Understanding Complex Systems

Schedule

Monday, May 16, 2005

8:30am Continental Breakfast and Poster Setup, Loomis Lobby

Opening Session M1A in 141 Loomis chaired by Alfred Hubler 8:55am Opening Remarks 9:00am Paul Lauterbur, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Chemistry, UIUC "Demystifying Biology: Did Life Begin as a Complex System?" (key note)

9:40am Coffee Break, Loomis Lobby

Opening Session M1B in 141 Loomis chaired by Robert M. Clegg 10:00am Duane Johnson, Director of Materials Computation Center, Material Science, UIUC (key note) Slides 10:40am Eric Jakobsson, Director of Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, National Institutes of Health "Complexity Radiating from Biological Ion Conductors"(key note) Slides 11:20am Eric Jakobsson, Director of Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, National Institutes of Health "NIH Funding Priorities" Slides 11:40am end of session

11:50 Lunch at the Illini Union Ballroom with a presentation by Karl Koehler Deputy Director of 21^st Century Research and Technology Fund in room 210 General Lounge

Session M2 in 141 Loomis chaired by Karin Dahmen 1:00pm Eshel Ben-Jacob, Pro-President of the Israel Physical Society, Tel Aviv University, Israel (key note) "Lifting the Perplexity off the Complexity" Slides Audio 1:40pm Timothy G. Buchman, Past President of Society of Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, Washington University "Critical Illness and Critical Care: Perturbing a perturbed complex system" Slides Audio

2:20pm Coffee Break, Loomis Lobby

Session M3 in 141 Loomis chaired by Eshel Ben-Jacob 2:40pm Vernon L. Towle, Chair of Department of Neurology, The University of Chicago Hospitals "Electrophysiologic recordings directly from the surface of the human brain: Lateral coherence patterns" Slides Audio 3:20pm Jonathan Sweedler, Director of the Biotechnology Center, UIUC "What neuropeptides are in the brain: combining genomic, proteomic and bioinformatic approaches to determine the final processed neuropeptides." Slides Audio 4:00pm May Berenbaum, Head of Entomology, UIUC "Complexities in a cornfield -- nontarget impacts of Bt corn" Slides Audio

4:30pm Coffee, Ice Cream & Posters, Loomis Lobby

Session M4 in 141 Loomis chaired by Kimberly Hill 4:50pm Hava Siegelmann, Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst "Genetic networks: from Computational Complexity to System Biology" Slides Audio 5:30pm Marc Snir, Head of Department of Computer Science, UIUC "On the Utility of Supercomputers" Slides Audio 6:10pm Leonard M. Sander, Physics, University of Michigan "Patterns and growth in the formation of malignant brain tumors" Slides Audio 6:50pm end of session

Tuesday, May 17, 2005

7:30am Continental Breakfast, Loomis Lobby

Session T1 in 141 chaired by Eshel Ben-Jacob 8:00am Bruce Wheeler, Interim Head of Bioengineering, UIUC "Micropatterned Neuronal Networks in Culture: Simplicity or Complexity?" (key note) Slides Audio 8:40am Herbert Levine, Physics, University of California San Diego "Self-Organized Vortical Motion A Pattern-Formation Motif for Microorganisms" Slides Audio 9:20am Bruce J. West, Chief Scientist, Mathematical & Information Sciences Directorate, US Army Research Office "Some Thoughts on Modeling Complexity" Slides Audio

10:00am Coffee Break, Loomis Lobby

Session T2 in 141 Loomis chaired by Wayne Davis 10:15am Neil Kelleher, Biochemistry, UIUC "Post-Translational Modifications of Proteins: Detecting These Molecular Switches That Regulate Much of Eukaryotic Cell Biology" Slides Audio 10:45am Frank Moss, Director of the Center for Neurodynamics, University of Missouri at St. Louis "Foraging for food in 2D: Characteristic swimming motions of Daphnia" Slides Audio 11:15am Raissa D'Souza, Microsoft Research, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington "Self-organization, phase transitions, and caveats from simulation" Slides Audio 11:55am end of session

12:00 Lunch at the Illini Union Ballroom with a presentation by Raima Larter, Program Director NSF/CHE, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry "Funding Opportunities for Complex Systems Research at NSF" in room 210 General Lounge chaired by Alex Scheeline

1:00pm Tutorial I in 144 Loomis Session T3A in 141 Loomis chaired by Martin Singleton 1:00pm Eleonora Bilotta, Pietro Pantano, Linguistics, Mathematics, University of Calabria, Italy "Structural and functional growth in self-reproducers" 1:30pm Howard Blair, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University "Generalized Differential Calculus and Hybrid Dynamical Systems" 2:00pm Stefan Boettcher, Physics, Emory University, "Recent Advances on Low-temperature Spin Glasses and Combinatorial Problems" 2:30pm Peter Hook, Information Science, Indiana University, "Disciplinary Diffusion of Information" Session T3B in 151 Loomis chaired by Austin Gerig 1:00pm Bill McKelvey, Anderson Management School, University of California at Los Angeles "Power Law Phenomena and Statistics" 1:30pm Daniel W. Miller, Chair (retired) of Consciousness Studies, Greenwich University "Reconstructing the Bridge Between Science and Consciousness With Homeodynamics, Chaos, and Complexity" 2:00pm Arthur McGurn, Physics, Western Michigan University "Intrinsics localized modes in photonic crystal circuits" 2:30pm Chris Wiggins Session T3C in 136 Loomis chaired by Glenn Foster 1:00pm Harold Klein, Center for Organizational Dynamics, U. of Pennsylvania and Temple University "A Neurocognitive-Inspired Architecture for Evoking Complex Organizational Environments" 1:30pm Albert C. J. Luo, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Southern Illinois University, "Grazing and Strange Attractors Fragmentation in Non-smooth Dynamical Systems" 2:00pm Russ Abbott, Computer Science, California State University, Los Angeles "Challenges for Biologically-Inspired Computing" 2:30pm Gil Bub, Physiology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center "Global organization of dynamics in cultured cardiac monolayers" Session T3D in 158 Loomis chaired by Chris Strelioff 1:00pm Carlos Puente, Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California, Davis "From Plato to Borges" 1:30pm Jürgen Klüver, Physics, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany "Topology, Computational Models and Social-Cognitive Complexity 2:30pm Christina Stoica, Computer Science, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany "Interacting Neural Networks and the Emergence of Social Order" Session T3E in 137 Loomis chaired by Kimberly Hill 1:00pm Ashish Bhan, Institute for Genomics & Bioinformatics, University of California at Irvine "Static and dynamic models of biological networks" 1:30pm Peter Bajcsy, Automated Learning Group, NCSA, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC "Complexity of Registration Decisions during 3D Medical Volume Reconstructions" 2:00pm Al Nathan, Physics, UIUC "Aerodynamics of a Spinning Baseball" 2:30pm Wang-Ping Chen, Geophysics, UIUC "Episodic tremors and slips: Emerging patterns in complex earthquake cycles?" Session T3F in 139 Loomis chaired by Peter Fleck 1:00pm Joanna M Austin, Aerospace Engineering, UIUC "Characterizing Fluctuations in Propagating Detonations" 1:30pm John Georgiadis, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, UIUC "Flow Structuring Through Random Polygonal Interstices" 2:00pm Nikolai Zarkevich, Physics, UIUC "How information integration and data mining can reduce computational complexity in materials world" 2:30pm Joseph Jun

3:00pm Coffee Break, Loomis Lobby

Session T4 in 141 Loomis chaired by Karin Dahmen 3:20pm Bill Greenough, Beckman Institute, Director of Center for Advanced Studies director, UIUC "Non-Neural Cells as Information Storage Partners in Real Neural Networks" (key note) Slides Audio

4:00pm Coffee, Ice Cream & Posters, Loomis Lobby

Session T5 in 141 Loomis chaired by Tom Anastasio 4:20pm Gottfried Mayer-Kress, Kinesiology, Penn State University, "Landscape Models of Motor Learning" Slides Audio 5:00pm Jonathan Machta, Physics, University of Massachusetts Amherst "Parallel Computational Complexity and Statistical Physics" Slides Audio 5:40pm Eleonora Bilotta, Pietro Pantano, Linguistics, Mathematics, University of Calabria, Italy "Computer music and graphics: self-reproducers as animals, musical pieces using both one dimensional and two dimensional CAs" Slides Audio

6:20pm End of Session T5

6:30pm Invited Speaker Appreciation Dinner, Levis Faculty Center 8:00pm After Dinner Talk by Charles Zukoski, Vice Chancellor for Research, UIUC introduced by Thom Dunning, Director, National Center for Supercomputing Applications Audio

Wednesday, May 18, 2005

7:30am Continental Breakfast, Loomis Lobby

Session W1 in 141 Loomis chaired by Eshel Ben-Jacob 8:00am David Wolpert, Intelligent Systems Division, NASA Ames (key note) "Self-dissimilarity as a high dimensional complexity measure" Slides Audio 8:40am Hassan Aref, Dean of College of Engineering, Virigina Tech "Marvelous Mathematical Models" Audio 9:20am Jurgen Scheffran, ACDIS, UIUC and Bruce Hannon, Geography, UIUC "From Complex Conflicts to Stable Cooperation" Slides Audio

9:50am Coffee Break, Loomis Lobby

Session W2 in 141 Loomis chaired by Robert M. Clegg 10:00am Fred Cooper, LANL and Interdisciplinary Research Program, Physics Division, National Science Foundation "Elliptic Function Compactons in a class of Generalized Korteweg-DeVries Equations" Slides1 Slides2 Audio 10:40am Nigel Goldenfeld, Physics, Leader of Biocomplexity Program at The Institut for Genomic Biology, UIUC "An emergent mechanism for speciation in microbes: theory and comparative genomics" 11:20am Tom Anastasio, Molecular & Integrative Physiology, Biophysics, Computer Science, UIUC "Modeling shows how sparse innervation by the cerebellum can independently adjust the amplitude and time course of the response of a neural network" 12:00am end of session

12:00 Lunch in the Ballroom of the Illini Union

1:00pm Tutorial II in 144 Loomis Session W3A in 141 Loomis chaired by Martin Singleton 1:00pm Gustavo Caetano-Anolles, Bioinformatics, Crop Sciences, University of Illinois "Evolution of protein world: a phylogenomic perspective" 1:30pm Auroop Ganguly, Oak Ridge National Laboratory "Multivariate dependence in complex systems" 2:00pm Rob Goldstone, Psychology, Indiana University "Group Path Formation" Session W3B in 151 Loomis Chaired by Chris Strelioff 1:00pm Nicola Scafetta, Physics, Duke University "Fractal Response of Physiological Signals to Stress Conditions, Environmental Changes and Neurodegenerative Diseases" Slides 1:30pm Denis Tsygankov, Center for Nonlinear Science, Georgia Tech, "Weak Link Synchronization" 2:00pm Claude Fressengeas, Laboratoire de Physique et Mécanique des Matériaux, Université de Metz / CNRS, FRANCE "Collective Behavior of Dislocation Ensembles: The Dynamics of Jerky Flow in Al-Mg Alloys" Session W3C in 136 Loomis chaired by Davit Sivil 1:00pm Nelli Ajabyan, Armenian Statistical and Computing Society "Stability and oscillations in spatially-extended models of population interaction" 1:30pm Marko Puljic, Computer Science, University of Memphis Synchrony in Probabilistic Cellular Networks 2:00pm Xinguang Zhu, Plant Biology, UIUC "Physiological role of photorespiratory enzymes in photosynthetic carbon metabolism. A system biology approach" Session W3D in 158 Loomis chaired by Austin Gerig 1:00pm Predrag Tosic, Computer Science, UIUC "Computational Complexity of Counting Fixed Points in Cellular and Graph Automata" 1:30pm Daniel D Frey, Mechanical Engineering, MIT "A Study of Effect Structures in Engineering Systems" 2:00pm David Wolpert, Intelligent Systems Division, NASA Ames "On the computational capabilities of physical systems" Session W3E in 137 Loomis chaired by Tim Wotherspoon 1:00pm Bob Reynolds, Computer Science, Wayne State University "The Role of Culture in the Emergence of Decision-Making Roles: An Example Using Cultural Algorithms" 1:30pm Glen Ropella, Tempus Dictum, Inc. "Selectionist Modeling Methods in Biology" 2:00pm Kazuyuki Takahashi, IKKO, Japan "Social percolation in relations between activists and supporters" Session W3F in 139 Loomis chaired by Vadas Gintautas 1:00pm Anand Ranganathan, Computer Science, UIUC "What is the Complexity of a Distributed Computing System?" 1:30pm Hossein Mobahi, Computer Science, UIUC "Swarm Contours: An ALife approach to image processing" 2:00pm Hector Sabelli, Chicago Center for Creative Development "Bipolar feedback and biotic patterns in physical, biological and mathematical processes"

2:30pm Coffee Break, Loomis Lobby

Session W4 in 141 Loomis chaired by Robert M. Clegg 2:50pm Bruce R. Schatz, Director of the Community Architectures for Network Information Systems (CANIS) Laboratory, UIUC (key note) "BeeSpace: Functional Analysis for Social Behavior" Slides Audio

3:30pm Coffee, Ice Cream Posters, Loomis Lobby

Session W5A in 141 Loomis chaired Wayne Davis 3:50pm Allen Hunt, Physics, Wright State University "Diffusion, electrical conduction, and flow in porous media" Slides Audio 4:30pm Eric Kostelich, Mathematics and Statistics, Arizona State University "Data Assimilation: Finding the Initial Conditions in Spatiotemporal Chaotic Systems" Slides Audio

5:10pm Pizza Break, Loomis Lobby

Session W5B in 141 Loomis chaired by Austin Gerig 5:30pm Nicola Scafetta, Physics, Duke University "An out-of-equilibrium model of the distributions of wealth and income in society" Slides Audio 6:10pm Victor M. Yakovenko, Physics, University of Maryland "Statistical Mechanics of Money, Income, and Wealth" Slides Audio

6:40pm Snack Break, Loomis Lobby

Session W6A in 141 Loomis chaired by Alfred Hubler 7:00pm Trudy Kriven, Material Science, UIUC "Bioresorbable Nanoceramics for Gene and Drug Delivery" 7:40pm Daniel Solow, Department of Operations, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University "Mathematical Models for Explaining the Emergence of Specialization in Performing Tasks" 8:20pm David Cooper, Advanced Technology Labs, Lockheed Martin "Agent Learning as a Control Problem" 8:50pm Brent Kraczek, Physics, UIUC "Atomistic-continuum coupling for solid mechanics employing spacetime discontinuous finite element method" Session W6B in 151 Loomis chaired by Bruce R. Schatz 7:00pm John Mayfield, Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Iowa State University "Minimal history, a theory of plausible explanation" 7:30pm Luis Rocha, Informatics, Indiana University "Protein Annotation in the Gene Ontology using Word Proximity Networks" 8:00pm Igor Rouzine, Molecular and Microbiology, Tufts University "Physical thinking in biology: development of a model of anti-HIV immune response based on its match to multiple experiments" 8:30pm Vladimir Bondarenko, Physiology and Biophysics, SUNY at Buffalo 9:00pm Dennis O’Connor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Southern Illinois, "Numerical Predictions of Periodic Motions For an Impacting Dual Oscillator"

Thursday, May 19, 2005

7:30am Continental Breakfast, Loomis Lobby

Session TH1 in 141 Loomis chaired by Alex Scheeline 8:00am Raima Larter, Program Director NSF/CHE, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry "Complex Dynamics in the Brain: Communication between Glia and Neurons" (key note) Slides Audio 8:40am Erik Luijten, Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC "Structure and stability of polyelectrolyte-protein complexes in salty water: X-ray scattering and computer simulations " Slides Audio 9:15am Philip W. Phillips, Physics, UIUC "Asymptotic Slavery and transport anomalies in the cuprates" Slides Audio

9:50am Coffee Break, Loomis Lobby

Session TH2 in 141 Loomis chaired by Robert M. Clegg 10:10am Walter Goldburg, Physics, Pittsburgh University "The turbulent cascade in the right and in the wrong direction" Slides Audio 10:40am James Glazier, Director of Biocomplexity Institute, Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington "Modeling Biological Development using the Cellular Potts Model" Slides Audio 11:20am Todd Rowland, Mathematica Research "A Network Experiment using NKS Methods" Slides Audio 11:50am end of session

12:00 Lunch in the Illini Union Ballroom with a presentation by James Matson, MD, President & COO, Immunocept, LLC, Dallas, Texas in room 314A General Lounge chaired by Alex Scheeline

1:00pm Tutorial III in 144 Loomis Session TH3A in 141 Loomis chaired by Martin Singleton 1:00pm Masaharu Kuroda, Applied Complexity Engineering Research Group, AIST, Tsukuba, Japan "Experimental Study on Spatio-temporal Dynamics Observed in a Large Arrays of Fluid-elastic Oscillators" 1:30pm Lei Liu, Director of Bioinformatic Group, W.M. Keck Center for Comparative and Functional Genomics, UIUC "Exploring photosynthesis evolution by comparative analysis of metabolic network between chloroplast and cyanobacteria" 2:00pm Robert Leve, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, University of Hartford "Cognitive Complexity and the Development of the Wright Brothers 1903 Flyer" 2:30pm Patrick Zweigart, Jr., Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Southern Illinois University, "The analytical prediction of periodic motions in a harmonically forced oscillator with a piecewise-linear friction model" Session TH3B in 151 Loomis chaired by Chris Strelioff 1:00pm Burton Voorhees, Chair of Mathematics, Athabasca University, Canada "Probabilistic Induction of Cellular Automata Rules" 1:30pm Thomas J. Wheeler, Cognitive Science, University of Maine "Making Sense of Complexity: an Example A Modeling and Integration Framework for System Biology Informatics" 2:00pm Christopher Newman, Elgin Community College, "Revolution By Osmosis: West Florida, Texas, California, Hawaii" 2:30pm Carlos M. Parra, Social Engineering Department, Tokyo Institute of Technology, "Evolutionary Dynamics of Knowledge" Session TH3C in 136 Loomis chaired by Davit Sivil 1:00pm X. San Liang, Courant Inst of Math, New York "Multiscale Window Interaction and Localized Hydrodynamic Instability Analysis" 1:30pm Brandon C. Gegg, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Southern Illinois University, "Regular Motions in a Periodically Forced Oscillator Moving on an Oscillating Surface with Dry Friction" 2:00pm Vladislav Kovchegov, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of NJ "Modeling of human society as a complex interactive multilevel system" 2:30pm Kandice Tanner, Physics, UIUC "Physics of Dr. Suess' Cat" Session TH3D in 158 Loomis chaired by Austin Gerig 1:00pm William Sulis, Psychiatry, Behavioral Neuroscience, Psychology, McMaster University, CANADA "Archetypal Dynamical Systems: The Reality Game" 1:30pm Carlos E. Puente, Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California, Davis "Lessons from complexity: The hypotenuse the pathway of peace" 2:00pm Andre Valente, Harvard University "2-Peak and 3-Peak Optimal Complex Networks" 2:30pm Bharat Khushalani, Aerospace Engineering, University of Southern California "Vortex Buckeyballs" Session TH3E in 137 Loomis Chaired by Tim Wotherspoon 1:00pm Phil Fraundorf, Physics & Astronomy, University of Missouri-StL "The thermal roots of correlation-based complexity" 1:30pm Trudy Kriven, Material Science, UIUC "Sintering of Multiphase Ceramics" 2:00pm Jeffrey Schank, UC Davis "Simple Rules, Morphology, and the Physical Environment: Modeling the Sensorimotor Behavior of Infant Mammals" 2:30pm Boris Fine, Physics, University of Tennesee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory "Chaotic resonances in NMR spin dynamics" Session TH3F in 139 Loomis chaired by Vadas Gintautas 1:00pm Alex Travesset, Physics, Iowa State University "Finding the Ground State of a System with an Exponentially Large Number of Metastable States" 1:30pm Ping Ao, Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington "Stochasticity and Innovation in Complex Dynamics" 2:00pm Wm. C. McHarris, Chemistry and Physics/Astronomy, Michigan State University "Nonlinearities Underlying Quantum Mechanics: A Bridge between the Determinism of Einstein and the Probability of Bohr." 2:30pm Michal Zochowski, Physics, University of Michigan "Measuring asymetries during synchronization as a way to monitor direction of information transfer"

3:00pm Coffee Break, Loomis Lobby

Session TH4 in 141 Loomis chaired by Eshel Ben-Jacob Audio 3:20pm Roy Adler, IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center "Scoliosis and Modelling the Spine" (key note) Slides Audio

4:00pm Coffee, Ice Cream & Posters, Loomis Lobby

Session TH5 in 141 Loomis chaired by Alfred Hubler 4:10pm Zaida (Zan) Luthey-Schulten, Chemistry, UIUC "Evolution of Protein Structure: How Nature Designs Proteins" Audio 4:50pm Philip Maini, Oxford University, United Kingdom "A model for collagen alignment in wound healing" Slides Audio

5:30pm Refreshments and Snacks, Loomis Lobby

Session TH6 in 141 Loomis chaired by Karin Dahmen 5:40pm Kimberly Hill, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, UIUC "The Art of Mixing: chaotic advection, resonance, and pattern formation in mixing devices" Audio 6:20pm Gianfranco Durin, Istituto Elettrotecnico Nazionale Galileo Ferraris, Torino Italy "Time asymmetry in crackling noise" Slides Audio 7:00pm Karin Dahmen, Physics, UIUC "Disorder- and sweep-rate-effects on crackling noise: from magnets to earthquakes" Audio

7:30pm End of Conference

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