Socio-Economic Dynamics
Socio-dynamics, self-organizing systems, and whether aggregate behaviour becomes deterministic in large networks or in large self-organizing systems are all matters of keen current interest. The prominence of the Santa Fe Institute and its activities and the flourishing research on related problems of evolutionary dynamics testify to the lively and growing interest in these fields. One issue is whether it is possible to extract deterministic laws for macroscopic variables for a large network, even if (or perhaps because) the underlying microdynamics is highly stochastic? How does order emerge from chaos? And when does order emerge? Other questions of intense interest concern group dynamics: how people decide to ally themselves with a group with some moral, religious, political or intellectual affinities, and how such groups compete, cooperate with each other, and fracture. In reality, we observe order arising from at least partially self-organizing systems - the city of London, for example, with its diverse shops, entertainment, and cultural activities-- but theoretical understanding of these systems, how they arise, and their implications for more applied research are not well understood. The ESRC sponsored seminar series, Socio-dynamics, by bringing together experts with a wide range of backgrounds, aims to stimulate research on large, self-organizing systems and the dynamics of such systems. Organized by Nick Chater (Psychology), Susan Hurley (Politics and International Studies), Michael Luntley (Philosophy), Robert MacKay (Mathematics), David Rand (Mathematics) and Myrna Wooders (Economics), all of the University of Warwick. |
Schedule of Events: 1) Organizational Workshop, |
