Tickets on Sale for DFWI 31st Annual Meeting

When: Thursday, March 28, 2013, 11:30 AM

     

DFWI is now accepting reservations for the Downtown Fort Worth, Inc 31st Annual Meeting featuring keynote speaker Dr. Geoffrey West, a theoretical physicist named one of Time Magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World."  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.