Friends:
In January, I -- along with six other Americans (as in "U.S.A. Americans")
-- was able to participate in a conference on Complexity Theory in Havana.
There were about 225 scholars from all of Latin America at the meeting;
roughly half were Cubans. We found that they are very strong in terms of
Complexity Theory, but lack experience in what is coming to be called the
"Santa Fe Approach" to Complexity or "Applied Complexity Studies." That is,
marrying the theory with data analysis and simulations, especially as those
methods can be applied in the social and medical sciences.
Contacts made at the meeting resulted in our being invited to assemble a
team local researchers and practitioners -- plus two high school students
from New Mexico's Super-computing Challenge
<
http://www.challenge.nm.org/>-- to conduct a series of workshops at a
large complexity conference in
Camag?ey, Cuba in February 2009.
We think this is a great idea, but one that requires money. I have a
generic letter for potential funders that can be found at
http://complexityincuba.notlong.comIf you find the concept intriguing, please take a look at the letter. If
you think the idea has potential, I would appreciate it if you could point
me to any potential funders.
All the best,
Tom Johnson
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J. T. Johnson
Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA
www.analyticjournalism.com
505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h)
http://www.jtjohnson.com tom at jtjohnson.com
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the
existing model obsolete."
-- Buckminster Fuller
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