Dear members of the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation,
MAY 22-25, 2019 | BSIA, WATERLOO
Several WICI members are participating in talks and special sessions this week at the CANSEE Engaging Economies of Change conference, which opens tomorrow and runs until Saturday.
A detailed program can be viewed online here.
Judges reviewed a total of 24 complex-systems presentations and chose seven winners at April's Student Project Symposium. Choosing the top three in each category was not an easy task! Thank you to all who participated to make this event a success, and a special thanks to Kirsten Wright for her hard work in organizing and promoting the event. Congratulations to our winners!
| Graduate Session Winners | Undergraduate Session Winners |
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1st Prize - Kathryn Fair 'Climate change & the future of forest-grassland mosaics' |
1st Prize - Erica J. McDonald 'Examining the association between marginalization and emergency room wait times in Ontario' |
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2nd Prize - Hazem Ahmed 'Addressing barriers to adoption of source-control stormwater management practices on private residential yards in Kitchener/Waterloo' |
2nd Prize - Amanda Pereira 'Quality of care for persons with concurrent substance use and mental health' |
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3rd Prize (tied) - Ajar Sharma 'Cauvery River: Path dependencies and feedbacks in water sharing conflicts' 3rd Prize (tied) - Julia Goyal 'Navigating health and safety in Airbnb’s self-regulating system' |
3rd Prize - Mona Qutub 'Potential unintended consequences of co-operative education: Food insecurity among undergraduate students at the University of Waterloo' |
Graduate Session prize winners, from left to right: Hazem Ahmed, Kathryn Fair, Julia Goyal (missing from photo: Ajar Sharma)
Undergraduate session prize winners (left to right): Erica McDonald, Amanda Pereira and Mona Qutub
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.