Self Organizing Complexity & Highly Optimized Tolerance

These newer fields have some deep connections with quantitative population ethology.

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  • Jean M Carlson, Complex Systems, Dept of Physics, UCSB
  • John Doyle, Control and Dynamical Systems, Caltech
  • Pablo A Iglesias, ECE, Johns Hopkins U
  • Robert B. Laughlin
  • Maya Paczuski, Maths, Imperial College, London