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CABDyN Seminars

12.30 - 2.00 pm
Keble College
Convenor: Felix Reed-Tsochas

Oxford Martin School

Our meetings intend to provide a forum for rigorous research (in a broad range of disciplines) focusing on complex adaptive systems, using methods and techniques such as agent-based modelling and complex network analysis. Since potential areas of application for such approaches can be located across the social, natural and engineering sciences, our aim is to involve participants from a wide range of departments in Oxford. We welcome talks which focus on particular areas of application and associated technical issues, but also encourage contributions which address more fundamental conceptual or mathematical problems. The CABDyN Seminar Series is one of the activities of the CABDyN Complexity Centre.


Forthcoming Talks

Tuesday 12th January 2016 (12.30 - 14.00, Andrew Cormack Seminar Room, Saïd Business School)
K.Y. Michael Wong
Department of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong
"Traffic optimization in transportation and logistic networks" (poster)


Previous Talks

TRINITY TERM 2015

Tuesday 20th October 2015 (12.30 - 14.00, Seminar Room 8, Saïd Business School)
Phillip Staniczenko
Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, University College London & CABDyN Complexity Centre
"Predicting weighted ecological networks in human-modified habitats" (poster)

Tuesday 2nd June 2015 (12.30 - 14.00, Seminar Room 1, Oxford Martin School)
Tobias Preis
Associate Professor of Behavioural Science and Finance, University of Warwick
"Measuring and predicting human behaviour using online data" (poster)

Tuesday 28th April 2015 (12.30 - 14.00, Seminar Room 1, Oxford Martin School)
George W. Bassel
School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham
"Graph-based analysis of cellular patterning in plants" (poster)

HILARY TERM 2015

Tuesday 24th February 2015 (12.30 - 14.00, Seminar Room 1, Oxford Martin School)
Thomas Y. Choi
Professor of Supply Chain Management, Harold E. Fearon Eminent Scholar Chair of Purchasing Management, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University
"Empirical investigation of supply networks: case study approach and social network analysis" (poster)

Tuesday 17th February 2015 (12.30 - 14.00, Seminar Room 1, Oxford Martin School)
Eduardo López
Senior Research Fellow, CABDyN Complexity Center, Saïd Business School
Omar Guerrero
Research Fellow, INET Oxford, Saïd Business School
"Microdata, networks, and agent-based computing for unemployment" (poster)

Tuesday 3rd February 2015 (12.30 - 14.00, Seminar Room 1, Oxford Martin School)
Mariano Beguerisse Díaz
Research Fellow, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London
"Communities and role structure in directed complex networks" (poster)

MICHAELMAS TERM 2014

Tuesday 25th November 2014 (12.30 - 14.00, Seminar Room 1, Oxford Martin School)
Prasanna Gai
Professor of Macroeconomics, University of Auckland, Accademic Visitor, Saïd Business School,
Senior Research Fellow, INET Oxford, Visting Fellow, All Souls College
"Global stores of value in a multipolar world" (poster)

Tuesday 18th November 2014 (12.30 - 14.00, Seminar Room 1, Oxford Martin School) CANCELLED
Uri Wilensky
Professor of Learning Sciences, Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling,
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, Northwestern University
"Transforming knowledge and learning through agent-based modeling" (poster)

Tuesday 11th November 2014 (12.30 - 14.00, Seminar Room 1, Oxford Martin School)
Matteo Richiardi
Marie Curie Research Fellow, INET Oxford, Associate Member, Nuffield College, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Torino
"Partial identification in non-ergodic agent-based models" (poster)

TRINITY TERM 2014

Tuesday 10th June 2014 (12.30 - 14.00, Andrew Cormack SR, Saïd Business School)
François Lafond
Research Fellow, London Institute for Mathematical Sciences (LIMS), and Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School
"The evolution of knowledge systems" (poster)

Tuesday 27th May 2014 (12.30 - 14.00, Seminar Room 1, Oxford Martin School)
Austin Gerig
Senior Research Fellow, CABDyN Complexity Centre, University of Oxford
"High-frequency trading: what is it good for?" (poster)

Tuesday 20th May 2014 (12.30 - 14.00, Seminar Room 1, Oxford Martin School)
Stefano Battiston
Department of Banking and Finance, University of Zurich
"Systemic risk in financial networks" (poster)

Tuesday 6th May 2014 (12.30 - 14.00, Seminar Room 1, Oxford Martin School)
Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen & Eduardo Viegas
Complexity & Networks Group, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London
"The economy seen as an evolutionary ecological system" (poster)

HILARY TERM 2014

Tuesday 11th March 2014 (12.30 - 14.00, Roy Griffiths Room, Keble College)
Serguei Saavedra
Postdoctoral Felllow, Integrative Ecology Group - Bascompte Lab, Estación Biológica de Doñana
"The structural stability of complex ecological systems" (poster)

Tuesday 4th March 2014 (12.30 - 14.00, Roy Griffiths Room, Keble College)
Nimalan Arinaminpathy (Nim Pathy)
Senior Lecturer in Population Biology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London
"The role of networks and confidence in financial stability" (poster)

Tuesday 25th February 2014 (12.30 - 14.00, Roy Griffiths Room, Keble College)
Sebastian Ahnert
Royal Society University Research Fellow, TCM, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
"Compressible components reveal network architectures" (poster & slides)

Tuesday 18th February 2014 (12.30 - 14.00, Roy Griffiths Room, Keble College)
Sofia Olhede
Professor of Statistics, Honorary Professor of Computer Science, UCL
"Network histograms and universality of blockmodel approximation" (poster)

Tuesday 11th February 2014 (12.30 - 14.00, Roy Griffiths Room, Keble College)
Kimmo Kaski
Professor of Computational Science, Dean of Aalto School of Science, Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College
"Computational sociology: studies of in vivo social networks" (poster & slides)

Tuesday 4th February 2014 (12.30 - 14.00, Roy Griffiths Room, Keble College)
François Caron
Marie Curie Research Fellow, Department of Statistics, Fellow of University College, University of Oxford
Sparse random graphs with exchangeable point processes (poster)

Tuesday 28th January 2014 (12.30 - 14.00, Roy Griffiths Room, Keble College)
Felix Reed-Tsochas
James Martin Lecturer in Complex Systems
"Persistence of social signatures in human communication" (poster)

Tuesday 21st January 2013 (12.30 - 14.00, Roy Griffiths Room, Keble College)
Robert L Axtell
Chair (on leave), Department of Computational Social Science, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University
"Agent-based computing in economics and other social sciences: prospects and opportunities" (poster & slides)

MICHAELMAS TERM 2013

Tuesday 3rd December 2013 (12.30 - 14.00, Roy Griffiths Room, Keble College)
Rui Carvalho
Research Fellow, School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London
"Resilience of natural gas networks during conflicts, crises and disruptions" (poster)

Tuesday 19th November 2013 (12.30 - 14.00, Roy Griffiths Room, Keble College)
Eduardo López
Senior Research Fellow, CABDyN Complexity Centre
James Martin Fellow, Oxford Martin School
"Weighted projected networks: mapping hypergraphs to networks" (poster)

Tuesday 5th November 2013 (12.30 - 14.00, Roy Griffiths Room, Keble College)
Phillip Staniczenko
Research Fellow,Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, University College London
"The ghost of nestedness in ecological networks" (poster)

Tuesday 29th October 2013 (12.30 - 14.00, Roy Griffiths Room, Keble College)
Hyejin Youn
Senior Research Fellow, Complexity Economics Programme, INET Oxford
"The hidden structure in urban economic complexity" (poster)

Tuesday 22nd October 2013 (12.30 - 14.00, Roy Griffiths Room, Keble College)
Omar Guerrero
Research Fellow, Complexity Economics Programme, INET Oxford
"Labor flow networks and new ways of understanding labor markets" (poster)

TRINITY TERM 2013

Friday 14th June 2013 (15:00 - 17:00 Seminar Room A)
Noshir Contractor
Director of the Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Research Group, Northwestern University
"Some Assembly Required: Organizing in the 21st Century" (poster)

Tuesday 11th June 2013 (12:30 - 14:00 Andrew Cormack Seminar Room)
Daniel Fricke
Research Fellow, INET@Oxford, University of Oxford
"Coping with the Complexity of Financial Markets" (poster)

Tuesday 7th May 2013 (12:30 - 14:00 Andrew Cormack Seminar Room)
Mikko Kivelä
Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
"Multiscale analysis of spreading in a large communication network" (poster)

Tuesday 30th April 2013 (12:30 - 14:00 Andrew Cormack Seminar Room)
Thilo Gross
Department of Engineering Mathematics, Merchant Venturers School of Engineering, University of Bristol
"Analytical approaches to network dynamics" (poster)

Tuesday 23rd April 2013 (12:30 - 14:00 Andrew Cormack Seminar Room)
Michael Chertkov
Los Alamos National Laboratory
"Getting a grip on the grid: physics in electrical power systems" (poster)

HILARY TERM 2013

Tuesday 12th March 2013 (12:30 -14:00 Seminar Room 14)
Elizabeth Sawin & Andrew Jones
Climate Interactive
"En-ROADS: interactive experiments with a policy-maker-oriented global energy and climate simulator" (poster)

Tuesday 5th March 2013 (12:30 - 14:00 Andrew Cormack Seminar Room)
Giorgio Fagiolo
Laboratory of Economics and Management, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
"Macroeconomic networks: trade, migration and finance" (poster)

Friday 1st March 2013 (14:30 - 16:00 Andrew Cormack Seminar Room)
Stefan Thurner
Centre for Medical Statistics, Informatics and Intelligent Systems, Section for Science of Complexity Systems, University of Vienna
"How to use DebtRank to eliminate systemic risk in financial networks" (poster)

Thursday 28th February 2013 (14.00 - 15:30 Founders' Room)
H. Peyton Young
Department of Economics, University of Oxford
"How likely is contagion in financial networks?" (poster)

Tuesday 26th February 2013 (12:30 - 14:00 Andrew Cormack Seminar Room)
Stephen Kinsella
Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick
"Agent based models and stock flow consistent models: a coherent alternative?" (poster)

Tuesday 19th February 2013 (12:30 - 14:00 Andrew Cormack Seminar Room)
Richard Wilson
Department of Computer Science, University of York
"Generative models of networks" (poster)

Tuesday 5th February 2013 (12:30 - 14:00 Andrew Cormack Seminar Room)
Timo Ehrig
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
"Expectation formation: inductive reasoning about novel opportunities, and reflexivity" (poster)

Thursday 24th January 2013 (12:30 - 14:00 Seminar Room 14)
Ginestra Bianconi
Department of Physics, Northeastern University
"Dynamics of temporal social networks" (poster)

Tuesday 15th January 2013 (12:30 - 14:00 Seminar Room A)
Deborah Strumsky
Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
Jose Lobo
School of Sustainability, Arizona State University
"Using data on patents to build and study technology spaces" (poster)

MICHAELMAS TERM 2012

Tuesday 27th November 2012 (12:30 - 14:00 Seminar Room 14)
Prof Magda Fontana
Department of Economics University of Turin Vilfredo Pareto Doctoral School - Economics and Complexity
"Dimensions of change in economic thought: the Santa Fe Institute case" (poster & slides)

Tuesday 20th November 2012 (12:30 - 14:00 Seminar Room 14)
Dr Stuart Armstrong
Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford
"Anthropic probability and other puzzles affecting the human survival" (poster & slides)

Tuesday 13th November 2012 (12:30 - 14:00 Andrew Cormack Seminar Room)
Dr SangHoon Lee
OCIAM, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
"Exploring road networks with greedy navigators and their core-periphery structures" (poster & slides)

Tuesday 6th November 2012 (12:30 -14:00 Seminar Room 14)
Dr Daniel Ladley
Department of Economics, University of Leicesters
"Contagion and risk-sharing on the inter-bank market" (poster & slides)

TRINITY TERM 2012

Tuesday 12th June 2012 (12:30 -14:00 Seminar Room 14 - different venue)
Dr Ken Kahn
Oxford University Computing Services
"Agent-based modelling in education, public engagement, policy making, discussions, and research" (poster)

Tuesday 29th May 2012 (12:30 -14:00 Seminar Room 13)
Dr Ross A Hammond
Centre on Social Dynamics and Policy, Brookings Institution
"Agent-based computational modeling and public health: progress and potential" (poster)

Tuesday 22nd May 2012 (12:30 -14:00 Seminar Room 13)
Dr Sandra Gonzáles-Bailón
Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
"Broadcasters and hidden influentials in online protest diffusion" (poster & slides)

Tuesday 8th May 2012 (12:30 -14:00 Seminar Room 13)
Dr Anders Johansson
The Systems Centre, University of Bristol
"‘Multiscale human mobility" (poster)

Tuesday 17th April 2012 (16:00-17:30 Oxford Martin School, Old Indian Institute, 34 Broad Street)
Professor Thomas Homer-Dixon
Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation, University of Waterloo, Canada
"Catastrophic dehumanization: the psychological dynamics of severe conflict" (poster)

HILARY TERM 2012

Tuesday 13th March 2012 (12:30 -14:00 Seminar Room A)
Dr Martino Tran
Institute for Carbon and Energy Reduction in Transport, Oxford Martin School, UK
"Agent behaviour and network influence on energy innovation diffusion" (poster)

Tuesday 6th March 2012 (12:30 -14:00 Seminar Room 13)
Professor Alex Bentley
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol
"Social influence and drift in collective behaviour" (poster & slides)

Tuesday 21st February 2012 (12:30 -14:00 Seminar Room 14)
Dr Alexandra Brintrup
CABDyN Complexity Centre, Saïd Business School
"Performance and resilience in the extended organisational ecosystem" (poster & slides)

Tuesday 14th February 2012 (12:30 -14:00 Seminar Room 13)
Dr Lavan Mahadeva
Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
"Risk sharing or contagion in the build up to the crisis?" (poster & slides)

Tuesday 7th February 2012 (12:30 -14:00 Seminar Room A)
Dr Co-Pierre Georg
Interdisciplinary Group of Complex Systems, Department of Mathematics,
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
"Interbank networks, contagion, and common shocks" (poster & slides)

MICHAELMAS TERM 2011

Thursday 1st December 2011 (11.00 - 17:00 Seminar Room A)
Scaling in Social Systems Workshop (poster & programme)

Tuesday 15th November 2011 (12.30 -14:00 James Martin Seminar Room)
Prof Nancy Puccinelli
Department of Marketing, College of Business Administration, Northeastern University
Associate Fellow, Said Business School, Oxford University
"Turning that Smile Upside Down, Seducing Men with Red, and Other Things Psychology Can Do" (poster)

Tuesday 8th November 2011 (12.30 -14:00 James Martin Seminar Room)
Prof Edward Bullmore
Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge
"The economics of brain network organisation" (poster & slides)

Tuesday 1st November 2011 (12.30 -14:00 James Martin Seminar Room)
Prof David Sumpter
Collective Behaviour Group, Department of Mathematics, Uppsala University
"Quantifying social dynamics: from trapped prawns, to shoaling fish and clapping" (poster & slides)

Tuesday 25th October 2011 (12.30 -14:00 James Martin Seminar Room)
Dr Austin Gerig
Senior Research Fellow, Complex Networks, University of Oxford
"The Effects of High Frequency Trading in a Multi-Asset Model" (poster & slides)

Tuesday 18th October 2011 (12.30 -14:00 James Martin Seminar Room)
Lauri Kovanen
Department of Biomedical Engineering and Computational Science, Aalto University, Helsinki
"Temporal motifs in time-dependent networks" (poster & slides)

CABDyN Summer Seminar - Thursday 14th July 2011 (16.00-17.30 James Martin Seminar Room)
Dr Juyong Park
Department of Physics, Kyung Hee University, Seoul
"Markov Chains as descriptors of human mobility, and possible applications" (poster)

TRINITY TERM 2011

Tuesday 14th June 2011 (12.30 -14:00 James Martin Seminar Room)
Professor Matthew Salganik
Department of Sociology, Princeton University
"Wiki surveys: Open, adaptive, and quantifiable social data collection" (poster)

Tuesday 7th June 2011 (12.30 -14:00 James Martin Seminar Room)
Professor Delia Baldassarri
Department of Sociology, Princeton University
"Cooperative Networks, Social Capital, and the provision of Public Goods: drawing evidence from Field experiments in rural Uganda" (poster)

Tuesday 31st May 2011 (12.30 -14:00 James Martin Seminar Room)
Professor Moses Boudourides
Department of Mathematics, University of Patras, Greece
"The strength of indirect relations in dual social networks" (slides, poster)

Tuesday 24th May 2011 (12.30 -14:00 James Martin Seminar Room)s
Ben Fulcher
Oxford Complex Systems Group, Department of Physics, University of Oxford
"Comparative Time-Series Analysis" (slides, poster)

Monday 16th May 2011 (17.00 -18:30 James Martin Seminar Room)
Roger Guimerà
Universitat Rovira i Virgili, ICREA Research Professor, Chemical Engineering
"Modules and statistical models of complex networks: from systems biology to the US Supreme Court’" (poster)

Tuesday 10th May 2011 (12.30 -14:00 James Martin Seminar Room)
Dr Jianguo Liu
Research Fellow in Complex Networks, CABDyN Complexity Centre, Saïd Business School
"Solving the apparent diversity-accuracy dilemma of recommender systems" (poster)

HILARY TERM 2011

Tuesday 15th March 2011 (12.30 -14:00 James Martin Seminar Room)
Dr Tomaso Aste
Associate Professor & Reader, School of Physical Sciences, University of Kent
"A network approach to capture both local clustering and global organisation in complex signals" (poster)

Thursday 10th March 2011 (16.00 -17:30 James Martin Seminar Room)
Professor Doyne Farmer
Santa Fe Institute
"Leverage Causes Fat Tails and Clustered Volatility" (poster)

Tuesday 8th March 2011 (12.30 -14:00 James Martin Seminar Room)
Dr Thomas House
Research Fellow, Warwick Mathematics Institute, Universtiy of Warwick
"Coughs and sneezes spread diseases (across complex networks)" (poster)

Tuesday 22nd February 2011 (12.30 -14:00 James Martin Seminar Room)
Dr Eduardo López
Research Fellow in Complexity Science, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
"Percolation induced by disorder" (poster)

Tuesday 8th February 2011 (12.30 -14:00 James Martin Seminar Room)
Dr Felix Reed-Tsochas
James Martin Lecturer in Complex Systems and CABDyN Co-Director, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
"Innovation adoption in an online social network " [with Jukka-Pekka Onnela] (poster)

Tuesday 1st February 2011 (14.30 -16:00 James Martin Seminar Room)
Dr Ashleigh S. Griffin
Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
"Patterns of cooperative behaviour in bacteria and birds" (poster)

Tuesday 25th January 2011 (12.30 -14:00 James Martin Seminar Room)
Dr Alexandra Brintrup
Senior Research Fellow in Complex Networks, CABDyN Complexity Centre, Saïd Business School
"The Shape of the Toyota Supply Network: Reflection on Resilience" (poster)

Tuesday 18th January 2011 (12.30 -14:00 James Martin Seminar Room)
Guido Caldarelli
Associate Professor in the Centre for Statistical Mechanics in the University of Rome "Sapienza" Italy
"Random Hypergraphs and their applications" (poster, slides)

MICHAELMAS TERM 2010

Tuesday 30th November 2010 (12.30 -14:00 James Martin Seminar Room)
Dr Mason Alexander Porter
Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
"Community Structure in Multislice Networks" (poster)

Thursday 25th November 2010 (12.00 -14:00 Pusey Room, Keble College)
Dr Jukka-Pekka Onnela
Research Fellow, Medical School, Harvard University
"A Taxonomy of Networks" (poster)

Tuesday 16th November 2010 (12.30 -14:00 James Martin Seminar Room)
Dr Béla Nagy
Santa Fe Institute
"Predicting Technological Progress" (poster)

Tuesday 2nd November 2010 (12.30 -14:00 James Martin Seminar Room)
Dr Tore Opsahl
Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London
"Communication in a Facebook-like community" (poster)

Wednesday 27th October 2010 (15.30 -17:00 James Martin Seminar Room)
Prof James Gleeson
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Limerick, Ireland
"Cascade dynamics and systemic risk in banking networks" (poster)

Monday 25th October 2010 (12.30 -14:00 James Martin Seminar Room)
Prof Cosma Shalizi
Department of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University
"Homophily, contagion and confounding: pick any three" (poster)

Tuesday 19th October 2010 (12.30 -14:00 James Martin Seminar Room)
Dr Elizabeth Leicht
Senior Research Fellow, Complex Networks, University of Oxford
"Variety in networks: modularity and multiple networks" (poster)

Tuesday 12th October 2010 (12.30 -14:00 James Martin Seminar Room)
Dr Jari Saramäki
Department of Biomedical Engineering and Computational Science, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland. Visiting scholar, Wolfson College, University of Oxford
"Temporal correlations and spreading dynamics in communication networks" (poster)

Thursday 30th September 2010 (15.30 -17:00 James Martin Seminar Room)
Professor David Lazer
Associate Professor of Political Science and Computer Science Northeastern University and Director, Program on Networked Governance, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University
"How we think together" (poster)

CABDyN Summer Seminar - Thursday 22nd July 2010 (14:00 -16:00 Barcalys Room, Green Templeton College)
Assistant Professor Ginestra Bianconi
Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston
"The entropy of network ensembles: theory and application to inference problem" (poster)

TRINITY TERM 2010

Tuesday 15th June 2010 (12:30-14:00 James Martin Seminar Room)
Prof Rodney Garratt
Bank of England and Department of Economics, University of California , Santa Barbara
"Tracking Systemic Risk in the International Banking Network" (poster)

Tuesday 8th June 2010 (12:30-14:00 James Martin Seminar Room)
Phillip Staniczenko
Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford
"Structural Dynamics and Robustness of Food Webs" (poster, slides)

Tuesday 1st June 2010 (12:30-14:00 James Martin Seminar Room)
Dr Renaud Lambiotte
Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Imperial College of London
"Trade, Conflict and Sentiments: Multi-relational Organisation of Large-scale Social Networks" (poster, slides)

Tuesday 25th May 2010 (12:30-14:00 James Martin Seminar Room)
Prof Alexandre Arenas
Department of Computer Sciences and Mathematics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona
"Optimal Map of the Modular Structure of Complex Networks" (poster, slides)

Tuesday 18th May 2010 (12:30-14:00 James Martin Seminar Room)
Dr José Javier Ramasco
Institute for Scientific Interchange Foundation, Torino
“Web Traffic: Analysis of Navigation Data and Modeling at Single User Level” (poster, slides)

Tuesday 11th May 2010 (12:30-14:00 James Martin Seminar Room)
Dr Mauro Mobilia
Department of Applied Mathematics, School of Mathematics, University of Leeds
“Large Fluctuations and Fixation in Evolutionary Games with Non-Vanishing Selection” (poster, slides)

Tuesday 4th May 2010 (12:30-14:00 James Martin Seminar Room)
Dr Ganesh Ayalvadi
Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol
“Probabilistic Consensus via Polling and Majority Rules” (poster)

Tuesday 27th April 2010 (12:30-14:00 James Martin Seminar Room)
Dr Michael Gastner
Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Imperial College of London
“Complex Network of Global Cargo Ship Movements” (poster, slides)

HILARY TERM 2010

For Hilary term 2010 CABDyN is jointly organising a special seminar series on "Complexity and Systemic Risk" with the James Martin 21st Century School. The seminars in this series will deviate from the normal schedule, and take place at 3:30 pm on Thursdays, and the venue will be the James Martin 21st Century School in the Old Indian Institute Building. For Trinity term 2010, the CABDyN seminar series will revert to the standard format, location, and time.


Thursday 11 March 2010 (15:30-17:00 Old Indian Institute Building)


Dr Owen Petchey
Research Fellow, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield
“Contagious Extinctions and Ecosystem Collapse” (poster, slides to follow, blog, video, audio only)

Tuesday 9th March 2010 (12:30-14:00 Gibbs Room, Keble College)
Dr Serguei Saavedra

Kellog School of Management and NICO, Northwestern University
“Instant-Messaging Networks and the Collective Genius of Profitable Day Traders” (poster)

Thursday 4 March 2010 (15:30-17:00 Old Indian Institute Building)


Professor Dirk Helbing
Professor of Sociology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
“Cooperation, Norms, and Conflict: Towards Simulating the Foundations of Society” (poster, slides, blog, audio only)

Thursday 25 February 2010 (15:30-17:00 Old Indian Institute Building)


Professor Alessandro Vespignani
Professor of Informatics, Indiana University at Bloomington, USA
“Predicting the Behaviour of Techno-Social Systems: How Informatics and Computing Help to Fight Off Global Pandemics” (poster, slides, blog, audio only)


Thursday 18 February 2010 (15:30-17:00 Old Indian Institute Building)


Professors David Marshall
21st Century Ocean Institute
“Oceans and Complex Systems” (poster, slides, blog, video, audio only)

Tuesday 16 February 2010 (12:30-14:00 James Martin Seminar Room)


Professor José Fernando Mendes
Department of Physics, University of Aveiro
k-cores in Complex Networks” (poster)

Thursday 11 February 2010 (15:30-17:00 Old Indian Institute Building


Professor Mike Batty
University College London
“Anticipating Future Complexity: Are Systems Such as Cities Getting More Complex?” (poster, slides, blog, audio only)

Thursday 4 February 2010 (15:30-17:00 Old Indian Institute Building)


Professor Geoffrey West
Distinguished Professor, Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, USA
“Growth, Innovation, and the Pace of Life from Cells and Ecosystems to Cities and Corporations; Are They Sustainable?” (poster, blog, audio only)

Thursday 21 January 2010 (15:30-17:00 Old Indian Institute Building)
Professor Lord Robert May

Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
“Stability and Complexity in Model Banking Systems" (poster, slides, blog, 21School Briefings, [pdf], audio only)

MICHAELMAS TERM 2009

Tuesday 24th November 2009 (12:30-14:00 James Martin Seminar Room)
Prof David Strang
Department of Sociology, Cornell University
“Innovation diffusion as a coevolutionary process: adaptive emulation among firms and consultants” (poster) (slides)

Tuesday 17th November 2000 (16:00-17:30 E P Abraham Lecture Theater, Green Templeton College)
Prof Nicholas Christakis

Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
“A Genetic Basis for Social Network Structure and Social Aspects of Social Network Function” (poster)

Tuesday 10th November 2009 (12:30-14:00 James Martin Seminar Room)
Dr Diego Garlaschelli

CABDyN Complexity Centre, University of Oxford
“An Exact Randomization Method to Detect Patterns in Real Networks” (poster)

Tuesday 3rd November 2009 (12:30-14:00 James Martin Seminar Room)
Prof Paul Bressloff

Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
“Geometric Visual Hallucinations, Euclidean Symmetry and the Functional Architecture of Visual Cortex” (poster)

Tuesday 27th October 2009 (12:30-14:00 James Martin Seminar Room)
Prof Alan McKane

School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester
“Evolving Complex Food Webs” (poster) (slides)

Friday 23rd October 2009 (16:00-17:30 Seminar Room A, Said Business School)
Prof Duncan Watts
Oxford Internet Institute lecture in collaboration with CABDyN and the Oxford eSocial Science (OeSS) Project.

Principal Research Scientist, Yahoo! Research
“Using the Web to do Social Science” (poster, video, audio only)

Tuesday 13th October 2009 (12:30-14:00 James Martin Seminar Room)
Prof Erik Bollt

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Clarkson University
"Hierarchical Models of Multiscaled Dynamic on Networks and Evaluating the Model
Quality of Such Multiscaled Systems" Abstract and Poster (poster)

Oxford Networks Day
Monday 28th September 2009 (10.00 – 17.00 Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Department of Physics)
Hosted by Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology and CABDyN Complexity Centre Download programme

CABDyN SUMMER WORKSHOP SERIES 2009

CABDyN Summer Workshops, Keble College, University of Oxford
Friday 17th September (12:30 - 2:00pm Gibbs Room - Keble College)
Prof Gesine Reinert

Department of Statistics, University of Oxford
"Shortest paths in bipartite networks"

CABDyN Summer Workshops, Keble College, University of Oxford
Friday 4th September (12:30 - 2:00pm Gibbs Room - Keble College)
Qiang Lou

Department of Statistics, University of Oxford
"Predicting inter-domain contact sites using local network information"

CABDyN Summer Workshops, Keble College, University of Oxford
Friday 14th August (12:30 - 2:00pm Pusey Room - Keble College)
Dr Nick Jones

Department of Physics, University of Oxford
"The mixed value of protein interaction network data"

CABDyN Summer Workshops, Keble College, University of Oxford
Friday 24th July (12:30 - 2:00pm Gibbs Room - Keble College)
Dr Mark Fricker

Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford
"Lost in parameter space: Biologically inspired agent models"

CABDyN Summer Workshops, Keble College, University of Oxford
Friday 10th July (12:30 - 2:00pm Gibbs Room - Keble College)
Prof Neil Johnson

Department of Physics, University of Miami
"Giving character to particles and nodes"

TRINITY TERM 2009

Tuesday 9th June (12:30 - 2:00pm James Martin Seminar Room)
Dr Delia Baldassari
Department of Sociology, Office of Population Research and the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, Princeton University
'Dynamics of Political Polarization'
Paper and Abstract and Poster

Tuesday 2nd June (12:30 - 2:00pm James Martin Seminar Room)
Dr Colm Connaughton
Mathematics Institute and Warwick Centre for Complexity Science, University of Warwick
'Runaway Growth in the Coagulation Equation Revisited' Abstract and poster

Tuesday 26th May (12:30 - 2:00pm Seminar Room B, Saïd Business School)
Prof. Geoffrey West
Sante Fe Institute
'Size Matters: Growth, Innovation, Economies of Scale and the Pace of Life from Cells to Cities and Corporations' Abstract and poster

Tuesday 19th May (12:30 - 2:00pm James Martin Seminar Room)
Prof. Alan Baker
Department of Philosophy, Swarthmore College
CABDyN Complexity Centre, Saïd Business School, Oxford University
'Are Networks Real? Abstract and poster

Tuesday 12th May (12:30 - 2:00pm James Martin Seminar Room)
Dr. Owen Lewis
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
'Quantitative Foodwebs as Tools for Ecologists'

Abstract and poster

HILARY TERM 2009

Tuesday 28th April (12:30 - 2:00pm Seminar Room B)
Prof. Sanjeev Goyal
Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
'Robust Networks'
Abstract and Poster

Thursday 23rd and Friday 24th April (Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Physics Building, University of Oxford)
'Oxford Signals Days: Challenging Signals in Nature and Society'
To register email: events@oxford-man.ox.ac.uk
Event poster

Wednesday 18th March (12:30 - 2:00pm Seminar Room B)
Dr Vittoria Colizza
Complex Systems Lagrange Lab, ISI Foundation, Turin
'Do the rich really take it all?'
Abstract and Poster
Slides (pdf)

Wednesday 25th February 2009 (12:30 – 2:00 pm James Martin Institute Seminar Room)
Prof Giovanni Dosi
Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy
Schumpeter Meeting Keynes: A Policy-Friendly Model of Endogenous Growth and Business Cycles
Abstract and Poster

Tuesday 17th February 2009 (12:30 – 2:00 pm Seminar Room B)
Dr Marc Barthelemy
Commissariat à L’Energie Atomique – Département de Physique, France
‘Microdynamics in stationary networks: empirical results and modelling’
Abstract and Poster

Tuesday 10th February 2009 (12:30 - 2:00pm, Seminar Room B)
Dr Peter Dodd
Division of Epidemiology, Public Health and Primary Care, Imperial College

'Some offbeat approaches to epidemics on networks'
Abstract and Poster

Tuesday 27th January 2009 (12:30 - 2:00pm, Seminar Room B)
Prof Shlomo Havlin
Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

'Statistical Physics and Complex Networks'
Abstract and Poster

An ESRC Seminar Series, 'Darwin's Medicine: Evolutionary Psychology and its Applications'
Tuesday 13th January 2009 (9:30 - 5:00pm, Lecture Room, Institute of Cognitive & Evolutionary Anthropology, 64 Banbury Road)
1st Workshop: Social Brains and Social Networks
[Download Programme pdf]

MICHAELMAS TERM 2008

Tuesday 25th November 2008 (12:30 - 2:00pm, Reception Room)
Dr Daniel Stouffer
Integrative Ecology Group, Estación Biológica de Doñana, Spain

'An understanding of food-web persistence from local to global scales'
Abstract and Poster
Slides (pdf)


Tuesday 18th November 2008 (12:30 – 2:00 pm, Seminar Room B)
Mark Rogers, CEO
Market Sentinel

‘The business value of understanding networks of conversations’
Abstract and Poster
Market Sentinel Blog

Tuesday 11th November 2008 (12:30 – 2:00 pm, Seminar Room B)
Dr Ken Kahn
Oxford University Computer Services

‘Modelling4All -- A 'Flickr' for Computer Modelling’
Abstract and Poster
Visit the Modelling4all website

Tuesday 4th November 2008 (12:30 – 2:00 pm, Seminar Room B)
Dr Meredith Rolfe
Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation

‘Voting Together: how social networks affect the emergent norm of voter turnout’
Abstract and Poster
Slides (pdf)

Tuesday 28th October 2008 (12:30 – 2:00 pm, Seminar Room B)
Dr Tobias Galla
Theoretical Physics Group, The University of Manchester

‘Stability, complexity and diversity in random replicator models of ecology and evolutionary game theory’
Abstract and Poster
Slides (pdf)

Tuesday 21st October 2008 (12:30 – 2:00 pm, Seminar Room 13, next door to Seminar Room B)
Professor Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen
Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Imperial College London

‘The Tangled Nature Model of biological emergence: How far can one go by using a minimalist model of co-evolution?’
Abstract and poster

Tuesday 14th October 2008 (12:30 – 2:00 pm, Seminar Room B)
Dr Felix Reed-Tsochas
James Martin Institute, University of Oxford

‘A model of co-operation for bi-partite networks’
Abstract and Poster
Slides (pdf)

Friday 3rd October 2008(9.30 - 5.30 Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Department of Physics)
Oxford BioNets Day

Hosted by Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology and CABDyN Complexity Centre
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TRINITY TERM 2008

Tuesday 10th June 2008 (12:30 – 2:00 pm James Martin Insitute (JMI) Seminar Room)
Professor David Sherrington
Rudolph Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford

‘Physics and Complexity’
Abstract and Poster
Slides (pdf)


Tuesday 3rd June 2008(12:30 – 2:00 pm Seminar Room A)
Dr Quentin Atkinson
Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford

'Tempo and Mode in Language Evolution'
Abstract and Poster
Slides (pdf)

Tuesday 20th May 2008 (12:30 – 2:00 pm Seminar Room B)
Professor Julian Hunt
Department of Space and Climate Physics, University College London

‘Systems modelling approaches for making and exploring decisions’
Abstract and Poster
Slides (pdf)

Tuesday 29th April 2008(12:30 – 2:00 pm Seminar Room A)
Dr Eduardo Lopez
Said Business School, University of Oxford

'Limited path percolation in complex networks'
Abstract and Poster
Slides (pdf)

Tuesday 22nd April 2008 (12:30 – 2:00 pm Seminar Room B)
Professor Tamás Vicsek
Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest

‘Collective motion: models and experiments ’
Abstract and Poster
Slides (pdf)

HILARY TERM 2008

Tuesday 11th March 2008(12:30 – 2:00 pm JMI Seminar Room)
Professor R.I.M. Dunbar
Institute of Cognitive & Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford

‘Cognition vs time as constraints in the structuring of human social networks’
Abstract and Poster
Slides (pdf)


Tuesday 4th March 2008(12:30 – 2:00 pm JMI Seminar Room)
Dr Rich Williams
European Science Initiative, Microsoft Research Ltd

‘Neutral degree distributions in complex food webs’
Abstract and Poster

Tuesday 26th February 2008 (12:30 - 2:00 pm Seminar Room A)
Serguei Saavedra Sanchez
Department of Engineering Science
University of Oxford
‘Patterns of cooperation in ecological and organizational networks’
Abstract and Poster

Tuesday 19th February 2008 (12:30 - 2:00 pm Reception Room)
Dr Jukka-Pekka Onnela
Department of Physics and Saïd Business School
University of Oxford
‘The emergence of communities in social networks’
Abstract and Poster
Slides (pdf)

Tuesday 12th February 2008 (12:30 - 2:00 pm Boardroom)
Prof Philip Mirowski
Department of Economics and Policy Studies
University of Notre Dame
‘Markets come to bits: Evolution, computation, and markomata in economic science’
Abstract and Poster
Slides (pdf)

Tuesday 5th February (12:30 – 2:00 pm Seminar Room B)
Dr Zoltan Eisler
Equity Arbitrage Capital Fund Management, Paris

‘Fluctuation scaling: Taylor's law and beyond’
Abstract and Poster
Slides (pdf)

Tuesday 22nd January (12:30 - 2:00 pm Seminar Room B)
Dr Nick Jones
Physics Department and Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, University of Oxford
'Pink Noise and Sensory Adaptation'
Abstract and Poster
Slides (pdf)

MICHAELMAS TERM 2007


Monday 3rd December 2007 (12.30 - 2.00pm, Seminar Room B) Please note different day
Dr Santo Fortunato
Complex Networks Lagrange Laboratory (CNLL)
Institute for Scientific Interchange Foundation, Turin
'Three Puzzles in Community Detection'
Abstract and Poster
Slides (pdf)


Tuesday 27th November 2007 (12.30 - 2.00pm, Seminar Room A) Please note different venue
Alex Ng
Department of Engineering
University of Oxford

'Improving Network Robustness by Structural Evolution: from MST to Robust Network'
Abstract and Poster

Tuesday 20th November 2007 (12.30 - 2.00pm, Reception Room) Please note different venue
Prof Kristian Skrede Gleditsch
Department of Government
University of Essex

'Modelling the Frequency and Severity of Terrorism'
Abstract and Poster   Paper 1(pdf)   Paper 2 (pdf)
Slides (pdf)

Tuesday 13th November 2007 (12.30 - 2.00pm, Reception Room)
Prof Maxi San Miguel
Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems
University of the Balearic Islands, Mallorca, Spain

'Cultural globalization-polarization transition, cultural drift, co-evolution and group formation'
Abstract and Poster
Slides (pdf)

Tuesday 30th October 2007 (12.30 - 2.00pm, Seminar Room B)
Dr Mason Porter
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford

'Complex Networks: From U.S. College Football to Congress'
Abstract and Poster
Slides (pdf)

Tuesday 23rd October 2007 (12.30 - 2.00pm, Reception Room) Please note different venue
Prof László Pólos
Durham Business School
Durham University

'The Emergence of Classification Schemata'
Abstract and Poster

Tuesday 16th October 2007 (12.30 - 2.00pm, Seminar Room B)
Dr Vassilis Kostakos
Human Computer Interaction Group, Department of Computer Science
University of Bath

'Brief Encounter Networks'
Abstract and Poster
Slides (pdf)

Tuesday 9th October 2007 (12.30 - 2.00pm, Seminar Room B - Buffet lunch from 12.00)
Dr Marcus Kaiser
School of Computing Science / Institute of Neuroscience
Newcastle University

'Spatial and modular organisation of brain networks prevents large-scale activation'
Abstract and Poster Website for more information
Slides (pdf)


TRINITY TERM 2007

Monday 25 June 2007 (16.00 – 17.30pm James Martin Institute Seminar Room)
Prof Luciano da Fontoura Costa
Institute of Physics of São Carlos
University of São Paulo, Brazil
‘Characterization and Classification of Complex Networks’
Abstract and Poster


Tuesday 29 May 2007 (12:30 - 2:00 pm Seminar Room A)
Dr Jukka-Pekka Onnela
Department of Physics and Saïd Business School
University of Oxford
‘Structure and tie strengths in large scale social networks’
Abstract and Poster
Slides (pdf)


Tuesday 15 May 2007 (12:30 - 2:00 pm Seminar Room A)
Dr Roger Guimera
Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Northwestern University
‘Cartography of complex networks: from organizations to the metabolism’
Abstract and Poster


Tuesday 8 May 2007 (12:30 - 2:00 pm Seminar Room A)
Dr Tim Evans
Department of Physics Imperial College London
‘Exact Results for Cultural Transmission and Network Rewiring’
Abstract and Poster
Slides (pdf)


Wednesday 2 May 2007 (5.00 – 6.30 pm Clay Room, Nuffield College)
Prof Duncan Watts
Department of Sociology and Collective Dynamics Group
Columbia University

‘The paradoxical nature of success in cultural markets: An experimental approach’
Abstract and Poster
http://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/General/Seminars/seminar_details.aspx?seminar=1005


Tuesday 1 May 2007 (12:30 - 2:00 pm Seminar Room A)
Prof Scott E. Page
Department of Political Science
University of Michigan

‘Why is the Power of Group Thinking So Powerful?’
Abstract and Poster


Tuesday 24 April 2007 (12:30 - 2:00 pm Seminar Room A)
Prof Peter Abell and Dr Mark Ludwig
Managerial Economics and Strategy Group
London School of Economics

‘The evolution of social networks’
Abstract and Poster
Paper


HILARY TERM 2007

Tuesday 6th March 2007 (12:30 - 2:00 pm Seminar Room B)
Dr Istvan Kiss
Zoology Department, University of Oxford

‘The effect of host heterogeneity and multiple routes of disease transmission on epidemic dynamics and pathogen evolution’


Tuesday 27 February 2007 (12:30 - 2:00 pm Andrew Cormack Seminar Room)
Dr Santo Fortunato
Complex Networks Lagrange Laboratory (CNLL)
Institute for Scientific Interchange Foundation, Turin

‘Word of Mouth and Universal Voting Behaviour in Proportional Elections’


Tuesday 20 February 2007 (12:30 - 2:00 pm Lecture Theatre 4)
Dr Eric Werner
Cellnomica and Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics
University of Oxford

‘Communication and complexity limits in systems of social agents’


Tuesday 13 February 2007 (12:30 - 2:00 pm Lecture Theatre 4)
Alexis Gallagher
Department of Zoology, Oxford University.

‘Studying Evolvability with a Graph Algebra’


Friday 9 February 2007 (12:30 - 2:00 pm, James Martin Institute Seminar Room)
Prof Susan Holmes
Department of Statistics
Stanford University

‘Gene Expression Network Analysis and Applications to Immunology’


Tuesday 6 February 2007 (4:00 - 5:30 pm Seminar Room B)
Prof Janos Kertesz
Institute of Physics
Budapest University of Technology and Economics

‘Community Structure and Ethnic Preferences in School Friendship Networks’


MICHAELMAS TERM 2006

Tuesday 28 November 2006 (12:30 – 2:00 pm Seminar Room B)
Dr Ken Kahn
Learning Technologies Group, Oxford University Computing Services,
University of Oxford

‘How to build multi-agent simulations without knowing how to program’
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Project Website


Tuesday 21 November 2006 (12:30 – 2:00 pm Seminar Room B)
Dr Michael Biggs
Department of Sociology, University of Oxford

‘From Event-History Analysis to Simulation:
Replaying the Tape of History for the 1960 Sit-ins’
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Tuesday 7 November 2006 (12:30 – 2:00 pm Seminar Room B)
Dr Antonis Papachristodoulou
Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford

‘Robust Functionality of Large Scale Networked Systems:
Switching Topologies’
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Tuesday 24 October 2006 (1.00 – 2:00 pm Seminar Room B)
Please note later start time
Prof Marcel Fafchamps
Department of Economics, University of Oxford

‘Scientific Networks and Co-authorship’
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Tuesday 17 October 2006 (12:30 – 2:00 pm Seminar Room B)
Prof Stephen Shennan
Institute of Archaeology, University College London

‘Selection and Drift in Cultural Evolution:
Some Archaeological Examples’
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Monday 2 October 2006 (12:30 – 2:00 pm JMI Seminar Room)
Prof Steve Lansing
Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona and Santa Fe Institute

‘Coupled human/ecological models: where do we begin?’
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TRINITY TERM 2006

28th June 2006 (2.00-4.00 pm Saïd Business School, Rhodes Trust Lecture Theatre)
Professor Alessandro Vespignani
(School of Informatics Department of Physics and Center
for Biocomplexity Indiana University, Bloomington)

The impact of social network complexity: from web-search to epidemics
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27th June 2006 3.00-4.30 pm Saïd Business School, Rhodes Trust Lecture Theatre
Professor Michael Macy
(Department of Sociology Cornell University)

'Complex Contagion and the Weakness of Long Ties'
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23 June 2006 2.00-3.30pm Gibbs Room, Keble College
Prof. Janusz Holyst
(Department of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology)

Interplay between network structure and self-organized criticality

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Tuesday 13 June 2006 (12:30 – 2:00 pm Seminar Room A)
Prof Paul A David
Oxford Internet Institute and Department of Economics, Stanford University

‘Motivation and Coordination in Libre Software Projects:
A Stygmergic Simulation Modelling Perspective’
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Tuesday 6 June 2006 (12:30 – 2:00 pm Seminar Room A)
Dr Takeshi Takama
Stockholm Environment Institute/Oxford Climate Policy, University of Oxford

‘Agent-based modelling for water management with WEAP’


Tuesday 30 May 2006 (12:30 – 2:00 pm Seminar Room A)
Dr Duncan McFarlane
Institute of Manufacturing, University of Cambridge

‘Reconfigurability in Industrial Networks’
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Tuesday 23 May 2006 (12:30 – 2:00 pm Seminar Room A)
Serguei Saavedra Sanchez
Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford

‘Network characteristics of a self-organised supply chain’
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Tuesday 16 May 2006 (12:30 – 2:00 pm Seminar Room A)
Daniel Stouffer
Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University

’A complex systems approach to the modelling and characterization of natural ecosystems’
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Tuesday 9 May 2006 (12:30 – 2:00 pm Seminar Room A)
Sean Gourley
Saïd Business School and Department of Physics, Oxford University

’Modelling the Iraq conflict: A market for insurgency’
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HILARY TERM 2006

Tuesday 25 April 2006 (12:30 – 2:00 pm Seminar Room A)
Dr David Sumpter
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford

‘Collective animal behaviour: marching locusts, homing pigeons and pecking chickens’
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Wednesday 19 April 2006 – John C Doyle
(John G Braun Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems, Electrical Engineering, and Bioengineering California Institute of Technology)

‘Robustness and Complexity–
Modelling Stochastic Dynamics in Complex Biological Networks’
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Tuesday 28 February 2006 – Dr Han Ozsoylev (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford)
‘Asset pricing implications of social networks’’
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Tuesday 21 February 2006 – Dr Andrea Rocco (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
‘Modelling Stochastic Dynamics in Complex Biological Networks’
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Tuesday 14 February 2006 – Prof Geoff Rodgers (Department of Mathematical Sciences, Brunel University)
‘Complex networks and random matrices’
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Tuesday 7 February 2006 – Prof Peyton Young (Nuffield College, University of Oxford and Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University)
‘The Spread of Innovations through Social Learning’
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Tuesday 31 January 2006 – Dr Rowland Kao (Department of Zoology, University of Oxford)
‘Pathogen dynamics on the network of livestock movements in the UK’
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Tuesday 24 January 2006 – Prof Michael Batty (Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), University College London)
‘Cities and complexity’
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Tuesday 17 January 2006 – Max Little (Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford)
‘Methods for Semi-Structured Model Fitting’
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MICHAELMAS TERM 2005

Tuesday 29 November 2005 – Dr Marco van der Leij (Tinbergen Institute, Erasmus University, Rotterdam)
‘Strong ties in a small world?’
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Wednesday 23 November 2005 – Professor Christofer Edling (Department of Sociology, Stockholm University) 2.00-4.00 pm
‘Testing the small world effect from register data on family, household and workplace affiliation’
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Please note the unusual date and time


Tuesday 22 November 2005 – Professor Hans Huber (Strategy Group, AUDENCIA-Nantes, Ecole de Management)
‘Which Strategy for European Airlines?’
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Tuesday 1 November 2005 – Dr Yvonne Åberg (Nuffield College, University of Oxford)
‘QAD + ABM: Combining Quantitative Analyses of Data and Agent Based Modelling’
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Thursday 20 – Friday 21 October 2005 – 1st MMCOMNET Workshop
‘Measuring and Modelling Complex Networks across Domains’
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29 July 2005 12.30 - 2.00pm Gibbs Room, Keble College
Serguei Saavedra-Sanchez (Department of Engineering Science)

Static and Dynamic Relations within the Eurovision Song Contest

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22 July 2005 12.30 - 2.00pm Gibbs Room, Keble College
Jukka-Pekka Onnela (Helsinki University of Technology)

Weak Links and Strong Cliques in Social Networks
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19 July 2005 2.00 - 4.00pm James Martin Institute Seminar Room
Denis Nikolaev (Saïd Business School)

Social and Spatial Proximity in Innovation Networks
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TRINITY TERM 2005


Tuesday, 21st June 2005 - Omer Suleman (Department of Physics and Oxford Centre for Computational Finance, University of Oxford)
'From Currency Trading to the Eurovision Song Contest: Complex Dynamical Networks'
Seminar Room B


Tuesday, 14th June 2005 - Dr David Barron (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford)
'Dynamics of National Daily Newspapers in the UK, 1963-1995'


Tuesday, 7th June 2005 - Dr Mark Fricker (Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford)
'Dynamic resource allocation through a developing transport network'


Tuesday, 31st May 2005 - Prof Bruce Kogut (INSEAD)
'Generative Rules: The Emergence of Venture Capital in the United States'
CANCELLED - to be rescheduled.


Tuesday, 24th May 2005 - Dr Patrick McSharry (Department of Engineering Science and Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford)
'Prediction and classification of complex systems using data-driven empirical techniques'


Tuesday, 17th May 2005 - Dr Markus Kirkilionis (Mathematics Department and Centre for Scientific Computing, University of Warwick)
'On Biological Networks'


HILARY TERM 2005

Tuesday, 15th March 2005 – Prof Eve Mitleton-Kelly (Complexity Research Programme, London School of Economics and Department of Design and Innovation, Open University)

“An Integrated Methodology to Facilitate The Emergence of New Ways of Organising”
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4th March 2005
Alexis Gallagher (Zoology)

A survey of software tools for network analysis and visualisation
Summary table


Tuesday, 15th February 2005 –Dr lain Couzin (Department of Zoology, University of Oxford and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University)
"Information Transfer and Decision-Making in Animal Groups"

Tuesday, 18th January 2005 –Prof Giulia Iori (Department of Economics, City University, London)
Complexity in Economic Systems
(* This talk will be held in the Reception Room)
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MICHAELMAS TERM 2004

3rd December 2004
Takeshi Takama (Transport Studies Unit, Oxford)

Agent-based modelling of a transport mode choice with the Minority Game
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Tuesday 30th November 2004 - Prof Alex Kacelnik (Department of Zoology, University of Oxford)
Risky decision-making in feathered and naked bipeds
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26th November 2004
Michael Meyer-HermannOCIAM,(OCIAM, Oxford, & Theoretical Biophysics Group, Technical University of Dresden)

A geometric model for biological cells

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26th November 2004
Graeme Ackland (Physics, University of Edinburgh)

2D Daisyworld - A Complex Interacting Ecology
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Daisyworld Simulation


26th November 2004
Toshiyuki Nakagaki (Centre for Mathematical Biology)

How does an amoeba tackle some geometrical puzzles?
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5th November 2004 - Matthew Bond (Sociology)
The Social Structure of the British intercorporate network and its Consequences for corporate political action
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Tuesday 2nd November 2004 - Dr Fredrik Liljeros (Department of Sociology, University of Stockholm)
Structural properties of large empirical social networks and their likely effects on the transmission of disease
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Tuesday 26th October 2004 - Dr Guilia Iori (Mathematical Finance Group, Kings College, University of London)
Complexity in Economic Networks   Cancelled - to be rescheduled
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22nd October 2004 - François Collet (Saïd Business School)
Status, Alliance Networks and Alliance Partner Selection in the Global Software Industry
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Tuesday 19th October 2004 - Prof Scott Moss (Centre for Policy Modelling, Manchester Metropolitan University)
Good Social Science: The Role of Agent Based Social Simulation
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Tuesday 12th October 2004 - Dr Keith Briggs (Complexity Research, BT)
Connectivity of Random Graphs
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TRINITY TERM 2004

Tuesday 15th June 2004 - Andrew Byde (HP Labs UK)
Market-Based Control for Utility Data Centers
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Tuesday 8th June 2004 - Pierpaolo Andriani (Durham Business School) & Francesca Conti (Department of Electronic Engineering and Systems, University of Catania, Italy)
Cellular Neural Network Simulations: The Evolution of Technology and the Emergence of Novelty
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Tuesday 1st June 2004 - Tim Halpin-Healy (Department of Physics, Barnard College, Columbia University)
The Dynamics of Conformity and Dissent
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Tuesday 11th May 2004 - Mark Newman (Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan)
Form and Function in Complex Networks
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Tuesday 4th May 2004 - Janet Efstathiou (Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford)
The Complexity of Supply Chains and Manufacturing Systems
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HILARY TERM 2004

Tuesday 9th March 2004 - Jeffrey Johnson (Department of Design and Innovation, The Open University)
Using Complexity Science to Manage the European Complexity Community
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Tuesday 2nd March 2004 - Vince Darley (Eurobios UK Ltd)
Modelling the Nasdaq Stock Market
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Thursday 19th February 2004 - Robert Axtell (Centre on Social and Economic Dynamics, The Brookings Institution, Washington DC)
Multi-Agent Firms: Theory, Data and a Computational Model
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Tuesday 3rd February 2004 - Bill Macmillan (Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic), University of Oxford)
Intelligent Agent Strategies for Modelling Spatial Economies
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MICHAELMAS TERM 2003

25th November 2003 - Gesine Reinert (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)

Small World Networks
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11th November 2003 - Santiago Schnell (Centre for Mathematical Biology, University of Oxford)
An agent-based model simulation to discover the kinetic properties of biochemical reactions in in vivo conditions
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28th October 2003 - Tomas Alarcon (Centre for Mathematical Biology, University of Oxford)
A Multi-Scale Model of Tumour Growth
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14th October 2003- Nigel Gilbert (School of Human Sciences, University of Surrey)
Modelling Innovation Networks: Using Computer Simulations as Social Theory
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TRINITY TERM 2003

3rd June 2003 - Neil Johnson (Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford)

Pros and Cons of Networks in Complex Multi-Agent Systems
This seminar will be held in Seminar Room A.
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20th May 2003 - Edmund Chattoe (Sociology Department and Nuffield College, University of Oxford)
Modelling Self-Organisation of Oligopolistic Markets Using Genetic Programming
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Wednesday 14th May 2003 - Nicolaj Siggelkow (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)
Performance Determinants of Organisational Design: Towards an Understanding of Environmental Contingency
This seminar will be held at the later time of 3:00 - 4:30pm, in Training Room A.
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HILARY TERM 2003

11th March 2003 - Roland Kay (Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford)

Large Changes in an Evolutionary Agent Model
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25th February 2003 - Dave Cliff (hp labs, Bristol)

Automatic Design of Online Auction Market Mechanisms via Artificial Evolution
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18th February 2003 - Duncan Robertson (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford)
Agent-based Models for Business Strategy: Exploring Strategic Space in Turbulent Environmments
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11th February 2003 - Peter Allen (Complex Systems Management Centre, Cranfield School of Management)
The Evolution of Complex Adaptive Systems and the Implications for Management
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MICHAELMAS TERM 2002


3rd December 2002 - Michael Biggs (Department of Sociology, University of Oxford)
Strikes as Forest Fires


19th November 2002 - Felix Reed-Tsochas (Saïd Business School)
Exploring Complex Performance Landscapes: Trade-offs in Optimising and Adapting Business Strategies


5th November 2002 - Tom Downing and Cindy Warwick (Stockholm Environment Institute)
Agent-based Modelling of Water Demand in the UK


29th October 2002 - Damien Challet (Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford)
From El Farol to Minority Game and Back: An Example of the Fruitful Interaction Between Economics and Physics



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