Intern Project Pays Off
Six interns from Worcester Polytechnic Institute worked at the Complex last spring to determine the feasibility of a Santa Fe Project Center for WPI at the Complex. Their work was successful and the newly announced Santa Fe Center will join WPI’s 13 other global project centers as a location for applied research in the WPI engineering program. Details are on the WPI website.
Double Bassist Promises Double Excitement
| November 6, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
Patrick Neher, double bass player and professor, is recognized as one of the world’s leading virtuoso soloists and composers of music for double bass. He will present at least three new works, “Planet Erth”, “Crystals”, and a live multi-track improvisation. Each piece utilizes various media combined in performance with live double bass playing. Read more
Collaborating with Intellectual Property
| October 6, 2009 | ||
| 2:00 pm | to | 4:00 pm |
Noted intellectual property attorney Bruce Winchell visits the Complex on October 6 for the first of two discussions on intellectual property for collaborative communities. This presentation will help you to make business decisions about how to build into your business protections for the intellectual property that you have. Different kinds of intellectual property have different uses and this seminar will explain those differences and how to use them to your advantage in your business. Read more
SF Alliance Hosts Business Development Workshop
| September 29, 2009 | ||
| 5:30 pm | to | 7:00 pm |
The Santa Fe Alliance is proud to have Drew Tulchin, Managing Partner of Social Enterprise Associates present a workshop concerning new, emerging business entities and structures: B Corporations, L3C and stock options for charities. Scheduled for Tuesday, September 29, from 6:00-8:00 pm at the Santa Fe Complex, this is the third in a series of business development workshops sponsored by the New Mexico Community Development Loan Fund for the Santa Fe Alliance. Read more
Cafe Scientifique Explores Brains & Bombs
| October 1, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 8:30 pm |
Your luggage will get an MRI at the airport if LANL researcher Michelle Espy has anything to say about it. She says this core medical technology can detect explosives in airline baggage, making security lines shorter and passengers safer. Her talk will launch Cafe Scientifique’s 2009-2010 program on October 1. Read more
Audio Explorations of Contemporary Music
| September 9, 2009 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
| September 23, 2009 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
LAST NIGHT: Santa Cruz, NM composer and musical scholar James Brody ends his series of musical investigations of the work of eight contemporary composers: Iannis Xenakis, Franz Kamin, Milton Babbitt, Brian Ferneyhough, John Cage, Elliott Carter, Igor Stravinsky and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Brody will mentor an extensive audience discussion and use technology to represent the music visually during these sessions.
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Graphic Arts Triple Play
| September 19, 2009 | ||
| 9:00 am | to | 12:30 pm |
Join Maggie Macnab, Joel Nakamura and John Langdon on Saturday, September 19 from 9:00am to 12:30pm for a half-day seminar that explores the fascinating relevance of symbolism to effective and engaging visual communications. Seen from the unique angles of decoding design, visual myth and the found symbol, this experiential event will educate attendees on symbolic influence in graphic design, illustration and lettering from three experts who use it regularly. Attendees will also have an opportunity to start personal projects to complete outside the seminar. Read more
Launching a Social Learning Vision
| September 10, 2009 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
Santa Fe-based Veezyon Corporation introduces its social learning platform in an informal event at Santa Fe Complex on September 10 from 6:00pm – 8:00pm. The consumer Internet company partners with universities, institutions and organizations to produce professionally edited, knowledge-based rich media content. Veezyon’s social learning platform supports partners’ content with cutting edge, web-based productivity and collaboration tools to enhance users’ online research and learning experience. Read more
Ignite the Night Again
| September 15, 2009 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
IgniteSF grows to IgniteNM in its return performance at the Complex on September 15 at· 6:00pm as 12 presenters talk about their passion but for only five minutes and with exactly 20 slides to support their presentations. While they talk, their 20 slides automatically advance every 15 secs behind them. It’s quite a challenge for the speakers and it gives the audience an opportunity to learn a little about all sort of interesting topics in one fun night. Read more
Rethinking Causality — as Constraint
| September 3, 2009 | ||
| 5:00 pm | to | 7:00 pm |
Alicia Juarrero, professor of philosophy emerita at Prince George’s Community College in Maryland, offers her views on complexity Thursday, September 3 at 5:00p,m. Widely recognized for her writing and her skills in the classroom, Dr. Juarrero is the author of Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System (MIT Press, 1999), and co-editor of Reframing Complexity: Perspectives from North and South, (ISCE Publishing, 2007) and Emergence, Self-Organization and Complexity: Precursors and Prototypes (ISCE Publishing, 2008). In this talk, she rethinks the concept of cause in terms of context-sensitive constraints. Because the received view of causality as forceful impact is eminently unsuitable for complex systems, she argues, a renewed understanding of part-whole and whole-part causes, and of complex systems’ embeddedness in history and the environment, opens up for the complexity scientist. Read more
