Thomas Bury is a PhD candidate in Applied Mathematics at the University of Waterloo, working under the supervision of Dr. Chris Bauch. Previously, he completed the Mathematical Tripos at the University Cambridge with first class honours, specialising in applications to biological and theoretical physics. His desire to work in mathematical modelling came about during […]
Continue Reading →Matteo Smerlak studies the emergence of pattern in complex dynamical systems, most recently within the context of Darwinian evolution. His recent work has also explored the dynamics of economic inequalities, the quantification of resilience and the origin of scaling in biological growth. Given his background in gravitational physics, Matteo would also like to know […]
Continue Reading →Dr. Tejal Patel is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy, and a practicing clinical pharmacist with the Memory Clinic at the Centre for Family Medicine Family Health Team in Kitchener, Ontario. Dr. Patel obtained her PharmD from the University of Kentucky and completed a Post-doctoral Research Fellowship in […]
Continue Reading →Paul Fieguth is Professor and Department Chair in Systems Design Engineering, and a co-director of the Vision and Imaging Processing (VIP) Lab at the University of Waterloo.
His main areas of research lie in the multiscale or hierarchical modeling of spatial statistical phenomena. That is, the research seeks to develop strategies to break large statistical […]
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Robert Gooding-Townsend is a master’s student in
mathematical biology working under the supervision of Chris Bauch and Madhur Anand. Prior to his graduate work, he completed concurrent Bachelors’ of Knowledge Integration and Applied Mathematics at the University of Waterloo. His primary research area is
forest dynamics and models of land cover change. […]
Jon MacKay (PhD, Waterloo) has worked as a software developer at BlackBerry, an economist in the microsimulation and modeling division of Statistics Canada and most recently as an academic researcher. His current research interests include examining how social, business and political landscape has changed due to the growing importance of technology sector. Methodologically, he makes […]
Continue Reading →February 21, 2017
2:30 p.m. in Davis Centre Room 1302
Deep learning has given rise to a major revolution in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). A major challenge with the democratization and proliferation of deep learning as commodity AI for all is the sheer complexity of current deep neural networks, making […]
Continue Reading →March 7, 2017 2:30 PM in Davis Centre Room 1302
Professor Sara Imari Walker From Arizona State University The origin of life remains one of the most stubborn open questions in science. One of the primary stumbling blocks is that we do not yet have a universal understanding of what life is. Defining […]
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Join us on May 16 and 17th, 2017 at WICI’s spring conference:
Living on the Precipice: Interdisciplinary Conference on Resilience in Complex Natural and Human Systems
The University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario,
16-17 May 2017
Hosted by the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation […]
Continue Reading →January 24, 2017 2:30 p.m. Quantum Nano Centre, Room 1501
Analysis of complex systems force us into a deeper understanding of heterogeneity. In economics and finance this heterogeneity often appears in the form of individual forecasts. This talk will demonstrate how a simulated agent-based financial market generates, at at times magnifies, the dispersion […]
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November 22. EV3 Atrium and Room 1408
We are living in interesting times here in Kitchener-Waterloo! The new LRT corridor is buzzing with construction, both transit-related and new developments. Around the corner from my house, the local tattoo, pizza, and all-night massage parlours are being replaced by an upscale mix-used development […]
Continue Reading →Kathyrn R Fair is a PhD candidate in Applied Mathematics at the University of Waterloo, supervised by Dr. Chris T Bauch and Dr. Madhur Anand. Prior to entering graduate school, she completed a B.Sc. (Hons) in Physical Science with Distinction at the University of Guelph. The overarching theme of her research is modelling disturbances […]
Continue Reading →Matt Hammond
McMaster University Complex Ecological Systems Lab.
NOVEMBER 22, 2016 | 2-4PM | LOCATION DC 1302
‘Designer ecosystems’ may help to achieve sustainability by building the best attributes of natural ecosystems into engineered ones. Past agro-ecological systems that purposely employed natural complexity for human benefit, from ancient Hawaiian fish ponds to the Biosphere […]
Continue Reading →MIRACLE cloud Workshop
Web-based reproducible data analysis: A workshop using the MIRACLE cloud computing platform for the analysis and archiving of computer model output
Cloud computing, and new standards for reproducibility, are changing the way we do science with models. It is changing best practices and what is required to get published.
November 3 @ […]
Continue Reading →GLOBAL TIPPING POINTS
NOVEMBER 10, 2016 | 7PM | CIGI AUDITORIUM
Anthony Barnosky and Elizabeth Hadly are coauthors of the new book Tipping Point for Planet Earth—How Close Are We To The Edge? (Thomas Dunne / St. Martin’s Press, April 2016), which tells what each of us can do to […]
Continue Reading →Friday, October 14, 2016 – 3:30 PM EDT
QNC 1501
Speaker
Alexander “Sasha” Gutfraind
Master’s from Applied Math here, PhD from Cornell)
Lecturer – Loyola University Medical Center
Adjunct R. A. Professor – U of Illinois at Chicago
Chief Health Data Scientist, […]