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MEETING ANNOUNCMENT
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                  NON-EQUILIBRIUM MACRO-SYSTEMS
                           IN BIOLOGY

            THIRD ANNUAL MEETING, OCTOBER 25-27, 1990
                               AT
           THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY, CALGARY, ALBERTA


     Mishtu Banerjee, Botany, University of British Columbia
        Daniel R. Brooks, Zoology, University of Toronto
         John Collier, Philosophy, University of Calgary
        Brian A. Mauer, Zoology, Brigham Young University
          P. Dawn Mills, University of British Columbia
        Jack Maze, Botany, University of British Columbia
       Stanley N. Salthe, Biology, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Doug Siegel-Causey, Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas
     Jonathan D.H. Smith, Mathematics, Iowa State University
Edward O. Wiley, Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas

 FOR INFORMATION CONTACT JOHN COLLIER, DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY,
        UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY, CALGARY, ALBERTA  T2N 1N4
           TELEPHONE (403) 220-3163 or (403) 220-5539

Conference sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada, the University of Calgary, the Faculty of
Humanities, the Faculty of Science and the Department of Philosophy.

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The above is a poster for a conference to be held at the University of
Calgary, October 25th-27th, 1990. There will be a plenary session at
7:30 PM on Thursday October 25, and sessions during the day on Friday
and Saturday October 26th and 27th. For futher information, contact
John Collier, Department of Philosophy, University of Calgary, Calgary,
Alberta T2N 1N4, phone (403) 220-3163, or (403) 220-5539, or email:
COLLIER@UNCAMULT.BITNET


                            Conference Description

Title:
Non-Equilibrium Macrosystems in Biology

Focus of the conference:
The scope of the conference includes non-equilibrium approaches to
ecology, ontogeny, systematics, evolution and social behaviour, but
excludes topics restricted exclusively to biological subsystems at the
chemical level. The focus of the conference will be on theoretical and
philosophical problems raised by the research programme of the "Ames
Group", including problems of interpretation and experimental design.
The Ames Group are proponents of a unified reinterpretation of the
Darwinian approach to biology and its interfaces with physics,
psychology and sociology, based in ideas from non-equilibrium
thermodynamics and information theory. The Group is interdisciplinary
and international. Meetings will be of interest to evolutionary and
developmental biologists, information theorists, systems theorists,
sociologists and anthroplogists interested in connections to biology,
computer scientists and sytems theorists, and to humanists interested
in alternatives to the individualistic neo-Darwinian paradigm.
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Tentative schedule, "Non-Equilibrium Macrosystems in Biology"
October 25th - 28th, 1990  Science Theatre 145

Thursday -- Participants arrive in Calgary. Evening Plenary Seminar 8:00-9:00,
Daniel R. Brooks, speaker.

Friday -- (theory)   Morning: Social Sciences 1253
9:30        Sessions start
9:30-9:45         Introductions (John Collier)
9:45-10:45        Jonathan Smith, Mathematical aspects of entropy dynamics
10:45-11:45       Stan Salthe, Two Types of Hierarchies

12:00-2:00  Lunch

                     Afternoon: Social Sciences 1339

2:00-2:45         Jack Maze, Non-Functional Compensatory Change in Plants
2:45-3:30         Dan Brooks, Place of the environment in the information
                  channel
3:30-4:15         John Collier, Speciation as Self-Organization
4:15-5:00         General Discussion

Evening           Workshop (current state of theory and next stages of
                  research). Moderator -- John Collier.

Saturday -- (applications)   Science Theatre 125

10:00-10:15       Introductions (John Collier)
10:15-11:00       Douglas Seigel-Causey, Sociobiology
11:00-12:00       Dawn Mills, Cultural evolution.
12:00-1:00        Mishtu Banarjee, Theory, Consequence, Evidence: Examples
                  from Plant Development and Systematics.

1:00-2:15         Lunch

2:00-3:15         Brian Mauer, Small Scale Processes and Large Scale Patterns
                  in Community Ecology
3:00-4:15         Ed Wiley, Individuating characters of species
4:15-5:00         General Discussion

Evening           Workshop (planning future developments). Moderator -- Dan
                  Brooks.


Sunday
Participants depart. Those not leaving before 6:00 PM may participate in a trip
to the Rocky Mountains.