
Systems Science Friday Noon Seminar Series
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Open-Ended Development in Role Systems
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
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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
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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
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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
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Adoption of Prosocial Common Pool Behavior
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Getting a Grip on Global Warming Quickly via a Specialized Emissions Money
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Get Your Model Out There: Advancing Methods for Developing and Using Causal-Loop Diagrams
Erin S. Kenzie
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