ThoughtsSummerSchedule

1. Post Your Comments on Summer Emergence Group Activities

1.1. Ideas

• Continue meeting on Wednesdays throughout the summer, just not quite as early. How does 9 AM sound?

• Continue with next two scheduled meetings (Paul & Karen) and then have a wrap-up meeting, followed by a few weeks of no meetings, then resume the meeting later in the summer.

• Have a group meet early in the summer to discuss ways incorporate the "NSF Interdisciplanry Training for Undergradutate in Biological and Mathematical Science (UBM)" into our activities

• Continue meeting throughout the summer, but meet every other week, instead of weekly.

• Create an interdisciplinary project that we work on collectively over the summer.

• Poll the group to see how many people will be around for at least part of the summer, then develop a plan

1.2. Comments

• JCW thinks polling makes sense: I am open to (1) continuing on Wednesdays, (2) wrap-up and resume later, (4) meeting biweekly, (5) working on an interdisciplinary project. I will be away the last week of May, and from June 20 - July 28. Jim<<

• I'm for any of these things (except the 9 am!), but I plan to participate less this summer and focus more on my own research. (And on learning botany before I have to teach it this fall.) Ted

• Do you think the Center has enough resources to rent a cottage on the shore in august? Paul??

• DSB: I'd like to actually produce some novel things with this group, and I think we can. Here are some possibilities:

1. a collection of essays on how emergence is/is not being incorporated into our various disciplines. I think we might all have a story on how being more holistic rather reductionistic is changing our respective fields. Something like: "Emergence: A New Kind of Science". Just kidding. But maybe something about emergence as a methodology in science and the humanities.

2. a collection of tools for studying emergence in the classroom.

3. a white paper on "What is Emergence?" I think that this would be fruitful, possibly. We could start with many of the conjectures (ours and others) mentioned this past year (randomness, criticality, phase transitions, edge of chaos, etc.) I don't mean to retread what others have said, but to add something to the discussion. This is the kind of thing we could send to Science, I think.

4. an on-line annotated bibliography

5. an editied collection of papers about how to do emergence research in science. I'm not sure that we could do this alone, but we could try.

6. our own documentary on emergence.

7. an emergence art exhibit in the fall

8. a computer cluster and program for long-term simulations of emergence. This would be a testbed for us to explore the essential elements of emergence. What happens if we remove randomness? Let's see!

I also would vote for starting a little later than 9am. BTW, I am working on a book on using emergent techniques in AI. Working title: "Emergent Intelligence: A Postmodern Approach to the Quest for AI" which is a play on the most popular textbook in AI currently: "AI: A Modern Approach".

1.3. Who is Away When?

1. May 28 - Ted Wong

2. Jun 4 - Ted Wong

3. Jun 11 -

4. Jun 18 - Karen Greif, Panama Geer

5. Jun 25 - Karen Greif, Jim Wright, Panama Geer, Doug Blank

6. Jul 2 - Deepak Kumar, Panama Geer, Jim Wright, Doug Blank, Tim Burke

7. Jul 9 - Panama Geer

8. Jul 16 -

9. Jul 23 - Karen Greif, Jim Wright

10. Jul 30 -

11. Aug 6 - Ted Wong, Mark Kuperberg, Paul Grobstein, Anne Dalke, Karen Greif

12. Aug 13 - Deepak Kumar, Mark Kuperberg, Karen Greif, Paul Grobstein, Anne Dalke

13. Aug 20 - Deepak Kumar, Jim Wright, Paul Grobstein,

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