The fourth installment of the CCC Briefs, titled, Global Power Strucutures – (How ) Do They Matter?, is available here.
Power is distributed unevenly in the international system. For some, this statement captures an unchangeable truth, is a source of scholarly debate, or is a major cause of injustice. For some, it is […]
Continue Reading →The third installment of the CCC Briefs, titled, Rationality and Ethics: Are you a consequentialist?, is available here.
This COP 19 issue of the CCC Briefs uses the current negotiation context and events here in Warsaw to explore the link between rationality and ethical thinking in the climate negotiations under the UNFCCC. The […]
Continue Reading →The second installment of the CCC briefs, titled Rationality, Risk Perceptions and Risk Hierarchies is now available here.
This is the first of three CCC Briefs dealing with issues related to rationality. This Brief speaks about risk perceptions and risk hierarchies, explaining what it means to be rational when it comes to multilateral cooperation on […]
Continue Reading →WICI is pleased to share with you the first Negotiator Brief on Climate Change and Cognition – a new series from WICI Affiliate Researcher, Dr. Manjana Milkoreit, co-sponsored by WICI and the Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives (WSSI) at Arizona State University’s Global Institute of Sustainability (GIOS).
This new series […]
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Marisa Beck is a PhD student in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA), University of Waterloo, specializing in Global Environmental Governance. Her research focuses on the interactions between three types of complex systems—the Earth’s climate, the global economy and social value and belief systems. Specifically, she investigates […]
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Mark Hancock is an Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo in the department of Management Sciences and Associate Director of Research Training for the Games Institute. Before starting at the University of Waterloo, he completed his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Calgary and his MSc in Computer […]
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Xiongbing Jin is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the School of Planning, Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo. He is the lead developer of the agent-based WAterloo Regional Model (WARM) which aims to simulate the relationships among residential location choices, trip decisions and landscape management, and the influences of urban infrastructure and policies on […]
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Anthony Masys is a Defence Scientist for the Department of National Defence, Defence Research and Development Canada, Centre for Security Science. Assigned as Scientific Advisor to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Major Events and Protective Policing Division, Dr. Masys supported both the Vancouver 2010 Olympics and G8/G20 Summits. As a result of […]
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Edward W. Thommes is a Health Outcomes Manager at GlaxoSmithKline Canada. In addition, he is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Guelph researching multidisciplinary computational modeling under a NSERC Discovery Grant. He completed his PhD in Astrophysics at Queen’s University and was subsequently awarded the J.S. Plaskett […]
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Sarah Tolmie, an Associate Professor in the department of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo, is a traditionally-trained, philologically-oriented medievalist with a Masters degree from the University of Toronto and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. She’s published articles on the post-Chaucerian poet Thomas Hoccleve and on Middle […]
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Speaker: Mireille E. Broucke
Date: Monday, March 31st, 2014, 2-4pm
Title: Reach Control Problem
Category: Seminar
Mireille E. Broucke obtained a B.S. degree (with highest honors) in Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin in 1984 and the M.S. and Ph.D. […]
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Please note that this event has been CANCELLED. Keep checking back for updates regarding future events! Any inquiries about the cancelled event can be directed to info [at] wici.ca
Dr. Sander van der Leeuw, Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Director of the Complex Adaptive System Initiative at Arizona State University
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Speaker: Paul Thagard, Professor of Philosophy, with cross appointment to Psychology and Computer Science, Director of the Cognitive Science Program and University Research Chair at University of Waterloo
Date: Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013, 2-4pm
Title: Creative Cognition in Social Innovation
Category: Seminar
Abstract:
Human creativity operates in […]
Scope and Purpose of Symposium:
Recent years have seen accelerating development of crowd-sourced and remotely sensed “big” data from real-world systems such as urban land markets, global financial networks, epidemic diseases, and the Earth’s climate. Concurrently, development of computer simulations designed to model the systems producing these data has also accelerated. As a result […]
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Speaker: Chris Eliasmith, Professor of Philosophy and Design Systems Engineering, Director of the Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience at University of Waterloo
Date: Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013
Title: Handling the complexities of large-scale brain models
Category: Seminar
Abstract:
Recent high-profile brain simulations, including those of the 1 billion […]
Speaker: Sheldon Solomon, Professor of Psychology at Skidmore College
Title: Afraid of the Dark: Humanity at the Crossroads
Date: Friday, October 4th, 2013
Category: Seminar
Abstract:
“Humanity today is like a waking dreamer, caught between the fantasies of sleep and the chaos of the real world. The […]
Speaker: Mr. Brian Neff, Ph.D. candidate, University of Waterloo
Title: Traps and Transformations of Social-Ecological Systems: Commentary from the Caribbean
Date: Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Category: Seminar
Abstract:
The adaptive cycle metaphor provides insight into how and why social-ecological systems change. Social-ecological systems literature has built upon […]
Speaker: Dr. Chris Bauch, Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Guelph
Title: How mathematics can help explain vaccine scares and associated disease dynamics
Date: Tuesday, February 5th, 2013
Category: Seminar
Abstract:
Mortality due to vaccine-preventable infectious diseases is declining worldwide, thanks to ever-expanding […]
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