Madison
Chaos and Complex Systems Seminar
Summer 2019 Discussions
At the seminar on May 5, 2015, we decided to make our long-standing
summer
discussions slightly more formal by having a topic, a
facilitator, and a web-accessible reading or video. The reading or
video should take no more than 20 minutes, and the facilitator
should be prepared to give at most a 5-minute introduction to the
topic and lead the ensuing discussion. All discussions are Tuesday
noon on the Memorial
Union Terrace (under the big tree, or in Lakeview Lounge
in the event of bad weather). Anyone interested in facilitating a
topic should contact Myrna
Casebolt.
Short List
- May 7, 2019 - Open
- May 14, 2019 - George Hrabovsky
- May 21, 2019 - Jim Blair
- May 28, 2019 - Russ Gardner
- Jun 4, 2019 - Terry Allard
- Jun 11, 2019 - Clint Sprott
- Jun 18, 2019 - Peter Sobol
- Jun 25, 2019 - Michael Winokur
- Jul 2, 2019 - Bernard Friedlander
- Jul 9, 2019 - Guillermo Dopico
- Jul 16, 2019 - Jim Blair
- Jul 23, 2019 - Raj Gopal
- Jul 30, 2019 - Myrna Casebolt
- Aug 6, 2019 - Jeff Mattox
- Aug 13, 2019 - Damien Wilson
- Aug 20, 2019 - Jeff Mattox and Damien Wilson
- Aug 27, 2019 - Peter Sobol
- Sep 3, 2019 - Open
Topics
May 7, 2019
Topic: Open
Facilitator: N/A
Reading: N/A
May 14, 2019
Topic: Building and Using Models.
Facilitator: George Hrabovsky
Reading: Mathematical
Model and Computer
Simulation
May 21, 2019
Topic: Economic Inequality
Facilitator: Jim Blair
Reading: Basic
Income and EITC: The Right-Left
Reversal
May 28, 2019
Topic: How To Die Young at a Ripe Old Age
Facilitator: Russ Gardner
Reading: How To Die Young at a Ripe Old Age
June 4, 2019
Topic: Extraterrestrial life
Facilitator: Terry Allard
Reading: Where
are all the Aliens?
June 11, 2019
Topic: Climate Variability
Facilitator: Clint Sprott
Reading: Is
Climate Variability Increasing?
June 18, 2019
Topic: Unidentified Flying Objects
Facilitator: Peter Sobol
Reading: Glowing
Auras and Black Money and The
Roswell UFO Incident and Majestic 12
and Creature
Comforts
June 25, 2019
Topic: Encounters of the Fourth Kind
Facilitator: Michael Winokur
Reading: Alien
Abduction and Explaining
Those Vivid Memories of Martian Kidnappers and The
Surprising Origin of Alien Abduction Stories
July 2, 2019
Topic: Can Rich, Intelligent Donors Finance America Out of Our
Current Socio-Political Doldrums?
Facilitator: Bernard Z. Friedlander
Reading: Can Rich, Intelligent Donors
Finance America Out of Our Current Socio-Political Doldrums
July 9, 2019
Topic: The Psychology of Political Polarization
Facilitator: Guillermo Dopico
Reading: The
Psychology of Political Polarization and Hidden
Tribes
July 16, 2019
Topic: History or Hoax?
Facilitator: Jim Blair
Reading: Vikings
in Minnesota in 1362? and Vikings in
California? and Chinese
Discover America in 1421?
July 23, 2019
Topic: Air-Conditioning and Indoor Air Quality after 2030
Facilitator: Raj Gopal
Reading: Air-Conditioning and Indoor Air
Quality after 2030
July 30, 2019
Topic: Nonlinear Dynamics in Psychology and Life Sciences
Facilitator: Myrna Casebolt
Reading: What is
Complexity Science and Science
Evolves: An Introduction to Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and
Life Sciences
August 6, 2019
Topic: The Zero Marginal Cost Society
Facilitator: Jeff Mattox
Reading: After
Words with Jeremy Rifkin and The Third Industrial
Revolution (More than 20 minutes, but quit as desired)
August 13, 2019
Topic: Two 20th Century Pianists and Their Phobias
Facilitator: Damien Wilson
Reading: Creativity and Madness and The
Pianist and the Lobster and Glenn
Gould
August 20, 2019
Topic: Baseball Mud
Facilitator: Jeff Mattox and Damien Wilson
Reading: Baseball Mud
August 27, 2019
Topic: Are we living in a simulation? - Let's not find out
Facilitator: Peter Sobol
Reading: Are
We Living in a Simulation? and Cosmic
Rays Offer a Clue
September 3, 2019
Topic: Open discussion of the seminar, past and future
Facilitator: N/A
Reading: N/A