Posted on: 04 Nov 2011 in Opinions
Natalie Day, Head of Policy, the Oxford Martin School, November 2011 If you dare to throw policy makers, business leaders and academics into one room with an ambitious agenda as diverse as pandemics, complexity theory, systemic risk, g... Read More »
Posted on: 12 Mar 2010 in Events
"99.9% of all life is extinct," said Owen Petchey, a researcher at the University of Sheffield's Department of Animal and Plant Sciences. Petchey's seminar titled, "Contagious Extinctions and Ecosystem Collapse," looked ... Read More »
Posted on: 05 Mar 2010 in Events
Dirk Helbing of ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) spoke at the 21st Century School about the role of physics, mathematics and computer science in understanding social science, collective behaviour and the nature of cooperation. ... Read More »
Posted on: 26 Feb 2010 in Events
Professor Alessandro Vespignani of Indiana University Bloomington (USA) spoke at the 21st Century School on 25 February about mobility, pandemics and the challenges of predicting the behaviour of techno-social systems. "We are entering the... Read More »
Posted on: 19 Feb 2010 in Events
"Will the Gulf Stream shut down?" David Marshall, co-director of the 21st Century Ocean Institute is asked that question by colleagues and friends frequently. In his lecture as part of the 21st Century School's sem... Read More »
Posted on: 12 Feb 2010 in Events
Mike Batty's talk in the 21st Century School seminar series continued the theme of cities from last week's talk by Geoffrey West. Like West, Batty of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London is also inter... Read More »
Posted on: 05 Feb 2010 in Events
Geoffrey West highlights the tension between growth and sustainability in 21st century cities. "I shall not today attempt to define ‘complexity' and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so, but I know it when I see... Read More »
Posted on: 22 Jan 2010 in Events
Launching our new seminar series on "Complexity and Systemic Risk", Professor Lord Robert May, a renowned expert in ecosystems, spoke at the 21st Century School on Thursday 21 January about what lessons the financial world might draw from... Read More »
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