Speaker: Dr. Dendoncker, Director of Namur Research Group on Sustainable Development (NaGRIDD). Department of Geography, University of Namur, Belgium.
Title: Participatory Valuation and Modelling of Ecosystem Services under Land Use Change: Example from the VOTES project (Belgium) and Perspectives for Future Research
Date: Friday, June 1st, 2012
Category: Non-WICI Event
Speaker: Dr. Darla Munroe (The Ohio State University)
Title: The interdependence of forest transition pathways at the household level in Yunnan, China
Date: Wednesday, April, 25th, 2012
Category: Seminar
Abstract
Prior research on “forest transitions,” or the observation of sustained forest recovery following past forest clearing, has often employed the concept of […]
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Speaker: Matto Mildenberger
Title: Exploring the Possibility Space of Ideological Change
Date: Thursday, March 29th, 2012
Category: Seminar
Matto Mildenberger, PhD Candidate at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (Yale University), summarizes recent political science and psychology literature on ideology with the broad aim of informing research on ideological change. The […]
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Speaker: Shreyas Sundaram
Title: Reaching Agreement in Complex Networks: Avoiding the Influence of Extreme Agents
Date: Tuesday, March 20th, 2012
Category: Seminar
Professor Shreyas Sundaram describes a special case of information diffusion where all nodes in the network synchronize (or reach agreement) on some parameter of interest. He focuses on a class […]
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Speaker: Steve Mock (WICI Affiliate Researcher)
Title: National Identity and the Liberal State in a Post-Growth Economy
Date: Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
Category: Seminar
Abstract:
The powering-down of the world economy ultimately mean re-localization to relatively autonomous, self-sufficient communities. Steven Mock will argue, however, that it is a mistake to assume […]
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Speaker: Joshua Armstrong
Title: Clearing the Fog of Geriatrics: Applying Complex System Thinking to the Health and Care of Older Adults
Date: Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
Category: Seminar
Joshua Armstrong, PhD Candidate in Health Studies & Gerontology (University of Waterloo), discusses the application of complex systems thinking to the health and care […]
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Speaker: Michael Beeler
Title: Modeling Complex Healthcare Environments using Discrete-Event Simulation: A Case Study of Mass Immunization Clinics
Date: Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
Category: Seminar
Michael Beeler (University of Toronto) provides a non-technical overview of how discrete-event simulation (DES) can be used to understand and manage a wide range of phenomena that […]
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Speaker: Katherine Larson
Title: Social Distance Games
Date: Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
Category: Seminar
Professor Kate Larson, Associate Professor with the Cheriton School of Computer Science (University of Waterloo), lectures on coalitional games. These games involve players interacting together in tandem to accomplish more together than they would individually. Her work, done […]
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Speaker: Mark Hancock
Title: Leveraging Physical Actions to Interact with Digital Surfaces
Date: Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
Category: Seminar
Mark Hancock, Assistant Professor in the Department of Management Sciences (University of Waterloo), lectures on how people can start thinking of their bodies as an extension of the virtual world. He discusses studies […]
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Speaker: Monica Cojocaru
Title: Objective and subjective factors: modelling consumer behaviour from individual to population scale
Date: Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
Category: Seminar
Dr. Monica Cojocaru, Associate Professor of Mathematics (University of Guelph), discusses her current research on the dynamic modeling approaches to population behavior incorporating both objective and subjective decision factors. […]
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Speaker: Shreyas Sundaram
Title: Diffusing Information and Reaching Agreement in Networks: Convergence and Resilience
Date: Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
Category: Seminar
Professor Shreyas Sundaram of the University of Waterloo provides an overview of some recent approaches to analyzing the dynamics of information propagation in networks. He describes how tools from Markov chain […]
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