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Primary Complex Systems Faculty: faculty who do complex systems
research, teach a complex systems course and help administer the Center.
Lada Adamic
Assistant Professor, School of Information
Research interests: My research interests center on information dynamics
in networks: how information diffuses, how it can be found, and how it
influences the evolution of a network's structure.
CSCS-related Teaching: SI 614: Networks: Theory and Application
Phone: 615-2132
e-mail: ladamic@umich.edu
Home page:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~ladamic/
Networks Seminar - a Rackham
weekly interdisciplinary seminar/workshop on networks research.
Robert Axelrod
Arthur W. Bromage Distinguished University Professor of Political Science and Professor of Public Policy
Research interests: Current research interests include (1)
how complexity research can illuminate problems of organizational
design and strategy, (2) how the structure of social networks affects
the ability of populations to establish and maintain cooperation,
(3) how different rules for updating strategy, based on one own's
and others' experience, affect the efficiency of individual and
social adaptation, and (4) how to encourage others to take responsibility
for their behavior (including children, adults, business corporation,
and nations).
CSCS Teaching: PoliSci 793: Complexity Theory in Social Sciences
Phone: 763-0099
e-mail: axe@umich.edu
Home page:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~axe/
The CAR project page:
www.cscs.umich.edu/research/carReports.html,
research on the effects of social networks and strategy-updating methods,
with Michael Cohen
and Rick Riolo.
James Bean
Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering
Associate Dean for Graduate Education, College of Engineering
Engineering college representative on the CSCS Task Force
Research interests: The development and analysis of genetic and evolutionary algorithms for economic
optimization and logistics problems with complex solution constraints. Primary applications have been in
scheduling, process planning and asset management (e.g., truck fleet replacement). In addition,
probabilistic modeling of the algorithm dynamic to study what algorithm characteristics make them
effective on these types of problems and in predicting algorithm performance.
Phone: 647-7090
e-mail: jbean@umich.edu
Home page:
http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~jbean
Daniel Brown
Associate Professor of Natural Resources and Environment
Research interests: Fundamental and applied aspects of geographic
information science and remote sensing. Application primarily involves
analysis and modeling of vegetation patterns and land use and land cover
change.
Phone: 763-5803
e-mail: danbrown@umich.edu
Home page:
www.umich.edu/~danbrown/
Michael D. Cohen
Professor of Information, Public Policy, and Political Science
Research interests: organizational learning and routine, complex adaptive systems models,
applications of information technology in small nonprofit organizations.
CSCS-related teaching: SI 702, ICOS (Organization Studies Research) Seminar
Phone: 647-8027
e-mail: mdc@umich.edu
Home page: http://www.crew.umich.edu/~mdc
The CAR project page:
www.cscs.umich.edu/research/carReports.html,
research on the effects of social networks and strategy-updating methods,
with Robert Axelrod
and Rick Riolo.
Gerry Davis
Professor of Organizational Behavior, Business School
Research interests: Study of contagion through networks in the evolution
and spread of corporate governance institutions. Examples include the
spread of takeover defenses among corporate boards through shared
directors; chain migration of listed firms from Nasdaq to the New York
Stock Exchange; geographical diffusion of stock exchanges among emerging
markets; and information cascades in which firms financial analysts
choose to follow. Evolution and structure of the social networks
connecting corporate elites.
Phone: 647-4737
e-mail: gfdavis@umich.edu
John H. Holland
Professor of Psychology and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research interests: From the jacket of John's latest book
EMERGENCE: John Holland is a MacArthur Fellow, a Fellow of the World
Economic Forum, and co-chairman of the Science Board of the Santa
Fe Institute. He is known worldwide as the "�father of genetic
algorithms" and is the author of HIDDEN ORDER: HOW ADAPTATION
BUILDS COMPLEXITY.
CSCS teaching: EECS 594/Psych 541: Theory Of Adaptive Systems. This winter term: Honors 493:
Complexity And Emergence
e-mail: jholland@umich.edu
Betsy Foxman
Professor of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health
Research interests:
CSCS teaching:
e-mail: bfoxman@sph.umich.edu
Homepage: http://www.sph.umich.edu/~bfoxman/
Aaron King
Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Mathematics
Research interests:
My interests tend to be focused on the dynamics of ecological systems and of
nonlinear, stochastic systems more generally. I have specific interests in:
the role of seasonality in shaping population dynamics; the dynamics of
host-pathogen systems including rabies, cholera, measles, and whooping cough;
the causes of population cycles; laboratory microcosms as model systems;
statistical methods for bringing nonlinear, stochastic models into direct
confrontation with time-series data; and dynamical approaches to phylogenetic
comparative analysis. More generally, I am deeply interested in the
development and analysis of new biological models for concrete systems.
E-mail: aaron.king@umich.edu
Website:
http://www.umich.edu/~kingaa
Office Telephone: +1 734 936 7861
Denise Kirschner
Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical School
Research interests: to understand the dynamic interactions between host and pathogen, and how
perturbations to these interactions (via treatment with chemotherapies or immunotherapies) can lead to
prolonged health or cure. Main interest is on persistent infections -- infections that the body is not able to
clear, including bacteria, such as Helicobacter pylori and Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and viruses, such as
HIV and Herpes. Current focus is on the role of the host response in pathogenesis. Main research tools are
deterministic mathematical models, especially bifurcation theory, phase plane analysis, numerical
simulations, uncertainty and sensitivity analyses.
CSCS-related courses: MICROBIOLOGY 510: Computational pathogenesis: modeling infectious diseases,
includes an intro to nonlinear dynamical systems, in host models and epidemic models. BIOCHEMISTRY
526: Computational Genomics: Basic knowledge of the theory and design of databases, access to genomic
information, sources of data, and tools for mining, identification of lower order and higher order patterns in
DNA and approaches to linking genome data to information on gene function.
Phone: 647-7722
e-mail: kirschne@umich.edu
Home page:
http://malthus.micro.med.umich.edu/~kirschne/
Ken Kollman
Associate Professor of Political Science, and Senior Associate Research Scientist at the
Institute for Social Research
Research Interests: Computational political economy, including the study of political competition and the
emergence of political organizations, federated organizations and federal political systems, Tiebout models,
policy experimentation, lobbying, the application of complexity models and other computational techniques
to political science.
Phone: 936-0062
e-mail: kkollman@umich.edu
James Koopman
Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health
Research Interests: Complex disease causing systems with a special focus on infectious agent transmission
systems. Understanding the complex systems that transmit infection and how to best control the spread of
infection in those systems requires multiple levels of related models that focus on different aspects of
transmission systems. Specific areas of application are the design of STD and HIV surveillance systems,
the evaluation of waterborne infection control strategies, the design of vaccines and vaccine trials, and
the use of DNA sequence patterns of infectious agents to describe transmission system behavior.
CSCS teaching: Epidemiology 802: Computer Simulation of Epidemiological Processes
Phone: 763-5629
e-mail: jkoopman@umich.edu
Home page:
http://www.sph.umich.edu/~jkoopman/jkoopman.html
Bobbi Low
Professor of Resource Ecology, School of Natural Resources and the Environment
Research interests: Evolution and ecology of family formation, sex differences, and group living; social
networks; historical demography; human-ecosystem modeling.
CSCS-related teaching: SNRE 505, Human Resource Ecology: evolution of human resource ecology from
traditional to modern societies with emphasis on sex differences and conservation implications
Phone: 763-4518
e-mail: bobbilow@umich.edu
N. Harris Mcclamroch
Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Professor of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science
Research interests: Nonlinear dynamics, nonlinear control, optimization, and estimation. Applications to
engineering problems, especially in the areas of atmospheric flight vehicles, space flight vehicles, robotics,
manufacturing, and air traffic control.
Phone: 763-2355
e-mail: nhm@engin.umich.edu
Mark Newman
Assistant Professor of Physics and Complex Systems
Research interests: Networks and graph theory; statistical
physics including glassy systems, Monte Carlo methods, and
percolation; epidemiology and the structure of contact networks;
macroevolutionary theory, space diversity, and extinction.
Phone: forthcoming
e-mail: mark@santafe.edu
Homepage: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/
Franco Nori
Associate Professor of Physics
Research interests: Complex spatio-temporal nonlinear dynamics in materials. Dynamical instabilities
(avalanches, cascades, sandpiles). Specific examples include: vortex dynamics, superconductivity,
transport phenomena (of electrons, phonons, vortices, grains, sandpiles) in systems that have disorder;
quantum noise control in solids.
CSCS-related teaching: (W1999 and W2000) Rackham Interdisciplinary Seminar on Spatio-Temporal
Complexity in Science and Engineering. Physics 413/CSCS 541: Physics of Complexity
Phone: 764-3271
e-mail: nori@umich.edu
Home page:
http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~nori
Scott E. Page
Associate Professor Political Science; External Faculty Member of the Santa Fe
Institute and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of
Complex Systems
Research Interests: Currently involved in projects on diversity in problem solving and in modeling problem
difficulty and complexity. Particularly interested in the interplay between characteristics of the
environment, i.e. difficulty and complexity, and the performance of economic and political institutions.
Phone: 319-335-1010
e-mail: spage@umich.edu
Home page:
/~spage
Mercedes Pascual
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
Research interests:
(1) Spatio-temporal dynamics in nonlinear ecological systems for
antagonistic interactions (predator-prey, host-parasite, and disturbance-recovery);
particularly questions on the relationship between dynamics at different spatial scales,
and approaches to simplify high-dimensional models by parameterizing sub-grid scale
processes. (2) The response of nonlinear ecological systems to environmental
variability; the application of nonlinear time series analysis to identify key
environmental drivers and to predict responses; (3) The dynamics of diseases related to
aquatic environments.
Phone: 615-9808
e-mail: pascual@biology.lsa.umich.edu
Robert Reynolds
Adjunct Associate Research Scientist with the Museum of Anthropology,
University of Michigan; Associate Professor of Computer Science at Wayne State University
Research Interests: The development of computational models of cultural evolution. A
framework, Cultural Algorithms, has been developed that can be used to model the development
of hybrid evolutionary systems that contain both an evolutionary population and a knowledge
base component. The population component can be any evolutionary population model including
genetic algorithms or genetic programming. Use of these techniques to develop computational
models of state formation based upon archaeological data from the Valley of Oaxaca,
Mexico.
CSCS-related teaching: At Wayne State, Reynolds teaches an artificial intelligence
sequence and CSC 614, an introduction to genetic programming
Phone: (313)-577-0726
e-mail: reynolds@cs.wayne.edu
Rick L. Riolo
Research Scientist, Director of CSCS Computer Lab
Research interests: (1) how evolutionary algorithms work, e.g., when and how recombination is a useful
evolutionary operator; (2) how interaction topology affects the ability of populations to establish and
maintain cooperation and other group structures and behavior; (3) the use of evolutionary algorithms as part
of general learning systems, e.g., Holland-type classifier systems; (4) how coordinated behavior emerges
from populations of agents with co-evolving models of each other.
CSCS Teaching: CSCS 530, Introduction to Computer Modeling of Complex Systems; CSCS 501,
Introduction to Complex Systems
Phone: 763-3323
e-mail: rlriolo@umich.edu
Homepage:
/~rlr/
The CAR project page:
www.cscs.umich.edu/research/carReports.html,
research on the effects of social networks and strategy-updating methods,
with Michael Cohen
and Robert Axelrod.
Leonard M. Sander
Professor of Physics
Research interests: Pattern formation, specifically dendritic and fractal growth, dynamic fracture, river
networks, and chemical waves.
CSCS Teaching: Physics 413/CSCS 541: Physics of Complexity
Phone: 764-4471
e-mail: LSANDER@umich.edu
Home page:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lsander
Robert Savit
Professor of Physics, Founding Director of the Program for the Study of Complex
Systems
Research interests: Consequences and dynamics of adaptive competition in social and biological systems.
Emergence and evolution of structure in populations. Nonlinear data analysis. Epilepsy and seizure
prediction.
CSCS Teaching: CSCS 520: Empirical Analysis of Nonlinear Systems
Phone: 764-3426
e-mail: savit@umich.edu
Cosma Shalizi
Postdoc, CSCS
Research interests: statistical inference for nonlinear dynamical
systems, including spatial systems; quantitative measures of self-organization and complexity;
synchrony and distributed information in biological computation; unsupervised
learning and non-Bayesian statistical inference; learning theory for models of statistical
causation; "social organization" in machine learning, especially the implications of agent diversity;
cellular automaton models of pattern formation; collective cognition and cultural evolution.
Email: cshalizi@umich.edu
Web page: http://www.santafe.edu/~shalizi/
Carl P. Simon
Professor of Mathematics, Economics, and Public Policy. Director, Center for the
Study of Complex Systems
Research interests: Theory and application of dynamical systems, especially in modeling the epidemiology
of HIV and influenza at the population and at the cellular level. Compartmental systems in biology and
ecology. The evolution of viruses and bacteria, of HMOs, and of animal aggregation.
CSCS Teaching: CSCS 510/Math 550: Introduction to Adaptive Systems
Phone: 647-9194
e-mail: cpsimon@umich.edu
John Vandermeer
Professor, Biology Department
Research interests:
Dynamics of interacting ecological populations, including seasonal
forcing of predator/prey systems and dynamics of multiple interactions in trophic webs.
CSCS teaching: Biology 499: Nonlinear dynamics in ecological systems.
Phone:
764-1446
Email:
jvander@umich.edu
Michael Wellman
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory
Research interests: Artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, computational markets, electronic
commerce.
CSCS-related teaching: EECS 492: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
e-mail: wellman@umich.edu
Home page:
http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/wellman/
Henry Wright
Professor of Anthropology; Curator of Near Eastern and African Civilizations,
Museum of Anthropology
Research interests: The development of the first complex economic and political systems, with special
focus on SW Asia and Madagascar; modeling the development of state polities from a context of
competing pre-state systems; Late Glacial foragers, with special focus on the colonization of the Great
Lakes region by hunter-gatherers, modeling the development of foraging systems.
CSCS-related teaching: Anthro 582: The Archaeology of the Early Civilizations; Anthro 692: The Origins
of States
Phone: 764-0485 (Off), 936-2536 (Lab)
e-mail: hwright@umich.edu
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