Category: Talks

Cross Roads #50: “The Many Faces of Emergence” Dr Fernando Rosas

https://www.youtube.com/live/bgB8e3Goa2o

Emergence is one of the most fascinating and challenging aspects of complex systems, being also a controversial topic featuring long-standing debates and disagreements. In this talk I’ll introduce a pragmatic and pluralistic stance towards emergence that focusing on facilitating practical methods to establish falsifiable hypotheses and procedures to verify them. This approach will be illustrated by exploring two distinct but complementary operationalisations of emergence: (i) self-contained levels of description and (ii) synergistic interactions between constituents. The talk will review some particle examples, and highlight open questions and directions of future work.

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The Election and Complexity Science Webinar


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The results of the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election will send shockwaves through political, social, and economic systems, impacting and exposing deep vulnerabilities in society and governance structures worldwide. What does Complexity Science reveal about the dynamics driving these outcomes, their causes, and broader implications?

Join Dr. Yaneer Bar-Yam, founder of the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) and co-founder of the World Health Network (WHN), who will analyze the election through the lens of complexity science, offering critical insights into the systemic issues underlying today’s governance challenges. 

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How Is AI Changing the Science of Prediction?

With lots of data, a strong model and statistical thinking, scientists can make predictions about all sorts of complex phenomena. Today, this practice is evolving to harness the power of machine learning and massive datasets. In this episode, co-host Steven Strogatz speaks with statistician Emmanuel Candès about black boxes, uncertainty and the power of inductive reasoning.

Read the full article at: www.quantamagazine.org