Speaker: Joshua Armstrong
Title: Clearing the Fog of Geriatrics: Applying Complex System Thinking to the Health and Care of Older Adults
Date: Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
Category: Seminar
Joshua Armstrong, PhD Candidate in Health Studies & Gerontology (University of Waterloo), discusses the application of complex systems thinking to the health and care […]
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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: 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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