2015 ICAM Emergence
The University of Michigan branch of the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter and The Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan announce:
Emergence: Compelling Examples and Unifying Approaches
November 20, 21, 2015
A symposium free and open to the public
Friday-Saturday, November 20-21, 2015
West Hall 340 University of Michigan
Friday 9:00am-5:00pm
Saturday 9:00am-3:30pm
No registration required Coffee (8:30am) and snacks provided
Topical posters welcome – please notify Complex Systems at [email protected]
Eight speakers and a Discussion Moderator explore commonalities of emergent cooperative behaviors across multiple complexity levels
Quantum Phenomena—Collective Animal Behavior
Cognition—Human Culture—Machine Intelligence
| Robert Batterman | Philosophy | University of Pittsburgh |
| Glen Evenbly | Physics | University of California Irvine |
| Kevin Brown | Biomedical Engineering | University of Connecticut |
| Mark Transtrum | Physics | Brigham Young University |
| Richard Nisbett | Social Psychology | University of Michigan |
| Deborah Gordon | Biology | Stanford University |
| Hugues Bersini | Artificial Intelligence | Université Libre de Bruxelles |
| David Schwab | Physics | Northwestern University |
| Daniel Cox | Physics | University of California, Davis |