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
A video of Dr. Goldstone’s talk can be found below or on our Vimeo page.
Abstract
The relation between Democracy and Economic Development has long been debated, […]
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Title: Social Distance Games
Date: Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
Category: Seminar
Professor Kate Larson, Associate Professor with the Cheriton School of Computer Science (University of Waterloo), lectures on coalitional games. These games involve players interacting together in tandem to accomplish more together than they would individually. Her work, done […]
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Title: Complexity, Scaling and Cities
Date: Thursday, March 31, 2011
Category: Talk
While in the past, systems were often understood as static, controllable, and well-defined, new research reveals that many systems are chaotically dynamic and unclassifiable. In this seminar, Mike Batty of the University College London Centre for Advanced […]
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