Melanie Mitchell: Recent and Upcoming Talks

Upcoming Talks

Title TBA. Keynote Lecture, Second Dutch Self-Organization Day, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, November, 2010. Title TBA. Forum on Science and Society. European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany, July 2, 2010.

Title TBA. Plenary lecture, International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, Dortmund, Germany, June, 2010.

Title TBA, Workshop on Cold War Science, California Institute of Technology, May 7-9, 2010.

Title TBA. Colloquium, ECE Department, University of Minnesota, March 4, 2010.

"Complexity: A Guided Tour". Class of '60 Scholars Lecture, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, December 3, 2009.

Recent Talks (2008-2009)

"Complex Systems: An Overview". Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group, Newport, RI, November 13, 2009.

"Complexity: A Guided Tour". Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, November 11, 2009.

"Complexity: A Guided Tour". Sigma Xi Columbia-Willamette chapter, Portland, OR, October 8, 2009.

"Complexity: A Guided Tour". Public lecture in honor of John Holland's 80th Birthday, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, September, 2009.

"Complex Systems: An Overview". University of Michigan Workshop on Bridging Life Course and Complex Systems Approaches to Population Health and Health Disparities, Bethesda, MD, September, 2009.

"Complexity: A Guided Tour". Smithsonian Resident Associates Lecture, Washington, DC, September 17, 2009.

"Complexity: A Guided Tour". Reading at Powell's Technical Books, Portland, OR, June, 2009.

"Using Analogy to Discover the Meaning of Pictures". Information Science and Technology Seminar, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, April, 2009.

"Prospects for Human-Level Computer Vision". Business Network Symposium, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, September, 2008.

"Prostate Segmentation on Pelvic CT Images Using a Genetic Algorithm" (with Payel Ghosh). Department of Radiation Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, September, 2008.

"Evolutionary Computation" and "Cellular Automata and Amorphous Computing". Lectures at the Santa Fe Institute's Complex Systems Summer School, Santa Fe, NM, June, 2008.

"Biological Computation: A Perspective from Computer Science." Workshop on Principles of Biological Computation. Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM. May, 2008.