Self-Organizing Systems (SOS) Team
The SOS Team focuses on representing, generating, analyzing, and controling
self-organizing and related systemic processes as they are manifested in
natural and human-made Earth and Environmental systems. SOS is one of the five
technical teams in EES-6.
Capabilities:
Theoretical, computational, and experimental techniques for studying
self-organizing processes in the context of:
- Complex systems synthesis and analysis,
- Data synthesis and analysis &
- Decision support,
which are all crosscutting activities within EES-6, EES-Division, and the
Laboratory.
Research focus:
- Living Technology based on autonomy, self-repair, simple intelligence,
self-reproduction & evolution.
- Protocell assembly and the origins of life.
- Complex reactive flows.
- Cognition & neural systems.
- Long-term sustainable human-technological-environmental interactions.
Current and Past Funded Programs:
- Basic and applied research with past and current support from
LDRD, CSSE, CNLS, IGPP, STB, DOE/OBES, NASA, NSF, and the European Commission:
Origins of the solar system, Water on Mars, Life's origins, Astrobiology,
Nanoscience, Simulation of self-reproducing molecular systems, Programmable
Artificial Cell Evolution (PACE), Protocell Assembly (PAs) Urban change, Urban security,
Self-organizing geoprocesses, Retina prosthesis, Multiscale analysis of fluid flow and
transport in the Earth's crust; Satellite surveillance; Collective Computation in Distributed
Sensnor Networks.
- Large programs: LANL Environmental Restoration Project, Cerro Grande
Wildfire Recovery Project, Yucca Mountain, DHS Critical Infrastructure Protection.
Senior Scientists:
- Steen Rasmussen
- Bryan Travis
- Hans Ziock
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