Chaos/complexity conference in Dallas

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                           EVOLVING COMPLEXITY:
            CHALLENGES TO SOCIETY, ECONOMY AND THE INDIVIDUAL*

                            CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
                          NOVEMBER 17 - 19, 1994
                       UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS

                         Conference Organizers:
Professor Euel Elliott (690-2066) and Professor Doug Kiel (690-2019),
                         School of Social Sciences

                           THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17

6:00 - 9:00 P.M.Reception
McDermott Suite
McDermott Library



                 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18  (Conference Center)

9:00 A.M.Introduction:  Hobson Wildenthal
& Franklyn Jenifer

9:15 - 9:45 A.M.Keynote Address:  Gottfried Mayer-Kress:
"Global Brains as Paradigm for a Complex Adaptive World"
9:45 - 10:00 A.M.Break

10:00 - 11:45 A.M.Panel One:  Methods for Exploring Complexity
Robert Serfling (Chair and Discussant)
Alvin Saperstein
Kevin Dooley:  "Research Methods for Studying Chaos and Complexity"
Richard Golden:  "Analysis of Complex Systems"
Bruce West:  "Inverse Power Laws and Their Application to the Natural and Social Sciences"
Larry Cauller:  "Problems with Identifying Dynamical Systems Properties in Neural Networks"

11:45 A.M. - 1:15 P.M.Lunch

1:15 - 2:45 P.M.Panel Two:  Complexity in Manufacturing & Organizational Management
B.G. Schumacher  (Chair and Discussant)
Richard Priesmeyer:  "Interpreting Nonlinear Trajectories:  Practical Financial Applications"
Kevin Dooley:  "Chaos and Complexity in Manufacturing Systems"
Camilo Gomez:  "The Application of Nonlinear Systems Analysis to Derivative Models" Mac Cody:
"Wavelet Transforms as Applied to Financial Market Analysis"

2:45 - 3:00 P.M.Break


                            FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18

3:00 - 4:15 P.M.Panel Three:  Increasing Complexity:  Challenges for Business   & The Economy
Greg Daneke (Chair and Discussant)
Brian J.L. Berry:  "Long-Wave Chaos, Nonlinear Entrainment and Technological Transformations"
Don Hicks:  "Technology Foodchains:  Discovery and Linkage in the U.S. Semiconductor Industry"
Scott Page:  "Rugged Landscapes and Tieboult Models"
Louise Comfort:  "Complexity, Information Technology, and Crisis Management"

4:15 - 4:30 P.M.Break

4:30 - 5:00 P.M.Gottfried Mayer-Kress: "The Internet as Critical Parameter for the Transition to a
Global Brain"


                    SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19  (Texas Room)

9:00 - 10:30 A.M.Panel Four:  Complexity and Politics
Kaenan Hertz  (Chair and Discussant)
Thad Brown/Michael McBurnett:  "Some Emergent Properties of Elites Based on Lattice Dynamics",
and
"Some Mechanics of Election Dynamics"
Bryan Jones:  "Positive Feedback in Politics"

10:30 - 10:45 A.M.Break

11:00 A.M. - 12:30 P.M.Panel Five:  Complexity, Culture and Creativity
Ray Eve (Discussant)
Alex Argyros:  "Chaos and Meaning"
Frederick Turner:  "Values and Strange Attractors"
Michael Benedikt:  "Thoughts on Complexity, Organization and Economic Value"
Stephen Guastello:  "Creative Problem Solving Groups at the Edge of Chaos, Continued"

12:30 - 1:45 P.M.Lunch

2:30 - 4:00 P.M.Roundtable:  What Does Complexity Mean For The Individual?
Gottfried Mayer-Kress
Brian J.L. Berry
Frederick Turner
Greg Daneke
Louise Comfort

Room Accomodations:Clarion Hotel
November 17-20


*We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Office of the Provost, the School of Natural
Sciences and Mathematics, the School of Arts and Humanities, the School of Human Development,
the School of Social Sciences, and the School of Management.



         EVOLVING COMPLEXITY:  CHALLENGES TO SOCIETY, ECONOMY, AND THE INDIVIDUAL
                                  Conference Participants              (9/28/94)

Alex Argyros
Professor
School of Arts and Humanities
JO 45
University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, Texas  75083-0688
PHONE:      (214) 690-2781 (O)

Michael Benedikt
Professor
School of Architecture
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas  78712
PHONE:      (512) 471-1922
            (512) 471-9890

Brian Berry
Regental Professor
School of Social Sciences
GR 31
University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, Texas  75083-0688
PHONE:      (214) 690-2041 (O)

Thad Brown
Professor
Department of Political Science
113 Professional Building
University of Missouri - Columbia
Columbia, Missouri  65211
PHONE:      (314) 443-4042 (H)
            (314) 882-2840 (O)

Larry Cauller
Assistant Professor
School of Human Development
GR 41
University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, Texas  75083-0688
PHONE:      (214) 690-2436 (O)

Mac Cody
E Systems
1113 Abrams Road, #140
Richardson, Texas  75081
PHONE:                                                     (214) 205-6452 (O)
                                                           (214) 437-2812 (H)

Louise K. Comfort
Professor
Graduate School of Public
and International Affairs
University of Pittsburgh
3E31 Forbes Quadrangle
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania  15260
PHONE:                                                     (412) 648-7606



Greg Daneke
Professor
School of Public Affairs
Arizona State University
P.O. Box 870603
Tempe, Arizona  85287
PHONE:                                                     (602) 965-1032
                                                           (602) 965-9248

Kevin Dooley
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Institute of Technology
University of Minnesota
125 Mechanical Engineering
111 Church Street East
Minneapolis, Minnesota  55455-0111
PHONE:                                                     (612) 625-0705
                                                           (612) 625-0077 (ext)

Euel Elliott
Associate Professor
School of Social Sciences
GR 31
University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, Texas  75083-0688
PHONE:                                                     (214) 690-2066 (O)

Ray Eve
Professor
Department of Sociology & Anthropology
University of Texas at Arlington
P.O. Box 19599
Arlington, Texas  76019
PHONE:

Richard Golden
Assistant Professor
School of Human Development
Gr 41
University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, Texas  75083-0688
PHONE:      (214) 690-2423 (O)

Dr. Camilo Gomez
P.O. Box 1663
Mail Station: F645
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, New Mexico  87545
PHONE:      (505) 665-1824

Steve Guastello
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
Marquette University
Milwaukee, Wisconsin  53233
PHONE:      (414) 288-7218




Dr. Kaenan Hertz
Macro International
3 Corporate Square, NE
Suite 370
Atlanta, Georgia  30329
PHONE:      (404) 321-3211
            (404) 321-3688

Donald Hicks
Professor
School of Social Sciences
GR 31
University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, Texas  75083-0688
PHONE:      (214) 690-2733 (O)

Bryan Jones
Professor
Department of Political Science
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas  77843
PHONE:      (409) 845-2511
            (409) 845-4232 (ext)
            (409) 776-0788 (H)

L. Douglas Kiel
Associate Professor
School of Social Sciences
GR 31
University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, Texas  75083-0688
PHONE:                                                     (214) 690-2019 (O)

Gottfried Mayer-Kress
Professor
3025 Beckman Institute
Center for Complex Systems Research
Department of Physics
University of Illinois
405 N. Matthews
Urbana, Illinois
PHONE:                                                     (217) 244-5877
                                                           (217) 244-1994

Mike McBurnett
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
361 Lincoln Hall
702 South Wright Street
Urbana, Illinois  61801-3696
PHONE:                                                     (217) 244-8413 (O)
                                                           (217) 337-3450 (H)

Scott Page
Assistant Professor
Division of Social Sciences
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California  91125
PHONE:                                                     (818) 395-4065
                                                           (818) 395-4216 (ext)


Richard Priesmeyer
Professor
School of Business Administration
St. Mary's University
San Antonio, Texas  78228
PHONE:                                                     (210) 431-2041

Alvin Saperstein
Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan  48202
PHONE:

B.G. Schumacher
Professor Emeritus - Management
University of Oklahoma
P.O. Box 2184
Norman, Oklahoma  73070
PHONE:                                                     (405) 360-1194

Robert Serfling
Professor
School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
EC 35
University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, Texas  75083-0688
PHONE:      (214) 690-2414

Fred Turner
Founders' Professor
School of Arts and Humanities
JO 31
University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, Texas  75083-0688
PHONE:      (214) 690-2777 (O)
            (214) 437-2155 (H)
Bruce West
Professor
Department of Physics
Box 5368
University of North Texas
Denton, Texas  76203
PHONE:      (817) 565-2626
            (817) 565-3268 (ext)