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| − | EDU 2011 Theme:<BR>
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| − | === Complexity Transitions in Big History: Transition Definitions, Growth Curve Hypotheses, and Future Scenarios ===
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| − | '''Purposes:'''<BR>
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| − | '''1.''' Explore a Variety of Complexity Transition Definitions for Big History: Thermodynamic, Informational-Computational, Evolutionary, Developmental, Integrative, and Systemic<BR>
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| − | '''2.''' Associate these Definitions with a Variety of Growth Curve Hypotheses: Superexponential, Exponential, Logistic, and Other<BR>
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| − | '''3.''' Consider A Range of Transition and Growth Curve Scenarios for the Future of Technological Innovation and Sustainability.<BR>
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| − | We will seek out and network transition scholars, periodization, and acceleration, multi-level evolution and development scholars, world system modelers, and their critics. Scholars who approach evolutionary transitions from thermodynamic, informational-computational, evolutionary, developmental, integrative, and systemic perspectives are particularly desired. We will seek to compare logistic, exponential, and superexponential models arising from a variety of complexity transition definitions, and explore a range of scenarios these models propose for the future of innovation and sustainability.<BR>
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| − | '''Location:''' '''Europe''' (specific venue TBD).
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| − | We are presently developing a preliminary proposal to host EDU 2011 at the [http://www.lorentzcenter.nl/ Lorentz Center] at Leiden University in the Netherlands. We are also considering the [http://www.vub.ac.be/ Free University of Brussels (VUB)] in Belgium, and venues in London, United Kingdom and in Paris, France. We expect to know by mid-2010 which of these venues will host EDU 2011.
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| − | If you have an interest in working on the EDU 2011 conference development committee, sponsoring the event, or providing other assistance, please contact [[Clément Vidal]] and/or [[John Smart]].
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