Speaker: Dr. Jack Goldstone
Title: Democracy and Development: Getting away from Linear Thinking to True Understanding
Date: Tuesday, March 31st, 2015, 2-4pm
Location: DC 1302
Abstract
The relation between Democracy and Economic Development has long been debated, as to whether it is causal and in which direction. Yet this entire debate is an artifact […]
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Megan Bean works in adult education, primarily in teaching English as a second or other language. She received her undergraduate degree in English Literature from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland; a Postgraduate Diploma in Education from the University of College Cork, Ireland; and a Masters in Education from the Open University, England. Her […]
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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: 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: Kevin Dunbar
Title: From DNA to Complex Cognition: How we Learn, Discover, and Create the World
Date: Thursday, November 4, 2010
Category: Talk
Kevin Dunbar has been engaged in studying how people engage in complex reasoning, social interactions, and real-world problem solving for over 20 years. He will discuss the key […]
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Speaker: John R. Clymer
Title: Simulation-Based Engineering of Complex Systems
Date: Wednesday, October 6 and 7, 2010
Category: Talk, Course
John R. Clymer of California State University Fullerton (CSUF) describes the ExtendSim and OpEMCSS library toolsets as methods for designing models based on complex, context-sensitive interactions.
Simulation-Based Engineering of Complex […]
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Speakers: David Robinson, Ivan Filion, and Kirsten Robinson
Title: Revitalizing the Georgian Bay Fisheries: Complicated, Complex, Contested, and Confused
Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Category: Seminar
A major restoration project for Georgian Bay calls for re-imagining the ecosystems management strategy and its relationship to the local economy. The problem is complicated, and […]
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Speaker: Karen Houle
Title: Is our Concept of Moral Responsibility Newtonian?
Date: Monday, October 26, 2009
Category: Talk
Professor Karen Houle of the University of Guelph argues that, while we now recognize the genuine complexity of many issues, we have yet to rethink the basic—and oddly Newtonian—concepts we use to make normative […]
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Speaker: Thomas Homer-Dixon
Title: Ingenuity Theory: Adaptation Failure and Societal Crisis
Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Category: Talk
Professor Thomas Homer-Dixon of the Balsillie School of International Affairs draws from his research on how societies adapt to complex stress to explore the factors making the world’s problems harder to solve and the […]
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