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Systems Science Friday Noon Seminar Series
 

Systems Science Friday Noon Seminar Series

The Systems Science Seminar Series covers a wide range of topics, providing an opportunity for presenters to share and attendees to become exposed to the latest research from different fields and disciplines. Agent-based simulation, artificial intelligence, artificial life, genetic algorithms, machine learning, neural networks, signal processing, social networks, system dynamics, and science itself are just a few of the many diverse topics that have been presented, all in an informal environment where questions and discussion are encouraged.
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Unless otherwise specified, seminars are held on Fridays from 12-1 p.m. in Harder House Room 104 throughout Fall and Winter terms. For those taking the seminar for credit, grading is based on attendance, either in-person or remote.

CONTACT US: If you have questions, comments, or topic/speaker suggestions, or if you would like to present a seminar, please email Wayne Wakeland.

SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT LISTSERV: To receive seminar announcements, you can join our mailing list. If that doesn't work, please email Wayne Wakeland.

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  • Do. Or Do Not.* An Introduction to Urnomics by Christian Echt

    Do. Or Do Not.* An Introduction to Urnomics

    Christian Echt

    3-13-2020

    Why do things do stuff ?
    With at least as much high-falootin’ technical jargon as the previous sentence, this presentation will ruminate on preferences and agency. While there is considerable merit ...Read More

  • Adoption Patterns in the Diffusion of Distributed Energy Resources by Josh Keeling

    Adoption Patterns in the Diffusion of Distributed Energy Resources

    Josh Keeling

    3-6-2020

    Given the growing trends towards decentralization and decarbonization of the power sector, there is an increasing need to understand how customers make energy decisions at a more granular level. This ...Read More

  • Framing Wicked Problems: Harnessing Collective Intelligence with Participatory Modeling and Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping by Peter Roolf

    Framing Wicked Problems: Harnessing Collective Intelligence with Participatory Modeling and Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping

    Peter Roolf

    2-28-2020

    Wicked problems are issues facing human social systems that are persistent or reoccurring, have difficult-to-detect origins, complex networks of causation, and that respond to interventions by generating undesirable unintended consequences. ...Read More

  • What is Not a System? by Gary Langford

    What is Not a System?

    Gary Langford

    2-21-2020

    The difficulties in applying General Systems Theory (GST) have pointed out notable inconsistencies in what needs to be included in GST, intransitivities between competing or subsidiary theories based on GST ...Read More

  • Modeling Post-fire Successional Trajectories under Climate Change in Interior Alaska using Landis II by Shelby A. Weiss

    Modeling Post-fire Successional Trajectories under Climate Change in Interior Alaska using Landis II

    Shelby A. Weiss

    2-14-2020

    Alaska boreal forest ecosystems are experiencing a greater frequency of wildfire relative to the region’s historic fire regime. These increases in fire frequency, as well as annual burned area, increase ...Read More

  • Realist Evaluation: A Systems Approach for Understanding and Assessing Complex Social Programs by Dora Raymaker

    Realist Evaluation: A Systems Approach for Understanding and Assessing Complex Social Programs

    Dora Raymaker

    2-7-2020

    Realist evaluation, a theory-driven approach to program evaluation grounded in realist philosophy, is designed to address the question: What works for whom, to what extent, in what circumstances, and why? ...Read More

  • Application of Reconstructability Analysis to the NW Power Grid by Marcus Harris

    Application of Reconstructability Analysis to the NW Power Grid

    Marcus Harris

    1-31-2020

    This talk will focus on preliminary results from Reconstructability Analysis (RA) models, Bayesian Network (BN) models, and standard linear regression to predict dynamics on the bulk electric grid. The best ...Read More

  • Using GIS Raster Data Analysis with Reconstructability Analysis Tools by David Percy

    Using GIS Raster Data Analysis with Reconstructability Analysis Tools

    David Percy

    1-24-2020

    Reconstructability Analysis (RA) has been successfully used to analyze a myriad of different data types. At its core it relies on a row-based approach to data where each row represents ...Read More

  • Statistical Analysis of Social Network Change by Teresa D. Schmidt

    Statistical Analysis of Social Network Change

    Teresa D. Schmidt

    1-10-2020

    We explore two statistical methods that infer social network structures and statistically test those structures for change over time: regression-based differential network analysis (R-DNA) and information theory-based differential network analysis ...Read More

  • Computational Social Science Society of Americas (CSSA) Conferences as a Venue for Publication and Outreach by Rajesh Venkatachalapathy

    Computational Social Science Society of Americas (CSSA) Conferences as a Venue for Publication and Outreach

    Rajesh Venkatachalapathy

    12-6-2019

    I had the opportunity to present my work at CSS18 and CSS19 and was/am pleasantly surprised by its casual and stimulating ambience. The themes of this conference are highly aligned ...Read More

  • Computational Integration for Augmenting Human Cognition by David Lawrence

    Computational Integration for Augmenting Human Cognition

    David Lawrence

    11-22-2019

    How can we improve the relationship between people and technology? Is society forever indentured to surveillance capitalists, consigned to behaving for the benefit of elite others? We think not, and ...Read More

  • Recursive Identity and Purposeful Change by Howard Silverman

    Recursive Identity and Purposeful Change

    Howard Silverman

    11-15-2019

    Numerous theorists have used the concept of “identity” to characterize persistence and change in the experience and analysis of social and/or ecological systems. These include: Allena Leonard and Niklas Luhmann ...Read More

  • Computing Complex Tasks with Dynamical Cellular Systems by Neil Babson

    Computing Complex Tasks with Dynamical Cellular Systems

    Neil Babson

    11-8-2019

    Computing with ultra-simple, small, dynamical systems, such as Cellular Automata (CA), Random Boolean Networks (RBNs), or Reservoir Computers (RC) is appealing because such systems are in general ultra-low power and ...Read More

  • Using Large-Scale Meteorological Patterns to Better Understand Local-Scale Weather and Climate Extremes by Paul Loikith

    Using Large-Scale Meteorological Patterns to Better Understand Local-Scale Weather and Climate Extremes

    Paul Loikith

    11-1-2019

    High-impact weather and climate events such as temperature extremes, heavy rainfall, and lightning are all associated with numerous impacts on society and the environment. Furthermore, anthropogenic climate change is broadly ...Read More

  • Motivating the Quickest Possible Economic Transition to Low Fossil Fuel Use: Theory and Application by Steve Staloff

    Motivating the Quickest Possible Economic Transition to Low Fossil Fuel Use: Theory and Application

    Steve Staloff

    10-18-2019

    This research addresses the quickest means of minimizing fossil fuel use and, thus, the existential threat of climate change due to the impact of greenhouse gas accumulation. The apparently simple ...Read More

  • A Computational Model for Recovery from Brain Injury by Wayne Wakeland

    A Computational Model for Recovery from Brain Injury

    Wayne Wakeland

    10-11-2019

    A computational simulation model calculates recovery trajectories following traumatic brain injury (TBI). Prior publications include a multi-scale framework for studying concussion and a systems-level causal loop diagram (CLD) and discussion ...Read More

  • Intergenerational & Environmental Drivers of Obesity: an Agent Based Model Approach by Dale Frakes

    Intergenerational & Environmental Drivers of Obesity: an Agent Based Model Approach

    Dale Frakes

    10-4-2019

    Obesity prevalence remains high and exhibits pronounced social patterning in the U.S., despite widespread intervention efforts. Complex individual, environmental, and intergenerational influences on obesity are difficult to study using traditional ...Read More

  • Fractal Dimension as Objective Function in a Genetic Algorithm for Application in Architectural Design by John Charles Driscoll

    Fractal Dimension as Objective Function in a Genetic Algorithm for Application in Architectural Design

    John Charles Driscoll

    3-15-2019

    One of the goals of The Green New Deal Resolution reads, “upgrading all existing buildings in the United States and building new buildings to achieve maximal energy efficiency, water efficiency, ...Read More

  • Managing Healthcare Data Assets as a Complex Adaptive System by Katie Clifton

    Managing Healthcare Data Assets as a Complex Adaptive System

    Katie Clifton

    3-8-2019

    A major project is underway to develop a shared platform for data and analytics in a highly federated healthcare delivery organization. In the status quo data environment, analysts have integrated ...Read More

  • Systems Thinking as a Design Process by Elizabeth Lockwood

    Systems Thinking as a Design Process

    Elizabeth Lockwood

    3-1-2019

    During my master’s degree I analyzed sustainable practices in the built environment. What came from that work was a deep level of understanding that the current practices and rating systems ...Read More

  • IoT and Digitization Will Reconnect System Engineering and Science by John Blyler

    IoT and Digitization Will Reconnect System Engineering and Science

    John Blyler

    2-22-2019

    The fully connected world is quickly becoming a reality. Architects and developers of this new world must understand both the hardware and software basics of IoT and IIoT systems as ...Read More

  • Performativity of Models by Rajesh Venkatachalapathy

    Performativity of Models

    Rajesh Venkatachalapathy

    2-15-2019

    Inspired by Latour's work in social studies of science and technology, Callon, MacKenzie and others developed a performativity critique of economics. Building on this, Healy (2015) recently discussed ...Read More

  • What if our Beliefs about a System are not Wholly Accurate? What if? by Gary Langford

    What if our Beliefs about a System are not Wholly Accurate? What if?

    Gary Langford

    2-1-2019

    For most people, a system is a construct with vexing complexities, many many parts, and perhaps wrapped with a goal or intention. Add to that simple construct a set of ...Read More

  • The Complexities of Open Data by Hector Dominguez

    The Complexities of Open Data

    Hector Dominguez

    1-18-2019

    Hector Dominguez is the current Open Data Coordinator at the City of Portland, and there are several lessons learned and strategies developed in the several months of work in this ...Read More

  • Latent Space Models for Temporal Networks by Jasper Alt

    Latent Space Models for Temporal Networks

    Jasper Alt

    1-11-2019

    In many contexts we may expect the structure of networks to be derived from some kind of abstract distance between actors. We refer to this phenomenon as homophily: like nodes ...Read More

 
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