Socio-Technal Systems Conference

[Roger Critchlow-2]

Here's a note of interest to the Northern New Mexico branch of FRIAM.

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Good Morning:

As a reminder, the CNLS 26th Annual Conference on Socio-Technical
Systems is starting today at the Oppenheimer Center of the LANL
Library and will continue through Thursday.  It is open to the public
and there is
no registration fee.

Here is the agenda:
http://cnls.lanl.gov/annual26/program.html

Abstract:

The conference will attempt to map out the fundamental difficulties in
understanding, modeling and controlling agent-based systems with
applications to socio-technical systems of national and global
relevance. As human society becomes more and more interdependent and
intertwined, presenting global vulnerabilities, the need for
quantitative tools to understand and possibly predict complex dynamical
phenomena has become urgent. We have chosen to focus on five
cross-cutting areas (water, energy, urbanization, health and
economics), each of which involves complex human, social and technical
challenges. Our hope is to bring together experts in the subject matter
and in state of the art computational technologies for gathering and
analyzing data, to explore rules underlying complex social phenomena
and examine tools useful for crisis mitigation, planning and decision
making.

We hope to see you there.

Sincerely,

Adam Shipman









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Adam Shipman
LANL - Center for Nonlinear Studies
PO Box 1663, MS-B258
Los Alamos, NM 87545
Ph# [phone]
Fax [phone]
ashipman at lanl.gov