COMPLEX SYSTEMS SUMMER SCHOOL

描述（改编自申请人的摘要）： 培训补助金用于支持举办复杂系统暑期学校 在新墨西哥州的圣达菲暑期学校的目标是提供一个 介绍了数学，物理和数学中的“复杂”行为研究。 作为跨学科努力的一部分， 理解复杂系统。在每所学校，都有一系列讲座， 研讨会由不同领域的领先研究人员提供， 使用复杂系统分析。目前的培训补助金是在 假设神经科学的学生将受益于接触 不同的科学家使用动力系统方法来接近他们的 具体的研究兴趣。为了执行这项任务，我们确保 学校录取的学生中有很大一部分是 对神经科学、生物学和神经网络研究感兴趣。学校 它本身是根据前几年的经验发展的， 学生提供的评价。我们将继续采用一种功能， 旨在帮助学生受益于整个范围的主题-一套 在开学时提供辅导，为学生提供基本的“工具包” 在进化论、计算、动力系统理论和混沌等领域， 无序系统、信息论、神经网络和神经科学。两个新 近年来增加了一些特点：第一，将学生组织成 在第一周就各种主题的研究小组。这些团体相遇 定期在整个月，规划和执行计算 项目如果可能的话。在最后一周，小组做报告。二是 在选择讲师时引入了一些主题结构。每周两次 将提供相关讲座系列，并在 下午。我们对学校的长期目标是提供一个框架 神经生物学家和其他人可以互相学习， 受益于不同研究领域开创的方法和技术， 复杂性

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from the Applicant's Abstract): The purpose of the present training grant is to support the holding of the Complex Systems Summer School in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The goal of the Summer School is to provide an introduction to the study of "complex" behavior in mathematical, physical and living systems as part of an interdisciplinary effort to promote the understanding of complex systems. At each school, a set of lectures and seminars is provided by leading researchers in diverse fields unified by their use of complex systems analysis. The present training grant was awarded on the assumption that students in the neurosciences would benefit from exposure to a diverse set of scientists using dynamical systems methods in approaching their specific research interests. In order to carry out this mandate we make certain that a significant proportion of the students admitted to the School have an interest in neuroscience, biology and neural networks research. The school itself evolves in response to the experiences of the previous years, and evaluations provided by the students. We will continue to employ a feature designed to help students benefit from the entire range of topics - a set of tutorials at the start of the school to provide students with a basic "toolkit" in areas such as evolution, computation, dynamical systems theory and chaos, disordered systems, information theory, neural nets, and neuroscience. Two new features have been added in recent years: first, students are organized into research groups on a variety of topics in the first week. These groups meet regularly throughout the month, planning and carrying out computational projects when possible. In the final week groups make reports. Second, we have introduced some thematic structure to the choice of lecturers. Each week two related lecture series will be offered, with related seminars in the afternoons. Our long-term goals for the school are to provide a framework within which neurobiologists, and others, can learn from each other, and can benefit from methods and techniques pioneered in diverse fields of study of complexity.