Spatial Evolutionary Dynamics Workshop

Complex Systems Institute, Paris, October 17, 2008

Organization

Organizing Committee

Guy Hoelzer (University of Nevada, Reno, hoelzer@unr.edu) is on sabbatical from the Biology Department at the University of Nevada Reno at this time. He has Bachelor degrees in biology and psychology from Williams College, a Masters degree in biology from San Jose State University and a PhD in ecology and evolutionary biology from the University of Arizona. He also did a postdoc in the Anthropology Department at Columbia University. His research interests and publications have ranged across behavioral ecology, sexual selection, molecular systematics, phylogenetic methods, and historical biogeography. His current research is focused on the application of complex systems theory and spatially-explicit modeling of evolutionary process.

René Doursat (Complex Systems Institute, Paris Ile-de-France, rene.doursat@polytechnique.edu) is a researcher at ISC-PIF, after a visiting assistant professorship in computer science at the University of Nevada, and several years in the software industry. An alumnus of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, he completed his PhD in 1991 and his first post-doc at the Institute of Neuroinformatics in Bochum, Germany. R. Doursat's research activities address the computational modeling and simulation of complex systems, in particular biological and social, which can also inspire novel principles in intelligent systems engineering. A recurrent theme of his work is the emergence and evolution of complex morphologies or patterns from a swarm of heterogenous agents, through dynamical, developmental, and evolutionary processes.