UCS2004 - Audio Recordings

Audio recordings of the talks given at the symposium Understanding Complex Systems, May 17-20, 2004, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Physics.

The recordings are made available in the MP3 format (MPEG-2 Layer 3, 32 kbps, 22 kHz, mono).

The location of this page and the audio files is temporary.

Monday, May 17, 2004

Opening Session M1 in 141 Loomis chaired by Alfred Hubler

• Daniel E. Daniel: Opening remarks.
  Not recorded.
• Stephen Wolfram: Keynote.
  Not recorded.
• Leon Chua: Cellular neural nets with local activity.
  listen (101 minutes, 23 MB)

Session M2 in 141 Loomis chaired by Jay Mittenthal

• Kurt Kwast: Unknown title.
  listen (41 minutes, 9.5 MB)
• Andreas Wagner: Unknown title.
  listen (46 minutes, 10.6 MB)
• Gene Robinson: Unknown title.
  listen (38 minutes, 8.7 MB)

Session M3 in 141 Loomis chaired by Noshir Contractor

• Stan Wasserman: Unknown title.
  listen (37 minutes, 8.5 MB)
• Richard Rogers: Do formats organize networks.
  listen (35 minutes, 8.1 MB)

Session M4 in 141 Loomis chaired by Robert Clegg

• Daniel P. Lathrop: Nonlinear instabilities and turbulence in 15, 110 or 15000 kg of liquid sodium.
  listen (37 minutes, 8.5 MB)
• Thomas J. Anastasio: Multiple time scale control of eye movement by neural networks.
  listen (29 minutes, 6.6 MB)
• Kimberley Hill: Instabilities in the radial segregation patterns of granular mixtures.
  listen (31 minutes, 7.2 MB)

Session M5 in 141 Loomis chaired by Samuel Beshers

• Eric Jakobsson: Directions in bioinformatics and computational biology at the NIH.
  listen (35 minutes, 8.2 MB)
• Caroline Haythornthwaite:  Unknown title.
  listen (28 minutes, 6.4 MB)
• Susan W. Kieffer:  Unknown title.
  listen (30 minutes, 6.9 MB)
• Paul Melby: Unknown title.
  listen (30 minutes, 6.9 MB, the first 7 minutes are missing).

Tuesday, May 18, 2004

Session T1 in 141 Loomis chaired by Tom Anastasio

• Jim Houk: Agents of the mind.
  listen (22 minutes, 5 MB)
• Michael Blinov: Modeling and analysis of combinatorial complexity in signal transduction.
  listen (21 minutes, 4.8 MB)
• Erik Luijten: Collapsing polyelectrolytes: self-assembly driven by counterions.
  listen (35 minutes, 8.1 MB)
• Eric Jakobsson: Unknown title.
  listen (40 minutes, 9 MB, first minutes are missing)

Session T2 in 141 Loomis chaired by Jay Mittenthal

• Noshir Contractor: Coevolution of knowledge networks in 21st century organizational forms.
  listen (35 minutes, 8.1 MB, the first minutes are missing)
• Katy Borner: Mapping and modeling scientific network ecologies.
  listen (46 minutes, 10.6 MB)

Session T3A in 141 Loomis chaired by Glenn Foster

• Mike Paulin: Co-evolution of morphology and agility in early vertebrates.
  Not recorded.
• Zan Luthey-Schulten: The evolution of protein structure.
  Not recorded.

Tutorial I and Session T3B

Not recorded.

Session T4 in 141 Loomis chaired by Robert Clegg

• Hermann Riecke: Unknown title.
  listen (39 minutes, 8.9 MB)
• Leonard Sander: Scale free networks with geography.
  listen (42 minutes, 9.6 MB)

Session T5 in 151 Loomis chaired by Alex Scheeline

• John J. Tyson: Kinetic analysis of cell cycle regulation.
  listen (41 minutes, 9.4 MB, the first minute is missing)
• Duane D. Johnson: Genetic-programming for multiscale modeling.
  listen (46 minutes, 10.6 MB)
• Howard Petty: Chemical oscillations and propagating chemical waves in cells and tissues.
  listen (42 minutes, 9.6 MB)

After Dinner Talk

• Alfred Hubler and Richard Herman: After dinner talk.
  listen (24 minutes, 5.5 MB)

Wednesday, May 19, 2004

Session W1 in 141 Loomis chaired by Samuel Beshers

• Greg Worrell: Long range temporal correlations in the human intracranial electroencephalogram.
  Not recorded.
• Nigel Goldenfeld: Universality, computational algorithms and complexity.
  listen (31 minutes, 7.1 MB)
• Gul Agha: Unknown title.
  listen (38 minutes, 8.8 MB)
• Janice Bahr: Physiological adaptations of the black bear to a changing external environment.
  listen (30 minutes, 6.8 MB)

Session W2 in 141 Loomis chaired by Jay Mittenthal

• James A. Glazier: Unknown title.
  listen (40 minutes, 9.2 MB)
• Eshel Ben-Jacob: Let the complex be simple - functional holography of recorded brain activity.
  listen (54 minutes, 12.3 MB)

Session W3A in 141 Loomis chaired by Ziggy Majumdar

• Sua Myong: Helicase-DNA interactions studied by FRET (Fluorescent Resonance Energy Transfer)
  listen (17 minutes, 3.9 MB)
• Clare Yu: How does Intracellular molecular motor driven transport work?
  listen (18 minutes, 4.2 MB)
• Horacio E. Castillo: Fluctuations in glassy dynamics.
  listen (31 minutes, 7 MB)

Tutorial II, Sessions W3B, W3C, W3D, W3E, W3F, W3G, and W3H

Not recorded.

Session W4 in 141 Loomis chaired by Noshir Contractor

• Fabio Fonti: Complexity theory and the evolution of communication networks.
  listen (37 minutes, 4.4 MB)
• Jay Kesan: Unknown title.
  listen (29 minutes, 6.7 MB)
• Bernie Trujillo: Self-organization in bankruptcy legal systems.
  listen (31 minutes, 7.1 MB)

Session W5 in 141 Loomis chaired by Robert Clegg

• David Campbell: Intrinsic localized modes: localizing energy through nonlinearity and discreteness.
  listen (28 minutes, 6.4 MB)
• Sahraoui Chaieb: Random polymer networks and the crumpling-induced roughening of lipid bilayers.
  listen (37 minutes, 8.6 MB)
• Walter Goldburg: Turbulence at an air-water interface.
  listen (41 minutes, 9.3 MB)

Evening Session W6 in 141 Loomis chaired by Alfred Hubler

• Peter Schuster: The role of neutral networks in evolutionary optimization, RNA structures as a example.
  listen (44 minutes, 10 MB)
• Joshua E. S. Socolar: Dynamics of random Boolean networks
  listen (46 minutes, 10.6 MB)
• Paul Goldbart: Fluctuating random network media and their universal properties.
  listen (51 minutes, 11.6 MB)
• Glenn Hoetker: Unknown title.
  listen (21 minutes, 4.9 MB)
• Bruce Miller: Influence of expansion on hierarchical structure formation.
  listen (21 minutes, 4.9 MB)

Thursday, May 20, 2004

Session TH1 in 141 Loomis chaired by Jay Mittenthal

• Paul Selvin: Unknown title.
  listen (40 minutes, 9.2 MB)
• Radek Erban: From signal transduction to spatial pattern formation in E. coli - a paradigm for multi-scale modeling in biology.
  listen (41 minutes, 9.3 MB)
• Jay Mittenthal: Principles of design for molecular modules with application to intracellular signaling.
  listen (33 minutes, 7.5 MB)

Session TH2 in 141 Loomis chaired by Tom Anastasio

• Sue Becker: Computational models of neural coding in the hippocampus.
  listen (44 minutes, 10 MB)
• Clare Yu: Equilibration and frequency dependence of the specific heat of glass forming liquids.
  listen (21 minutes, 4.7 MB)
• Kevin E. Bassler: Gradient flow networks I.
  listen (23 minutes, 5.2 MB)
• Eshel Ben-Jacob: Life complex systems experiment.
  listen (21 minutes, 4.9 MB, the first 15 seconds are missing)

Session TH3A in 141 Loomis chaired by Tim Wotherspoon

• Waltraud Kriven: Unknown title.
  listen (21 minutes, 4.7 MB)
• Tian-Li Yu: Dependence structure matrices, organizational clustering and genetic algorithms.
  listen (21 minutes, 4.7 MB)
• Glenn Foster: Nonlinear resonant forcing of dynamical systems.
  listen (23 minutes, 5.2 MB)
• Lihua Zou: An evolutionary computation model of intracellular signaling networks.
  listen (21 minutes, 4.6 MB)

Tutorial III, Sessions TH3B, TH3C, TH3D, TH3E, TH3F, and TH3G

Not recorded.

Session TH4 in 141 Loomis chaired by Sahraoui Chaieb

• Denis Boyer: Complex patterns in animal foraging: the case of a knowledgeable hungry primate.
  listen (43 minutes, 9.9 MB)
• Rhanor Gillette: Evolving biological neural networks for social cooperation.
  listen (42 minutes, 9.7 MB)
• Alex Scheeline: Chemical sensing and biological networks.
  listen (21 minutes, 4.8 MB)

Session TH5 in 141 Loomis chaired by Samuel Beshers

• Feniosky Peņa-Mora: Collaborative first response to disasters involving critical physical infrastructure: drawing from robust natural systems.
  listen (33 minutes, 7.6 MB)
• Wayne J. Davis: Bridging the temporal threshold between reality and virtuality.
  Not recorded.
• Robert Clegg and Alfred Hubler: Closing remarks.
  listen (14 minutes, 3 MB)

Audio files were recorded and cut with mp3DirectCut, encoded with LAME, tagged with MP3 Tag Tools, broadcast with SHOUTcast server, and tested with Winamp.

Created by Christoph Gohlke, 05/20/2004.