Current undergraduate students

Managing air pollution, toxic substances, and climate change is a complex, linked sustainability challenge. To better inform efforts to address these issues, we need to understand how policies to address emissions translate into societal benefits. In this talk, Dr. Selin will present work from her research group, using a systems approach to better understand air pollutants such as particulate matter, ozone, and mercury.

Tuesday, October 2, 2018 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

WICI Open House

Please join us for the Waterloo Institute for Complexity & Innovation's Open House on Tuesday, October 2nd, 2018, in DC 1301, "The Fishbowl" from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.  Network with faculty and students interested in complex systems.

  • Meet WICI's Director Dr. Dawn Parker and other WICI Members.
  • Learn about upcoming events and initiatives.
  • Light refreshments will be provided.

Join us for the WICI Poetry & Complexity event on Tuesday, March 27, 2018.

Time:   4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Venue:  University of Waterloo,  Davis Centre.  Room 1301.  

View slides from Yacov Haimes' Presentation: "Understanding, Modeling, and Managaing Interdependent Complex Systems of Systems"

A joint seminar sponsored by Waterloo Institute for Complexity & Innovation [WICI] and the Department of Systems Design Engineering.

There have been broad advances in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) in the past decade, especially in the areas of Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning (RL) which allow us to more easily learn predictive models and control policies for large, complex systems than ever before. One subset of problems that remains very challenging are domains that contain some form of spatially spreading process (SSP) where some local features change over time across based on proximity in space.