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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Social Distance Games

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Speaker: Katherine Larson
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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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: Mike Batty
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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Speaker: Brad Bass
Title: Revitalizing Central Place Theory: Cities as Experiments on a Dynamic Fitness Landscape
Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Category: Talk

Cities are analogous to peaks on a dynamic fitness landscape. Brad Bass of the University of Toronto discusses this concept theoretically and illustrates it using a geographical analysis of […]

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