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This workshop will interest risk analysts seeking solutions for anticipating the potentially good or bad consequences of surprises or unforeseen events when analysing risk. This workshop focuses on system complexity and how it can be leveraged analytically to avoid surprises. The workshop demonstrates and applies both fundamental and state-of-the-art methods and tools for how to specify complex yet poorly characterized systems underlying any decision context.

Wednesday, September 21, 2022 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

WICI Fall 2022 Open House

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.
Thursday, April 13, 2023 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

WICI Virtual Book Club: The Ministry for the Future

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.