WICI workshop: Leveraging systems approaches to improve human & planetary health
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.
Proposals are invited from postdoctoral fellows and faculty at a
Canadian university for workshop funding on topics relating to complex
systems. The workshop will receive $8,000 in funding support from the
Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation (WICI). WICI is an
Dr. Ricard Solé is a Professor, at the Complex Systems Lab, in Barcelona Biomedical Research Park, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He will present on April 24th, 2018, in DC 1302 at 2:00 p.m.
Abstract: Evolution is marked by well-defined events involving profound innovations
Dr. Carla Restrepo is a Professor at the College of Natural Sciences, Biology, UPR, Puerto Rico.
She will be presenting her WICI Talk : "From sandpiles to real mountains - Complex dynamics of tropical mountainscapes mediated by landslides" on February 27, 2018 at 2 p.m. in the Davis Centre Rm.1302.
Understanding covert and criminal behaviour from a social network perspective is gathering increasing currency. While the standard social network paradigm assumes that network data has been collected though eliciting ties from respondents in a predefined set of individuals, covert networks pose obviously challenges in several respects. Firstly, the individuals in the network might not be known a prior. Secondly, what constitutes a relevant set of individuals and ties might be ambiguous.
WICI Open House - Sept. 20, 2017 - DC 1301
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.