COMPLEXITY

Physics of Life, Ep 4: The physics of collectives


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Guests: 

  • Melanie Moses, External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, Professor of Computer Science and Associate Professor of Biology at University of New Mexico
  • Hyejin Youn, External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, Associate Professor at Institute of Northwestern University

Hosts: Abha Eli Phoboo & Chris Kempes

Producer: Katherine Moncure

Podcast theme music by: Mitch Mignano

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SFI programs: Education

Complexity Explorer: 

Fractals and Scaling 

Fractals and Scaling: Toward a Theory of Urban Scaling

Introduction to Complexity: Ant Foraging and Task Allocation

  • Books: 
  • Scale by Geoffrey West
  • Complexity: a Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell

Talks: 

  • Toward a Scientific Theory of Cities by Hyejin Youn

Papers & Articles:

  • “Synergy in ant foraging strategies: memory and communication alone and in combination,” in GECCO’13: Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation (July 6, 2013), doi.org/10.1145/2463372.2463389
  • In vivo, in silico, in machina: Ants and Robots balance memory and communication to collectively exploit information,” in Proceedings of the European Conference on Complex Systems 2012
  • “What makes individual I’s a Collective We; coordination mechanisms & costs” in arXiv (November 20, 2023), doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2306.02113
  • “How does innovation push its boundaries?” in 43 Visions for Complexity, Exploring Complexity: Volume 3 (January 2017), doi.org/10.1142/9789813206854_0043
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