Workshop CNRS-NSFC on

Complexity in Social and Cognitive Sciences

Paris - CNRS - 3 Rue Michel-Ange

 20 to 22 of September 2001

 

Organised by GREQAM - Marseille and CREA - Paris

Under the auspices of CNRS and NSFC

 

Provisional Programme

(Abstracts)

 

Thursday Sept. 20th

 

9:00 to 9:30                 Welcome Address and Opening Session

 

 

9:30 to 10:15               Keynote Speaker: 

 

Ř      Professor CHENG Siwei

Director General of the Department of Management Sciences

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Vice Chairman of the National People’s Congress, P. R. China

"Some Prospects of the Complexity Science "

 

10:15 to 10:45             Coffee Break

 

10:45 to 12:45             Session 1 :       Chairman:      Prof. Jacques Lesourne

 

Ř      CHEN Ping

Professor

China Center for Economy Research

Peking University

Economic Complexity: The Origin of Division of Labor and

Persistent Business Cycles

 

Ř      Alan KIRMAN

Professor

Institut Universitaire de France,

Studies Director at EHESS,

Université d’Aix-Marseille lll

Learning To Trade

Ř      HUANG Dengshi

Professor

School of Economics and Management

Southwest Jiaotong University

Microeconomic Mechanisms of Density Cycle in Cournot Duopoly

 

Ř      Pierre CARTIGNY

Maitre de conférences, 

Universite de la Mediterranee.

Greqam Marseille and Inra Montpellier.

 

"Selection of One Nash Equilibrium in L-Q Differential Games"

 

 

12:45 to 14:00             Lunch Time

 

14:00 to 15:30             Session 2 :       Chairman :     Prof. Dai Ruwei

 

Ř      Jean-Pierre AUBIN

Professor at Paris-Dauphine University

Centre de Recherche Viabilité, jeux, Contrôle

Regulation of the Evolution of the Architecture of a Network

by Connectionist Tensors Operating on Coalitions of Actors

 

Ř      MA Yuanye

Professor

Kunming Institute of Zoology, CAS

From Neuron To Mind

-----The Complex System of the Primates’ Brain

 

Ř      Jean PETITOT

Studies Director at EHESS

Manager of CREA - Ecole Polytechnique, Paris.

Perception as a complex system :

the functional architecture of the visual cortex.

 

 

 

 

15:30 to 16:00             Coffee Break

 

16:00 to 17:30             Session 3         Chairman:      Prof. Alan Kirman

 

Ř      LIU Hong

Professor

School of Business

Nanjing University

Chaos in Business Administration

 

Ř      Jean-Pierre NADAL

Research Director at CNRS          

Laboratoire de Physique Statistique

de l'Ecole Normale Superieure (CNRS UMR8550)

Statistical Physics Approach to the Modelling of Social Networks

 

Ř      LI Yuanxiang

Professor

State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering

Wuhan University

Evolutionary modeling and computing for complex systems

 

 

18:15                           Guided visit of the Paris City Hall

                                                           http://www.paris-france.org/VR/anglais/default.htm

                                                           http://www.paris-france.org/VR/francais/

 

19:00                           Reception at the Paris City Hall

 

20:30                           Official Dinner

 

 

Friday Sept 21th

 

 

9:30 to 10:15               Keynote Speaker

 

Ř      Professor Jacques LESOURNE

Emeritus Professor at CNAM

(Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers)

Paris

 

 

10:15 to 10:45             Coffee Break

 

10:45 to 12:45             Session 4         Chairman :     Prof. Cheng Siwei

 

Ř      SONG Xuefeng,

Professor

Dean School of Management

China University of Mining & Technology

The Complexity in Stock Markets

 

Ř      Richard TOPOL

Research Director at CNRS

CREA - Ecole Polytechnique

Paris

Bubbles Volatility of Stock Prices: Effect of Mimetic Contagion

 

Ř      WANG Shouyang

Professor

Institute of Systems Science

Academy of Mathematics and Systems Sciences

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Computational Complexity of Arbitrage in Frictional Market

 

Ř      Alexandre STEYER

Professor

University of Paris I - Sorbonne

(and Jean-Benoît Zimmermann

Research Director at CNRS - GREQAM- Marseille)

Self Organised Criticality  in Economic and Social Networks

The Case of Innovation Diffusion

 

 

12:45 to 14:15             Lunch Time

 

14:15 to 16:15             Session 5         Chairman :     Prof. Paul Bourgine

 

Ř      Robert DELORME

Professor - Versailles University

Research Director - CEPREMAP - Paris

Theorising Complexity

 

Ř      WANG Rusong

Professor

Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Understanding the Human Eco-Complexity:

Social-Economic-Natural Complex Ecosystem Method and its application in China

 

Ř      Jean SALLANTIN

Research Director at CNRS

LIRMM 161 rue Ada 34392 Montpellier cedex

Rationality and  Learning in Scientific Discovery

 

Ř      DAI Ruwei

Professor

Institute of Automation

The Chinese Academy of Sciences

Hall for Workshop of Metasynthetic Engineering

 

 

16:15 to 16:45             Coffee Break

 

16:45 to 17:30             Conclusions                 Chairman:      Prof. Jean-Benoît Zimmermann

 

Ř      Professor CHENG Siwei

Ř      Professor Jacques LESOURNE

 

 

18:00               Reception at the French Ministry of Research (to be confirmed)

 

20:30               Friendly Dinner

 

 

Saturday Sept. 22th

 

9:30 to 11:30

 

Debriefing meeting and co-operation perspectives

                                   Chairman :     Prof. Richard Topol

 

 

 

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General organisation of the workshop

 

Chinese part:

 

Ř      HUANG Haijun

Professor

School of Economics and Management

Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Deputy Director of the Department of Management Sciences,

National Natural Science Foundation of China 

 

French part:

 

Ř      Jean-Benoît Zimmermann   

Research Director at CNRS          

GREQAM-EHESS              

2 Rue de la Charité             

13002 Marseille                              

Tel:  (33) 04 91 14 07 37               

Fax: (33) 04 91 90 02 27

 

assisted by

 

 

 

 

logistics:

Ř      Paul Bourgine

Research Director at

CREA

Ecole Polytechnique Paris

 

Ř      Laure Cartron

Institut Jean Nicod

Paris