Dr. Matt Hammond
McMaster University Complex Ecological Systems Lab.
NOVEMBER 22, 2016 | 2-4PM | LOCATION DC 1302
‘Designer ecosystems’ may help to achieve sustainability by building the best attributes of natural ecosystems into engineered ones. Past agro-ecological systems that purposely employed natural complexity for […]
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Fatemeh Jahanmiri is currently completing her PhD in Urban Planning at the University of Waterloo under the supervision of Dr. Dawn Parker. Given her background in architecture and her interest in nature-inspired design, she followed her research in the field of complexity exploring the origin of fractal patterns in cities.
Supported by WICI, she […]
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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: Sasha Gutfraind (University of Texas at Austin)
Title: Crime and Terror: Mathematical Exploration and Modeling of Dark Networks
Date: Thursday, November 17, 2011
Category: Non-WICI Event
Abstract:
The study of Complex Networks (CN), that is, unstructured graphs, has originated in the 1970s in sociological research and has since been applied […]
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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: 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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Speaker: George Francis
Title: World and Other Systems: A Challenge to WICI
Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Category: Talk
For WICI to realize its potential, argues Professor George Francis of Environment and Resource Studies at the University of Waterloo, it should draw upon a cadre of people familiar with different approaches to […]
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Speaker: Brenda Zimmerman
Title: Applications of Complexity Science to Healthcare
Date: Thursday, December 11, 2008
Category: Talk
Professor Brenda Zimmerman of the Schulich School of Business examines how complexity science has changed behaviors, decision making, and design in healthcare practice and public policy in the UK, USA, and Canada.
Speaker: Stuart A. Kauffman
Title: The Evolution of Economic Wealth and Innovation
Date: Monday, October 27, 2008
Category: Talk
Stuart Kauffman, one of the founders of the field of complex systems, explains the principles that he proposes underlie innovation and economic growth. He illustrates these principles with real world examples from his […]
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