Speaker: Dr. Vakhtang Putkaradze, Centennial Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Alberta
Title: Dynamics and control of flexible solar towers
Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Location: MC 5501
Time: 2-4pm (Join us starting at 2pm for coffee and conversation. The lecture will start at 2:30pm.)
A video of […]
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Speaker: Dr. Tuomas Ylä-Anttila
Title: Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks
Date: Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Abstract
Faced with the threat of climate change, some countries have managed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, while in other countries emissions keep growing. What explains this national variation? The 20-country comparative research project Comparing Climate Change Policy […]
Continue Reading →The Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation (WICI) is thrilled to present two talks with Lewis Dartnell, best-selling author of The Knowledge: How To Rebuild Our World From Scratch (www.the-knowledge.org).
Maybe it was an asteroid impact, a nuclear war, or a viral pandemic. Whatever the cause, the world as we know it has […]
Continue Reading →Our next WICI Talk is Tuesday, February 24th with Dr. Derek Robinson, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of Waterloo. He will be presenting a talk entitled, “Discovering the Themes of Complexity Science in Land Use Modelling.”
Please join us starting at 2:00pm in M3-2134 for coffee […]
Continue Reading →Please join us Tuesday, January 27, 2015 for a talk with WICI Member Dr. Hans De Sterck, a Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Waterloo.
His lecture, entitled “Mathematical modelling of social spreading processes,” will examine how mathematical and computational modelling techniques can offer new ways to study social spreading processes, […]
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Speaker: Dr. Lewis Dartnell
Title: Knowledge and Civilization: Technical and Theoretical Considerations
Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 – 2-4pm
Location: DC 1302
You may also be interested in attending Lewis Dartnell’s talk on the evening of Wednesday, March 11th at THEMUSEUM in downtown Kitchener. He will be speaking in more […]
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A WICI Talk with Dr. Lewis Dartnell
Presented by the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation (WICI) in co-operation with THEMUSEUM and Words Worth Books
Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Time: 7pm-8:30pm
Location: THEMUSEUM (10 King Street West, Kitchener, ON)
Admission: $5+HST – includes admission to THEMUSEUM’s current […]
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, […]
Continue Reading →Understanding Tipping Points in Climate and Sustainability
Mary Lou Zeeman, Bowdoin College
Waterloo Mathematics – Public Lecture
Monday, August 18, 2014
QNC 2502
4:30 p.m.
(Refreshments at 4:30 p.m., lecture begins at 5:00 p.m)
Abstract
The term “tipping point” describes the moment when a system suddenly changes state, with no […]
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