Speaker: Robert Spekkens
Title: On Ranking Merit: Applying the Page-Rank Algorithm to the Electoral Process
Date: Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Category: Talk
Communities often struggle to rank their members according to some intangible notion of merit using only the opinions of those members and without any pre-existing ranking. Robert Spekkens, a post-doctoral […]
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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: 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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