Monthly Archives: January 2012

We are now on the fourth day of this experimental workshop. We know more people than at the beginning. We can find the coffee, our offices, the meeting rooms, and the lunchroom. We know the fifteen-minute walk from our hotel … Continue reading →

Right now I am at an even smaller meeting, called Cooperation in multi-partner settings: biological markets & social dilemmas , organized by Ronald Noë and Mark van Vught at the Lorentz Center at the University of Leiden, in the Netherlands, just 20 minutes by train from Schiphol airport. … They are worth it. At lunch with the famous Peter Hammerstein. Grad student, Gijsbert Werner gets to chat with Rufous Johnstone from Cambridge. Toby Kiers notices that even at coffee we can collaborate, filling two cups at once. We learned a lot about arbuscular mycorrhizae from Nancy Collins Johnson. Our fearless leader, Ronald Noë, puts marketplaces to work in the workshop. We pay attention, but most of the workshop involved discussion. We had offices, keys, and officemates, additional new friends and colleagues. Our small group gets to work, with Toby Kiers, Chris Hauert, Peter Hammerstein, and Yoh Iwasa. Aniek Ivert explains her cool ants to our small group. Continue reading →