2024 Speaker Videos
Critical transitions in cardiac systems - May 2, 2024
Thomas Bury, Postdoctoral Researcher, McGill University Faculty of Medicine
Social Finance, Investment Readiness, and Community Wealth Building - March 27, 2024 (A WICI-WISIR Talk at Kitchener City Hall)
Sean Geobey, Associate Professor, School of Environment, Enterprise and Development
The Organization of the U.S. Economy from a Complex Systems Perspective - March 12, 2024
Robert L. Axtell, Professor of Computational Social Science, George Mason University
Community Wealth Building - February 14, 2024 (A WICI-WISIR Panel Discussion at Kitchener City Hall)
- Naudia Banton, Manager of Waterloo Region Small Business Centre
- Trevor Charles, Executive Director of LiftOFF
- Eric Avner, President and CEO of Waterloo Region Community Foundation
- Carla Leon, President and CEO of Just Like Family Home Care
Cybernetic Aesthetics - January 29, 2024
Heather A. Love, Assistant Professor of English, University of Waterloo
2023 Speaker Videos
AI and the Transformation of Social Sciences - November 23, 2023
Igor Grossman, Professor of Psychology, University of Waterloo
"Toward a Complex Systems Framework for Creativity and Cultural Evolution" - October 12, 2023
Liane Gabora, Professor of Psychology, University of British Columbia - Okanagan
"WICI-Fields "Math for Complex Climate Challenges" Workshop - May 1- 4, 2023 (videos available on the Fields YouTube channel)
WICI Virtual Book Club: "The Ministry for the Future" - April 13, 2023
Moderated by Dawn Parker, Professor, School of Planning, University of Waterloo
2022 Speaker Videos
"Microbial Research and the Circular Bioeconomy" - November 9, 2022
Trevor Charles, Professor of Biology, University of Waterloo
WICI Virtual Book Club: "The Little Animals" - March 8, 2022
Sarah Tolmie, Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Waterloo
2021 Speaker Videos
"World after Covid" - March 4, 2021
Igor Grossmann, Professor of Psychology, University of Waterloo
"Mapping Canadian Complex Systems Scholarship" - January 6, 2021
Jinelle Piereder, PhD Candidate in Global Governance, Balsillie School of International Affairs
2020 Speaker Videos
"It's Complex: Future of Modelling and Simulation in a Changing Geospatial Data Environment" - September 22, 2020
Dr. Raja Sengupta, Associate Professor of Geography & School of Environment, McGill University
"Participatory Complexity: From Epistemic Drift to Epistemic Shift" - July 16, 2020
Dr. William Sutherland, and panelists Chrystopher Nehaniv, Nora Bateson, Zachary Stein, Alayne Adams,
Presented jointly with McGill Centre for Convergence of Health and Economics 'Convergent Webinar Series'
"Life, but not Alive" - February 6, 2020
Dr. Kate Adamala, Assistant Professor of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development at University of Minnesota
2019 Speaker Videos
"Our Changing Biosphere: Understanding our Future from First Principles" - November 15, 2019
Dr. Mary O’Connor, Associate Professor of Zoology, Associate Director of the Centre for Biodiversity, University of British Columbia (UBC)
How and Why do Cultures Change? - October 9, 2019
Dr. Michael Varnum, Associate Professor of Psychology at Arizona State University (ASU)
Origins: How the Earth Shaped Human History - September 17, 2019
Dr. Lewis Dartnell, Presenter, author and astrobiology researcher at University of Westminster, London, UK
Socio-Hydrology Opportunities and Challenges Workshop - August 27, 2019
Systems Approaches to Sustainability: Climate, Air Pollution, and Toxic Substances - March 26, 2019
Dr. Noelle Selin-Eckley, Associate Professor in the Institute for Data, Systems and Society and the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Director of Technology and Policy Program, MIT
Graduate Fellowship Awardees: Research Symposium - February 26, 2019
- Amanda Raffoul (School of Public Health and Health Sciences): Are we (unintentionally) doing more harm than good? Systems Approaches to the Prevention of Eating-and-Weight-Related Disorders
- Kevin Church(Applied Math): The Hidden Geometry of Complex Dynamics and How to Exploit It
- Katharine Zywert(School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability): Social-Ecological Systems Change and the Future of Human Health
Demystifying Language and Breaking Down Barriers in Complexity Science and Methods - January 29, 2019
- Dr. Sharon Kirkpatrick, University of Waterloo, School of Public Health & Health Systems
- Dr. James Shelley, Western University, Research and Knowledge Translation Coordinator, Health Sciences
- Dr. William Sutherland, Founder and Director of the Institute for Complexity and Connection Medicine
2018 Speaker Videos
Wisdom in a Complex World: Measurement, Utility, and Interventions - November 13, 2018
Dr. Igor Grossman, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Waterloo
WICI Conference on Modelling Complex Urban Environments: June 21-22 2018
- Alex Anas "Urban Logistics: How Delivery Services, Transportation Network Companies and Autonomous Vehicles Add Complexity to Urban Modeling"
- Hedwig van Delden "Can Complex Systems Modelling Provide Support to Policy?"
- Pamela Robinson "Canadian Smart Cities: What an Innovation Challenge Tells Us About Our Near Future"
2017-2018 Speaker Videos
Ricard Solé "Synthetic Evolutionary Transitions: From Cells to Brains and Ecosystems" April 24, 2018
Madhur Anand, Roald Hoffmann & Rae Armantrout "Poetry and Complexity – Readings and Discussions" March 27, 2018
Carla Restrepo "From Sandpiles to Real Mountains - Complex Dynamics of Tropical Mountainscapes" February 27, 2018
Mark Crowley "Using Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning toTame Spatially Spreading Processes" October 25, 2017
Johan Koskinen "Analysing Covert Networks from Unstructured Sources" October 2, 2017
WICI Interdisciplinary Conference on Resilience in Complex Natural and Human Systems: Living on the Precipice (May 16 & 17, 2017):
- Ann Kinzig "Extending Resilience Beyond Small-Scale Natural Resource Systems: A Help or a Hindrance for Human Well Being?"
- Vanessa Schweizer "Investigating Resilience and Transformability in Human Systems"
- Mark Constas "Resilience and the Measurement of Recovery in Development Settings"
- Philip Beesely "New Sentient Architecture"
- Simron Singh "System Collapse, Tipping Points and Complex Disasters: Nicobar Islands in the Aftermath of the 2004 Tsunami"
- Mathew Bonds "Ecology of Poverty, Disease, and Health Care Delivery: A New Model District in Madagascar"
2016-17 Speaker videos
Professor Sara Walker “Bio from Bit: Quantifying the Origins of Life”March 7, 2017
Dr. Alexander Wong “Deep Learning with Darwin: Evolutionary Synthesis of Operational Deep Intelligence” February 21, 2017
Blake LeBaron "Self-Generating Economic Forecast Heterogeneity" January 24, 2017
Matt Hammond "Nature in a bottle: Incorporating Real-World Complexity into Designer Ecosystems" November 22, 2016
Dawn Parker "Urban Growth and Change Research Group Symposium" November 22, 2016
Jon Mackay "Infighting Among House Republicans: Leaders, Factions and Complex Networks of Interests"October 25, 2016
2015-16 Speaker Videos
Melanie Mitchell "Using Analogy to Recognize Visual Situations" May 26, 2016
Tuomas Yiä-Anttila "Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks" April 20, 2016
Cesar Hidalgo "Why Information Grows" February 23, 2016
Wendell Wallach "A Dangerous Master: How to Keep Technology from Slipping Beyond our Control" February 10, 2016
Jane Heffernan "Multi-Scale Modelling of Infectious Diseases" January 26, 2016
Sarah Burch "Transformative Sustainability Governance: Triggering Change on an Urban Planet" November 13, 2015
Dr. Vakhtang Putkaradze "Dynamics and Control of Flexible Solar Towers" October 27, 2015
2014 - 15 Speaker videos
Jack Goldstone "Democracy and Development: Getting Away from Linear Thinking to True Understanding" March 31, 2015
Dawn Parker and Sarah Tolmie "Bridges Lecture: Dancing the Math of Complex Systems" March 13, 2015
Lewis Dartnell "The Knowledge: How to Rebuild our World from Scratch" March 11, 2015
Derek Robinson "Discovering the Themes of Complexity Science in Land Use Modeling" February 24, 2015
Hans de Sterck "Mathematical modelling of social spreading processes" January 27, 2015
Dr. Sander van der Leeuw "Invention and Innovation: The Long Term" January 13, 2015
Dr. John McLevey "Collaborating On-Line: An Analysis of Communication Networks for Linux Kernel Developers" December 2, 2014
2013-14 Speaker Videos
Scott Heckbert "Agent-Based Modelling And GIS: Applications To Land Use Change And Environmental Modelling" May 26, 2014
Marcin Jakubowski "Open Source Ecology: Towards the Open Source Economy" May 15, 2014
Mireille E. Broucke "Reach Control Problem" March 31, 2014
Paul Thagard "Creative Cognition In Social Innovation" December 3, 2013
Data Visualization and Analysis Symposium November 21, 2013
- Terry Stewart "Validating Models of Cognition"
- Brian Ingalls "Local and Global Sensitivity Analysis Connect Model Parameters to System Behaviour in a Model of Beta-Cell Metabolism"
- Dawn Parker "Tracing the Impacts of Land-Market Structure on Urban Growth"
- Mike Hudson "Problems in Cosmology and the Upcoming Data Avalanche"
- Przemyslaw Grabowicz "Fast Visualization of Relevant Portions of Large Dynamic Networks"
Data Visualization and Analysis Symposium November 22, 2013
- Steve Williams "A Framework for Decision Making in Social Innovation Lab Processes"
- Kirsten Robinson "Using Models in Social Innovation Labs: Prototype Models of Agro-Economic Systems in Southern Ontario to Support Innovation in Food System Policy"
- Elliott Miller & Sarah Hogland "Visualizing a Complex System: The Use of Dance as a Data Visualization Tool"
- Sheelagh Carpendale "Interactive Visualization"
Chris Eliasmith "Handling The Complexities Of Large-Scale Brain Models" October 23, 2013
Sheldon Soloman "Afraid Of The Dark: Humanity At The Crossroads" October 4, 2013
Brian Neff "Traps And Transformations Of Social-Ecological Systems: Commentary From The Caribbean" October 2, 2013
2012-13 Speaker Videos
Marc Hurwitz "Leadership: It’s Pretty Simple… By Itself" April 16, 2013
Tobias Shröder "Changing Minds About Cars: Modeling the Adoption of Innovations in Transportation" February 26, 2013
Chris Bauch "How Mathematics Can Help Explain Vaccine Scares and Associated Disease Dynamics" February 5, 2013
Dan Lizotte "Possible Futures: Complexity in Sequential Decision-Making" January 22, 2013
2011-12 Speaker Videos
Darla Munroe "The Interdependence of Forest Transition Pathways at the Household Level in Yunnan, China" April 25, 2012
Matto Mildenberger "Exploring the Possibility Space of Ideological Change" March 29, 2012
Shreyas Sundaram "Reaching Agreement in Complex Networks: Avoiding the Influence of Extreme Agents" March 20, 2012
Carla Gomes "Computational Sustainability" Computer Science Colloquium on Computational Sustainability March 7, 2012
Steve Mock "The End of Economic Growth: Social Regression or New Beginning?" February 28, 2012
Joshua Armstrong "Clearing the Fog of Geriatrics: Applying Complex Systems Thinking to the Health and Care of Older Adults" February 14, 2012
Michael Beeler "Modeling Complex Healthcare Environments Using Discrete-Event Simulation: A Case Study of Mass Immunization Clinics" January 24, 2012
Katherine Larson "Social Distance Games" December 6, 2011
Sasha Gutfraind "Crime and Terror: Mathematical Exploration and Modelling of Dark Networks" Applied Mathematics Colloquium November 17, 2011
Mark Hancock "Leveraging Physical Actions to Interact with Digital Surfaces" November 1, 2011
Monica Cojocaru "Objective and Subjective Factors: Modelling Consumer Behaviour From Individual to Population Scale" October 25, 2011
Shreyas Sundaram "Diffusing Information and Reaching Agreement in Networks: Convergence and Resilience" September 27, 2011
2010-11 Speaker Videos
Mike Batty "Complexity, Scaling and Cities" March 31, 2011
Steve Purdey "Steady State Economics" March 23, 2011
Marten Scheffer "Early Warning Signs for Critical Transitions" March 7, 2011
Land-Change Science Seminar February 16, 2011
- Eric Lambin "Land Use Change in the Globalization Era"
- Peter Deadman "Examining Household and Lot Effects on Land Use Change in the Brazilian Amazon"
- Raymond Cabrera "How do Assumptions of Decision-Making Methods Affect Agent-Based Models of Land Use Change?"
- Christophe Le Page "Implementation of a Companion Modeling (ComMod) Process to Mediate Land Use Conflicts in Nan, Thailand"
Kevin Dunbar "From DNA To Complex Cognition: How We Learn, Discover, And Create The World" November 4, 2010
John R. Clymer "Simulation-Based Engineering Of Complex Systems" October 2010
2009-10 Speaker Videos
Leigh Tesfatsion "Testing Institutional Arrangements Via Agent-Based Modeling: A U.S. Electricity Market (Part 1) & (Part 2) March 22, 2010
Victor Galaz "Can Information Technology Really Help Save The Planet?" March 9, 2010
Mark Tovey, Michael Nielson and Hassan Masum "Open Source Democracy (Part 1) & (Part 2) February 22, 2010
Jukka Petta Onnela "Harnessing Network Science to Reveal our Digital Footprints" January 26, 2010
J. Doyne Farmer "Laws of Technological Progress" December 7, 2009
Philip Beesley "Responsive Environments: Transitional Fields" November 23, 2009
Brad Bass "Revitalizing Central Place Theory: Cities As Experiments On A Dynamic Fitness Landscape" November 10, 2009
Karen Houle "Is our Concept of Moral Responsibility Newtonian?" October 26, 2009
Dawn Parker "Market Activity, Landscaping Behavior, And Carbon Sequestration In Ex-Urban Landscapes" October 1, 2009
2008-09 Speaker Videos
George Francis "World and Other Systems: A Challenge to WICI" April 14, 2009
Lee Smolin "Symmetries in Economic Models and Their Consequences" March 18, 2009
Matthew Hoffman "Governance Avalanches: A Self-Organized Criticality Perspective on Innovation in Global Governance" February 25, 2009
Frances Westley "Complexity Approach to Change and Transformation" February 10, 2009
Keith Hipel "Trade Versus the Environment: Strategic Settlement from a Systems Engineering Perspective" January 28, 2009
Thomas Homer-Dixon "Ingenuity Theory: Adaptation Failure and Societal Crisis" January 13, 2009
Brenda Zimmerman "Applications of Complexity Science to Healthcare" December 11, 2008
Paul Thagard "Changing Minds About Climate Change" November 19, 2008
Stuart Kauffman "The Evolution of Economic Wealth and Innovation" October 27, 2008