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CCS Workshop on Evolution of Social Complexity
2024 The Centre for Complex Systems (The University of Sydney) invites for one-day workshop on February 21, 2024. Venue: G04.02.270.Wilkinson Building. Wilkinson Lecture Theatre (2) 270 (The University of Sydney, the School of Architecture, Design and Planning, 148 City Road, Darlington) Preliminary program: 9:15 - 9:30 Mikhail Prokopenko, University of Sydney: Introduction 9:30 - 10:30 Paul Ormerod, Volterra Economics, UK (keynote): “Complexity and urban scaling in productivity” 10:30 - 11:00 coffee/tea break (provided) 11:00 - 11:30 Deborah Bunker, University of Sydney: "As Time Goes By: Temporal Characteristics of Social Media and Pandemic Crisis Communications" 11:30 - 12:00 Rickard Nyman, UCL, UK: “Narratives & Complexity: Evolution of narratives and their economic impact” 12:00 - 12:30 Marcus Heisler, University of Sydney: “Evolution of social complexity in the context of multicellularity” 12:30 - 13:30 lunch break (provided) 13:30 - 14:30 Roland Fletcher, University of Sydney (keynote): “On the concept of evolution in relation to cultural behaviour” 14:30 - 15:00 Mikhail Prokopenko, University of Sydney: “Pattern formation and criticality during social contagions” 15:00 - 15:30 Sheryl Chang, University of Sydney: “Quantifying pandemic inequality in heterogeneous populations” 15:30 - 16:00 break (coffee/tea not provided) 16:00 - 16:30 Cameron Zachreson, University of Melbourne: “Ethical frameworks should be applied to computational models of infectious disease interventions” 16:30 - 17:00 Joel Miller, La Trobe University: "Understanding Ethical Dilemmas in Infectious Disease Interventions through Modelling" 17:00 - 17:30 Nic Geard, University of Melbourne: “Generative approaches to modelling synthetic populations” 17:30 – 17:50 Ian Wilkinson, University of Sydney: Closing remarks |