultural Place of Science Fiction Across Media, Genres, and Decades
11:40-12:10pmInvited TalkGraham Sack (Columbia U.)Simulating the Cultural Evolution of Literary Genres
12:10-12:30pmContributed TalkSayan Bhattacharyya (UMich)Student-written text at different levels of conceptual abstraction represented as a complex network
12:30-01:30pmLunch Break / Poster Session
01:30-02:10pmKeynote SpeakerDr. Scott Page (UMich)What is Complexity? And why does it matter?
02:10-02:30pmContributed TalkMaria Riolo (UMich)Evolving booster vaccination strategies
02:30-02:50pmContributed TalkJoshua Sims (UMich)An agent-based model of a Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Adelges tsugae A., implemented in the Python language with optional biocontrols.
02:50-03:00pmCoffee Break
03:00-03:30pmInvited TalkDr. Robert Reynolds (Wayne State U.)Evolving Functional Models of Ancient Urban Centers Using Cultural Algorithms
03:30-03:50pmContributed TalkTheodore Belding (Belding Consulting, Inc.)Applied Complexity, Or How Can I Use This Stuff After I Graduate?
03:50-04:10pmContributed TalkJose Alfaro (UMich)An Agent Based Model for Renewable Electrification Planning
04:10-04:20pmClosing Remarks
06:00-?pmPost-Conference Dinner (optional)Location TBA

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