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  2. From: marshall@marshall.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan A. Marshall)
  3. Newsgroups: triangle.talks
  4. Subject: NCSU Physics talk: Gell-Mann
  5. Message-ID: <16222@borg.cs.unc.edu>
  6. Date: 9 Oct 92 16:23:49 GMT
  7. Sender: news@cs.unc.edu
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  13.                            L. H. Thomas Lecture
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  15.                            Dr. MURRAY GELL-MANN
  16.          Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Theoretical Physics
  17.                     California Institute of Technology
  18.  
  19.                    4:00 p.m., Monday, October 19, 1992
  20.  
  21.                        Auditorium, 222 Dabney Hall
  22.                  North Carolina State University, Raleigh
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  24.           "SIMPLICITY, COMPLEXITY, AND COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS"
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  26. What makes one landscape or one work of art more complex than another?
  27. Are there different kinds of complexity?  How is complexity related to
  28. information?  Is the fundamental description of the universe simple?  If
  29. so, why does the world around us appear so complex?  How much of that
  30. apparent complexity is genuine?  What level of complexity is required for
  31. a system to be able to learn or adapt?  Are there general principles that
  32. characterize complex adaptive systems?  The new sciences of complexity
  33. have begun to deal with such questions.
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  36. From: Prof. Marjorie Klenin (919)515-7457 <nwil@ncsumvs.bitnet>
  37.       Physics, Box 8202, NCSU, Raleigh NC 27695-8202
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