Speaker: Mike Batty
Title: Complexity, Scaling and Cities
Date: Thursday, March 31, 2011
Category: Talk
While in the past, systems were often understood as static, controllable, and well-defined, new research reveals that many systems are chaotically dynamic and unclassifiable. In this seminar, Mike Batty of the University College London Centre for Advanced […]
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Speaker: Steve Purdey
Title: Steady State Economics
Date: Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Category: Talk
Dr. Steve Purdey of the University of Toronto argues that the emphasis on growth, which has been the focus of the world economy for over 200 years, is no longer sustainable in a world of increasing scarcity. He […]
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Speaker: Marten Scheffer
Title: Early Warning Signs for Critical Transitions
Date: Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Category: Talk
Professor Marten Scheffer of Wageningen University discusses his research on how to discern generic early-warning signals in complex systems that indicate a critical threshold is approaching. Such research is important because tipping points can cause […]
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Speakers: Eric Lambin, Peter Deadman, Raymond Cabrera, and Christophe Le Page
Title: Land-Change Science Seminar
Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Category: Seminar
Speaker #1: Professor Eric Lambin of the University of Louvain and Stanford University discusses the mechanisms through which economic globalization increasingly drives land use change and uses case studies to […]
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Speaker: W. Brian Arthur
Title: How Does Technological Innovation Happen?
Date: Thursday, February 10, 2011
Category: Talk
In this lecture and discussion at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, W. Brian Arthur reviews the thesis of his book The Nature of Technology with Lee Smolin, Frances Westley, and Thomas Homer-Dixon. In his […]
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Speaker: Jukka Pekka Onnela
Title: Harnessing Network Science to Reveal our Digital Footprints
Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2010
Category: Talk
Dr. Jukka Pekka Onnela of Harvard University discusses how social networks are structured by and interact with cell-phone communication patterns. He also outlines his research on how ‘apps’ used in social networking […]
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Speaker: Robert Spekkens
Title: On Ranking Merit: Applying the Page-Rank Algorithm to the Electoral Process
Date: Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Category: Talk
Communities often struggle to rank their members according to some intangible notion of merit using only the opinions of those members and without any pre-existing ranking. Robert Spekkens, a post-doctoral […]
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Speaker: Kevin Dunbar
Title: From DNA to Complex Cognition: How we Learn, Discover, and Create the World
Date: Thursday, November 4, 2010
Category: Talk
Kevin Dunbar has been engaged in studying how people engage in complex reasoning, social interactions, and real-world problem solving for over 20 years. He will discuss the key […]
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Speaker: John R. Clymer
Title: Simulation-Based Engineering of Complex Systems
Date: Wednesday, October 6 and 7, 2010
Category: Talk, Course
John R. Clymer of California State University Fullerton (CSUF) describes the ExtendSim and OpEMCSS library toolsets as methods for designing models based on complex, context-sensitive interactions.
Simulation-Based Engineering of Complex […]
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