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While life and economics are
singular phenomena hinging on many “frozen
accidents” and non-generic accidental features, an entire host
of generic theoretical predictions can be extracted from the very
fortuitous nature of those systems. Thus one may apply even to
non-stationary systems methods from statistical mechanics in order to
obtain quantitative predictions that have a quite wide range of
applicability.
Viewed from this
point of view, the study of many disparate systems leads to similar
emergent phenomena and to a common framework for understanding systems
over a large range of disciplines.
The school is
aimed to bring together leaders from different disciplines with
students that wish to place their careers at the boundary between the
various domains. As in the previous similar schools, the hope is to
initiate as a result of the courses, projects that realize a genuine
synthesis of theoretical and empirical concepts from different domains
without violating, but rather emphasizing the crucial features specific
to each domain.
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