Notices: General Announcements 

Volume 12, Number 1
September, 2001 

General Announcements

• Joel Alden Kingston Exhibit: Manifestations

  Contact: Fleur Boel
  Ph. 212-206-8347
  Flora Danica Galerie
  130 Barrow St., Suite 202, Intercom 719
  New York, NY 10014

  Surrealist painter Joel Alden Kingston, whose video "Slave to another God," was recently included in "Workspheres" at the Museum of Modern Art, will be exhibiting a number of his original works at Flora Danica Galerie from September 19th to October 27th. A sense of predicament permeates Kingston's highly photographic paintings, much like a captured moment before something ominous occurs. Each scene elicits the viewer's own narrative, and the symbolic imagery employed in the paintings reveals psychological undercurrents in everyday life. Critics have favorably compared Kingston's fantastic work to that of important artists of the past, including the Pre-Raphaelite painter John William Waterhouse and Surrealists René Magritte and Salvador Dali. This show marks Kingston's first New York solo exhibition.

  Kingston's video, "Slave to another God", is an exploration of the artist's life and work, presented in a dreamlike manner that reflects his work in paint. It was one of sixteen award-winning videos chosen from a pool of over 400 to be digitized for screening at MoMA earlier this year. The videos were displayed on the new "Worldviewer" developed by Vizible Inc., a way to display, store, process and navigate digital content such as television programs, the internet, and desktop applications. You can find out more by visiting the artist's web site at http://www.joelaldenkingston.com.

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• NECSI Education Programs

  New England Complex Systems Institute

  One Day Course

  October 30, 2001
  University of Cincinnati

  This course will give an introduction to the opportunities that complex systems provides in research and in applications. Several approaches to the study of complex systems will be described, basic concepts will be introduced and implications for the study of biological, social, and engineered systems will be discussed.

  Information and Registration: http://www.necsi.org/education/uc

  Managing Complex Organizations in a Complex World:
  Leadership in Rapidly Changing Business Environments-- Learning and Adapting in Time

  NECSI Executive Education Programs
  November 15-16, 2001
  Cambridge, MA
  Early registration: October 15

  Speakers:
  Yaneer Bar-Yam, NECSI and Harvard University
  Tom Petzinger, Jr., Author, The New Pioneers and CEO, LaunchCyte
  Peter Senge, Society for Organizational Learning and MIT Sloan School of Management
  John Sterman, MIT Sloan School of Management

  This is a two-day practical experience on working with chaos and complexity--in the global economy, in national markets, in business-to-business interactions and within the organization itself. We will use new insights and concepts from the field of complex systems to discuss innovative ways to survive and thrive in today's new/old economy.

  Information and registration: http://necsi.org/education/exec/

  Please Note:
  In light of recent events, as our contribution to the rebuilding of the U.S. economy, registration fees for the November 15-16 executive education program have been substantially reduced to allow increased participation. This course will enhance participants' understanding of how to build and maintain effective organizations, including the identification of strengths and vulnerabilities.

  One-Week Intensive Course: Complex Physical, Biological and Social Systems

  Date: January 7-11, 2002
  Location: Cambridge, MA
  Format: A one-semester course in a one-week format.
  Subject Matter: Introduction to essential concepts of complex systems and related mathematical methods and simulation strategies with application to physical, biological and social systems.

  Concepts to be discussed include: emergence, complexity, networks, self-organization, pattern formation, evolution, adaptation, fractals, chaos, cooperation, competition, attractors, interdependence, scaling, dynamic response, information, and function. Methods to be discussed include: statistical methods, cellular automata, agent-based modeling, pattern recognition, system representation, and informatics.

  Demonstration of the application of complex systems methods will be made through studies of Social systems: education system, health care system, military system; Psychosocial systems: patterns of social behavior, mind, creativity, awareness; Biological systems: evolution, physiology, immune system, brain, cellular systems, genetic networks; Physical systems: meteorology.

  Target Audience:
  This course is intended for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and faculty who would like to gain an understanding of the fundamentals of complex systems and develop methodological tools for conducting research in their respective fields.

  Credit: Arrangements for credit at a home institution should be made in advance. Contact Cherry or Luke atoffice@necsi.org.

  For more information and registration: http://necsi.org/education/oneweek/winter01.html

  Traveling Seminars, Fall 2001/Spring 2002

  Due to the growing interest in complex systems, we are offering one-day seminars at universities and other organizations across the U.S. and Canada.

  These seminars provide an opportunity to introduce basic complex systems concepts and to explore the scope this field provides for research and applications.

  Perhaps the most important part of the program is the opportunity for participants to ask questions about applications or areas of interest specific to them.

  For an example of a past seminar, please see:
  http://www.necsi.org/education/onedayseminar.html
  To plan and schedule a program, please contact Luke at office@necsi.org.

  Academic Year 2001-2002 Memberships

  Membership in NECSI is $20 per year for registered students, $50 per year for academics, and $100 per year for everyone else. Corporate membership is $500 if you wish to register in the name of your corporation instead of individually. All memberships are fully tax-deductible. To register for membership, please send a message including your name and preferred e-mail address to membership@necsi.org. Payment information can be found at http://www.necsi.org/membership/member.html.

  Discount: Advances in Complex Systems

  Advances in Complex Systems is a multidisciplinary quarterly journal devoted to the study of complex systems. It is published by World Scientific. We are pleased to announce that NECSI members are currently eligible for a special subscription rate of $92 (the regular price for individuals is $145, so the discount is greater than the NECSI membership fee for faculty and much greater than the membership fee for students).

  For more information about Advances in Complex Systems, see http://www.tbi.univie.ac.at/ACS/.
  For subscriptions, go to http://journals.worldscientific.com.sg/subscribe.html and enter "NECSI Member Rate" in the comment field. If you are not sure if your membership is up to date, contact office@necsi.org.

  NECSI Discussion Group

  A discussion forum of complex systems principles in science and application to physical, biological and social systems: complex-science@necsi.org

  To subscribe to the lists send e-mail to: complex-science-on@necsi.org,
  complex-community-on@necsi.org.

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