Speaker: Carla Gomes
The Cheriton School of Computer Science is hosting a distinguished lecture by Professor Deborah Estrin on June 23 at 3 p.m. Full details are available below or on the Cheriton School’s website.
Speaker: Deborah Estrin, Cornell NYC Tech
Speaker: Mary-Lou Zeeman, Bowdoin College
Alexander “Sasha” Gutfraind
Masters in applied math, University of Waterloo
PhD, Cornell University
Lecturer, Loyola University Medical Center
Adjunct RA professor – University of Illinois at Chicago
Chief health data scientist, Uptake Technologies
Stuart Kauffman, one of the founders of the field of complex systems, explains the principles that he proposes underlie innovation and economic growth. He illustrates these principles with real-world examples from his experience in industry and academe.
Paul Thagard, professor of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo, addresses how neurocomputational models of explanatory and emotional coherence can explain belief change and resistance. He discusses how feedback loops can influence minds and societies at multiple levels.
Professor Brenda Zimmerman of the Schulich School of Business examines how complexity science has changed behaviours, decision making, and design in healthcare practice and public policy in the U.K., U.S.A., and Canada.
Professor Thomas Homer-Dixon of the Balsillie School of International Affairs draws from his research on how societies adapt to complex stress to explore the factors making the world’s problems harder to solve and the factors that impede the delivery of solutions to these problems when and where we need them.
Professor Keith Hipel of systems design engineering at the University of Waterloo discusses applications of graph theory to conflict analysis and resolution. His research focuses on local, national, and global conflicts between the values underlying economic trading agreements and the principles of environmental stewardship.
Social innovation alters the basic routines and beliefs of a society, but the durability and scale necessary to generate this momentum requires enough interactive opportunity and action. Professor Frances Westley, director of Social Innovation Generation at the University of Waterloo, discusses how disruptive social innovations can address seemingly intractable social problems such as environmental degradation, and how a society able to consistently generate social innovations can become socially and ecologically resilient.