2006 Graduate Workshop in Social Science
(very) Tentative Schedule
Talks will be held in the Chamisa Building (room 102).
Week 1
- Sunday, 9 July
- 1815-2100: dinner reception at Apt. 5.
- Monday, 10 July
- 0900-0930: welcome and administrative details
- 0930-1200: introduction to computational economics (Miller/Page)
- 1200-1300: lunch
- 1300-1330: small group homework problem
- 1330-1400: computer details
- 1400-1700: work on homework
- Tuesday, 11 July
- 1000-1200: homework discussion (group presentations)
- 1200-1400: lunch, prepare individual talks
- 1400-1730: individual student talks (~10 minutes each) on
current/future work
- 1900-?: continue student talks (if needed)
- Wednesday, 12 July
- 1000-1200: adaptive computation and applications--John Miller, CMU and SFI
- 1200-1400: lunch
- 1400-1600: diversity and complexity--Scott Page, U Mich and SFI
- 1930-2100: the mother of mass extinctions (SFI public lecture)---Doug
Erwin, Smithsonian and SFI (James A. Little Theater)
- Thursday, 13 July
- 1000: homework write-ups due (in HTML)
- 1000-1200: inequality and segregation---Rajiv Sethi, Columbia
- 1200-1400: lunch
- 1400-1600: coevolution of parochial
altruism and war---Sam Bowles, SFI and Sienna
- Friday, 14 July
- 1000-1200: mapping human populations---Michael Gastner, SFI
- 1200-1300: lunch
- 1300-1500: visit SFI
- 1400-1700: SFI (tea at 1500)
- 2100-2400: ??? Opera, Santa Fe Opera House
- Saturday, 15 July
- Fun in New Mexico!
Various opportunities, including rafting, pueblo tours, hot
springs, hiking, old churches, ruins, etc., etc.
Week 2
- Sunday, 16 July
- Monday, 17 July
- 0900: two page project descriptions (and two designated
``referees'')
are due for your Friday paper
- 0900-1230: individual meetings on projects (~15 minutes each)
- 1200-1300: lunch
- individual research
- Tuesday, 18 July
- 1000-1200: food webs---Jennifer Dunne, SFI.
- individual research
- Wednesday, 19 July
- Thursday, 20 July
- Friday, 21 July
- 0900: paper due
- 0900-1200: paper presentations at SFI main conference room (~20
minutes each)
- 1200-1300: lunch at SFI
- 1300-1600: paper presentations at SFI main conference room (~20
minutes each)
- 1730-1800: award ceremony
- 1830-2030: group dinner at Tomasita's
- 2100-2400: Opera, Santa Fe Opera House
- Saturday, 22 July
- 0900-1200: exit interviews
St. John's meal times (7 days a week)--subjected to change:
- 0800-1000: breakfast (Mon-Fri)
- 0830-1030: breakfast (Sat)
- 1030-1330: brunch (Sat and Sun)
- 1130-1330: lunch (Mon-Fri)
- 1700-1900: dinner (Mon-Sun)
Coffee Shop:
- 0800-2400 (Mon and Thurs)
- 0800-2200 (Tues and Weds)
- 0800-2000 (Fri)
- 1300-1700 (Sat)
- 1100-2100 (Sun)