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Growing mountains of risk
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, geoengineering and cyber warfare, you are bound to be tired by the end of it.... Read More »
Owen Petchey on Biodiversity and the Rules of the Game
"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 »
Alliance science: the complexity of cooperation
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 »
Alessandro Vespignani and Viral Networking
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 »
Modelling ocean currents and dispelling myths
"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 »
Metropolitan models: new tools for comprehending the complexity of cities
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 »
From Complexity to Collapse
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 »
The dynamics of banking systems
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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