Seminar /complexity-innovation/ en Graduate Student Complexity Seminar & Social /complexity-innovation/events/graduate-student-complexity-seminar-social <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Graduate Student Complexity Seminar & Social</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span lang="" about="/complexity-innovation/users/bpanasia" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="" xml:lang="">Brenda Panasiak</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Mon, 05/13/2019 - 13:17</span> <section class="uw-section-spacing--default uw-section-separator--none uw-column-separator--none layout layout--uw-1-col uw-contained-width"><div class="layout__region layout__region--first"> <div class="block block-layout-builder block-inline-blockuw-cbl-copy-text"> <div class="uw-copy-text"> <div class="uw-copy-text__wrapper "> <p> </p><div class="uw-media media media--type-uw-mt-image media--view-mode-uw-vm-standard-image" data-width="220" data-height="165"> <img src="/complexity-innovation/sites/default/files/uploads/images/team-123085_1920.jpg" width="220" height="165" alt="silhouettes of adults in a seminar" loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image" /></div>   <p>New this term, University of ݮƵ graduate students will discuss their complex systems work during a monthly seminar. Join us for a 20 minute talk, followed by a 20-minute discussion and feedback opportunity. Afterwards, everyone who is able is welcome to meet at the Graduate House for food and socializing from 6 p.m. onward. </p> <p>This month, <a href="/complexity-innovation/node/124">Jude H. Kurniawan</a> talks about 'Visualizing different perspectives of energy scenarios' on Thursday, May 16 from 4:30-5:30 in EV3 3401. We hope to see you there!<br /></p> <h2><strong>Visualizing different perspectives of energy scenarios</strong></h2> <p>Jude H. Kurniawan (presenter) and Vanessa J. Schweizer</p> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Studies of energy futures could provide roadmaps toward low-carbon energy transitions. However, many organizations conduct energy futures studies independently producing numerous energy scenarios that project vastly different futures. Stories produced by these scenarios might be very different and it will be challenging to know which scenarios we should base our de</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>cisions upon. Here we apply network analysis to visualize different perspectives of four Canadian energy futures reports. This provides an approach to ‘harmonize’ their stories. Network analysis can visualize the structures of these studies and what portion of a multi-study network each study occupies. We found studies to vary in scope, which may motivate their key findings (focussing either on the economy or the environment). Further, we subjected the full network to community detection to reveal groups of drivers that might be significant for Canadian low-carbon energy transitions. Our findings show that some drivers that are important at the global level are less significant for Canada. Some energy sub-sectors (such as transport and freight) are especially important for Canada. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> Mon, 13 May 2019 17:17:22 +0000 Brenda Panasiak 310 at /complexity-innovation Dr. Rik Logtenberg, June 26, 2025 /complexity-innovation/events/dr-rik-logtenberg-june-26-2025 <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Dr. Rik Logtenberg, June 26, 2025</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span lang="" about="/complexity-innovation/users/tgneal" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="" xml:lang="">Tammy Neal</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Mon, 06/09/2025 - 10:49</span> <section class="uw-contained-width uw-section-spacing--default uw-section-separator--none uw-column-separator--none layout layout--uw-1-col"><div class="layout__region layout__region--first"> <div class="uw-text-align--left block block-layout-builder block-inline-blockuw-cbl-copy-text"> <h2 class="block-title">Dr. Logtenberg - June 26</h2> <div class="uw-copy-text"> <div class="uw-copy-text__wrapper "> <p>We are excited to announce that Dr. Rik Logtenburg will be joining us for a special event you won't want to miss!  Register with the form below to stay updated.</p> <p>🎤<strong>Workshop: </strong>The Futures We Can Build: Coordinating Complexity Across Canada</p> <p>📅 <strong>Date:</strong> June 26, 2025</p> <p>🕒 <strong>Time:</strong> 2:30 pm</p> <p>📍<span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><strong>Location: </strong>United College of University of ݮƵ, Room 164 (Greenhouse)  |  1</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>90 Westmount Road N. , ݮƵ, ON| (formerly St. Paul's College)</p> <p>Stay tuned for more details soon—mark your calendars now!</p> <p><span>Canada is at a crossroads—facing simultaneous crises in climate resilience, economic productivity, housing affordability, and institutional effectiveness. Traditional approaches often fragment efforts, limiting their impact.</span></p> <p><span>How can we coordinate complexity, scale effective solutions, and catalyze systemic innovation across sectors, scales, and communities?</span></p> <p><span>Join Rik Logtenberg, Director of CanAdapt, for an inspiring talk and interactive workshop demonstrating how complexity science, AI, and community-led systems thinking can accelerate Canada’s transition.</span></p> <p><span>In this session, you’ll:</span></p> <ul><li><span>Learn how practical tools—systems mapping, adaptive governance frameworks, and AI-powered decision-support platforms—transform isolated efforts into coordinated action.</span></li> <li><span>Engage in hands-on mapping exercises and collaborative discussions.</span></li> <li><span>Identify leverage points and actionable pathways to scale resilient infrastructure and innovative governance.</span></li> </ul><p><span>Leave empowered, connected, and ready to build the shared futures 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2025 14:49:12 +0000 Tammy Neal 562 at /complexity-innovation WICI Speaker Series: Research Funding as a Complex System /complexity-innovation/events/wici-speaker-series-research-funding-complex-system <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">WICI Speaker Series: Research Funding as a Complex System</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span lang="" about="/complexity-innovation/users/bpanasia" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="" xml:lang="">Brenda Panasiak</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Thu, 02/06/2025 - 11:40</span> <section class="uw-contained-width uw-section-spacing--default uw-section-separator--none uw-column-separator--none layout layout--uw-1-col"><div class="layout__region layout__region--first"> <div class="uw-text-align--left block block-layout-builder block-inline-blockuw-cbl-copy-text"> <h2 class="block-title">WICI Speaker Series with James Shelley</h2> <div class="uw-copy-text"> <div class="uw-copy-text__wrapper "> <h3>Research Funding as a Complex System: Can AI Predict What Peer Reviewers Will Flag as Weaknesses in Grant Applications?</h3> <p><strong>Monday, March 17th, 2025</strong></p> <p><strong>3 - 4:30 p.m. | DC 1302</strong></p> <p>WICI external core member James Shelley returns to ݮƵ to talk about how complexity theory has informed his exciting new project, now a university-wide pilot at Western, on AI use in the research funding competition space. </p> <p><strong>Please join us in person or online via Zoom!</strong></p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="block block-layout-builder block-inline-blockuw-cbl-call-to-action"> <div class="uw-cta "> <div class="uw-cta__center-wrapper"> <aside class="uw-cta__aside org-default"><a href="https://uwaterloo.zoom.us/j/92156064559?pwd=dOaGvsDXxtEUvU9PtG57n7B4T7NPxE.1" class="uw-cta__link"> <div class="uw-cta__wrapper"> <div class="call-to-action-theme-org-default"> <div class="uw-cta__text uw-cta__text--big">Join via Zoom</div> </div> </div> </a> </aside></div> </div> </div> <div class="uw-text-align--left block block-layout-builder block-inline-blockuw-cbl-copy-text"> <h2 class="block-title">Research Funding as a Complex System: Can AI predict what peer reviews will flag as weaknesses in grant applications?</h2> <div class="uw-copy-text"> <div class="uw-copy-text__wrapper "> <p>We consider the peer-review process as a complex system that appears to defy predictive modelling. Noisy and inconsistent reviewer judgments create a well-documented “black box” problem for applicants, as wide variability in human evaluation makes it difficult for researchers to preemptively identify the weaknesses—both real and perceived—that might reduce an application’s competitiveness. Assuming that the peer review process to be a highly permeable, abstruse and unpredictable system, we explore the potential efficacy of intervention strategies. We investigate the potential of leveraging LLMs to “simulate” potential reviewer critiques and hypothesize that exposing applicants to a comprehensive analysis of potential application critiques ahead of submission might mitigate some of the effects of weak inter-rater reliability. In this presentation, we report on the development of Automated Grant Feedback (AGF), a bespoke AI application that leverages historical reviewer critiques from past competitions in order to anticipate areas that adjudicators might flag as critical weaknesses. The result is a simulation of the “randomness dynamics” of peer review, specific to each unique application. As the model incorporates more historical data, its ability for identifying the same weaknesses as human reviewers increases. AGF is both a unique application of complexity theory in research administration and a demonstration of the potential benefit of using frontier AI models to provide rapid, scalable, and in-depth feedback on grant applications, offering researchers a new layer of novel feedback for refining their proposals prior to submission.</p> <hr /><div class="uw-media media media--type-uw-mt-image media--view-mode-uw-vm-standard-image align-left" data-height="" data-width="275"> <img src="/complexity-innovation/sites/default/files/uploads/images/jshelleynew.png" width="275" height="274.33734939759" alt="Photo of James Shelley" loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image" /></div> <p><a href="https://cas.uwo.ca/members/james-shelley.html">James Shelley</a> heads Western University’s <a href="https://cas.uwo.ca/">Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) Lab</a>. This network, established in early 2020, serves as an interdisciplinary hub for the study of complexity and system scholarship at Western University, bridging every faculty on the campus. James is also a Knowledge Mobilization Specialist in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Western University. His role involves piloting strategic initiatives, designing experimental ways to share new research, and delivering professional development training.</p> <p>James especially focuses on novel approaches to using data, automation and storytelling in knowledge mobilization and science communication.  An autodidact at heart, he has a special interest in the overlap of complexity theory, information, narrative, and communications.</p> <p><strong>Please register in advance to attend this talk in person or online via Zoom!</strong></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> Thu, 06 Feb 2025 16:40:46 +0000 Brenda Panasiak 550 at /complexity-innovation WICI Speaker Series - Ira Allen /complexity-innovation/events/wici-speaker-series-ira-allen <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">WICI Speaker Series - Ira Allen</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span lang="" about="/complexity-innovation/users/bpanasia" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="" xml:lang="">Brenda Panasiak</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Fri, 01/17/2025 - 14:48</span> <section class="uw-contained-width uw-section-spacing--default uw-section-separator--none uw-column-separator--none layout layout--uw-1-col"><div class="layout__region layout__region--first"> <div class="uw-text-align--left block block-layout-builder block-inline-blockuw-cbl-copy-text"> <div class="uw-copy-text"> <div class="uw-copy-text__wrapper "> <h2>WICI Speaker Series with Ira Allen</h2> <h2>Witnessing Staggered Collapse: Epistemic Complexity and Systems Decomplexification</h2> <p><strong>Tuesday, February 11th, 2025</strong></p> <p><strong>1:30 - 3 p.m. | DC 1304</strong></p> <p>Ira Allen, Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Writing, and Digital Media Studies at Northern Arizona University, discusses how "witnessing" offers a democratic way to navigate societal collapse as the infrastructures of our lifeworld decomplexify while individual efforts to understand that world increase in complexity. ​</p> <p><strong>Please join us to attend this talk in person!</strong></p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="uw-text-align--left block block-layout-builder block-inline-blockuw-cbl-copy-text"> <div class="uw-copy-text"> <div class="uw-copy-text__wrapper "> <h3>Abstract:</h3> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><strong>Witnessing Staggered Collapse: Epistemic Complexity and Systems Decomplexification</strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>It is common to understand the breakdown of large systems in terms of decomplexification. Linkage density among network nodes in a system decreases, with ever more linkages routing through centralized “supernodes.” In the context of a staggered or seriated collapse of the “CaCaCo” (carbon-capitalism-colonialism assemblage) civilizational structure, i.e., breakdown of an ever-complexifying global modernity with all its ills and ambivalent blessings, this logic holds particularly well for epistemic experience, for individual efforts to parse reality. At a time when reality itself is increasingly dynamically complex in its structuration of individual lives, both harder and more important to parse well, our overall mediation networks have grown ever less complex, with ever more epistemic power concentrated among ever fewer entities. The paradox of collapse is that as the infrastructures (both material and epistemic) of our lifeworld decomplexify, individual efforts to understand that world necessarily increase in complexity. For just one minor example, the platform capitalism breakdown or destruction of peer-to-peer communication platforms as the core of the internet, which Cory Doctorow engagingly termed “enshittification” and others speak of as capitalism’s catabolic phase, relocates epistemic complexity from networks to individuals—but leaves most of us more in the dark than ever before. A Google search can, famously, no longer be relied upon for usable results (and that’s even before the dispositions associated with generative AI). In the rise of Substackers and Twitterstorians that accompanied a widespread loss of faith in traditional epistemic sources (print and online journalism, academia, etc.), we saw one response to such impossible conditions in the emergence of epistemic supernodes, loci of information aggregation that accompanied a loss in overall density of information exchange among ordinary people consuming and producing media. Another way of saying this is to observe that the democratic epistemic promise of the early internet, what Jodi Dean critiqued already in the aughts under the heading “communicative capitalism,” is today cashing out in the intrinsically fascizing development of epistemic supernodes. It is doing so precisely as we most desperately need not superordinate mediation of the world but peer-to-peer communication both locally and globally in the old “information utopia” sense. But we ourselves, in the face of a dynamic large-scale civilizational collapse, are understandably very motivated to outsource our own epistemic capacities to trusted figures of authority, supernodes who can “know for us.” This talk takes up Davide Panagia’s scholarship on “sentimental empiricism” in working out how a turn away from “truth” and toward “witnessing” as epistemic ground might help combat the anti-democratizing tendency to lash our epistemic hopes to supernodal “knowers” (as North American liberals have, for instance, to historian Heather Cox Richardson’s “Letters from an  American”). By witnessing, I mean the knowably imperfect and yet relationally transcendent effort to dispose an audience to hear some otherwise inaudible, and keenly felt, experience of the world. Witnessing cannot save us from collapse, of course. Nothing can prevent CaCaCo’s collapsing (as I detail in the recent <em>Panic Now?</em>). But we may live into that together in better or worse ways. For the dimension of staggered collapse that is a painful transaction between epistemic complexity and systems decomplexification, I suggest, witnessing offers a rhetorical genre that disposes us to potentially more democratic forms of life than do available alternatives.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <hr /><h3>About the speaker:</h3> <div class="uw-media media media--type-uw-mt-image media--view-mode-uw-vm-standard-image align-left" data-height="" data-width="350"> <img src="/complexity-innovation/sites/default/files/uploads/images/iraallen2025.png" width="350" height="232.33901515152" alt="Ira Allen wearing a cowboy hat" loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image" /></div> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><strong><span><span>Ira Allen</span></span></strong><span><span> is associate professor of rhetoric, writing, and digital media studies in the Departments of English and Politics & International Affairs at Northern Arizona University. He teaches courses on digital argumentation, #datapolitics, rhetoric and democracy, and rhetoric and composition theory. Ira’s new book, <em><a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Panic-Now-Dr-Ira-Allen/dp/1621909050">Panic Now? Tools for Humanizing</a> </em>(U Tennessee P, 2024), details the value of and some strategies for judicious panic in an age of staggered collapse, following on the vision of chastened humanism developed in his first book, <em>The Ethical Fantasy of Rhetorical Theory</em> (U Pittsburgh P, 2018). His scholarship and translations appear in such outlets as <em>Degrowth Journal</em>, <em>Journal for the History of Rhetoric</em>, <em>Rhetoric Review</em>, <em>SubStance</em>, <em>Modern Language Notes</em>, <em>College Composition and Communication</em>, <em>Theory & Event</em>, and <em>Political Research Quarterly</em>. Past popular essays on how to respond meaningfully to climate collapse and other dimensions of polycrisis appear in venues such as <em>Jewish Journal</em>, <em>CommonDreams</em>, and <em>Local Philosophy</em>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> Fri, 17 Jan 2025 19:48:51 +0000 Brenda Panasiak 548 at /complexity-innovation WICI Speaker Series & Social: Cooperative Economics and Management /complexity-innovation/events/wici-speaker-series-social-cooperative-economics-and <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">WICI Speaker Series & Social: Cooperative Economics and Management</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span lang="" about="/complexity-innovation/users/bpanasia" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="" xml:lang="">Brenda Panasiak</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Fri, 10/11/2024 - 08:59</span> <section class="uw-contained-width uw-section-spacing--default uw-section-separator--none uw-column-separator--none layout layout--uw-1-col"><div class="layout__region layout__region--first"> <div class="uw-text-align--left block block-layout-builder block-inline-blockuw-cbl-copy-text"> <h2 class="block-title">WICI Speaker Series & Social: Cooperative Economics and Management</h2> <div class="uw-copy-text"> <div class="uw-copy-text__wrapper "> <p><strong><a href="https://www.twbbrewing.com/hours-and-location">Together We're Bitter Cooperative Brewing</a> 300 Mill Street, Unit 1, Kitchener </strong></p> <p><strong>Sunday October 27, 2024 from 12 - 3 p.m.</strong></p> <p>Join WICI and our guest speaker <strong>Jerome Nikolai Warren</strong>, political economist and researcher at the Universities of Cologne and Goethe-University Frankfurt,  and lead editor of the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Cooperative Economics and Management, for a talk about complex systems in cooperative economics. </p> <p>Attendees are welcome to bring guests along and all are welcome to stay after the talk for an informal social with the speaker and other WICI members. Please note the venue closes at 6 p.m. Food and drink will be available for purchase during the event.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="block block-layout-builder block-inline-blockuw-cbl-call-to-action"> <div class="uw-cta "> <div class="uw-cta__center-wrapper"> <aside class="uw-cta__aside org-default"><a href="/complexity-innovation/form/wici-event-registration-form" class="uw-cta__link"> <div class="uw-cta__wrapper"> <div class="call-to-action-theme-org-default"> <div class="uw-cta__text uw-cta__text--big">Register now</div> </div> </div> </a> </aside></div> </div> </div> <div class="uw-text-align--left block block-layout-builder block-inline-blockuw-cbl-copy-text"> <div class="uw-copy-text"> <div class="uw-copy-text__wrapper "> <hr /><h3>About the speaker</h3> <div class="uw-media media media--type-uw-mt-image media--view-mode-uw-vm-standard-image align-left" data-height="" data-width="250"> <img src="/complexity-innovation/sites/default/files/uploads/images/jwarren2024.jpeg" width="250" height="250" alt="Jerome Warren" loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image" /></div> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><strong>Jerome Nikolai Warren</strong> is a German-American political economist and researcher, currently at the Universities of Cologne and Goethe-University Frankfurt, focused on the intersection between cooperation, sustainability and (business) networks. He is the lead editor of the forthcoming (Oct 2024) <a href="https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Cooperative-Economics-and-Management/Warren-Biggiero-Hubner-Ogunyemi/p/book/9781032583853"><em>Routledge Handbook of Cooperative Economics and Management</em></a> as well as of the companion volume, <em>Global Cooperative Economics and Movements</em>, also forthcoming from Routledge.  He has conducted applied research on the cooperative economy of Italy, publishing on the evolution of Italian social and community cooperatives. Between 2022 and 2024, he was Chaire SFPI at the Belgian Royal Academy of Arts, Sciences and Letters, advising the Belgian sovereign wealth fund on its strategies in helping make Belgian firms more sustainable. In addition, he is the founder and president of the Rudolf Rocker Institute and very active in various civil society groups. He is also an avid painter and photographer.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <hr /><h3><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>About the venue</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3> <div class="uw-media media media--type-uw-mt-image media--view-mode-uw-vm-standard-image align-left" data-height="" data-width="250"> <img src="/complexity-innovation/sites/default/files/uploads/images/screen-shot-2024-10-10-at-11.27.00-pm.png" width="250" height="186.86868686869" alt="" loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image" /></div> <p>From academics to welders, community advocates to graphic designers, the six founding members of <strong><a href="https://www.twbbrewing.com">Together We're Bitter Co-operative Brewing </a></strong>came together to build a worker-owned cooperative craft brewery from scratch, with the vision of making business ownership and craft brewery more accessible to the local community. Since opening in 2016, TWB focuses on building strong relationships with community partners, maintaining a well rounded lineup of high quality, approachable beers, and making our community a better place.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="block block-layout-builder block-inline-blockuw-cbl-call-to-action"> <div class="uw-cta "> <div class="uw-cta__center-wrapper"> <aside class="uw-cta__aside org-default"><a href="/complexity-innovation/sites/default/files/uploads/documents/flyer_-978103258385365.pdf" class="uw-cta__link"> <div class="uw-cta__wrapper"> <div class="call-to-action-theme-org-default"> <div class="uw-cta__text uw-cta__text--big">Order the book and save 20%</div> </div> </div> </a> </aside></div> </div> </div> </div> </section> Fri, 11 Oct 2024 12:59:24 +0000 Brenda Panasiak 545 at /complexity-innovation WICI Speaker Series: Embracing Complexity in Sustainability Transitions /complexity-innovation/events/wici-speaker-series-embracing-complexity-sustainability <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">WICI Speaker Series: Embracing Complexity in Sustainability Transitions</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span lang="" about="/complexity-innovation/users/bpanasia" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="" xml:lang="">Brenda Panasiak</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Thu, 07/04/2024 - 01:07</span> <section class="uw-contained-width uw-section-spacing--default uw-section-separator--none uw-column-separator--none layout layout--uw-1-col"><div class="layout__region layout__region--first"> <div class="block block-layout-builder block-inline-blockuw-cbl-call-to-action"> <div class="uw-cta "> <div class="uw-cta__center-wrapper"> <aside class="uw-cta__aside org-default"><a href="https://uwaterloo.zoom.us/j/96109306670?pwd=AinYzvmT87mVQJeejbXPJ1MKb33JFk.1" class="uw-cta__link"> <div class="uw-cta__wrapper"> <div class="call-to-action-theme-org-default"> <div class="uw-cta__text uw-cta__text--big">Join via Zoom</div> <div class="uw-cta__text uw-cta__text--medium">Passcode 964611</div> </div> </div> </a> </aside></div> </div> </div> <div class="uw-text-align--left block block-layout-builder block-inline-blockuw-cbl-copy-text"> <h2 class="block-title">WICI Speaker Series: Embracing Complexity in Sustainability Transitions</h2> <div class="uw-copy-text"> <div class="uw-copy-text__wrapper "> <p class="enlarged"><strong>Monday, August 19th</strong></p> <p class="enlarged"><strong>10 - 11:30 a.m. in DC 1302</strong></p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Enayat-A-Moallemi">Dr. Enayat Moallemi</a>, </strong>Principal Research Scientist at Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), applies a holistic view of system interactions with modelling tools and knowledge co-production methods to design and evaluate decisions for sustainability transitions in an uncertain future.</p> <hr /><div class="uw-media media media--type-uw-mt-image media--view-mode-uw-vm-standard-image align-center"> <img src="/complexity-innovation/sites/default/files/uploads/images/screen-shot-2024-07-05-at-10.50.46-am.png" width="650" height="272" alt="Moallemi: Embracing Complexity in Sustainability Transitions (talk title and photo of speaker)" loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image" /></div> <p>Dr. Enayat Moallemi uses modelling tools and knowledge co-production methods to design and evaluate decisions for sustainability transitions in an uncertain future. He approaches questions with a holistic view of system interactions and multi-sector dynamics between societal (poverty, equity) and environmental (energy, climate, food and land) domains, framed by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).</p> <p><strong>Please register below to participate in this hybrid event:</strong></p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="block block-webform block-webform-block"> <form class="webform-submission-form webform-submission-add-form webform-submission-event-registration-form-form webform-submission-event-registration-form-add-form js-webform-submit-once js-webform-details-toggle webform-details-toggle" data-drupal-selector="webform-submission-event-registration-form-add-form" action="/complexity-innovation/seminar/feed" method="post" id="webform-submission-event-registration-form-add-form" accept-charset="UTF-8"> <fieldset data-drupal-selector="edit-captcha" class="captcha captcha-type-challenge--hcaptcha"><legend class="captcha__title js-form-required 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Jul 2024 05:07:20 +0000 Brenda Panasiak 542 at /complexity-innovation WICI Speaker Series with Thomas Bury /complexity-innovation/events/wici-speaker-series-thomas-bury <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">WICI Speaker Series with Thomas Bury</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span lang="" about="/complexity-innovation/users/bpanasia" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="" xml:lang="">Brenda Panasiak</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Thu, 04/11/2024 - 10:09</span> <section class="uw-contained-width uw-section-spacing--default uw-section-separator--none uw-column-separator--none layout layout--uw-1-col"><div class="layout__region layout__region--first"> <div class="uw-text-align--left block block-layout-builder block-inline-blockuw-cbl-copy-text"> <div class="uw-copy-text"> <div class="uw-copy-text__wrapper "> <h2>Critical Transitions in Cardiac Systems: Towards better prediction and understanding using deep learning</h2> <h3>A WICI Speaker Series event co-hosted with the Department of Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Biology Seminar Series</h3> <p>The human heart is a complex system that can undergo a critical transition to an abnormal rhythm, known as a cardiac arrhythmia. How to predict or assess the risk of cardiac arrhythmia in individual patients with heart disease is not clear. In this talk, Dr. Thomas Bury will demonstrate how deep learning can be combined with mathematical models of the heart to (i) improve prediction of an arrhythmia known as alternans, and (ii) discover mechanisms that can lead to arrhythmia. Methods are validated in vitro using heart cell aggregates and monolayers. Bury will argue that the rapid development of cardiac monitoring techniques is giving rise to exciting opportunities at the interface of cardiology and mathematics. </p> <hr /><div class="uw-media media media--type-uw-mt-image media--view-mode-uw-vm-standard-image align-left" data-height="" data-width="200"> <img src="/complexity-innovation/sites/default/files/uploads/images/screen-shot-2024-04-05-at-12.25.25-pm.png" width="200" height="231.26436781609" alt="Photo of Thomas Bury" loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image" /></div> <p><a href="/complexity-innovation/profiles/thomas-bury">Dr. Thomas Bury</a> is an applied mathematician, data scientist, and TEDx speaker, currently working in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University. His research applies mathematics and artificial intelligence to the natural sciences, including medicine, ecology, and the climate. He is currently developing methods to better predict and classify cardiac arrhythmia. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="uw-text-align--left block block-layout-builder block-inline-blockuw-cbl-copy-text"> <div class="uw-copy-text"> <div class="uw-copy-text__wrapper "> <p class="highlight"><strong><a href="https://uwaterloo.zoom.us/j/95811584192?pwd=NEl4QVEyRUFhOHRJQVFURWdTcW5xQT09">Join via zoom</a>:</strong></p> <p class="highlight"><strong>passcode: 613426</strong></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section><section class="uw-contained-width uw-section-spacing--default uw-section-separator--none uw-column-separator--none layout layout--uw-1-col"><div class="layout__region layout__region--first"> <div class="block block-webform block-webform-block"> <h2 class="block-title">Webform</h2> <form class="webform-submission-form webform-submission-add-form webform-submission-event-registration-form-form webform-submission-event-registration-form-add-form js-webform-submit-once 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about="/complexity-innovation/users/bpanasia" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="" xml:lang="">Brenda Panasiak</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Tue, 02/27/2024 - 15:39</span> <section class="uw-contained-width uw-section-spacing--default uw-section-separator--none uw-column-separator--none layout layout--uw-1-col"><div class="layout__region layout__region--first"> <div class="uw-text-align--left block block-layout-builder block-inline-blockuw-cbl-copy-text"> <div class="uw-copy-text"> <div class="uw-copy-text__wrapper "> <p>WICI Director <a href="/complexity-innovation/profiles/sean-geobey">Dr. Sean Geobey</a> brings his research team to Kitchener City Hall to share how their work with the Investment Readiness Program, in partnership with Canadian Community Economic Development Network (CCEDNet), connects with social finance and community wealth building. </p> <p class="highlight">Join WICI and WISIR at<strong> Kitchener City Hall</strong> on Wednesday, March 27th from 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. for this exciting discussion!</p> <div> <div class="uw-media media media--type-uw-mt-image media--view-mode-uw-vm-standard-image align-left" data-height="" data-width="112"> <img src="/complexity-innovation/sites/default/files/uploads/images/screen-shot-2023-01-11-at-1.52.16-pm.png" width="112" height="133.35941320293" alt="Sean Geobey" loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image" /></div> <p><strong>Dr. Sean Geobey</strong>, Director of WICI, Co-Director of WISIR, is an Associate Professor in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development at the University of ݮƵ. Sean Geobey applies expertise in social innovation theory, sustainable finance, planning, governance, and decision-theory to his research, teaching, and social innovation labs.</p> <p>In-person attendees will be provided a light lunch and an opportunity for informal networking at this event. The talk is open to all WICI and/or WISIR members, University of ݮƵ students, and the public, but guests must register to be included in the lunch!</p> <p><strong>Can't make it in person?</strong> Join remotely via Zoom or watch the recording of this talk which will be available on the WICI website following the event.</p>   </div> <p class="highlight">Please register below to attend:</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="block block-webform block-webform-block"> <form class="webform-submission-form webform-submission-add-form webform-submission-event-registration-form-2-form webform-submission-event-registration-form-2-add-form" data-drupal-selector="webform-submission-event-registration-form-2-add-form" action="/complexity-innovation/seminar/feed" method="post" id="webform-submission-event-registration-form-2-add-form" accept-charset="UTF-8"> <div data-drupal-selector="edit-0" class="webform-message js-webform-message js-form-wrapper form-wrapper" id="edit-0"><div data-drupal-messages=""> <div role="contentinfo" aria-label="Status message" class="messages messages--status"> <h2 class="visually-hidden">Status message</h2> Sorry...This form is closed to new submissions. </div> </div> </div> <input autocomplete="off" data-drupal-selector="form-f9xqspzf-pgkfkb-zp4vtp7m39ip4vvkafrv3admmom" type="hidden" name="form_build_id" value="form-F9xQSpZf-pgKfKb_zp4Vtp7m39IP4vVkAFrV3aDMmoM" /><input data-drupal-selector="edit-webform-submission-event-registration-form-2-add-form" type="hidden" name="form_id" value="webform_submission_event_registration_form_2_add_form" /><div class="url-textfield js-form-wrapper form-wrapper" style="display: none !important;"><div class="js-form-item form-item js-form-type-textfield form-item-url js-form-item-url"> <label for="edit-url--4">Leave this field blank</label> <input autocomplete="off" data-drupal-selector="edit-url" data-msg-maxlength="Leave this field blank field has a maximum length of 128." type="text" id="edit-url--4" name="url" value="" size="20" maxlength="128" class="form-text" /></div> </div> </form> </div> </div> </section> Tue, 27 Feb 2024 20:39:21 +0000 Brenda Panasiak 530 at /complexity-innovation WICI Speaker Series with Robert Axtell /complexity-innovation/events/wici-speaker-series-robert-axtell <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">WICI Speaker Series with Robert Axtell</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span lang="" about="/complexity-innovation/users/bpanasia" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="" xml:lang="">Brenda Panasiak</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Tue, 02/27/2024 - 13:46</span> <section class="uw-contained-width uw-section-spacing--default uw-section-separator--none uw-column-separator--none layout layout--uw-1-col"><div class="layout__region layout__region--first"> <div class="uw-text-align--left block block-layout-builder block-inline-blockuw-cbl-copy-text"> <h2 class="block-title">The Organization of the U.S. Economy from a Complex Systems Perspective</h2> <div class="uw-copy-text"> <div class="uw-copy-text__wrapper "> <p>Verbal descriptions of modern industrial economies are thick with details concerning the number of firms and consumers, the sizes of sectors, government activities, and so on. But formal models of such economies either compress all the real-world heterogeneity into a few statistical (econometric) equations or else focus on the incentives faced by a representative agent, simultaneously a worker, consumer, and investor. In this talk I will take a radically different approach. Using rich micro-data on U.S. firms and their employees, I will describe a computational model in which 120 million self-interested agents arrange themselves into some 6 million firms, reproducing several dozen statistical features present in the micro-data, from heavy-tailed firm sizes and skew firm ages and lifetimes to asymmetric firm growth rate distributions, emergent inter-firm networks, financial variables having peculiar scaling with firm size, and inhomogeneous distribution of firms and employees over physical space. Large-scale agent-based computing is the methodology for realizing these results. At this WICI Speaker Series event, Dr. Robert L. Axtell will argue that this ‘complexity economics’ approach offers novel insights unavailable from conventional rational expectations equilibrium models.</p> <p><strong>Please register for this free event below</strong>!</p> <p>In-person attendees will be provided light refreshments and an opportunity for informal networking at the start of the event.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="uw-text-align--left block block-layout-builder block-inline-blockuw-cbl-copy-text"> <h2 class="block-title">About the Speaker</h2> <div class="uw-copy-text"> <div class="uw-copy-text__wrapper "> <div class="uw-media media media--type-uw-mt-image media--view-mode-uw-vm-standard-image align-left" data-height="" data-width="250"> <img src="/complexity-innovation/sites/default/files/uploads/images/screen-shot-2024-02-27-at-1.12.11-pm.png" width="250" height="328.05907172996" alt="Robert Axtell" loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image" /></div> <p><a href="http://www.css.gmu.edu/?q=node/27">Dr. Robert L. Axtell</a><a href="https://science.gmu.edu/directory/robert-axtell"> </a>is a Professor of Computational Social Science at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, U.S.A. Previously, he was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (Washington, D.C., U.S.A.) and a founding member of the Center on Social and Economic Dynamics there. He holds an interdisciplinary PhD from Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA).</p> <p>He teaches courses on agent-based modelling, mathematical modelling, and game theory. His research is situated at the intersection of economics, behavioural game theory, and multi-agent systems computer science. His most recent research attempts to emerge a macroeconomy from tens of millions of interacting agents.</p> <p>His research has been published in “Science”, “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA”, and leading field journals. Popular accounts have appeared in newspapers, magazines, books, online, on the radio and in museums. 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class="uw-text-align--left block block-layout-builder block-inline-blockuw-cbl-copy-text"> <div class="uw-copy-text"> <div class="uw-copy-text__wrapper "> <hr /><p class="enlarged"><strong>Can't make it in person?<br /><a href="https://uwaterloo.zoom.us/j/91896302229?pwd=VDBLNlp3QUJ4b0NWamRiVHZrMVJmQT09"> Join via Zoom </a><br /> Meeting ID: 918 9630 2229<br /> Passcode: 662209</strong></p> <hr /></div> </div> </div> </div> </section> Tue, 27 Feb 2024 18:46:29 +0000 Brenda Panasiak 529 at /complexity-innovation WICI-WISIR Panel Discussion at Kitchener City Hall: Community Wealth Building /complexity-innovation/events/wici-wisir-panel-discussion-kitchener-city-hall-community <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">WICI-WISIR Panel Discussion at Kitchener City Hall: Community Wealth Building</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span lang="" about="/complexity-innovation/users/bpanasia" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="" xml:lang="">Brenda Panasiak</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Thu, 02/01/2024 - 11:52</span> <section class="uw-contained-width uw-section-spacing--default uw-section-separator--none uw-column-separator--none layout layout--uw-1-col"><div class="layout__region layout__region--first"> <div class="uw-text-align--left block block-layout-builder block-inline-blockuw-cbl-copy-text"> <div class="uw-copy-text"> <div class="uw-copy-text__wrapper "> <p>WICI Director <a href="/complexity-innovation/profiles/sean-geobey">Dr. Sean Geobey</a> brings community leaders <a href="https://www.waterlooregionsmallbusiness.com/about-waterloo-region-smallbusiness-centre/">Naudia Banton</a>, Manager of ݮƵ Region Small Business Centre, <a href="https://www.liftoffbyccawr.com/meet-the-team">Trevor Charles</a>, Executive Director of LiftOFF, <a href="https://www.wrcf.ca/news/announcement-ceo">Eric Avner</a>, President and CEO of ݮƵ Region Community Foundation, and <a href="https://www.justlikefamily.ca/about/carla-leon">Carla Leon</a>, President & CEO of Just Like Family Home Care, together to Kitchener City Hall to share their perspectives on community wealth building.</p> <p class="highlight">Join WICI and WISIR at<strong> Kitchener City Hall</strong> on Wednesday, February 14th from 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. for this exciting discussion!</p> <div> <p><span><span><span><span><span>After an immersive morning in the Community Wealth Lab between University of ݮƵ students of Sustainable Business Models, Health, Environment, and Planning courses, students from Conestoga College, and a variety of community business leaders,  the conversation will turn to a WICI-WISIR panel discussion on the topic of Community Wealth.<br /><br /><strong><span><span>The Panelists:</span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></p> <div class="uw-media media media--type-uw-mt-image media--view-mode-uw-vm-standard-image align-left" data-height="" data-width="125"> <img src="/complexity-innovation/sites/default/files/uploads/images/screen-shot-2024-01-31-at-12.34.35-pm.png" width="125" height="125" alt="Naudia Banton" loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image" /></div> <p><span><span><span><span><span><strong>Naudia Banton</strong>, Manager of ݮƵ Region Small Business Centre, is an innovative force with a background in entrepreneurship and talent management, Naudia has worked across industries such as publishing, health care, insurance, education, and manufacturing. Known for her energy and drive she helped build ݮƵ Region’s first Women Entrepreneurs Bootcamp, recently opened the regions newest innovation space focused on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and currently manages the ݮƵ Region Small Business Centre.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <div class="uw-media media media--type-uw-mt-image media--view-mode-uw-vm-standard-image align-left" data-height="" data-width="125"> <img src="/complexity-innovation/sites/default/files/uploads/images/trevor-charles-headshot.jpg" width="125" height="165.69010416667" alt="Trevor Charles" loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image" /></div> <p><span><span><span><span><span><strong>Trevor Charles</strong>, Executive Director of LiftOff, Professor of Biology, and Director of the ݮƵ Centre for Microbial Research, is a microbiologist, trained at UBC, McMaster and University of Washington with a focus on Circular Bioeconomy and Sustainable Development. Trevor is also the founder, CEO, and CSO of the bioscience start-up Metagenom Bio Life Science. LiftOFF is the ݮƵ region’s first and only Black-led incubator and accelerator program. </span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><br />  </p> <div class="uw-media media media--type-uw-mt-image media--view-mode-uw-vm-standard-image align-left" data-height="" data-width="125"> <img src="/complexity-innovation/sites/default/files/uploads/images/screen-shot-2024-01-31-at-12.34.04-pm.png" width="125" height="150.91210613599" alt="Eric Avner" loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image" /></div> <p><span><span><span><span><span><strong>Eric Avner</strong> is President and CEO of ݮƵ Region Community Foundation.  As the region grows to one million residents, Eric is working with the board of directors, committees and team at WRCF to ensure our communities are equitable, connected, and sustainable, and our people are thriving. Eric collaborates locally, provincially, and nationally to amplify voices, maximize resources, and co-create solutions linked to WRCF's core area of focus: building social infrastructure across ݮƵ region.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <div class="uw-media media media--type-uw-mt-image media--view-mode-uw-vm-standard-image align-left" data-height="" data-width="125"> <img src="/complexity-innovation/sites/default/files/uploads/images/screen-shot-2024-01-31-at-12.35.23-pm.png" width="125" height="166.41337386018" alt="Carla Leon" loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image" /></div> <p><span><span><span><span><span><strong>Carla Leon</strong>, President and CEO of Just Like Family Home Care, is an innovator, having spearheaded the first social acquisition by charities in Canada, and transforming Just Like Family into a Social Enterprise, with the majority of profits going to charities. During her career, Carla has provided leadership, coaching, mentorship, and education to thousands of entrepreneurs and small business owners. She strives to make a social impact, transforming home care across Canada for franchise owners and the families they support. She holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from University of British Columbia.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><br /><br />  </p> <div class="uw-media media media--type-uw-mt-image media--view-mode-uw-vm-standard-image align-left" data-height="" data-width="125"> <img src="/complexity-innovation/sites/default/files/uploads/images/screen-shot-2023-01-11-at-1.52.16-pm.png" width="112" height="133.35941320293" alt="Sean Geobey" loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image" /></div> <p><span><span><span><span><span>The discussion will be moderated by <strong>Dr. Sean Geobey</strong>, Director of WICI, Co-Director of WISIR, and Professor in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development at the University of ݮƵ. Sean Geobey applies expertise in social innovation theory, sustainable finance, planning, governance, and decision-theory to his research, teaching, and social innovation labs.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span>In-person attendees will be provided a light lunch and an opportunity for informal networking at the start of the event. The talk is open to all WICI and/or WISIR members, University of ݮƵ students, and the public, but guests must register to be included in the lunch! </span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span><strong>Can't make it in person?</strong><span></span>Stay tuned for a recording of the session, which we will share in a future newsletter, and/or join the discussion at the next Community Lab event on Wednesday, March 27th.</span></span></span></span></span></p> </div> <p>Registration for this event is now closed.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> Thu, 01 Feb 2024 16:52:08 +0000 Brenda Panasiak 527 at /complexity-innovation