Valparaso Complex Systems Institute ISCV

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Valparaíso Complex Systems Institute ISCV
Valparaíso Chile2006
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Its a long history of an emergent discipline,
thereafter a Complex Systems Institute in
Valparaíso, Chile.

• 1976 Some of the ISCV associate researchers were
  trained in France and UK, in Theoretical Computer
  Science More precisely, Cellular Automata,
  Neural Networks, Systems Biology and other
  Complex Systems.
• 1985-up today Training of young students in PhD.
  programs in Chile, France, UK, Germany and USA,
  in disciplines related with complexity.

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• 2001 The Chilean President declares Valparaisos
  old historical quarters as a priority to develop
  culture, information technologies and related
  sciences.
• 2002 Beginning of the first talks, in order to
  create an Institute for Complex Systems in
  Valparaíso. Local Government, private companies
  and the National Navy were interested in
  collaboration.
• January 2003 First Complex Systems Summer School
  in Valparaíso.
• 2003 Historic Quarter of the Seaport City of
  Valparaíso is declared World Cultural Heritage
  by UNESCO - Valparaíso is an exceptional
  testimony to the early phase of globalisation in
  the late 19th century, when it became the leading
  merchant port on the sea routes of the Pacific
  coast of South America.
• January 2004 Second Complex Systems Summer
  School in Valparaíso.

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• 2004 The National Navy, provide us with a 30
  years loan of a nice 100 year old historical
  house (about 500 square meters) in the
  Artillería Hill of Valparaíso.
• June 2004 Financial support given by a private
  Chilean copper company provided to refurbish the
  house and some basic administration.
• January 2005 Third Complex Systems Summer School
  in Valparaíso, supported by the European Complex
  Systems Network of Excellence EXYSTENCE.
• 2005 A variety of lectures, seminars and
  significant activities were held on the ISCV
  during this year all these have attracted a vast
  amount of scientists and researchers from a wide
  diversity of disciplines and have helped to
  positioned the Institute in the National and
  International scientific context.
• January 2006 Fourth Complex Systems Summer
  School in Valparaíso.
• December 2006 ISCV First Annual Residency
  Month being held at the ISCV in cooperation with
  the Santa Fe Institute from December 4th to 22nd,
  2006.

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January 2003 First Complex Systems Summer School
in Valparaíso.

• Participation
• 40 post-graduate Chilean students.
• 15 Chilean and foreign researchers.
• Courses
• Social Science and Complexity Dr. Jean Pierre
  Dupuy, Stanford and Polytechnic Institute-Paris.
• Physics and Complexity Dr. Cris Moore, Sta. Fe
  Institute.
• Genetics Networks Dr. Jacques Demongeot, IMAG,
  Grenoble.
• Sand Piles Models and Complexity
• Dr. Michel Morvan, Ecole Normale
• Superieure de Lyon.

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January 2004 Second Complex Systems Summer
School in Valparaíso

• Participation
• 60 post-graduate Chilean and Latin American
  students.
• 20 Chilean and foreign researchers.
• Courses
• Cognitive Sciences Dr. Francisco Aboitiz, PUC,
  Chile and Dr. Diego Cosmelli, LENA, France.
• "Social Complexity Dr. Jean Pierre Dupuy, Ecole
  Polytecnique, France.
• "Lattice theory and applications" "DNA
  Computing" Dra. Natasha Jonoska, U Florida, USA.
• "Treewidth a complexity measure for graphs Dr.
  Michel Morvan, ENS Lyon, France Ioan Todinca, U
  Orleans, France.
• Combinatory and Algorithms Dr. Xavier Viennot,
  U Bordeaux I, France.

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• Lectures
• "On the complexity of regulatory networks Julio
  Aracena, Univ. de Concepción, Chile.
• The problem of systems decomposability An
  example of gradient-hamiltonian decomposition for
  the biological n-switches systems Jacques
  Demongeot, Medicine Fac. Grenoble, France.
• Modelling knowledge on the Web Claudio
  Gutierrez, Chile Univ.
• "Control of turbulence in excitable systems
  experiments and simulations. Application to
  cardiac arrhythmias Mario Markus,
  Max-Planck-Institute, Germany.
• "Cellular automata classifications Jacques
  Mazoyer, ENS Lyon, France.
• "A possible RNA sequence at the origin of life
  Andres Moreira, Chile Univ.
• "Stochastic Analysis and Numerical
  Approximations Soledad Torres, Valparaíso
  Univ., Chile

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January 2005 Third Complex Systems Summer School
in Valparaíso This initiative is sponsored by
the European Network EXYSTENCE"Computational
Aspects and Modelling of Complex Systems"

• Participation
• 36 post-graduate Chilean and Latin American
  students.
• 16 foreign researchers and 9 Chilean researchers.
• Courses
• Artificial life as a synthetic biology Paul
  Bourgine, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France.
• Complexity, proofs and physics Cristian
  Calude, U. Auckland, New Zealand.
• META MATH! The quest for Omega Gregory
  Chaitin, IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA.
• Structural complexity of tilings Bruno Durand,
  Université de Provence, France.
• Game theory and pure Nash equilibria, or the
  local minima problem Christoph Durr, Université
  de Paris Sud, France.

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• Routing and lookup in peer-to-perr systems
  Pierre Fraigniaud, CNRS, Université de Paris Sud,
  France.
• Modelizing small worlds and their routing
  properties Emmanuelle Lebhar, Ecole Normale
  Superieure Lyon, France.
• Cognitive models, networks, and complex
  systems Jean Petitot, Ecole Polytechnique,
  Paris, France.
• Embriology in the field of complex systems
  Nadine Peyrieras, Ecole Normale Superieure et
  UMR7138, France.
• Talks
• Characteristics and models for the Web Ricardo
  Baeza-Yates, Universidad de Chile, Chile.

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January 2006 Fourth Complex Systems Summer
School in Valparaíso

• Participation
• 36 post-graduate Chilean and Latin American
  students.
• 6 foreign researchers and 6 Chilean researchers.
• Courses
• 1.0 Complexity in Theoretical Computer Science
• "Natural Halting Probabilities, Partial
  Randomness, and Physics" Cristian Calude,
  University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Irreducible Complexity in Mathematics Gregory
  Chaitin, IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA

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• 2.0 Complex Systems and Ecology
• "Ecología y Sistemas complejos" Pablo Marquet,
  CASEB / ISCV, PUC.
• "Escalamiento y Leyes de Poder en Ecología"
  Sebastián Abades, CASEB, PUC.
• "Teoría de Grafos y Redes en Ecología" Matías
  Arim, CASEB, PUC.
• "Fluctuaciones escalamiento y universalidad en
  sistemas complejos" Fabio Labra, CASEB, PUC.
• 3.0 Cognitive Sciences and Complexity
• "Complejidad y Modelos Cognitivos" Diego
  Cosmelli, PUC.
• "Complejidad en la Retina" Adrián Palacios, ISCV
  / CNV, UV.
• "Robótica" Javier Ruiz del Solar, Ingeniería,
  UCH.
• "Caos y Actividad Cerebral" Mario Chávez, CNRS,
  LENA.
• "El problema de los grados de libertad y
  reducción de redundancia en el sistema nervioso"
  José Hurtado, ISCV.
• Variability, homeostasis and compensation in
  rhythmic motor networks Eve Marder, Ph.D Volen
  Centre for Complex Systems Department of
  Biology Brandeis University.

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The main subject of the Institute Research and
Diffusion of Complex Systems

• Research topics
• Some research topics that are being developed at
  the Institute are
• Cognitive Neuroscience and Neurophysiology led
  by Adrián Palacios (Ph. D)
• Science, Philosophy and Humanism led by Eduardo
  Sabrovsky (Ph. D) and Eugenio Correa.
• Dynamic Studies of Discrete Mathematical Models
  from the Complexity point of view led by Eric
  Goles (Ph. D)
• Systems Biology Metabolic Networks and Gene
  regulation les by Juan Asenjo (Ph.D) and
  Bárbara Andrews (Ph.D)
• Natural and Virtual Ecologies led by Pablo
  Marquet (Ph. D).
• In terms of Education, the ISCV participates
• in different doctoral programs through its
• associate researchers.

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National and International relations

• National 20 associated Chilean scientists, among
  them
• Ivan Rapaport Ph.D, Informatics, Ecole Normale
  Superieure Lyon, Engineering Mathematics Dep. U
  Chile. MATHEMATICAL MODELING COMPUTATIONAL
  COMPLEXITY.
• Diego Cosmelli Ph.D, LENA, France, Cognitive
  Sciences
• Andres Moreira PhD, Mathematic Modeling, U
  Chile, Postdoctoral Fellow Univ. Grenoble,
  France. MATHEMATICAL MODELING ORIGIN OF LIFE.
• Sergio Rica Ph.D, Physics, Antipolis, Physics
  Dep. Faculty Sciences, U Chile. INSTABILITIES AND
  NON EQUILIBRIUM SYSTEMS.
• Carlos Rodriguez Ph.D, Economy, Cambridge U,
  Catholic U. Chile, Institute of Sociology, Santa
  Fe Institute Fellow. SOCIOLOGY-SOCIAL MORAL
  BEHAVIOR.
• Anahi Gajardo Ph.D, Mathematics Modeling, U
  Concepcion, Mathematic Dep. CELLULAR AUTOMATA.
• José Correa PhD. Operations Research Center.
  MIT, Computational Sciences Dep., U Chile.
  COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION.

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• ISCV Scientific Committee 2 National Science
  Prize winners
• Dr. Eric Goles Ph.D (Mathematics, 1993 Ex
  President of CONICYT).
• Dr. Juan Asenjo Ph.D (Biotechnology, 2004).
• Other members include
• Dr. Adrian Palacios Ph.D, Professor, Neuroscience
  Centre, University of Valparaíso.
• Dr. Pablo Marquet Ph.D, Professor, Catholic
  University of Chile
• Dr. Barbara Andrews Ph.D, Professor, Centre for
  Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology,
  University of Chile.

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• Some of the distinguished foreign associated
  researchers, that have visited the ISCV during
  the last three years, are (tentative list)
• Gregory Chaitin (Honorary President of the
  external Scientific Committee of the ISCV) world
  authority on Information Theory and Algorithmic
  Complexity IBM T J Watson Research Centre, USA
• Henri Atlan Biophysicist and Philosopher,
  University of Jerusalem, chief editor of the
  scientific journal Complexus
• Jean Pierre Dupuy Ecole Polytechnique, Paris and
  University of Stanford, specialist in cognitive
  sciences and complexity, author of a dozen books
  on the epistemology of complexity and the social
  phenomena of self reference
• Gerard Weisbuch Physicist, coordinator for
  France of the European Network of Complex
  Systems, EXYSTENCE, Ecole Normale Superieure de
  la rue d Ulm, París
• Cristian Calude Mathematician, U Auckland, one
  of the two main specialist on algorithmic
  complexity
• Michel Morvan Mathematician, Institute of France
  Fellow, Member Initiator of Center for Complex
  Systems Lyon-France.
• Jacques Demongeot Physician, Mathematician,
  creator of the biomedicine laboratory of the
  University of Grenoble and
• Paul Bourgine Ecole Polytechnique, France, to
  mention a few.

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A Very light structure

• About 20 associated Chilean researchers.
• About 20 associated Foreign researchers.
• Post-doctoral associated.
• Ph.D Students (in Chilean or foreign universities
  trained by associated researchers).
• Every year we will organize specific events
• Summer Schools.
• Specific Seminars during the year.
• And in the near future
• Business meetings with CEO and entrepreneurs.
• Outreach General Lectures for
• universities, students and society
• in general pre-prints and others.

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In Valparaiso there are several Universities
willing to participate.

• The most representative are
• Universidad de Valparaíso.
• Universidad de Chile
• Universidad Católica de Valparaíso.
• Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez.
• Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
• Universidad de Concepción
• Universidad de la Frontera, Temuco
• Universidad Católica de Chile
• We are related with all of them by the Complex
  Systems initiative.

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We expect to see you soon in Valparaíso !!!
Valparaíso Complex Systems institute Artillería
Nº 470 ? 2370006 (Costado Museo Naval) Cerro
Artillería, Valparaíso, Chile. 56-32-2339217