ABM tutorials
If you want to learn how to develop your own model, please join us for a series of free tutorials over the winter. We will be using the Repast Simphony platform and the Java programming language for the tutorials. A quick 2-session Java tutorial will be offered at the beginning.
Time: Mondays 2:00-3:00pm, […]
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If you want to learn how to develop your own model, please join us for a series of free tutorials over the winter. We will be using the Repast Simphony platform and the Java programming language for the tutorials. A quick 2-session Java tutorial will be offered at the beginning.
Time: Mondays 2:00-3:00pm, […]
Continue Reading →ABM tutorials
If you want to learn how to develop your own model, please join us for a series of free tutorials over the winter. We will be using the Repast Simphony platform and the Java programming language for the tutorials. A quick 2-session Java tutorial will be offered at the beginning.
Time: Mondays 2:00-3:00pm, […]
Continue Reading →Speakers: Dr. Sarah Tolmie and Dr. Dawn Parker
Title: Bridges Lecture – Dancing the Math of Complex Systems
Date: Friday, March 13, 2015 – 7:30pm-9:00pm
Location: Siegfried Hall, St. Jerome’s University (Free parking will be available at St. Paul’s)
Abstract
Bridges lectures aim to overcome the gap between Mathematics and the Arts. Join Sarah Tolmie […]
Continue Reading →ABM tutorials
If you want to learn how to develop your own model, please join us for a series of free tutorials over the winter. We will be using the Repast Simphony platform and the Java programming language for the tutorials. A quick 2-session Java tutorial will be offered at the beginning.
Time: Mondays 2:00-3:00pm, […]
Continue Reading →ABM tutorials
If you want to learn how to develop your own model, please join us for a series of free tutorials over the winter. We will be using the Repast Simphony platform and the Java programming language for the tutorials. A quick 2-session Java tutorial will be offered at the beginning.
Time: Mondays 2:00-3:00pm, […]
Continue Reading →ABM tutorials
If you want to learn how to develop your own model, please join us for a series of free tutorials over the winter. We will be using the Repast Simphony platform and the Java programming language for the tutorials. A quick 2-session Java tutorial will be offered at the beginning.
Time: Mondays 2:00-3:00pm, […]
Continue Reading →ABM tutorials
If you want to learn how to develop your own model, please join us for a series of free tutorials over the winter. We will be using the Repast Simphony platform and the Java programming language for the tutorials. A quick 2-session Java tutorial will be offered at the beginning.
Time: Mondays 2:00-3:00pm, […]
Continue Reading →ABM tutorials
If you want to learn how to develop your own model, please join us for a series of free tutorials over the winter. We will be using the Repast Simphony platform and the Java programming language for the tutorials. A quick 2-session Java tutorial will be offered at the beginning.
Time: Mondays 2:00-3:00pm, […]
Continue Reading →Our next WICI Talk is Tuesday, February 24th with Dr. Derek Robinson, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of Waterloo. He will be presenting a talk entitled, “Discovering the Themes of Complexity Science in Land Use Modelling.”
Please join us starting at 2:00pm in M3-2134 for coffee […]
Continue Reading →Agent-based models (ABMs) are simulation models that have been used to study complex systems in a wide range of academic fields including Biology, Computer Science, Environmental Science, Economics, Geography, Planning, and Sociology among others. Agent-based models directly represent individual actors (agents, such as animals and plants in ecosystems, residents in cities, and cars in transportation […]
Continue Reading →Currently working as a researcher and data analyst at the Grenoble Ecole de Management in France, Kariappa Bheemaiah‘s previous experiences include working as a marine engineer, a french foreign legionnaire, and as a business professional. Along with pursuing research related to inequality and youth employability for an EU project, he frequently blogs […]
Continue Reading →Robert Babin is working towards an MA in the University of Waterloo’s School of Planning. After completing a BES in Planning, he continued at the school to work on a large agent-based modeling project to simulate development in Waterloo Region. Within this project he is using spatial econometric techniques to estimate heterogeneous home buyer […]
Continue Reading →Yue Dou is completing her PhD degree in the department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of Waterloo. She is working with Dr. Peter Deadman on the project “Sociocultural Adaptation of Caboclos Communities to Extreme Tidal Events in the Amazon Estuary of Brazil” funded by International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Quite ambitious, the […]
Continue Reading →Amanda Raffoul is a MSc Candidate in the School of Public Health and Health Systems at the University of Waterloo, working under the supervision of Dr. Sharon Kirkpatrick. Her research interests involve psychosocial contributors to weight status, such as dieting, body image, and weight bias, and how they influence our overall health. She is currently […]
Continue Reading →Madhur Anand, WICI Director and Professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of Guelph, is an ecologist with broad research interests in natural and human-induced changes in terrestrial ecosystems at local and global scales and their implications for sustainability. She has a particular interest and expertise in complex systems approaches.
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Continue Reading →Mark Crowley is an Assistant Professor in the Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence group in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia working in the Laboratory for Computational Intelligence, and […]
Continue Reading →Scott Heckbert is an Environmental Economist at Alberta Innovates Technology Futures, Canada. Scott’s research applies environmental economics using simulation modelling of social-ecological systems. Research topics include ecosystem services assessments, economics of greenhouse gas mitigation, design of market-based instruments for environmental management, modelling the rise and fall of ancient societies, and simulating water quality and […]
Continue Reading →Xiongbing Jin is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the School of Planning, Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo. He is the lead developer of the agent-based WAterloo Regional Model (WARM) which aims to simulate the relationships among residential location choices, trip decisions and landscape management, and the influences of urban infrastructure and policies on […]
Continue Reading →Derek Robinson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo. His research interests lie at the center of land use, land management, and the carbon cycle. He uses agent-based modelling to integrate GIS, ecological, and human decision-making models to evaluate the effects of socio-economic and policy […]
Continue Reading →Isaac Tamblyn is an Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology and holds a joint appointment with the National Research Council of Canada. Before joining UOIT, he conducted postdoctoral studies at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow). He earned his PhD in Physics from […]
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