COLLIER@UNCAMULT.BITNET (John Collier) (10/06/90)
MEETING ANNOUNCMENT ===================================================================== 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. ===================================================================== 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. =============================================================== 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 edu
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 edu