Agenda

23 Mag 2017 11:00

Global Challenges seminar: Living Complex Systems

Auditorium Campus Scientifico Via Torino 155, 30170 Venezia Mestre

Speaker: Norman Packard, ProtoLife, Inc, San Francisco

Abstract
This seminar will consider the question of what makes a complex system alive, and how complex systems may become alive, crossing from non-living to living systems.  We will discuss chemical and biological systems at the boundary of life, and how we may discover a multiplicity of pathways to an origin of life.  A recent example will be given of an electro-chemical synergy between novel microchip technology and chemistry.  We will also touch on how technological systems such as the internet have become a form of life.


Bio sketch
Norman Packard received his PhD in physics at the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1982, and subsequently served as associate professor in the physics department of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and on the external faculty and steering committee of the Santa Fe Institute. He became an entrepreneur as a co-founder of Prediction Company, eventually serving as its CEO. He is currently co-director of the European Center for Living Technology in Venice and CEO of ProtoLife Inc. His scientific expertise spans several fields, including chaos, prediction, machine learning, non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, artificial life, and engineering applications of complex systems in finance, biotechnology and information technology.

Lingua

L'evento si terrà in italiano

Organizzatore

Global Challenges Team: Science of complex economic, human and natural systems

Link

http://www.unive.it/pag/11651

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