Welcome to the Public Think Tank events
Complexity Science in the 21 Century
Jerusalem, September 14-15, 17-19, 2008
Complexity Science in the 21 Century
Jerusalem, September 14-15, 17-19, 2008
A Think Tank Series organized by
Sorin Solomon, Annick Vignes, Itzhak Aharon, Jean-Pierre Nadal and Gur Yaari
Sorin Solomon, Annick Vignes, Itzhak Aharon, Jean-Pierre Nadal and Gur Yaari
The events listed below are free to the public
MOTIVATION
The randomness of our environment is the very source of our lives but also the potential source of confusion and death. Maintaining our identity in an ever-changing environment requires understanding and exploiting the potential of continuous changes small and very large, ubiquitous and very rare.
Sustainability becomes the name of the game: how to bridge over the stream of failures produced by the frequent adverse events using the leverage of the successes allowed by the rare beneficial ones. Life, society, humanity and the entire universe are the product of it. Sustainability is not stationarity nor stagnation.
FORMAT
The format of the Think Tank is a compromise between learned pre-design conferences and free-for-all open unstructured discussion. We will have talks of 40 minutes by leading authorities that will be followed by a free format round table. The talks will be interrupted after 15 minutes to allow for 5 minutes of comments and requests for clarifications from the other panel members. Thus , while maintaining in great lines the flow of the talk, the speaker will be able to adapt it to the frame of mind and reactions of the Think Tank colleagues.
Sunday 14.9.2008 Wise Auditorium
Complexity Science in the 21 Century:
Keeping purpose in a random world
Monday 15.9.2008 Audio-Visual Event , Wise Auditorium |
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Robert Schilling - An intriguing music-video journey to the core of MUTE, the groundbreaking record label from London, UK" |
Wednesday 17.9.2008 Public Plenary TT Event, Wise Auditorium |
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Robert J. Aumann (2005 Nobel Prize in Economics) "Rule Rationality vs. Act Rationality" | ||
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Gregory Chaitin "A Century of Controversy over the Foundations of Mathematics" | ||
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Thursday 18.9.2008 Wise Auditorium
Complexity Science in the 21 Century: The Frontline
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Francois Kepes Gene Regulatory Networks in Space and Time | ||
 | Mirta Gordon Models of social systems. Recent results and open questions | ||
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Ken Buetow | ||
 | Hermona Soreq Molecular Neuroscience in the 21st century | ||
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Richard Ebstein The modern demographic transition and its possible impact on human behavioral evolution: Multiple scenarios | ||
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Round Table Chair: Annick Vignes Participants:Ken Buetow, Richard Ebstein, Mirta Gordon, Francois Kepes, Hermona Soreq, Annick Vignes |
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| Music and Cognition Public Session - Wise Auditorium | |||
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On the complexity of piano playing Eitan Globerson, Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, and Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University |
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Towards Robotic Musicianship Gil Weinberg, Director of Music Technology, Georgia Tech, USA |
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Friday 19.9.2008 Wise Auditorium
Complexity Science in the 21 Century: The Dream
The changes in the social, physical and artifact environment constitute a serious stress on the conditions of functioning of humans. The orders of magnitude increase in the speed, quantity and diversity of novelty emergence raised the challenges to the human condition to a strategical level. Along with the negative influences on the capability to meet our subjective needs those changes bring new tools to achieve capabilities that the humans did not enjoy until now. One way or another our humanity as defined by ages of natural, social and cultural evolution is undergoing currently fast revolutionary change. Can we turn the tables on it and make it into an opportunity to turns the humankind into a better kind?
Chair Itzhak Aharon
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