Why
Algorithms Are Poised to Become the Language of the Living World
Just as physics speaks the language of mathematics, the new sciences
of the 21st century speak the language of algorithms. The difference
lies in the high descriptive complexity of the systems commonly
found in social and biological organisms. While history plays virtually
no role in physics, it is the distinguishing feature of the living
world. Algorithms provide not only the expressivity needed to model
complex living systems but also the analytical tools for their analyses.
This (self-contained) talk will illustrate the power of "natural
algorithms" by examining broad families of agent-based systems
for which algorithmic tools can do what differential equations cannot.
Past
Avner Magen Memorial Lectures
May 25, 2012
Avi Wigderson,
Institute for Advanced Study
Randomness
July 11, 2011
Avner Magen Memorial Lecture Day
Ben-Gurion University
Past
Public Lectures
November
8, 2012 at 5p.m.
Bill Janeway, Institute for
New Economic Thinking
Reasoning about Rationality: Why Bubbles are both Banal and
Necessary
September
20, 2012
Stéphane Nonnenmacher,
Commissariat à l'énergie atomique, Saclay
Counting stationary modes: a discrete view of geometry and
dynamics
Co-sponsored by the Fields Institute and Department of Mathematics,
University of Toronto
July
5, 2012
Steve Keen, University of Western
Sydney
Why the crisis is not over
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FIELDS INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
