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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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  • Speed-Bumps and Accelerants on the Road from Horsepower to Solar Power by Steve Staloff

    Speed-Bumps and Accelerants on the Road from Horsepower to Solar Power

    Steve Staloff

    12-2-2022

    Beating global warming requires moving to a nearly entirely solar powered economy, thereby (1) removing sources of heat that would otherwise have to be radiated into space from the biosphere ...Read More

  • Speculative Realism and Systems Metaphysics by Martin Zwick

    Speculative Realism and Systems Metaphysics

    Martin Zwick

    11-11-2022

    Recent developments in Continental philosophy have included emergence of a school of “speculative realism” which rejects the human-centered orientation that has long dominated Continental thought, but also opposes naïve realism ...Read More

  • Systems Diagramming to Support Implementation Science Research in the SMARTER CRC Study by Erin Kenzie

    Systems Diagramming to Support Implementation Science Research in the SMARTER CRC Study

    Erin Kenzie

    11-4-2022

    The uptake of evidence-based health care interventions into clinical practice is slow, particularly for under- resourced clinics. The field of implementation science studies strategies for identifying, adapting, and implementing evidence-based ...Read More

  • Health Restoration from a Salutogenic Perspective by Steve Chamberlin

    Health Restoration from a Salutogenic Perspective

    Steve Chamberlin

    10-28-2022

    The concept of salutogenesis, or health restoration, was introduced as a psychosocial model of health by Aaron Antonovsky in 1979. It is described as an orientation towards health promotion and ...Read More

  • Hydropower Design Under an Uncertain Hydrologic and Energy Market Future by Mark Parrish

    Hydropower Design Under an Uncertain Hydrologic and Energy Market Future

    Mark Parrish

    10-21-2022

    The USACE and Bonneville Power Administration utilize a stochastic modeling procedure to justify long term capital investments that incorporates uncertainty in hydrologic data, energy prices, failure and construction costs, and ...Read More

  • Open-Ended Development in Role Systems by Shane Dicks

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    Shane Dicks

    10-7-2022

    This seminar outlines an Artificial Life approach to explore the phenomena of growth and development in ecological, economic, and social systems at an abstract level. “Development” is the emergence of ...Read More

  • Open Ended Evolution in Artificial Life by Shane Dicks

    Open Ended Evolution in Artificial Life

    Shane Dicks

    3-11-2022

    How can we explain the explosion of diversity and complexity in the biosphere, from the emergence of single celled organisms to the panoply of living things we now observe? Human ...Read More

  • Smart Methods for Complex Policy Evaluation by Brian Castellani

    Smart Methods for Complex Policy Evaluation

    Brian Castellani

    3-4-2022

    Advances in the integration of smart technology, computational modelling and statistical platforms has created a new methods environment, approachable modelling and smart methods – AM- Smart for short. The AM-Smart ...Read More

  • The Development and Role of Mental Action During Early Evolution and the Origin of Life by Steve Staloff

    The Development and Role of Mental Action During Early Evolution and the Origin of Life

    Steve Staloff

    2-25-2022

    Studies of the earliest part of an evolutionary sequence and the origin of life have, to now, focused on molecular factors without discussing how a lineage starts evolving and generating ...Read More

  • Adoption of Prosocial Common Pool Behavior by Garry Sotnik and Tad Shannon

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    Garry Sotnik and Tad Shannon

    2-18-2022

    New theoretical agent-based model of population-wide adoption of prosocial common-pool behavior with four parameters (initial percent of adopters, pressure to change behavior, synergy from behavior, and population density); dynamics in ...Read More

  • The Emerging Field of Data Engineering by Guy Cutting

    The Emerging Field of Data Engineering

    Guy Cutting

    2-11-2022

    Organizations of all sizes are dealing with rapidly growing volumes of data and are trying to decide how best to use that data to their advantage. With the rise of ...Read More

  • Racial Justice as Climate Justice by Julius Mcgee

    Racial Justice as Climate Justice

    Julius Mcgee

    2-4-2022

    As the climate crisis escalates the asymmetry of climatic effects on human populations is increasingly apparent. From wildfires to flooding, the populations affected by climate change are often the ones ...Read More

  • Is Strategic Energy Management (SEM) a Holistic Approach? by Dave Hall

    Is Strategic Energy Management (SEM) a Holistic Approach?

    Dave Hall

    1-28-2022

    Dave is an SEM Coach at Energy 350, where he works with industrial and agricultural operations to implement Strategic Energy Management (SEM). SEM focuses on short and long-term organizational change ...Read More

  • Rosenstock's "Cross of Reality" a Space-Time Framework for Isomorphisms by Martin Zwick

    Rosenstock's "Cross of Reality" a Space-Time Framework for Isomorphisms

    Martin Zwick

    1-21-2022

    This talk is a systems philosophical examination of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy’s “cross of reality,” a structure that fuses a spatial dyad of inner-outer and a temporal dyad of past-future into a ...Read More

  • PreK-12 Students Have Learned to Build Systems Models to Analyze the Dynamics of Systems, Including Non-linear Behavior by Diana Fisher

    PreK-12 Students Have Learned to Build Systems Models to Analyze the Dynamics of Systems, Including Non-linear Behavior

    Diana Fisher

    1-14-2022

    Analysis of complex systems is woefully missing from pre-college education, currently, and that analysis is essential for anyone who wants to have a chance to understand the myriad complex systems ...Read More

  • Communication Systems, and Communication Within Systems, for People with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis by Betts Peters

    Communication Systems, and Communication Within Systems, for People with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

    Betts Peters

    1-7-2022

    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that causes muscle weakness and loss of voluntary motor function, ultimately resulting in partial or complete paralysis. Many people with ALS ...Read More

  • Getting a Grip on Global Warming Quickly via a Specialized Emissions Money by Steve Staloff

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    Steve Staloff

    12-3-2021

    Quickly reducing greenhouse gas emissions, currently the main driver of global warming, requires a coordinated change in economic choices throughout the economy. Since prices coordinate economic behaviors, that means prices ...Read More

  • Design, Systems Approaches and the Engineering-economics Nexus by Cesar Garcia-Diaz

    Design, Systems Approaches and the Engineering-economics Nexus

    Cesar Garcia-Diaz

    11-19-2021

    Economics and engineering are discovering new opportunities for cross-fertilization. This is partly given to the advent of modern artificial intelligence methods. These opportunities have appeared in the past, resulting in ...Read More

  • Using Computer Models to Support Court Cases by Wayne Wakeland

    Using Computer Models to Support Court Cases

    Wayne Wakeland

    11-12-2021

    Computer models are frequently published and therefore scrutinized by peers. Authors must provide detailed model documentation, and sometimes model-based papers are rejected due to inadequate documentation and/or model weaknesses (in ...Read More

  • Graphical Models in Reconstructability Analysis and Bayesian Networks by Marcus Harris

    Graphical Models in Reconstructability Analysis and Bayesian Networks

    Marcus Harris

    11-5-2021

    This talk will focus on the primary results from the recent manuscript publication, Graphical Models in Reconstructability Analysis and Bayesian Networks, in the Journal Entropy. Reconstructability Analysis (RA) ...Read More

  • It's Mostly Assumptions: Modeling a Pandemic by Peter Graven

    It's Mostly Assumptions: Modeling a Pandemic

    Peter Graven

    10-29-2021

    COVID-19 has engulfed the planet and decision-makers are dealing with a situation that affects life in extreme proportions. Unfortunately, the virus has given many twists and turns and isn't done ...Read More

  • Systemic Innovation and Collaboration: New Leadership Approaches for Public Policy And Systems Change by Roderick Campbell

    Systemic Innovation and Collaboration: New Leadership Approaches for Public Policy And Systems Change

    Roderick Campbell

    10-22-2021

    We are increasingly facing highly interdependent issues that span stakeholder, jurisdictional, and geopolitical boundaries which have to be managed rather than solved. We know that traditional policy and management approaches ...Read More

  • Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping: Is a Hot Dog a Sandwich by Catherine Moore

    Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping: Is a Hot Dog a Sandwich

    Catherine Moore

    10-15-2021

    Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping is a modeling modality that focuses on capturing human knowledge and understanding. They offer an accessible, quick modeling process that can be used to capture an individual’s ...Read More

  • The Systems Engineering Worldview: The Technological Structure and Function of Reality by Terry Bristol

    The Systems Engineering Worldview: The Technological Structure and Function of Reality

    Terry Bristol

    10-8-2021

    The research reported here is concerned with understanding the components and composition of reality, according to the systems engineering worldview. To start, George Bugliarello argues that what engineers do, their ...Read More

  • Get Your Model Out There: Advancing Methods for Developing and Using Causal-Loop Diagrams by Erin S. Kenzie

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    2-3-2021

    As simple visual diagrams of key dynamics in complex systems, causal-loop diagrams could meet known needs in settings such as theory-based program evaluation and qualitative research. Methods for developing and ...Read More

 
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