WICI Complex Systems Student Project Symposium for Graduate and Undergraduate students
Alumni
Amanda Raffoul: Are we (unintentionally) doing more harm than good? Systems Approaches to the Prevention of Eating-and-Weight-Related Disorders
Kevin Church: The Hidden Geometry of Complex Dynamics and How to Exploit It
Katharine Zywert: Social-Ecological Systems Change and the Future of Human Health
Thursday, May 2, 2024 12:30 pm
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2:00 pm
EDT (GMT -04:00)
WICI Speaker Series with Thomas Bury
WICI Speaker Series with Thomas Bury: Critical Transitions in Cardiac Systems
Thursday, May 2, 2024
12:30 p.m.
WICI Director Dr. Sean Geobey and his research team share how their work with the Investment Readiness Program, in partnership with Canadian Community Economic Development Network (CCEDNet), connects with social finance and community-wealth building.
Dr. Robert L. Axtell, Professor of Computational Social Science at George Mason University, illustrates how a ‘complexity economics’ approach using large-scale agent-based computing methodology offers novel insights unavailable from conventional rational expectations equilibrium models.
WICI Director Dr. Sean Geobey brings community leaders Naudia Banton, Manager of Waterloo Region Small Business Centre, Trevor Charles, Executive Director of LiftOFF, Eric Avner, President and CEO of Waterloo Region Community Foundation, and Carla Leon, President and CEO of Just Like Family Home Care, together to share their perspectives on community wealth building.
WICI Speaker Series on Cybernetic Aesthetics with Heather A. Love
WICI Speaker Series on AI and Social Science Research with Dr. Igor Grossmann featuring panellists Dr. Maura Grossman, Dr. Joel Blit, and Dr. Amir-Hossein Karimi
Dr. Liane Gabora applies complex systems to address the question that stimulated her research program: In what sense does culture evolve?