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News
Planetary Health Round Table
WICI and the Canadian Network for Complex Systems (CNCS) national network are cosponsoring an event with the Senate, in Ottawa on Wednesday, on planetary health and governance in complex systems.
WICI cohosting AMMCS-ALIFE Congress Waterloo, August 2026
The Waterloo Institute for Complexity (WICI) is pleased to announce that we will cohost the premier International Conference on Artificial Life next year, 17-21 August 2026. The conference theme for ALIFE 2026 is "Living and Lifelike Complex Adaptive Systems".
The ALIFE meeting will be held jointly with the prestigious Applied Mathematics, Modeling and Computational Science (AMMCS) conference at Wilfrid Laurier University, as part of the AMMCS-ALIFE Congress.
New WISIR Director Announcement
Dr. Maryam Mohiuddin Ahmed Appointed Director of the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience (WISIR)
The Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience (WISIR) is pleased to announce that Dr. Maryam Mohiuddin Ahmed has been appointed as its new Director.