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The Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation (WICI) is currently seeking a part-time Administrative Coordinator.

WICI is a cross-faculty institute at the University of Waterloo that supports complex systems scholarship.  The institute is up for renewal in spring 2020. For more information, please see the Director’s Welcome.

WICI core member, Professor Paul Thagard was interviewed by CBC news about The psychology of climate change: Why people deny the evidence.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/climate-change-psychology-1.4920872

The Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation invites applications for small grants to support development and submission of funding proposals to support complex systems research at the University of Waterloo ($5,000-$10,000, commensurate with the scope of the developed proposal).

Analysis and visualization of the output data from complex simulation models gets increasing attention within modelling as well as within big data analysis communities. We invite you to join a thematic session and a complementary workshop on this topic (see the description below) to be held at the International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs’2016) in Toulouse, France, on July 10-14, 2016.

We’re pleased to announce an exciting range of upcoming talks for our winter and spring 2016 Waterloo Institute for Complexity & Innovation (WICI) Speakers Series.

Dear IEMSS members and research colleagues,

We invite your registration for iEMSs workshop A4: "The MIRACLE Prototype" - a hands-on demo of a new tool for visualization, analysis, and workflow management for agent-based models of socioeconomic systems.

If you are studying any aspect of human-environment interactions, or interested in applying complex systems theory with agent-based modeling (ABM) techniques to your research, please join our weekly discussion group.

Who can participate: any graduate/undergraduate/post-docs from a wide range of research fields, including geography, biology, urban planning, transportation system design, economics, computer science, and theoretical physics.

Meeting time: TBD, but the group will meet for one hour each week.

Department chair
Computational and data sciences
George Mason University

The George Mason University, College of Science, Department of Computational and Data Sciences seeks applications for a senior scholar with significant administrative experience to serve as the chair of the Department of Computational and Data Sciences.

WICI affiliate researcher Dr. William Sutherland has released a new book, Grand Rounds: Healing Wisdom for a Complex World. The book is available for free on Smashwords and iBooks.

Grand Rounds: Healing Wisdom for a Complex World

WICI affiliate researcher Madhur Anand‘s debut poetry collection, A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes, examines the intersection between art and science, mixing “the beauty of her perceived world” with “the scintillant language of scientific evidence” in poems that “interrogate crises of personal and global concern.”