Studying Complex Systems:
2002 Research Awards
Note: The essays associated with the following links have
been prepared to explain the goals of the research to a general audience.
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Janet Pierrehumbert, $244,206 over five years.
Dynamics and metastability
in phonological grammar
Oregon Health & Science University, Beaverton, Oregon
Melanie Mitchell, $377,533 over four years.
Perception and analogy making
in complex adaptive systems
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
Lynn Russell, $447,605 over five years.
Modeling the human impact
on rainfall on the U.S. east coast
Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico
J. Doyne Farmer, $449,914 over three years.
Evolving ecologies of market
agents and their effect on social welfare: Scientific substance and societal
significance
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Michael Doebeli, $427,000 over three years.
Adaptive speciation in spatially
structured populations
University of California - Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California
Jean Carlson, $449,928 over three years.
Complexity and robustness
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Mark Newman, $408,113 over six years.
Networks and contagion among
people and computers
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Miles Davenport, $450,000 over five years.
A complex systems approach
to the immunological and epidemiological consequences of immunization
for chronic infectious disease
University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
Jonathan Foley, $447,066 over four years.
Regime shifts in the Sahel:
Exploring interactions among ecological, hydrological and climate systems
of semiarid Africa
