The goal of the Center for Dynamics and Feedback in Nature (CDFN) is to develop new insight and understanding of the role of information and uncertainty in the sciences. The focus of our activity will be in the study of large-scale, complex, adaptive systems, consisting of many components connected in intricate networks of information flow that provide a rich diversity of behaviors and which are often beyond our current abilities to analyze and predict. To study these systems, we propose to develop new methods in the field of control and dynamical systems (CDS) that are specifically driven by applications in biology, ecology and geophysics. Read more...

news & events

NSF site visit scheduled for 1-2 November 2004.

Michael Dickinson will give a public lecture at Caltech on 27 October on "How Flies Fly".

Jean Carlson will give a public lecture on 25 Octobert titled "Wildfires: Complexity, Robustness, and Fragility" in Washington, as part of the NSF-sponsored Workshop on Opportunities in Materials Theory.

Ned Fields from the USGS will offer a short course on probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA) in Santa Barbara on 10 September 2004.

CDFN information meeting to be held at Caltech on 28 September 2004. Contact Richard Murray if you would like to attend (in person or via web)

TTI/Vanguard will hold a workshop on The Challenge of Complexity on 27-28 September in Los Angeles. Richard Murray from CDFN is one of the invited speakers.

Caltech/AFOSR Workshop on Principles and Applications of Control in Quantum Systems (PRACQSYS) was held on 21-24 August 2004.

1st Annual Connections Workshop was held on July 14-17, 2004.

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