The Center for Complex Systems Studies support
visiting fellows to take part in teaching and to conduct several
research activities in Kalamazoo College.
George
Kampis spent a month in Kalamazoo
College in October, 2003. He gave a series of lectures
organized by the CCSS. He did joint research on
networks models of complex systems and on
evolutionary linguistics with Prof. Érdi of
Kalamazoo College, and on sympatric speciation with
László Gulyás, PhD student, recent Harvard CBRSS
visiting fellow.
János Tóth
was teaching and working in Kalmazoo College in the
spring and early summer of 2006. He gave an
introductory talk for students on stochastic
models. Also, he continued ongoing research of the
CCSS by working on the effect of diazepam on GABA
receptors.
Besides
these activities he started to work on new research
projects considering reliable evaluation of gating
with Nash Boutros (Wayne University), and on the
evaluation of fMRI records with Vaibhav Diwadkar
(Wayne University).
Zsófia Huhn
spent two month in Kalamazoo College from September,
2004. She was working on the computational modeling
of hippocampal place cells and served as teaching
assistant for Prof. Érdi's Cognitive Science class.
Nadia
Halidi worked as a teaching assistant in
Kalamazoo College from March till June 2005 for
Prof. Érdi's Computational Neuroscience class. Also
worked on computational modeling of intracellular
calcium dynamics.
Gábor
Borgulya has spent 10 weeks at the CCSS
as a visiting researcher starting 04/JAN/2008. He
took part in the political science collaboration
studying possible macroscopic and microscopic
mechanisms accounting for the observed power-law
nature of annual budget change distributions. Gábor
also helped the Complex Systems undergraduate course
as a teaching assistant.
Máté Lengyel was
involved in the Computational Neuroscience course by
setting up and supervising complementary student
simulations. He was also conducting research work on
both research project from March till May 2002.
Gergő Orbán was
working on the Computational Approach to
Pharmacological Modification of Septohippocampal
Rhythms project from September till December 2002
and from May till mid-June in 2003.
Gábor Csárdi
visited Kalamazoo College from September till
December in 2002 and gave a series of lectures on
Parallel Programming for students and faculty, while
administrating and upgrading the Beowulf cluster
computer of the College. Gábor was involved in
students' simulation projects they prepared for the
Dynamic Models in Social Sciences course. He was
also involved in the Social networks as evolving
complex networks project. From April till June, 2004
Gábor was working on the social network project and
he served as teaching assistant for Péter Érdi's
Introduction to Complex Systems class and supervised
the projects. He worked on data-driven models of
network evolution in 2005 and 2006 and served as a
teaching assistant for the Computational
Neuroscience class in 2006.
László
Zalányi spent four months from
January till May 2003 in Kalamazoo College working
on analytical clarification and numerical
certification of the social network project. He
also took part in the conductance of group
projects for Péter Érdi's
Computational Neuroscience class as teaching
assistant. From April till June, 2004 besides
further elaborating on the social network project,
László was working as one of the small group
session leaders for the Introduction to Physics
course. From September till October, 2004 he
veryfied, underpinned and confirmed results of
the social network model, piecing it out with
further features.
Balázs
Ujfalussy was working on the Computational
Approach of Pharmacological Modification of
Septohippocampal Rhythms project from September till
the end of November, 2004, and served as teaching
assistant for Péter Érdi's Introduction to Cognitive
Science class.
Tamás
Kiss from January till March, from
September till December in 2002 and from May
till mid-June in 2003 was working in Kalamazoo
College. During his first visit he gave
complementary mathematics lectures to students
lacking the appropriate knowledge to effectively
participate in the Introduction to Complex
Systems course. He was working on both the
neuropharmacological
and the social networks research
projects as well.
From January till mid
March in 2004 he was involved in assisting Péter
Érdi with CCSS issues and was one of the small
group session leaders for the Introduction to
Physics (Physics 150) course.
From January till April
in 2006 he continued his work on the computational
neuropharmacology project with
Pfizer Inc. besides working as teaching assistant for
Prof. Érdi's Introduction to Complex Systems and Dynamic
Models in Social Sciences classes. In the latter he assisted
students in setting up and evaluating "party strategies"
for the
Tournament of Party Strategies.