COLLIER@UNCAMULT.BITNET (John Collier) (10/06/90)
MEETING ANNOUNCMENT
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NON-EQUILIBRIUM MACRO-SYSTEMS
IN BIOLOGY
THIRD ANNUAL MEETING, OCTOBER 25-27, 1990
AT
THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY, CALGARY, ALBERTA
Mishtu Banerjee, Botany, University of British Columbia
Daniel R. Brooks, Zoology, University of Toronto
John Collier, Philosophy, University of Calgary
Brian A. Mauer, Zoology, Brigham Young University
P. Dawn Mills, University of British Columbia
Jack Maze, Botany, University of British Columbia
Stanley N. Salthe, Biology, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Doug Siegel-Causey, Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas
Jonathan D.H. Smith, Mathematics, Iowa State University
Edward O. Wiley, Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas
FOR INFORMATION CONTACT JOHN COLLIER, DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY,
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY, CALGARY, ALBERTA T2N 1N4
TELEPHONE (403) 220-3163 or (403) 220-5539
Conference sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada, the University of Calgary, the Faculty of
Humanities, the Faculty of Science and the Department of Philosophy.
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The above is a poster for a conference to be held at the University of
Calgary, October 25th-27th, 1990. There will be a plenary session at
7:30 PM on Thursday October 25, and sessions during the day on Friday
and Saturday October 26th and 27th. For futher information, contact
John Collier, Department of Philosophy, University of Calgary, Calgary,
Alberta T2N 1N4, phone (403) 220-3163, or (403) 220-5539, or email:
COLLIER@UNCAMULT.BITNET
Conference Description
Title:
Non-Equilibrium Macrosystems in Biology
Focus of the conference:
The scope of the conference includes non-equilibrium approaches to
ecology, ontogeny, systematics, evolution and social behaviour, but
excludes topics restricted exclusively to biological subsystems at the
chemical level. The focus of the conference will be on theoretical and
philosophical problems raised by the research programme of the "Ames
Group", including problems of interpretation and experimental design.
The Ames Group are proponents of a unified reinterpretation of the
Darwinian approach to biology and its interfaces with physics,
psychology and sociology, based in ideas from non-equilibrium
thermodynamics and information theory. The Group is interdisciplinary
and international. Meetings will be of interest to evolutionary and
developmental biologists, information theorists, systems theorists,
sociologists and anthroplogists interested in connections to biology,
computer scientists and sytems theorists, and to humanists interested
in alternatives to the individualistic neo-Darwinian paradigm.
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Tentative schedule, "Non-Equilibrium Macrosystems in Biology"
October 25th - 28th, 1990 Science Theatre 145
Thursday -- Participants arrive in Calgary. Evening Plenary Seminar 8:00-9:00,
Daniel R. Brooks, speaker.
Friday -- (theory) Morning: Social Sciences 1253
9:30 Sessions start
9:30-9:45 Introductions (John Collier)
9:45-10:45 Jonathan Smith, Mathematical aspects of entropy dynamics
10:45-11:45 Stan Salthe, Two Types of Hierarchies
12:00-2:00 Lunch
Afternoon: Social Sciences 1339
2:00-2:45 Jack Maze, Non-Functional Compensatory Change in Plants
2:45-3:30 Dan Brooks, Place of the environment in the information
channel
3:30-4:15 John Collier, Speciation as Self-Organization
4:15-5:00 General Discussion
Evening Workshop (current state of theory and next stages of
research). Moderator -- John Collier.
Saturday -- (applications) Science Theatre 125
10:00-10:15 Introductions (John Collier)
10:15-11:00 Douglas Seigel-Causey, Sociobiology
11:00-12:00 Dawn Mills, Cultural evolution.
12:00-1:00 Mishtu Banarjee, Theory, Consequence, Evidence: Examples
from Plant Development and Systematics.
1:00-2:15 Lunch
2:00-3:15 Brian Mauer, Small Scale Processes and Large Scale Patterns
in Community Ecology
3:00-4:15 Ed Wiley, Individuating characters of species
4:15-5:00 General Discussion
Evening Workshop (planning future developments). Moderator -- Dan
Brooks.
Sunday
Participants depart. Those not leaving before 6:00 PM may participate in a trip
to the Rocky Mountains.weiss@MATH.PSU.EDU (Howie Weiss) (05/02/91)
This is the second announcement for the Semi-Annual Regional Workshop in
Smooth Dynamical Systems, Ergodic Theory, and Related Topics. These
workshops are held alternately at the Pennsylvania State University
and the University of Maryland.
The Fall 1991 workshop will be held at the Keller Conference Center at
Penn State on October 3-6. Please send all inquiries concerning this meeting
to dsworkshop@math.psu.edu or call Rosemary Manning at 814 865 7527.
The conference organizers are:
A. Katok 814 865 2266 katok_a@math.psu.edu
H. Weiss 814 863 2737 weiss@math.psu.edu
The Spring 1992 workshop will be held at the Mathematics Department at
The University of Maryland on March 12-15. Registration will begin at 8 AM and
+ the first talk will begin at 9:30. All members of the dynamics community,
especially those from the Eastern area, are welcome. The host university
will provide limited support to the participants. The conference organizer is:
M. Brin 301 405 5085 mib@ruth.umd eduweiss@MATH.PSU.EDU (Howie Weiss) (05/02/91)
This is the second announcement for the Semi-Annual Regional Workshop in
Smooth Dynamical Systems, Ergodic Theory, and Related Topics. These
workshops are held alternately at the Pennsylvania State University
and the University of Maryland.
The Fall 1991 workshop will be held at the Keller Conference Center at
Penn State on October 3-6. Please send all inquiries concerning this meeting
to dsworkshop@math.psu.edu or call Rosemary Manning at 814 865 7527.
The conference organizers are:
A. Katok 814 865 2266 katok_a@math.psu.edu
H. Weiss 814 863 2737 weiss@math.psu.edu
The Spring 1992 workshop will be held at the Mathematics Department at
The University of Maryland on March 12-15. Registration will begin at 8 AM and
+ the first talk will begin at 9:30. All members of the dynamics community,
especially those from the Eastern area, are welcome. The host university
will provide limited support to the participants. The conference organizer is:
M. Brin 301 405 5085 mib@ruth.umd edu