UM6P Science Week 2023 – Complexity Summit

 

Keynote Speakers: Edgar Morin, Stephen Wolfram, Luc Steels, Gregory Chaitin, Stuart Kauffman, Ivar Ekeland, Hervé Zwirn, Geoffrey West

UM6P Science Week 2023 – Complexity Summit
Organizers: Fouad Laroui, Saâd Tazi, Reda Benkirane

{ Plenary Sessions / Adam Smith Tercentenary / Complexité et management (Africa Business School) / Complexity and Algorithms (School of Computer Science) / Complex Problems and Collective Solutions (School of Collective Intelligence) / Complexité et simplicité en architecture (School of Architecture, Planning and Design) / Complexités du développement durable (Sustainable Agriculture and Environmental Sciences) / Technical, institutional and political complexity (International Water Research Institute) / Harmonizing complexity: perceptions from natural and social sciences (Materials Science, Energy and Nano-Engineering) / Complexité en management hospitalier (Medical School) }

 

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Plenary Sessions
Séances plénières

Monday 20 February 2023

Fouad Laroui, Welcoming

Hicham El Habti, President of UM6P, Opening Speech (7mn)

 

Fouad Laroui, Why Complexity? (7mn)

Reda Benkirane, Complexity, Golden Age, Dark Age (10mn)

Saâd Abdesslam Tazi, Complexité, modalités pratiques (5mn)
Complexity, Practical Modalities

 

A message from Dr. Tuwana KUPE, vice-chancellor of the University of Pretoria (5mn)

 

Edgar Morin, Le défi des complexités en temps de crise (24mn)
The Challenges of Complexities in Times of Crisis

 

Stephen Wolfram, Foundations and Implications of Complexity (54mn)

 

Signature, Fund of Louise Fresco (10mn)

 

David Chavalarias, Toxic Data (1h07mn)
Roundtable with Luc Steels
Moderator: Reda Benkirane

 

Jamal Chaouki, Comment les entreprises gèrent-elles la complexité (34mn)
How does the Mighty Industry deal with the Complex

 

Steen Rasmussen, Engineering Artificial Living Materials (34mn)

 

Hassan Ghaziri, L’ingénieur de demain, entre artefactualisation et complexification (23mn)
Tomorrow’s Engineer, between Artifacts and Complexification

 

Complexité et ingénierie (33mn)
Complexity and Engineering
Roundtable with Jamal Chaouki, Steen Rasmussen and Hassan Ghaziri
Moderator: Saâd Abdeslam Tazi

 

Tuesday 21 February 2023

Luc Steels, Promises and Limitations of Contemporary AI (52mn)

 

 

Hugues Bersini, Algocratie: les algorithmes vont-ils prendre le pouvoir? (46mn)
Algocracy: Will Algorithms Take Over?

 

Hervé Zwirn, Computational Irreducibility and Emergence (34mn)

 

Gregory Chaitin, Complexity in Metamathematics, Friend or Foe? (1h26mn)
Roundtable with Stephen Wolfram, Hervé Zwirn and David Chavalarias
Moderator: Fouad Laroui

 

Wednesday 22 February 2023

Stuart Kauffman, The Inevitable Anthropocene and our Choices Now: Prolegomenon to a Next Axial Age (58mn)

Ivar Ekeland, The Climate Change. Transition, Bifurcation or Catastrophe? (46mn)

 

Johan Bollen, Toxic Networks (51mn)

Wednesday 22 February 2023

Session Africa Business School
Complexity and Management

Jean Staune, Comment les principes de la complexité peuvent guider l’organisation des entreprises (30mn)
How Complexity Principles can Guide Business Organization

 

Amine Belemlih, Le leadership face à la complexité: une perspective par les pratiques (29mn)
Leadership in the Face of Complexity: A Practice Perspective

 

Complexité et management
Complexity and Management
Table ronde avec Jean Staune, Amine Belemlih, Hervé Zwirn et Ivar Ekeland
Modératrice: Yasmina Lamtiri

Lancement de la chaire Complexités ∞ Humanités (41mn)
Launch of the Chair Complexities ∞ Humanities
Table ronde avec Hicham El Habti, Gregory Chaitin, Stuart Kauffman, Hassan Ghaziri et Reda Benkirane
Modératrice: Yasmina Lamtiri

 

Thursday 23 February 2023

Session School of Computer Science
Complexity and Algorithms

Welcoming, Fouad Laroui (3mn)

 

Opening, Rachid Guerraoui (10mn)

 

Moshe Vardi, From Aristotle to the Iphone (27mn)

 

Javier Esparza, The Science of Algorithms (38mn) 

 

Pierre Fraignaud, Locality in Distributed Computing (41mn)

 

Sergio Rajsbauma, Geometric Explanation of the Impossibility of Democracy

(28mn)

 

Closing Ahmed Bouajjani and Rachid Guerraoui (6mn)

 

Raphael Liogier and Fréderic Baitinger, L’être humain est-il complexé avant d’être complexe ? (1h03mn)
Complex Individuals or Individuals full of Complexes?
Moderator: Saâd Abdeslam Tazi

 

Francis Heylighen, Emergence and Self-Organization (31mn)

 

Steen Rasmussen, Three Investigations of Human Wealth Evolution over the Last 800 Years (17mn)
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David Napier, Emergence and Self-Organization (24mn)

Emergence and Self-Organization (29mn)
Roundtable with Francis Heylighen, Steen Rasmussen, David Napier
Moderator: Johan Bollen

 

Friday 24 February 2023

Session School of Collective Intelligence
Complex Problems and Collective Solutions

Opening, Sarah Alami (4mn)

 

Geoffrey West, Cycles, Singularities and Tipping Points in the Life History of Cities, Companies and the Planet (1h04mn)

Stuart Kauffman, Commentary on Geoffrey West’s Talk (16mn)

 

Virginia Chaitin, Proposal for Tackling Biases in Algorithms with Social Impact (18mn)

 

David Napier, Complexity in Health Research: Why Measuring it Matters (16mn)

 

James Winters, Problem Discovery as a Hard Problem Constraint on Technological Evolution (21mn)

 

Katherine Peil Kauffman, Emotional Sentience and Collective Behavior (28mn)

 

Monday 20 February 2023

Colloque Tricentenaire Adam Smith
Adam Smith Tercentenary Colloquium

Dany Robert- Dufour, Mandeville et le renversement de la métaphysique (45mn)

 

Pierre-Noel Giraud, Que nous ont légué Adam Smith et les classiques? (45mn)

 

Bruno Gérard, Dimensions de la complexité dans l’agriculture durable en Afrique (44mn)

 

Daniel Nahon, Systèmes complexes naturels, application à l’agriculture (34mn)

Oumar Ba (45mn)