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Unraveling Mystery -- Theoretical Biologist to speak at MSU
October 31, 2002 -- MSU News Service
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Internationally renowned theoretical biologist Stuart Kauffman will address "A Possible Definition of Life" on Monday, November 4, at noon in room 276 of the MSU Student Union Building. His presentation is free and open to the public.
Kauffman is visiting campus to participate in ORIGINS, an interdisciplinary seminar focusing on Big Bang cosmology, philosophy, and evolutionary theory, said Michael Miles, associate director of the University Honors Program.
A colleague of paleontologist Jack Horner, Kauffman is founding member of the Santa Fe Institute for Complex and Adaptive Systems. He is author of "At Home in the Universe," "The Origins of Order," and most recently, "Investigations." A MacArthur Foundation award winner, he is widely recognized as a preeminent figure in evolution and complexity theory.
Kauffman currently resides in Sante Fe, New Mexico, where he is a founding general partner of Bios Group LP, a "consulting and software development company, pioneering the use of complexity science to solve complex business problems."
He was born in 1939 and holds degrees from Dartmouth College, Oxford University and an M.D. from the University of California, San Francisco. Among the many accomplishments in his distinguished career, he has practiced surgery at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, served as a consultant to the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and taught on the faculty of the University of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Santa Fe Institute. He has also served on the boards of numerous science-related associations and publication editorial boards, has published over 140 scientific papers in his field, and holds numerous patents.
In addition to the MacArthur award, he has received numerous other prestigious honors and awards. These include the Borden Prize for Research at the University of California Medical School, the Weiner Gold Medal from the American Cybernetic Society, the Gold Medal from Academia Lincea in Rome, and the Herbert A. Simon Award.
Further information about Dr. Kauffman is available on his personal Web site at: http://www.santafe.edu/sfi/People/kauffman/.
Contact: Mike Miles (406) 994-4732
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