Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!ucbvax!UNCAMULT.BITNET!COLLIER From: COLLIER@UNCAMULT.BITNET (John Collier) Newsgroups: comp.theory.dynamic-sys Subject: Meeting announcement Message-ID: <9010061109.AA12233@lilac.berkeley.edu> Date: 5 Oct 90 21:25:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: John Collier Distribution: inet Organization: The Internet Lines: 111 MEETING ANNOUNCMENT ===================================================================== NON-EQUILIBRIUM MACRO-SYSTEMS IN BIOLOGY THIRD ANNUAL MEETING, OCTOBER 25-27, 1990 AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY, CALGARY, ALBERTA Mishtu Banerjee, Botany, University of British Columbia Daniel R. Brooks, Zoology, University of Toronto John Collier, Philosophy, University of Calgary Brian A. Mauer, Zoology, Brigham Young University P. Dawn Mills, University of British Columbia Jack Maze, Botany, University of British Columbia Stanley N. Salthe, Biology, Brooklyn College, CUNY Doug Siegel-Causey, Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas Jonathan D.H. Smith, Mathematics, Iowa State University Edward O. Wiley, Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas FOR INFORMATION CONTACT JOHN COLLIER, DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY, CALGARY, ALBERTA T2N 1N4 TELEPHONE (403) 220-3163 or (403) 220-5539 Conference sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the University of Calgary, the Faculty of Humanities, the Faculty of Science and the Department of Philosophy. ===================================================================== The above is a poster for a conference to be held at the University of Calgary, October 25th-27th, 1990. There will be a plenary session at 7:30 PM on Thursday October 25, and sessions during the day on Friday and Saturday October 26th and 27th. For futher information, contact John Collier, Department of Philosophy, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, phone (403) 220-3163, or (403) 220-5539, or email: COLLIER@UNCAMULT.BITNET Conference Description Title: Non-Equilibrium Macrosystems in Biology Focus of the conference: The scope of the conference includes non-equilibrium approaches to ecology, ontogeny, systematics, evolution and social behaviour, but excludes topics restricted exclusively to biological subsystems at the chemical level. The focus of the conference will be on theoretical and philosophical problems raised by the research programme of the "Ames Group", including problems of interpretation and experimental design. The Ames Group are proponents of a unified reinterpretation of the Darwinian approach to biology and its interfaces with physics, psychology and sociology, based in ideas from non-equilibrium thermodynamics and information theory. The Group is interdisciplinary and international. Meetings will be of interest to evolutionary and developmental biologists, information theorists, systems theorists, sociologists and anthroplogists interested in connections to biology, computer scientists and sytems theorists, and to humanists interested in alternatives to the individualistic neo-Darwinian paradigm. =============================================================== Tentative schedule, "Non-Equilibrium Macrosystems in Biology" October 25th - 28th, 1990 Science Theatre 145 Thursday -- Participants arrive in Calgary. Evening Plenary Seminar 8:00-9:00, Daniel R. Brooks, speaker. Friday -- (theory) Morning: Social Sciences 1253 9:30 Sessions start 9:30-9:45 Introductions (John Collier) 9:45-10:45 Jonathan Smith, Mathematical aspects of entropy dynamics 10:45-11:45 Stan Salthe, Two Types of Hierarchies 12:00-2:00 Lunch Afternoon: Social Sciences 1339 2:00-2:45 Jack Maze, Non-Functional Compensatory Change in Plants 2:45-3:30 Dan Brooks, Place of the environment in the information channel 3:30-4:15 John Collier, Speciation as Self-Organization 4:15-5:00 General Discussion Evening Workshop (current state of theory and next stages of research). Moderator -- John Collier. Saturday -- (applications) Science Theatre 125 10:00-10:15 Introductions (John Collier) 10:15-11:00 Douglas Seigel-Causey, Sociobiology 11:00-12:00 Dawn Mills, Cultural evolution. 12:00-1:00 Mishtu Banarjee, Theory, Consequence, Evidence: Examples from Plant Development and Systematics. 1:00-2:15 Lunch 2:00-3:15 Brian Mauer, Small Scale Processes and Large Scale Patterns in Community Ecology 3:00-4:15 Ed Wiley, Individuating characters of species 4:15-5:00 General Discussion Evening Workshop (planning future developments). Moderator -- Dan Brooks. Sunday Participants depart. Those not leaving before 6:00 PM may participate in a trip to the Rocky Mountains.