Informal Manchester Complexity Seminars

All meetings start at 4 pm and usually last about an hour and a quarter. All are welcome, just turn up.

These happen at one of two locations:

Niels Bohr Common Room, Schuster Building, 6th Floor, The University of Manchester (detailed directions below).
Lecture Theatre 1 of the Aytoun Building - the Manchester Metropolitan University Business School.

If you want to be kept informed of future meetings email Alan McKane on alan.mckane [at] manchester.ac.uk

Some of us go for a drink afterwards.

Planned Talks for 2008:

- June 27th. Ian Gallagher (Theoretical Physics, University of Manchester) "A Coevolutionary Model of Firms and Consumers", Schuster Building

- June 6th. Carlos Mejia Monasterio (Institute for Complex Systems, Sesto Fiorentino) "Control of Heat Flow in Classical and Quantum Complex Systems", Schuster Building

- June 27th. Ian Gallagher (Theoretical Physics, University of Manchester) "A Coevolutionary Model of Firms and Consumers", Schuster Building

- May 23rd. Journal Club led by Emma Norling (Centre for Policy Modelling, MMU), on “Dynamics of Agent Organizations: Application to Modeling Irregular Warfare” by Maksim Tsvetovat and Maciej Latek, Aytoun Building

- May 2nd. Journal Club led by Alan Mckane (Theoretical Physics, University of Manchester), on “Opposite Patterns of Synchrony in Sympatric Disease Metapopulations” by Rohani et al., Aytoun Building

- April 25th. Bogdan Werth (Centre for Policy Modelling, MMU) “Intrusion of Agent-Based Social Simulation in Economic Theory”, Schuster Building

- April 18th. Axel Rossberg (IIASA) “What else can physics offer to complex systems sciences?”, Schuster Building

- April 11th. Shah Jamal Alam (Centre for Policy Modelling, MMU) “a model of HIV spread in a South African village”, Schuster Building

- March 14th. Journal Club on “A mathematical formalism for agent-based modeling” by Laubenbacher et al., Schuster Building

- March 7th. Hiro Hattori (Social Informatics, Kyoto University) "Participatory Multiagent Simulation and Agent Modeling", Aytoun Building

- February 29th. Journal Club, Schuster Building

- February 22nd. Peter McBurney (Computer Science, University of Liverpool) "Multi-Agent Modelling of Malaria Treatment Diffusion", Aytoun Building

- February 15th. Scott Moss (Centre for Policy Modelling, MMU) "Evidence-based development of social simulations involving complexity", Aytoun Building

- February 8th. Alan McKane (Theoretical Physics, University of Manchester) "Fixation and consensus times on a network: a unified approach", Schuster Building

Past Talks ...

People:

Centre for Policy Modelling, Manchester Metropolitan University

Bruce Edmonds http://bruce.edmonds.name

Scott Moss http://cfpm.org/~scott

Emma Norling http://cfpm.org/~emma

Ruth Meyer http://cfpm.org/~ruth

Armando Geller http://cfpm.org/~armando

Shah Jamal Alam http://cfpm.org/~shah

Rodolfo Sousa

Theoretical Physics, University of Manchester

Richard Boland

Ian Gallagher

Carlos Lugo

Alan McKane http://theory.phy.umist.ac.uk/~ajm

Craig Powell http://theory.phy.umist.ac.uk/~craig

Getting to the seminars

For more general directions and maps to find one's way around Manchester see: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/visitors/travel/maps/

The Schuster Building (details comings soon...)

The University of Manchester Map: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/medialibrary/maps/campusmap.pdf

The Aytoun Building

Lecture Theatre 2 of the Aytoun Building, MMU. To get to this room after coming into the building, go through the glass doors to the right and up the stairs to level 1. The lecture theatre is directly in front of the head of the stairs - go through the glass doors on either side and you will see the entrance to the theatre.

For details on how to find the building see:

http://cfpm.org/where.htm

Past Talks:

- December 7, 2007. Andrew Black, Modelling Epidemics, Schuster Building

- November 30, 2007. Tobias Galla (University of Manchester), The Minority Game, Schuster Building

- November 23, 2007. Johan Oldekop (Life Sciences, University of Manchester), Linking rural development and conservation, Schuster Building

- November 16, 2007. Bogdan Werth, Armando Geller and Ruth Meyer (Centre for Policy Modelling, MMU), He endorses me – He endorses me not – He endorses me… Contextualized reasoning in complex systems, Schuster Building

- November 9, 2007. Journal Club on "Mixture models and exploratory analysis in networks - by Newman and Leicht, PNAS 104 (23) 9564-9569", Schuster Building

- November 2, 2007. Shah Jamal Alam (Centre for Policy Modelling, MMU), "Detecting Structures using Probabilistic Mixture Models: Work by Newman and Leicht", Aytoun Building

- October 26, 2007. Carlos Lugo (University of Manchester), TBA, Aytoun Building

- October 19, 2007. Bruce Edmonds (Centre for Policy Modelling, MMU), "Simulation Ensembles", Aytoun Building

- October 12, 2007. Tobias Galla (University of Manchester) "Effects of noise and confidence thresholds in nominal and metric Axelrod dynamics of social influence", Schuster Building

- October 5, 2007. Richard Boland and Craig Powell (University of Manchester) "Stochastic population dynamics in webworld", Schuster Building

- September 28, 2007. Nadiah Kristensen (CSIRO, Canberra) "Food web attributes, species richness, maturity and invasibility", Schuster Building

- August 3, 2007. Bogdan Werth (Centre for Policy Modelling, MMU) "Understanding economic theories by means of agent based social simulation", Schuster Building

- June 7, 2007. "Journal Club", led by Alan Mckande on "Voter Model on Heterogeneous Graphs" by V. Sood and S. Redner. Phy. Rev. Lett. 94 (1995), Schuster Building (4pm)

- May 25, 2007. Shah Jamal Alam (Centre for Policy Modelling, MMU) "Bus Passengers’ Seating Preference: A (Simple) Agent-based Model", Aytoun Building

- May 18, 2007. Bruce Edmonds (Centre for Policy Modelling, MMU) "Measuring agent importance", Aytoun Building

- May 11, 2007. Duccio Fanelli and Andrea Guazzini, "psychologists take on opinion dynamics", Schuster Building

- May 4, 2007. Discussion on Percolation Models, led by Alan Mckane (Theoretical Physics, University of Manchester), Schuster Building

- April 27, 2007.
                   I) Short discussion of the spread of language use through networks of speakers and the analogies with the spread of opinions through a community, by Alan McKane
                   II) Short discussion of quasi-stationary states and their relation to opinion dynamics, by Duccio Fanelli
                   (III) More on the simulations (carried out by Craig Powell, Bruce Edmonds et al) of the opinion dynamics model, Schuster Building

- March 30, 2007. Discussion on a network based model of opinion dynamics, Aytoun Building

- March 23, 2007. "Journal Club" on the modelling of conflict, led by Armando Geller (Centre for Policy Modelling, MMU), Aytoun Building

- March 16, 2007. Duccio Fanelli (Theoretical Physics, University of Manchester), on his work on opinion dynamics, Aytoun Building

- March 9, 2007. "Journal Club" on papers concerning opinion dynamics and minority games , Schuster Building

- March 2, 2007. "Journal Club" on paper concerning opinion dynamics , Schuster Building

- February 23, 2007. Stefano Arteconi (University of Bologna) "Methods for Cooperation and Coordination in Peer-to-Peer networks", Schuster Building

- February 16, 2007. Bruce Edmonds (Centre for Policy Modelling, MMU) "Opinion Dynamics and the Modelling Process", Aytoun Building

- February 9, 2007. David Alonso (University of Michigan) "Mechanico-statistical approaches to community ecology", Aytoun Building

- February 2, 2007. Duccio Fanelli (Theoretical Physics, University of Manchester) "Large-scale dynamics of antibodies from tomographic data", Schuster Building

- January 26, 2007. Richard Boland and Craig Powell (Theoretical Physics, University of Manchester) "From agents to equations II", Schuster Building

- January 19, 2007. Alan McKane (Theoretical Physics, University of Manchester) "From agents to equations I", Schuster Building

- December 15, 2006: Michael Barton (Life Science, University of Manchester), "Understanding cell behaviour in terms of gene control on growth rate"

- December 8, 2006: Bruce Edmonds (Centre for Policy Modelling, MMU), "Artificial Science - A simulation test-bed for studying the social processes of science"

- December 1, 2006: Satoshi Uchida "The Stability and Structure of Model Food Webs with Adaptive Behaviour"

- November 20, 2006: Armando Geller (Centre for Policy Modelling, MMU), "Complexity and contemporary conflicts"

- November 17, 2006: Ian Gallagher (Theoretical Physics, University of Manchester), "Motif Analysis in Complex Networks II"

- November 10, 2006: Richard Taylor (Centre for Policy Modelling, MMU), "Innovation Networks"

- November 3, 2006: Richard Boland and Craig Powell (Theoretical Physics, University of Manchester), "on fast simulation of stochastic systems"

- October 27, 2006: Shah Jamal Alam (Centre for Policy Modelling, MMU), "Motif Analysis in Complex Networks - I"

- October 13, 2006: Bruce Edmonds (Centre for Policy Modelling, MMU), "The Transworld market model"

- October 6, 2006: David Bree (Computer Science, University of Manchester), "Are bubbles in financial markets log-periodic?"

- June 16, 2006: Luis Izquierdo (The Macaulay Institute), "on combining analytic and simulation approaches to analysing social dilemma games"

- June 9, 2006: Bruce Edmonds (Centre for Policy Modelling, MMU), "on the relation (or otherwise) of tag-based symbiosis model to the individual-based model of evolution."

- May 11, 2006: Shah Jamal Alam (Centre for Policy Modelling, MMU), "Finding suitable metrics for networks that could result from social processes"

- May 4, 2006: Bruce Edmonds (Centre for Policy Modelling, MMU), "application of tag-related algorithms to organising P2P networks"

- April 25, 2006: Alan Mckane (Theoretical Physics, University of Manchester), "on Neutral theory"

- March 15, 2006: Carlos Lugo (Theoretical Physics, University of Manchester), "Modelling food webs"

- January 3, 2006: Stan Metcalfe (Economics, University of Manchester), TBA

- December 9, 2005: Emma Norling (Centre for Policy Modelling, MMU), Alan Mckane and Craig Powell (Theoretical Physics, University of Manchester), " will discuss our (different)
approaches to individual based modelling and compare and contrast them to the approach that Bruce talked about last week."

- December 2, 2005: Bruce Edmonds and Emma Norling (Centre for Policy Modelling, MMU), "about modelling food webs using an individual based approach"

- November 25, 2005: Scott Moss (Centre for Policy Modelling, MMU), "explore the different ways that researchers from the physical and social sciences model complex systems"

- November 18, 2005: Rodolfo Sousa (Centre for Policy Modelling, MMU), "Opinion Dynamics"

- November 11, 2005: Richard Blythe, Gareth Baxter, Alan McKane (Theoretical Physics, University of Manchester), "Analysis of models of language change"

- November 4, 2005: Alan Mckane (Theoretical Physics, University of Manchester), "Evolving complex food webs"

- October 28, 2005: Alan Mckane (Theoretical Physics, University of Manchester), "Modelling the emergence of food webs in ecologies"

- October 21, 2005: Bill Croft (Linguistics, University of Manchester), TBA

- October 14, 2005: Bruce Edmonds (Centre for Policy Modelling, MMU), TBA