Invited Total RegisteredNo.

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Materials Computation Center, University of
Illinois Duane Johnson and Richard Martin, NSF
DMR-03-25939 Understanding Complex Systems
Symposium UCS 2005 Organized by Alfred Hubler,
Karin Dahmen, and others

• Outreach
• This MCC-supported symposium, originated by
  Alfred Hubler in 2001, brings together
  researchers from many academic disciplines and
  industry to stimulate cross-disciplinary research
  activities involving complex systems. This event
  has grown yearly this fifth year had 450
  participants over 4 days.
• The training of the speakers is rather diverse
  Physics and Material Science, Engineering,
  Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Genetics
  and Biology, Math, Bioinformatics,Physiology,
  Management, Medical Science, and Social Science.
  Their backgrounds are also diverse 3-6 speakers
  are Hispanic, one plenary speaker is
  African-American, one plenary speaker is an
  American-Indian woman, and there are more than a
  dozen other female speakers. International
  speakers come from Armenia, Bulgaria, Canada,
  Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, and the United
  Kingdom.
• Broader Impact
• Speakers introduce key complex systems concepts
  in the context of their discipline.
• Invited plenary talks are on a 'Scientific
  American' level.
• Three hands-on tutorials are in parallel with
  technical sessions, covering the most recent
  research findings.
• Lectures are on-line with audio accompaniment.
• Integrates a diverse group of researchers and
  students.

Invited Total Registered No. Speakers Talks Part
icipants Days 2001 35 130 2 2005 122 450 4
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