Announcing the Winter and Spring 2016 Speakers Series

We’re pleased to announce an exciting range of upcoming talks for our Winter and Spring 2016 Speakers Series.

First is a talk by Dr. Jane Heffernan on January 26, 2016 entitled “Multi-Scale Modelling of Infectious Diseases.” Dr. Heffernan is a York University Research Chair in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics. She leads the Modelling Infection and Immunity lab (MI2), and is the Director of the Centre for Disease Modelling (CDM).

We’ll also be hosting talks with Dr. Wendell Wallach, a Fulbright Research Chair at the University of Ottawa and scholar at Yale University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics; Dr. César Hidalgo, author of Why Information Grows and Leader of the Macro Connections Group at MIT; Dr. Tuomas Ylä-Anttila, Co-director of the Helsinki Research Group for Political Sociology; and Dr. Melanie Mitchell, Professor of Computer Science at Portland State University and author of Complexity: A Guided Tour.

WICI will also be co-hosting a symposium on human-environment systems in April 2016 with the School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph. More details about that event will be on our website soon.

To learn more about our upcoming events, please visit this page.