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Feb 20, 2003 * Professor
Donald Mikulecky:
"Functional components as a basis for complex system description:
Some > examples and discussion."
Feb 10, 2003 * Dr. William Gutzke:
"Darwin Days Seminar: The Effects of Emergent Systems, Chaos, and
Chance on Darwinian Evolution: Say it Ain't So, Charlie"
Feb 4, 2003 * Professor Donal Mikulecky:
"The World is Complex: How to Distinguish Complexity from Complicatoins"
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|| Tuesday, February 4, 2003||
Professor Donald Mikulecky
"The World is Complex: How to Distinguish Complexity from Complication"
Tuesday, February 4, 2003 at 2:00 P.M.
Professor Donald Mikulecky
Emeritus Professor of Physiology
Virginia Commonwealth University
"The World is Complex: How to Distinguish Complexity from Complication"
Sponsored by The Center for the Study of Biological Complexity
Tuesday, February 4, 2003 at 2:00 P.M
Room 253, Trani Life Sciences Center
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~mikuleck/
The Center for the Study of Biological Complexity is proud to welcome
Dr. Don Mikulecky to the Trani Life Sciences Center on Tuesday, February
4 at 2:00 p.m. in Room 253.
The study of complex systems is a large part of Dr. Mikulecky's teaching
efforts. To date they have created a web page devoted to this topic which
includes interactive discussions and archives, as well as a multitude
of links to other sources. Included is a list of people here at VCU and
around the world who have something to contribute to the study of complex
systems.
There is also his disciplinary teaching which involves human physiology
at a number of levels as well as related areas of math, physics, and physical
chemistry.
He is an international authority on the subject of complexity and an author
of several papers and a book. He will be lecturing on the basic aspects
of complexity.
This is an important activity of the Center, bringing to the members a
unifying view of complex systems, emergence, self-organization, and the
significance of this paradigm.
Dr. Mikulecky has posted his talk on his website,
where you may also download a powerpoint
version.
Please make every effort to come and meet Dr. Mikulecky and listen to
this first in a series of lectures. We hope to see you there! 
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Monday, February 10, 2003||
Dr. William Gutzke
"DARWIN DAY SEMINAR"
Monday, February 10, 2003 at 4:00 P.M.
Dr. William Gutzke
University of Memphis
"DAWRIN DAY SEMINAR - The Effects of Emergent Systems, Chaos, and
Chance on Darwinian Evolution: Say it Ain't So, Charlie"
Presented by the Graduate Organization of Biological Students
Monday, February 10, 2003 at 4:00 P.M
Commonwealth Ballroom B
ABSTRACT:
RELIGION IS BASED ON BELIEFS, SCIENCE IS (SUPPOSED TO BE) BASED ON FACTS!
Since Charles Darwin's (and Wallace's) introduction of the forces that
have molded organisms through time, there have been changes in the definitions
and in our perceptions of certain words. However some of our current definitions"
(notably evolution and natural selection) have reached the point of becoming
tautologies and hence rely more on semantics than on science. This has
had the unfortunate effect of narrowing the scope and importance of many
areas of scientific inquiry. My talk will use examples from my own research
over the past quarter of a century coupled with work by others that demonstrate
the flaws in the reductionist view of life and the challenges of working
on complex systems in a chaotic world. I will argue that these problems
are reflected in our inability to make accurate predictions based on historical
records and illogical "panglossian" explanations. I will also argue that
if Darwin were alive today, he would not agree with how "his" theory has
"evolved".
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Thursday, February 20, 2003||
Professor Donald Mikulecky
"Functional components as a basis for complex system description: Some
examples and discussion."
Thursday, February 20, 2003
Professor Donald Mikulecky
Emeritus Professor of Physiology
Virginia Commonwealth University
"Functional components as a basis for complex system description:
Some examples and discussion"
Sponsored by The Center for the Study of Biological Complexity
Thursday, February 20, 2003
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~mikuleck/
Download Dr. Mikulecky's OUTLINE for this
talk.
Virginia Commonwealth University
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