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CSAAW Talk

Jon Atwell, Graduate Student from Department of Sociology
Friday, September 30, 2016
12:00-1:00 PM
317 West Hall Map
An important form of self organization is autocatalysis, a process in which heterogenous molecule or unit types mutually reproduce each other. In the standard ODE model of this process the number of possible molecule types in the resulting "hypercycles" is limited eventually by increasingly large swings in the populations of molecule types, a barrier to complexity. In developing work, I show that when the hypercycle model includes a malleable resource environment, this barrier disappears. This fact highlights the importance of niche construction in evolutionary processes but also introduces new features and raises new questions.
Building: West Hall
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Event Type: Workshop / Seminar
Tags: Complex Systems, Mathematics, seminar, Sociology, Talk, Workshop
Source: Happening @ Michigan from The Center for the Study of Complex Systems