Martin Zwick

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Martin Zwick
Martin Zwick
First joined 2016 - Now
Title Professor
Affiliation Systems Science Ph.D. Program at Portland State University
Interest in SIGs Systems Theory, Philosophy, Artificial Life, Theoretical Biology, Macromolecular Structure, Jewish Thought
Degree(s) Ph.D. in Biophysics from MIT
Field(s) of study Systems Science, Biophysics
University(ies) MIT (Ph.D.), Portland State University (Professor)
Specialization(s) Discrete Multivariate Modeling, Systems Theory and Philosophy, Artificial Life/Theoretical Biology
ORCID 0000-0001-9772-8257
Notable Awards or Achievements Contributions to governance activities, publications, presentations, honors, grants, and fellowships



Martin Zwick has joined ISSS in 2016.

Personal Life

Martin Zwick was awarded his Ph.D. in Biophysics at MIT in 1968, and joined the Biophysics Department faculty of the University of Chicago in 1969. Initially working in crystallography and macromolecular structure, his interests shifted to systems theory and methodology, the field now known as the study of chaos, complexity, and complex adaptive systems. Since 1976 he has been teaching and doing research in the Systems Science PhD Program at Portland State University; during the years 1984-1989 he was director of the program.

His main research areas are information theoretic modeling, machine learning, theoretical biology, game theory, and systems theory and philosophy. Scientifically, his focus is on applying systems theory and methodology to the natural and social sciences, most recently to biomedical data analysis, the evolution of cooperation, and sustainability. Philosophically, his focus is on how systems ideas relate to classical and contemporary philosophy, how they offer a bridge between science and religion, and how they can help us understand and address societal problems.

Academia and Career

Martin Zwick is a Professor of Systems Science at Portland State University. His first position after his PhD in Biophysics from MIT was in the Department of Biophysics and Theoretical Biology at the University of Chicago where he continued mathematical and computational research on macromolecular structure.

When his interests shifted to systems theory and methodology, he joined the faculty of the Systems Science Program and later served for a number of years as program head. Beyond his work in systems science as such, he has applied systems ideas and methods to a wide variety of topics in the natural and social sciences, computer science and engineering, biomedicine and health, and the humanities. For the breadth and depth of his scholarly work he was recognized with the university’s award for research excellence.

His recent interests have been in machine learning (especially probabilistic graphical modeling), theoretical biology and Artificial Life, and systems theory and philosophy. Scientifically, his focus is on applying systems theory and methodology to the sciences. Philosophically, his focus is on how systems ideas relate to classical and contemporary philosophy and how they help us understand and address societal problems.

Special Interests

Video Presentations

Selected Publications

Discrete Multivariate Modeling

  • Zwick, M. (2015). “Exploratory Modeling of Traumatic Brain Injury.” Brain Trauma Evidence-based Consortium (B-TEC) meeting, Bethesda, June 9-10, 2015.
  • Zwick, M. (2015). “Exploratory Modeling of TBI Data.” Brain Trauma Evidence-based Consortium (B-TEC) meeting, San Francisco, Jan 28-29, 2015.
  • Zwick, M., Fusion, J., and Wilmot, B. (2012). “Reconstructability of Epistatic Functions.”  Journal of Molecular Engineering and Systems Biology. Doi: 10.7243/2050-1412-1-4
  • Kramer, P., Westaway, S., Zwick, M., and Shervais, S. (2012) "Reconstructability Analysis of Genetic Loci Associated with Alzheimer Disease." IEEE 6th International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and13th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems, SCIS-ISIS2012, Kobe, Japan, Nov. 20-24, 2012.
  • Zwick, M. (2011). “Reconstructability Analysis of Epistasis.” Annals of Human Genetics, vol. 75, issue 1, pp. 157-171. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2010.00628.x.
  • Shervais., S., Kramer, P., Westaway, S., Cox, N., and Zwick M. (2010). “Reconstructability Analysis As A Tool For Identifying Gene-Gene Interactions In Studies Of Human Diseases.” Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology. vol. 9, issue 1.
  • Wilmot, B., Zwick, M., and McWeeney, S. (2008). “Reconstructability Analysis Detects Genetic Variation Associated with Gene Expression.” 12th QTL-MAS Workshop in Computational Genetics, Uppsala, Sweden, May 15-16.
  • Zwick, M. (2007). “Using Reconstructability Analysis for Input Variable Reduction: A Business Example.” 2007 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI-2007), Las Vegas, July 13-15, 2007.
  • Wright, A., Ricciardi, T., and Zwick, M. (2005). “Application of Information-Theoretic Data Mining Techniques in a National Ambulatory Practice Outcomes Research Network.” American Medical Informatics Association annual symposium, Washington DC, Oct. 22-26.

Systems Theory and Philosohpy

  • Zwick, M. (2015). “Mind and Life: Is the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature False?” Biological Theory, DOI: 10.1007/s13752-015-0231-1. Updated and expanded version of 2013 presentation listed below.
  • Zwick, M. (2015). “Freedom as a Natural Phenomenon.” Foundations of Science, Vol. 20, No. 3, DOI 10.1007/s10699-015-9433-z. Updated and expanded version of 2012, 2013 presentations listed below.
  • Jolly, R., Zwick, M., Wakeland, W., Woods, J. (2015). “The mechanisms of information integration in experimental prediction markets.” International Journal of Business Research. Vol 9, No. 1, pp. 100-129.
  • Zwick, M. and Fletcher, J. (2014). “Levels of Altruism.” Biological Theory, March 2014, Volume 9, Issue 1, pp. 100-107: DOI 10.1007/s13752-013-0145-8. Updated and expanded version of 2011, 2012 presentations listed below.
  • Zwick, M. (2014). “Complexity Theory and Political Change: Talcott Parsons Occupies Wall Street.” In Complexity and the Human Experience, Modeling Complexity in the Human and Social Sciences, Paul A. Youngman and Mirsad Hadzikadic, editors, CRC Press, 2014, pp. 141-160. Updated and expanded version of 2012 presentation listed below.
  • Zwick, M. (2014). “Systems Theory and the Metaphysics of Composition.” 66th Annual Northwest Philosophy Conference, Pacific University, Nov. 7-8 and at Systems Science Seminar, Oct 24, 2014
  • Zwick, M. (2013). “Is the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature False?” 65th Annual Northwest Philosophy Conference, Pacific University, October 4-5 and at Systems Science Seminar October 25, 2013.
  • Zwick, M. (2012). “Freedom as a Natural Phenomenon.” Presented at the 64th Annual Northwest Conference, Oregon State University, Oct. 26-27 and at Systems Science Seminar, April 7th, 2013.
  • Zwick, M. (2012). “Complexity Theory and Political Change: Talcott Parsons Occupies Wall Street.” Presented at Human Complexity 2012 (1st Annual Conference on Complexity and Human Experience: Modeling Complexity in the Humanities and Social Sciences), May 30 – June 1, 2012, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and at Systems Science Seminar, January 27, 2012.
  • Zwick, M. and Fletcher, J. (2011). “Levels of Altruism.” Northwest Philosophy Conference, Lewis and Clark, November 4-5, and at Systems Science Seminar, May 25, 2012.
  • Zwick, M. (2010).“Personal Knowledge and the Inner Sciences.” In Markus Locker, ed., Systems
  • Theory and Theology: The Living Interplay between Science and Religion, pp. 49-61. Eugene: Pickwick Publications.
  • Zwick, M. (2010). “Symbolic Structures as Systems: On the Near Isomorphism of Two Religious Symbols.” In Markus Locker, ed., Systems Theory and Theology: The Living Interplay between Science and Religion, pp.62-96, Eugene: Pickwick Publications.
  • Zwick, M. (2009). “The Diagram of the Supreme Pole and the Kabbalistic Tree: On the Similarity of Two Symbolic Structures.” Religion East and West, the Journal of the Institute for Word Religions, Issue #9, October 2009, pp. 67-87.
  • Zwick, M. (2009). “Holism and Human History.” Metanexus conference: Cosmos, Nature, and Culture: A Transdisciplinary Conference. July 18-21, 2009; Phoenix, Arizona, and at Systems Science Seminar, April 16, 2010.

Artificial Life and Theoretical Biology

  • Zwick, M. and Fletcher, J. (2014).  “Levels of Altruism.” Biological Theory, March 2014, Volume 9, Issue 1, pp. 100-107: DOI 10.1007/s13752-013-0145-8.  This paper is an updated and expanded version of the 2011 conference presentation at the Northwest Philosophy Conference, Lewis and Clark, Nov 4-5.
  • Zwick, M. and Fletcher, J. (2011). “Levels of Altruism.” Presented at the Northwest Philosophy Conference, Lewis and Clark, November 4-5, and at Systems Science Seminar, May 25, 2012.
  • Fletcher, J.A. and Zwick, M. (2007). “The evolution of altruism: Game theory in multilevel selection and inclusive fitness.” Journal of Theoretical Biology, 245: 26-36.
  • Fletcher, J.A., and Zwick, M. (2006). “Unifying the Theories of Inclusive Fitness and Reciprocal Altruism.” The American Naturalist, Vol. 168, No. 2, 252-262.
  • Fletcher, J.A., Zwick, M., Doebeli, M., and Wilson, D.S. (2006). “What’s wrong with inclusive fitness.” TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution, Vol. 21, No. 11, 597-598.
  • Fletcher, J.A. and Zwick, M. (2004). “Strong Altruism Can Evolve in Randomly Formed Groups.” Journal of Theoretical Biology, 228: 303-313.

Macomolecular Structure

  • Podjarny, A.D., Bhat, T.N., and Zwick, M. (1987). “Improving Crystallographic Macromolecular Images: The Real-Space Approach.” Annual Review of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, vol. 16, 351 - 373.
  • Schevitz, R.W., Podjarny, A.D., Zwick, M. Hughes, J.J., and Sigler, P.B. (1981). “Improving and Extending the Phases of Medium and Low Resolution Macromolecular Structure Factors by Density Modification,” Acta Crystallographica, A37, 669-677.
  • Ohtsuki, M. White, S.L., Zeitler, E., Wellems, T.E., Fuller, S.D., Zwick, M. Makinen, M.W., and Sigler, P.B. (1977). “Electron Microscopy of Fibers and Discs of Hemoglobin S Having Sixfold Symmetry.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 74, 5538-5542.
  • Zwick, M., Bantz, D., and. Hughes, J. (1976). “Enhancing the Power of Density Modification.” Ultramicroscopy, 1, 275-277.
  • Bantz, D. and Zwick, M. (1974). “The Use of Symmetry with the Fast-Fourier Transform.” Acta Crystallographica, A30, 257-260.
  • Zwick, M. and Zeitler, E. (1973). “Image Reconstruction from Projections.” Optik, 38, 550-565.
  • Barrett, T. and Zwick, M. (1971). “A Method for Extension and Refinement of Crystallographic Protein Phases Utilizing the Fast-Fourier Transform.” Acta Crystallographica, A27, 6-11.
  • Zwick, M. (1969). “Patterson Searches for Protein Substructures,” Abstracts, American Crystallographic Association, Winter Meeting, 74.
  • Zwick, M. (1968). Ph.D. Thesis, New Computer Methods for Protein Crystallography, MIT.
  • Barry, D., Levinthal, C., Ward, S.L., and Zwick, M. (1968). “Computer Graphics in Macromolecular Chemistry.” Emerging Concepts in Computer Graphics, Benjamin, 231-253.
  • Zwick, M. and Levinthal, C. (1966). “Charge Interactions in Computer Generated Proteins.” Abstracts, Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, New York, 57.

Jewish Thought

  • Zwick, M. (2011). “Mussar and the Renewal of Judaism.” Unpublished paper.
  • Zwick, M. (2010). “Symbolic Structures as Systems: On the Near Isomorphism of Two Religious Symbols.” In Markus Locker, ed., Systems Theory and Theology: The Living Interplay between Science and Religion, pp.62-96, Eugene: Pickwick Publications.
  • Zwick, M. (2009). “The Diagram of the Supreme Pole and the Kabbalistic Tree: On the Similarity of Two Symbolic Structures.” Religion East and West, the Journal of the Institute for Word Religions, Issue #9, October 2009, pp. 67-87.
  • Zwick, M. (2008). “A Conversation on Theodicy.” The Global Spiral, January 9, 2008.

Citations

Links to relevant pages

Portland State Profile : https://www.pdx.edu/complex-systems/dr-martin-zwick

ORCID Profile : https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9772-8257

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