The Institute for Innovative Study (IIS) is presently preparing a list of special focal-research topics
that will influence its formative years of activity in conjunction with sponsor and donor support from
both private and public sources. In addition there are a few established programs of research that
have been initiated and for which funding applications have been or are being submitted.
The central Focus now (Spring, 2010) is upon LEAPS -
the Laboratory for Emergent
and Adaptive Processes and Systems,
and the material in the LEAPS directory provides current, up-to-date information on the efforts underway.
As for the longer-term, there are several suggested projects and programs, but the exact nature of how these evolve will be
shaped by the teamwork of many minds and bodies working together, not only within the Institute per se but within collaborative and partnering organizations.
These suggested programs constitute long-term Institute-wide multidisciplinary, multi-person Projects that will involve
partners from academia, private industry, and the public sector as well as Institute Faculty, and the following emerge from prior work conducted over the past twenty-plus years.
These Institute Projects to date include:
(If a link is broken, try replacing "instinnovstudy.org" with "iis.tetradyn.net" or simply contact us)
Special focal-research areas of interest (in terms of academic disciplines) for project development include:
- Biologically-based predictive models for social behavior
- Chaos, Complexity theory and Emergent systems
- Computational physics
- Meme models and Psychohistorical studies
- Morse and Ramsey theory
- Noncommutative mathematics
- Nonlinear dynamic systems
- Pattern perception and differentiation
- Quantum logics, quantum gravity, quantum relativity and cosmology
- Social network forecasting and prediction
- Solitons and Catastrophe phenomena
- Topology and Differential Geometry
