Welcome to the Public Think Tank events

Complexity Science in the 21 Century:
Keeping purpose in a random world

Jerusalem, September 13-15, 17-19, 2008

A Think Tank Series organized by


Sorin Solomon, Annick Vignes, Yitzhak Aharon, Jean-Pierre Nadal and Gur Yaari

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.

09:00		Mauro Gallegati  "Agent Based Models in Economics and Complexity"
09:40		Bernard Derrida  "Random trees and genealogies"
10:20	Coffee Break
10:50		Shlomo Havlin   "Statistical physics and complex networks"
11:30		Luciano Pietronero  "Complexity: What are we talking about"
12:10		Ricard Solé  "Emergence of complexity in biological networks: from selection to tinkering"
12:50	Lunch Break
14:00		Daniel Segré  "Adaptation and organization in the economy of living matter"
14:40		Gregory Chaitin "The Halting Probability Omega: Irreducible Complexity in Pure Mathematics."
15:20		Lord Julian Hunt  "Systems Modelling ; Approaches for making and exploring decisions"
16:00	Coffee Break
16:30		Round Table "Can we maintain the coherence of our culture?" Chair:   TBA    Participants: Gregory Chaitin Bernard Derrida Mauro Gallegati Shlomo Havlin Lord Julian Hunt Luciano Pietronero Daniel Segré Ricard Solé
18:30	ECCS 2008 Welcome Reception
19:30	Children Sing in All Languages

20:00

Robert Schilling - An intriguing music-video journey to the core of MUTE, the groundbreaking record label from London, UK"

09:00		Robert J. Aumann (2005 Nobel Prize in Economics)"Title"
09:40		Gregory Chaitin "A Century of Controversy over the Foundations of Mathematics"
10:20	Coffee Break

09:00	Francois Kepes	"Title" abstract
09:40	Roger Guesnerie	"Title" abstract
10:20	Coffee Break
10:40	Mirta Gordon	"Title" abstract
11:20	Ken Buetow	"Title" abstract
12:00	Jasmina Arifovic	"Title" abstract
12:40	Lunch Break
14:00	Annick Vignes	Round Table "Title" Chair:    Annick Vignes    Participants: Arifovic Jasmina Henri Berestycki Ken Buetow Jean-Pierre Nadal Mirta Gordon Roger Guesnerie Peyton Young
16:40	Coffee Break
	Music and Cognition Public Session - Wise Auditorium
17:00	On the complexity of playing the piano Eitan Globerson, pianist and conductor, the Rubin Academy of Music, Jerusalem
18:00	Towards Robotic Musicianship Gil Weinberg, Director of Music Technology, Georgia Tech, USA

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 Yitzhak Aharon

09:00	Moshe Abeles	"Title" abstract
09:40	Naftali Tishby	"Title" abstract
10:20	Coffee Break
10:40	Richard Ebstein	"Title" abstract
11:20	Raphael Mechoulam	"Title" abstract
12:00	Lunch Break
13:00	Mario Mikulincer	"Title" abstract
13:40	Jean-Pierre Nadal	"Title" abstract
14:20	Itzhak Aharon	Round Table "Title" Chair:    Itzhak Aharon   Participants: Abeles Moshe Mechoulam Raphael Mikulincer Mario Ebstein Richard Tishbi Tali