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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.”

2015 Summer Solstice
7th International Conference on Discrete Models of Complex Systems
June 17-19, 2015, The Fields Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/14-15/complexsys15/

You are invited to submit an abstract and/or participate at the 2015 Summer Solstice International Conference on Discrete Models of Complex Systems.

Agent-based models (ABMs) are simulation models that have been used to study complex systems in a wide range of academic fields including biology, computer science, environmental science, economics, geography, planning, and sociology among others.

The Economics for the Anthropocene project is seeking nine PhD or master's students to join their international research initiative in fall 2015. This is not only for students of economics  — they are seeking to build a multidisciplinary co-hort. Application deadlines are in February 2015.

For more information please visit http://e4a-net.org/how-to-apply/

Are you a university student interested in communication, collaboration networks and open source communities? Are you looking for a chance to win $500? Then WICI has a challenge for you!

In conjunction with John McLevey’s talk, WICI is hosting its first challenge of the 2014-2015 year.

Each year WICI hosts a Speakers Series that brings distinguished guests to University of Waterloo to present on topics of their choice relevant to complexity science. The series also offers local scholars and WICI members an opportunity to share their work with the university’s faculty and students, and the local community.

This year’s WICI Speaker Series will feature talks by Sander van der Leeuw, Jack Goldstone, Hans De Sterck, John McLevely, and Derek Robinson, as well as a Bridges Lecture being delivered by WICI member Sarah Tolmie and WICI director Dawn Parker.

WICI is hiring an information technician to support the WICI website, advance WICI’s suite of software and hardware tools, and provide general technical support.

For more information, please visit our Employment page.