A couple of years ago I got to hear Geoffrey West, one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People, give a talk on his research at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. It was a fantastic talk, and I immediately had the idea to ask him to come to Caltech at some point and give it as a colloquium. So tomorrow he'll be here, and anyone in the neighborhood interested in a semi-technical account of complex systems from physics to biology is welcome to stop by. He might be angling for the record for the longest talk title ever:
The Complexity, Simplicity, and Unity of Living Systems from Cells to Cities: A Physicist's Search for Quantitative, Unified Theories of Biological and Social Structure and Organization Although Life is very likely the most complex phenomenon in the Universe, many of it's most fundamental and complex phenomena ...
