PCE3 Virtual Workshop 2022
Nano-to-Cosmic Studies of Complex Systems
October 19-21, 2022
This workshop aims to unify views of origins of life research by exploring systems chemistry as a proxy tool for characterizing and constraining complex natural settings and circumstances. The workshop’s speakers and discussions between participants will assess the strengths and weaknesses of different metrics with the potential to describe the early Earth as a complex system and increase appreciation for statistical analyses of complex systems. A white paper will be written to summarize the outcomes of the meeting discussions and to present directions for future work. The workshop will be held virtually on Zoom on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, October 19-21, 2022, from 9am-5pm Eastern each day. A full schedule is available here.
Workshop Organizers:
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Zach Adam (University of Wisconsin Madison, USA) - workshop co-chair
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Jennifer Glass (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) - workshop co-chair
Sessions:
1. Early Earth as a Complex System
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Jun Korenaga (Yale University, USA) – session co-chair, speaker
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Andy Ridgwell (University of California Riverside, USA) – session co-chair, speaker
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Beth Ann Bell (University of California Los Angeles, USA) – speaker
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Linda Sohl (Columbia University & NASA Goddard, USA) - speaker
2. Systems Chemistry: Tools and Analyses
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Irene Chen (University of California Los Angeles, USA) – session co-chair
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Nita Sahai (University of Akron, USA) – session co-chair, speaker
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Ulrich Gerland (Technische Universität München, Germany) - speaker
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Saidul Islam (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) - speaker
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Libusha Kelly (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA) – speaker
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Felix Mueller (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany) – speaker
3. Network Theory, Tools, and Applications
4. Complex Systems Theory and Statistical Analyses
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Ella Gale (University of Bristol, UK) – session co-chair, speaker
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Juan Perez-Mercader (Harvard University, USA) – session co-chair, speaker
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Claudius Gros (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) – speaker
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David Spivak (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) - speaker
Discussion Leaders:
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Sudha Rajamani (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, India)
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Kristin Johnson-Finn (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)