Theoretical Physicist Dr. Geoffrey West to Keynote DFWI Annual Meeting
February 7,2013
Theoretical Physicist Dr. Geoffrey West, one of Time Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World,” will keynote Downtown Fort Worth, Inc.’s 31st Annual Meeting. Dr. West’s work at the Santa Fe Institute addresses fundamental questions about the evolution and life of cities. Why do almost all cities persist? Are there hidden, universal and quantifiable principles underlying their performance? Why are people drawn to cities? What do cities need to do to thrive…and survive? In light of our downtown planning process, the answers to these questions have profound implications.
Dr. West’s work is motivated by the search for “simplicity underlying complexity” and the unifying principles that can lead to a quantitative, predictive, integrated, conceptual framework for understanding complex adaptive systems. These systems range from cells and ecosystems to cities, social networks and the challenges of sustainability. Dr. West is the former President of the Santa Fe Institute, Senior Fellow and founder of the high energy physics group at Los Alamos National Laboratory and is an Associate Fellow of the Said Business School at Oxford University.
DFWI’s Annual Meeting is a gathering of leading business, government and industry professionals who are directly involved in the development and success of Downtown Fort Worth. Your sponsorship of this luncheon will provide a rare opportunity to hear Dr. West in North Texas and to support the work of DFWI.
We hope you will join us at this event and participate through sponsorship. Several lead sponsorship levels are available. For information regarding sponsorship or individual tickets please contact Becky Bethel at becky@dfwi.org or 817-870-1692.
We look forward to seeing you on March 28th at the Worthington Renaissance Fort Worth Hotel.