TAICON: The Trans-Atlantic Initiative on Complex Organizations and Networks

TAICON is a trans-Atlantic community, based at and sponsored by the Program on Networked Governance at Harvard and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH), that brings together research on social networks and complexity. »»

Recent events:

Wednesday, November 27, 2006, 18:15 in room D 16.2, Main Building, ETH.
Professor Neil Johnson, Oxford University
“New Laws for New Wars? Universal Patterns in Modern Insurgency, Terrorism and Violent Crime”
Professor Johnson will speak to SHARE / Consulate of Switzerland in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Monday, December 11, 2006, 17:15 in room SEI E 13, Seilergraben 49, ETH.
Professor Alessandro Lomi, Univ. of Italian Switzerland, Lugano, and Univ. of Bologna
"Strategy and Structure across Levels: Exploring the network dynamics of mergers and acquisitions in the international electricity industry, 1999-2003"
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Monday, June 26, 2006, 16:15 in room SEI E 13, Seilergraben 49, ETH.
Professor David Lazer, Harvard University
"Parallel Problem Solving: The social structure of exploration and exploitation"
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Monday, June 12, 2006, 18:15 in room D 16.2, Main Building, ETH.
Professor Michael Macy, Cornell University
"Complex Contagion and the Weakness of Long Ties"
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Monday, May 22, 2006, 18:15 in room D 16.2, Main Building, ETH.
Professor Bernardo Huberman, HP Labs
"Networked Computation as Economics"
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Monday, May 8, 2006, 18:15 in room D 16.2, Main Building, ETH.
Dr. Fredrik Liljeros, University of Stockholm
"Recent Progress in the Study of Large Empirical Contact Networks"
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Thursday, April 20, 2006, 18:15 in room D 16.2, Main Building, ETH.
Professor John Casti, WZW (Wissenstransfer für Wien)
"Why the Future Happens: Socionomics and the Science of Surprise"
Discussant: Blake LeBaron, Brandeis University
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Monday, January 30, 2006, 18:15 in room D 16.2, Main Building, ETH.
Professor Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, University of Notre Dame
"The Architecture of Complexity"
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International Conference: "Mapping the Complexity of Civil War"
September 15-17, 2005
Hotel Uto Kulm, Uetliberg

Monday, June 6, 2005, 18:15 in room D 16.2, Main Building, ETH.
Professor Frank Schweitzer, ETH
"Local Interactions Do Matter: Sometimes the Minority Wins"
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Wednesday, April 13, 2005, 18:15 in room E5, Main Building, ETH.
Professor John H. Holland, University of Michigan
“Agents: Specializations for Language”
Discussant: Professor Boi Faltings, EPFL
Professor Holland will speak from SHARE / Consulate of Switzerland in Cambridge, Massachusetts and the discussant will comment from ETH.
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Wednesday, January 12, 2005: 18:00 in the Audimax, Main Building, ETH
Professor Duncan Watts, Columbia University
“Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age”
Discussant: Professor Stephen Borgatti, Boston College
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