Events

WICI and the Waterloo Centre for Microbial Research (WCMR) Present: 

"Life, but not alive" with Kate Adamala

Watch the video recording of this talk on Vimeo.com

Join WICI and the Waterloo Centre for Microbial Research in welcoming Kate Admala on Thursday, February 6th in DC 1302.

"It's Complex: Future of Modelling and Simulation in a Changing Geospatial Data Environment"

View the recording of this talk on Vimeo.com

Join us for a WICI Webinar on Wednesday, January 6th @ 2 p.m. via Webex.

Please join us for the Waterloo Institute for Complexity & Innovation's Open House on Wednesday, September 21st, 2022 in DC 1301 from 1 - 2:30 p.m. Network with faculty and students interested in complex systems!

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

WICI Virtual Book Club: The Ministry for the Future

Thursday April 13th at 12 p.m. (Register in advance via Eventbrite)

Hosted by the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation and Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences

In "The Ministry for the Future", author Kim Stanley Robinson paints a dystopian, yet ultimately hopeful picture of our planet's next century. In this hybrid fiction/non-fiction book, Robinson hypothesizes how a combination of novel policies and major societal changes might allow humans, and the planet that houses us, to emerge positively from the climate crisis.

We invite readers to share in a discussion of Robinson's proposed resolutions to the climate crises, viewed through a complex systems lens, in advance of the upcoming WICI/Fields "Mathematics for Complex Climate Challenges" workshop which will run May 1st - 4th at the University of Waterloo.

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

WICI Speaker Series on Cybernetic Aesthetics with Heather A. Love

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 Speaker Series with Thomas Bury: Critical Transitions in Cardiac Systems

Thursday, May 2, 2024

12:30 p.m.