Speaker: Scott Heckbert, Ph.D.
Title: Agent-based modelling and GIS: applications to land use change and environmental modelling
Date: Monday, May 26, 2014 at 12:00 noon
Location: EV3-4412
A video of the talk can be found at the bottom of the page.
This presentation will demonstrate current applications using agent-based […]
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Speaker: Marcin Jakubowski, Ph.D.
Title: Open Source Ecology: Towards the Open Source Economy
Date: Thursday, May 15th, 2014 at 6pm-8pm
A video of the presentation can be found below.
Abstract:
Where consumption has become our major daily activity, we rarely ask what it means to ‘produce’ something. Open, collaborative […]
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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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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 […]
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