Moving on to 2009

2009, challenges, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study 1 Minute

I write these words as 70 mph winds rumble by our mountain ridge. One hope that the “sail” that is our roof remains firmly attached to the pylons that constitute our anchor. Otherwise, we’ll be flying west!

This has been an extremely uplifting year for the Institute.  We are further expanding the Institute’s physical footprint, we’ve continued hiring, we’re continuing to publish in high-impact journals and the process of scientific discovery combined with graduate education remains a constant all while the macro-economy went into free-fall. We were able to do this because our University remains on solid ground, and because the University leadership continues to believe in the vision of advanced study as a means of catalyzing the advance of the overall goal to become a major research university.

This does not mean that there wont be real challenges ahead–there most certainly will, but I feel more confident than ever, that the Institute has a great future ahead of it–one where it can play a central role in the National Decade of the Mind Project. And one where high-risk, high-payoff scientific research is rewarded on the basis of merit.

Happy New Year,

Jim

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2 thoughts on “Moving on to 2009”

  1. Hi Sam…I saw this yesterday on Marginal Revolution and invited Rob Axtell (who has contributed to this blog) to respond to Tyler.As a non-expert I think there is a tremendous advantage that comes with agent-based modeling–namely the ability to see now macro patterns/behaviors emerge from the complex behaviors of the agents. Even more interestingly, you can “tune” the parameter space and look at the sensitivity of the emergent behaviors to individual parameters.Jim

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