21st Century Science Initiative

Studying Complex Systems: Recent Grants

2011 Grants
RESEARCH AWARDS (10)
Georgia Institute of Technology
Martha A. Grover, Ph.D.
Design of an intelligent material
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
Robert A. Gatenby, M.D.
Cancer therapy: Perturbing a complex adaptive system
Indiana University - Bloomington
Filippo Menczer, Ph.D. & Alessandro Flammini, Ph.D.
Contagion of ideas in online social networks
National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Institute of Evolutionary Sciences
Michael Hochberg, Ph.D.
Coevolution across scales
New York University
Edo Kussell, Ph.D.
Mapping the microbial survival toolbox: Using dynamic age distributions to infer the behavior of individuals within populations
University of Connecticut
Mark C. Urban, Ph.D.
Does evolution affect the assembly dynamics of biological communities?
University of Missouri - St. Louis
Sonya Bahar, Ph.D.
Complex dynamics, phase transitions, and scaling in an evolutionary model
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
José A. Rial, Ph.D.
Synchronization of polar climate variability over the last ice age: In search of simple rules at the heart of climate's complexity
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Stephen J. Walsh, Ph.D.
Modeling population-environment interactions in a world heritage site: Comparison of statistical and agent-based modeling approaches to study complex systems
University of Queensland
Mark A. Ragan, Ph.D.
Constructing bacterial genetic exchange communities
2010 Grants
RESEARCH AWARDS (11)
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Madalena D. Costa, Ph.D.
Exploring the multiscale world of biological dynamics: From concepts to computational tools
Harvard University
Michael M. Desai, Ph.D.
The evolutionary dynamics and population genetics of selection in asexual populations
Northwestern University
Daniel M. Abrams, Ph.D.
Modeling social dynamics in competitive systems
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jay Fineberg, Ph.D.
The physics of rupture: From the laboratory scale to the scale of our planet
The University of Albany
Sanjay Goel, Ph.D.
Understanding the implications of a self-organized traffic grid
Universitat Rovira i Virgili-ICREA
Roger Guimera, Ph.D. & Marta Sales-Pardo, Ph.D.
Discovery, decomposition and dynamics of complex networks
University of Arizona
Pierre A. Deymier, Ph.D.
Theoretical and experimental investigations of architecture-dependent signaling in multicellular networks
University of British Columbia
Leticia Avilés, Ph.D.
Evolution to the edge of chaos: Multilevel selection and life history evolution in metapopulations
University of Chicago
Stefano Allesina, Ph.D.
Bacteria test theories of biodiversity
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Santiago Schnell, Ph.D.
Identification of bistable network topologies associated with toxic aggregation thresholds found in conformational diseases
Yale University
Thierry Emonet, Ph.D.
Shaping individual diversity for collective success