Events

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 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.

WICI Speaker Series with Thomas Bury: Critical Transitions in Cardiac Systems

Thursday, May 2, 2024

12:30 p.m.

WICI World Café for faculty and/or students interested in complex systems.

WICI Speaker Series event with Dr. Enayat Moallemi: Embracing Complexity in Sustainability Transitions

WICI Fall 2024 Open House Event at University of Waterloo

WICI Speaker Series and Social presents Jerome Warren on Cooperative Economics and Management at Together We're Bitter Cooperative Brewing (Kitchener, Ontario) on Sunday, October 27

Ira Allen, Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Writing, and Digital Media Studies at Northern Arizona University, discusses how "witnessing" offers a democratic way to navigate societal collapse as the infrastructures of our lifeworld decomplexify while individual efforts to understand that world increase in complexity. ​

WICI Speaker Series with James Shelley on Monday March 17 from 3 - 4:30

The University of Waterloo, in partnership with the Balsillie School of International Affairs, the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation, and Future Cities Institute will host an international workshop to convene and build the capacities of the global climate city data governance community. This two-day in-person workshop will be held on April 21-22, 2025 at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Canada.