'Dynamics of Agent-Based Models', leeds, 12th May

You are cordially invited to the next meeting of the CoSyDy network, which will take place at the School of Mathematics of the University of Leeds on Thursday 12th May 2016 (from 12:00 onwards).

The subject of the meeting is 'Dynamics of Agent-Based Models' and details of the location and (tentative) programme can be found in the enclosed poster. We would be grateful if you could bring this event to the attention of all those who may be interested.

All are welcome but, for catering purposes and due to space limitation, we would appreciate if you could confirm your attendance to Jon Ward (j.a.ward@leeds.ac.uk) by Wednesday 4th May. 

Directions: http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/home/visit-us.html and
http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/fileadmin/user_upload/directions_2011-12.pdf

We look forward to seeing you in Leeds in May,

Mauro Mobilia and Jonathan Ward

Programme:

Tentative programme
All talks will be in the Mall, level 8 of the School of Maths on Thursday 12th May

• 12:00: Buffet lunch (School of Mathematics' foyer, level 9)

• 13:00-13:40: Dr. Thilo Gross (Bristol), “Opinion formation: Humans, Fish, and
  systems of equations”

• 13:40-14:00: Dario Bauso (Sheffield), “Mean-field games”

• 14:00-14:20: Guillem Mosquera (Warwick), “Bubble-Like Processes in Opinion
  Dynamics”

• 14:20-15:00: Coffee, tea & cookies (School of Mathematics' foyer, level 9)

• 15.00-15.40: Dr. Andrew Evans (Leeds), “Current challenges in agent-based
  modelling of social and ecological systems”

• 15:40-16:00: Dr. Bruce Edmonds (Manchester Met.), “Staged Models for
  Interdisciplinary Research”

• 16:00-16:20: Dr. Jerome Michaud (Edinburgh), “On the dynamics of the utterance
  selection model with preferences”

• 16:20-16:40: Jacopo Iacovacci (QMUL), “Emergence and characterization of
  communities in social multilayer networks”

• 16:40: Wine and nibbles (School of Mathematics' foyer, level 9)

Manchester Complexity Seminars for December

4th Dec, Bruce Edmonds, Intra-generational cultural evolution and ethnocentrism in an artificial society

11th Dec: Tobias Galla, You are a young and aspiring physicist, is working at the interface with economics & the social sciences a good idea? 

 

Both of these are suitable for those that dont like mathematics a lot and have a 12A certificate.

 

As usual at 4pm in the Niels Bohr Common Roo, Schuster building, University of Manchester.

 

All welcome.

Upcoming Informal Complexity Seminars in Manchester, Friday 4pm

Friday Complexity Seminars, 4pm, room TBC (but almost certainly in the Schuster Building, UoM):

• 23rd Oct: Michael Colman, Cardiac Modelling
• 30th Oct: Ahsan Nazir, Open quantum systems
• 6th Nov: Yen Ting Lin, Equilibrium polymer conformations
• 13th Nov.: Bruce Edmonds,  Intra-generational cultural evolution and ethnocentrism in an artificial society
• 20th Nov: Henri Kauhanen, Neutral change language modelling
• 27th Nov: Tobias Galla, You are a young and aspiring physicist, is working at the interface with economics & the social sciences a good idea?

More Complexity Seminars

February 6th: A journal club where we'll discuss the following paper:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.2592

Please look at this paper before we meet next Friday (it is only suitable
for those not averse to mathematics!)

February 13th:  Nick Phillips:  "The roles of nonlinearity and coupling in stochastic models of neural development with delay"

February 20th:  Yen Ting Lin:  TBA

February 27th:  Frensis Bras: "The relationship between ethnic density and racial discrimination: an agent based model".

Upcoming Manchester Complexity Seminars

The next four talks will be:

• January 16th: Marcelo de Oliveira "Phase diagram of the symbiotic contact process"
• January 23rd: Toby Brett  "Stochastic modelling of diseases with delay"
• January 30th: Luis Lafuerza and Louise Dyson  "A simplified version of an agent-based voting model" (an output from the SCID project)
• February 6th: Nick Phillips  "The roles of nonlinearity and coupling in stochastic models of neural development with delay"

Talks are at the Niels Bohr Common Room on the 6th floor of the Schuster Building at 4pm.  All welcome.