Join us Thursday, October 1, 2015 from 10:30am-12:00pm in DC 1301 for a WICI Open House. Meet new Interim Director Dr. Madhur Anand, network with other complex system scholars, and learn about our upcoming events and initiatives for 2015-16. Beverages and snacks to be provided.
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Speaker: Dr. Vakhtang Putkaradze, Centennial Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Alberta
Title: Dynamics and control of flexible solar towers
Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Location: MC 5501
Time: 2-4pm (Join us starting at 2pm for coffee and conversation. The lecture will start at 2:30pm.)
A video of […]
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Speaker: Dr. Sarah Burch
Title: Transformative sustainability governance: triggering change on an urban planet
Date: Friday, November 13, 2015
Location: EV2-2002
Time: 12-2pm
This event also included a talk by Dr. Jason Thistlethwaite of SEED: A financial survival guide to climate change: Start Saving now! A video […]
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Speaker: Dr. Jane Heffernan, York University Research Chair in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Title: Multi-Scale Modelling of Infectious Diseases
Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Location: DC 1302
Time: 2-4pm
A video of this talk is available below or on Vimeo.
Abstract
Infectious diseases affect individuals (immunology) and […]
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Speaker: Wendell Wallach
Title: A Dangerous Master: How to keep technology from slipping beyond our control
Date: Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Location: MC 5501
Time: 2-4pm
Join us for refreshments starting at 2pm. The lecture will start at 2:30pm and run till approximately 3:30pm. A Q&A with the speaker will […]
Speaker: Dr. César Hidalgo
Title: Why Information Grows
Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Location: DC 1302
Time: 2-4pm
Abstract
Economies are computers embodied in social networks and our world is made of bits. To understand differences in income we need to understand differences in the capacities of economies to compute. Rich and […]
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Speaker: Dr. Tuomas Ylä-Anttila
Title: Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks
Date: Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Abstract
Faced with the threat of climate change, some countries have managed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, while in other countries emissions keep growing. What explains this national variation? The 20-country comparative research project Comparing Climate Change Policy […]
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Speaker: Dr. Melanie Mitchell, Portland State University and Santa Fe Institute
Title: Using Analogy to Recognize Visual Situations
Date: Thursday, May 26, 2016
Abstract
Enabling computers to recognize abstract visual situations remains a hard open problems in artificial intelligence. No machine vision system comes close to matching human ability at identifying the contents […]
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