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Complexity Science, Modeling and Sustainability

Our world is becoming increasingly complex. Due in large part to biological, technological and human cultural evolution, we are being confronted with progressively more complex ecological, political, economic, technical and social problems. These problems place extreme demands on our capacities to comprehend and react adaptively, and as a consequence we may very well reach the limits of the Earth’s capacity to support our increasing population if we remain unable to understand the complexities of the human-environment interface. In this emerging world, our scholarship and evidence-based practices require new metaphors, methods, and measures. This newly established Columbia University Seminar will provide an intellectual forum to explore and cultivate these new perspectives and tools.

Seminar: #743
Founded: 2011

Seminar Administration

Co Chairs:
Peter T. Coleman
Associate Professor
Teachers College and The Earth Institute, Psychology and Education
coleman@exchange.tc.columbia.edu

Peter Schlosser
Associate Director, Director of Research and Chair, & Faculty at The Earth Institute
Columbia University, The Earth Institute
schlosser@ldeo.columbia.edu

Rapporteur:
Mark Stover
Staff Associate
Columbia University, The Earth Institute
mas354@columbia.edu

Meetings

Launch of a New Columbia University Seminar on Complexity Science, Modeling and Sustainability
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Schedule of Meetings for 2011 - 2012

September 22, 2011
Larry S. Liebovitch, PhD, Queens College, CUNY.
Dean, Division of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, and Professor, Department of Physics.
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POLITICS
LITERATURE, RELIGION AND THE ARTS
CULTURAL STUDIES
HISTORY
EDUCATION AND PUBLIC MEDIA
SCIENCE
Pollution and Water Resources: Scientific and Institutional Aspects
Death
Appetitive Behavior
Population Biology
The History and Philosophy of Science
Genetic Epidemiology
Cognitive & Behavioral Neuroscience
Scientific Literacy/Scientific Frontiers
Cancer
Legal, Economic, and Social Environmental Issues
Language and Cognition
Psychoanalytic Studies
Urbanism and Public Health
Science & Religion
Injury Prevention and Control
K-12 Science Education
Narrative, Health & Social Justice
Complexity Science, Modeling and Sustainability
University Seminar on Columbia School Linguistics
REGIONAL STUDIES
SOCIETY
ALPHABETICAL LISTING