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Spring 2015
May 3 –
- Goel S, Anderson A, Hofman J, Watts DJ (in press). The structural virality of online diffusion.
April 22 –
- Padgett JF & Powell WW (2012). The emergence of organizations and markets. Princeton University Press. Chapter 5
April 14 –
Guest Lecture by Prof. Hiroki Sayama, Department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering, Binghamton University.
Guest Lecture by Prof. Scott Turner, SUNY School of Environmental Science and Forestry
“Modeling complex systems with adaptive networks”
April 8 –
- Sayama H, Pestov I, Schmidt J, Bush BJ, Wong C, Yamanoi J, Gross T (2013). Modeling complex systems with adaptive networks. Computers and Mathematics with Applications.
March 18 –
- Padgett JF & Powell WW (2012). The emergence of organizations and markets. Princeton University Press. Chapter 4
March 12 –
Symposium: Cognitive and Evolutionary Approaches to Human Culture. at G10 Biotechnology, Cornell University
- Panelists: Morten Christiansen (Cornell), Michael Kalish (Syracuse), Peter Richerson (UC Davis), David Sloan Wilson (Bingahmton), Dimitris Xygalatas (Univ. Connecticut).
March 4 –
- Padgett JF & Powell WW (2012). The emergence of organizations and markets. Princeton University Press. Chapter 3
Feb 18 –
- Padgett JF & Powell WW (2012). The emergence of organizations and markets. Princeton University Press. Chapter 2
- Padgett JF & Powell WW (2012). The emergence of organizations and markets. Princeton University Press. Chapter 1
Fall 2014
Dec 15 –
- Deacon, T (2010). What is missing from theories of information?. In: Paul Davies and Niels Henrik Gregersen (eds.) Information and the Nature of Reality: From Physics to Metaphysics. Cambridge University Press.
Dec 1 –
- Margulis L, Lovelock JE (1974). Biological modulation of the earth's atmosphere. Icarus, 21, 471–489.
- Lovelock J (2003). The living earth. Nature, 426, 769–770.
Nov 17 –
- Turner, S (2013). Superorganisms and superindividuality: the emergence of individuality in a social insect assemblage. In: Frédéric Bouchard and Philippe Huneman (eds). From Groups to Individuals. Perspectives on Biological Associations and Emerging Individuality. The Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology. MIT Press
Nov 3 –
Guest Lecture by Prof. Scott Turner, SUNY School of Environmental Science and Forestry
- Turner JS (2007). Homeostasis, complexity, and the problem of biological design. Pre-proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Complexity and Philosophy, 131–147.
- Turner JS (2000). Architecture and morphogenesis in the mound of Macrotermes michaelseni (Sjostedt) (Isoptera: Termitidae, Macrotermitinae) in northern Namibia. Cimbebasia, 16.
Oct 20 –
Guest Lecture by Nick Cheney, PhD student in Computational Biology, Cornell University
- Aguilar W, Santamaria-Bonfil G, Froese T, Gershenson C (2014). The past, present, and future of artificial life. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 1: 8.
Oct 6 –
- Frith CD (2010). What is Consciousness for?. Pragmatics and Cognition 18: 497–551.
- Pettit P (2007). Neuroscience and agent-control. In Ross D, Spurrett D, Kincald H, Stephens GL (eds.), Distributed cognition and the will, 77–91 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press)
Sep 22 –
- Pettit P (2003). Groups with minds of their own. In Schmitt FF (ed.), Socializing metaphysics: the nature of social reality, 167–193 (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield)
- Pettit P (2007). Neuroscience and agent-control. In Ross D, Spurrett D, Kincald H, Stephens GL (eds.), Distributed cognition and the will, 77–91 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press)
Sep 8 –
- Mason W, Suri S, Watts DJ (2014). Long-run learning in games of cooperation. Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM conference on Economics and computation. 821–838.
- Salganik MJ, Dodds PS, Watts DJ (2006). Experimental study of inequality and unpredictability in an artificial cultural market. Science, 311. 854–856
Summer 2014
Aug 7 –
- Centola D (2010). The spread of behavior in an online social network experiment. Science, 329: 1194.
- Backstrom L, Huttenlocher D, Kleinberg J, Lan X (2006). Group formation in large social networks: membership, growth, and evolution. Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining: 44–54.
- Doerr B, Fouz M, Friedrich T (2012). Why rumors spread so quickly in social networks. Communications of the ACM 55, 6: 70-75
July 29 –
- Newman SA, Muller GB (2000). Epigenetic mechanisms of character origination. J of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, 288: 304–317.
- Basanta D, Anderson ARA (2013). Exploiting ecological principles to better understand cancer progression and treatment. Interface Focus, 3: 20130020.
- Domazet-Loso et al. (2014). Naturally occurring tumours in the basal metazoan Hydra. Nature Communications, 5: 4222.
July 15 –
Guest tutorial by Simon Joyce, PhD student in mathematics, Binghamton University
- Remy E, Ruet P, Thiefrry D (2008). Graphic requirements for multistaility and attractive cycles in a Boolean dynamical framework. Advances in Applied Mathematics 41: 335–350.
- De Jong H (2002). Modeling and simulation of genetic regulatory systems: a literature review. J of Computational Biology, 9: 67–103.
July 1 –
- Albert R, Jeong H, Barabási AL (2000). Error and attach tolerance of complex networks. Nature, 406.
- Pastor-Satorras R, Vespignani A (2002). Immunization of complext networks. Physical Review E, 65
June 17 –
- Craver, CF (2001). Functions and mechanisms: a perspectivalist view. In P. Huneman (ed), Functions: Selections and Mechanisms. Springer.133–158.
- Millikan, RG. (1989) In defense of proper functions. Philosophy of Science, 56, pp. 288-302.
- Cummins, R (2000). "How does it work?" vs. "What are the laws?" Two conceptions of psychological explanation. In F. Keil and R. Wilson (eds), Explanation and Cognition, MIT Press, pp 117-145.
June 3 –
- Tomasello, M, Melis, AP, Teenie, C, Wyman, E, & Herrmann, E. (2012). Two key steps in the evolution of human cooperation: The interdependence hypothesis. Current Anthropology 53.
- Boyd, R., Richerson, P. J., & Henrich, J. (2013) The cultural evolution of technology: Facts and theories. In Cultural Evolution: Society, Technology, Language and Religion. Edited by P. J. Richerson and M. H. Christiansen. MIT Press.
Spring 2014
May 20 –
- Mitchell, Melanie (2011). Complexity: a guided tour. Oxford University Press, Chapters 15–end
May 6 –
Guest lecture by Prof. Tom Seeley, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell
- Seeley TD, Visscher PK, Passino KM. (2006). Group decision making in honey bee swarms. American Scientist, 94, 220–229.
- Seeley TD, Visscher PK, Schlegel T, Hogan PM, Franks NR, Marshall JAR. (2011). Stop signals provide cross inhibition in collective decision-making by honeybee swarms. Science, 335, 108–111.
April 22 –
- Mitchell, Melanie (2011). Complexity: a guided tour. Oxford University Press, Chapters 8–14
April 8 –
- Mitchell, Melanie (2011). Complexity: a guided tour. Oxford University Press, Chapters 1–7
Mar. 25 –
- Boomsma, JJ & Franks, NR. (2006). Social insects: from selfish genes to self organisation and beyond. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 21, 303–308.
- Korb, J & Heinze, J. (2004) Multilevel selection and social evolution of insect societies. Naturwissenschaften, 91, 291–304.
Mar. 11 –
- Nowak, MA, Tarnita, CE, & Wilson, EO. (2010). The evolution of eusociality. Nature, 466, 1057–1062.
- Wilson, EO, Holldobler, B. (2005). Eusociality: origin and consequences. PNAS, 102, 13367–13371.
- [A series of responses to Nowak, Tarnita, & Wilson (2010)] . Nature, 471, E1–E10.
Feb. 25 –
- Strogatz, SH. (2001). Exploring complex networks. Nature, 410, 268–276.
- Hutchins, E. (2010). Cognitive ecology. Topics in Cognitive Science, 2, 705–715.
Feb. 4 –
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