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Below is the preliminary program for the fourth International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS 2002) which will take place June 9-14, 2002 in Nashua, NH, near Boston, MA.

This ICCS, like the previous ones, is an unusual opportunity to form collaborations and discuss advances in complex systems research. It is also a remarkable opportunity for pedagogy. Proceedings will be published in print and on-line.

There is still an opportunity to submit abstracts. Please submit them soon so we can organize them for the program committee meeting.

Registering to attend the conference without giving a presentation is also still possible.

Students and postdocs are encouraged to submit papers about recent advances in their research. Opportunities will be provided for them to give short talks or to be assigned to the poster session.

Additional information about NECSI and the ICCS conferences may be found at http://necsi.org

Please send inquiries to iccs@necsi.org

Preliminary Conference Program (* indicates confirmed) Additional speakers are still to be assigned to sessions. Abstracts can still be submitted.

Sunday, June 9 9:00AM-5:00PM PEDAGOGICAL SESSIONS*GREG CHAITIN - Algorithmic complexity*PER BAK - Self-organization*ALFRED HUBLER - Experimental approaches to complex systems*ROBERT DEVANEY - Mathematics in Education

EVENING RECEPTION SESSIONSpecial Memorial and Award Session: Herbert Simon and Claude Shannon

MONDAY, June 10 9:00AM-12:20PM EMERGENCE *ELLEN GOLDBERG - Welcome / Emergence*RITA COLWELL - Biocomplexity*PHILIP ANDERSON - Emergence of Complex Systems*MITCHELL FEIGENBAUM - Universality and the dynamics of chaos

2:00PM-5:20PM DESCRIPTION AND MODELING KATHLEEN CARLEY - Description and Modeling *MARTIN SHUBIK - Game theory *JOHN STERMAN - Modeling social systems *JOHN CASTI - Agent based modeling *SETH LLOYD - Networks

6:30PM-9:00PM HIGH DENSITY PARALLEL SESSIONS

9:00PM-10:00PM INITIAL POSTER SESSION

TUESDAY, June 11

9:00AM-12:20PM EDWARD LORENZ/*IRV EPSTEIN
*KERRY EMANUEL - Multiple scales in meteorological prediction DAN SCHRAG - Climate on different time scales

2:00PM-5:00PM AFTERNOON PARALLEL BREAKOUT SESSIONS

*JOHN SYMONS - Philosophy of Emergence Modeling social systems Spatiotemporal dynamics Additional sessions to be Organized

7:00PM-10:00PM EVENING PARALLEL BREAKOUT SESSIONS

*DAN FREY - Complexity in Engineering Neural Systems Management of Human Organizations Additional sessions to be Organized

WEDNESDAY, June 12

9:00AM-11:40AM NATURAL AND ENGINEERED SYSTEMS *ALI MINAI - Natural and Engineered Systems *LEON COOPER - Molecular basis of vision *RODNEY BROOKS - Robots and beyond *DAVID SLOAN WILSON - Social minds PATTIE MAES - Agent societies

2:00PM-5:00PM AFTERNOON PARALLEL SESSIONS

Organizations*ROBERT SAVIT - Group decision making*EVE MITLETON-KELLY - Organizational Complexity*EDGAR PETERS - Complexity and Efficient Markets War on Terrorism Arts Funding*JAMES J. ANDERSON - NIH*SUSAN M. FITZPATRICK - McDonnell Foundation Additional sessions to be organized

6:15PM-7:45PM BANQUET 7:45PM-9:30PM BANQUET SESSIONJEROME KAGAN - The importance of context PHILIP ZIMBARDO - Contextual behavior

THURSDAY, June 13

9:00AM-11:40AM BIOCOMPLEXITY *TEMPLE SMITH Biocomplexity *CHRIS JOHNSON - Visualizing biological systems *BRAD SMITH - NMR Imaging of biological dynamics *GEOFFREY WEST - Scaling in biology *ALBERT-L=C1SZL=D3 BARAB=C1SI - Scale free networks

2:00PM-5:00PM AFTERNOON PARALLEL BREAKOUT SESSIONS *JEFFREY CARES, Military Systems Psychology Defining Complexity 7:00PM-10:00PM EVENING PARALLEL BREAKOUT SESSIONS *DANNY CZAMANSKI, *ITZHAK BENENSON - Urban systems Biocomplexity Networks

FRIDAY, June 14

9:00AM-5:20PM SPECIAL DAY ON EVOLUTION GUNTER WAGNER - Evolution (note: Plans for this day-long session are still in preparation) *SIMON LEVIN - The ecology and evolution of commmunties *CHARLES GOODNIGHT - Evolution of groups *TERRENCE DEACON - Evolution and mind

Yaneer Bar-Yam President New England Complex Systems Institute http://necsi.org

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