COMPLEXITY, CRITICALITY, AND COMPUTATION (C3)
INTERNATIONAL BIANNUAL SYMPOSIUM
Organised by Charles Perkins Centre and Research Cluster for Complex Systems
Event details
When: 9am - 5pm, 26 - 27 November
Where: Charles Perkins Centre Auditorium (map)
Cost: Free
Contact: info.perkins@sydney.edu.au
Register: Register
Thursday 26th November
10:00 - 11:00
Prof. Guy Theraulaz, Director of Research Centre on Animal Cognition, Université Paul
Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Research interests: Swarm Intelligence in natural and artificial systems, Selforganization in biological systems, Collective Behaviors and Collective Intelligence in
animal and human societies, Computational and Systems Biology
11:00 - 12:00
Dr. Jerome Buhl, Adelaide University, Australia
Research interests: Experimental and theoretical studies of insect collective behaviour
and its application to agriculture and pest control. Current focuses on locust hopper
bands, ant and termite colonies.
12:00 - 13:00
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Prof. Pip Pattison, University of Sydney, Australia
Research interests: development and application of mathematical and statistical
models for social networks and network processes. The work has broad application,
from tracking the spread of infectious diseases to following the recovery of
communities after the 2009 Victorian bushfires.
14:00 - 15:00
Prof. Leonid Churilov, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Australia
Research interests: statistical modelling, research and design analysis, decision support
in clinical and health care systems, biostatistics, imaging
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:30
Prof. Robert Marks, University of NSW, Australia
Research interests: Using simulation and machine learning in exploring oligopolistic
behaviour and decision making under risk; validation of simulation models based on
historical data
16:30 - 17:30
Dr. Markus Brede, University of Southampton, UK
Research interests: artificial life, computational economics, evolutionary game theory,
individual-based modelling, network science, self-organisation, socio-economic
systems, spatial networks.
Friday 27th November
10:00 - 11:00 Prof. Hugh Durrant-Whyte, University of Sydney, Australia
Research interests: Field robotics, in particular the fields of sensor data fusion and of
autonomous vehicle navigation. Pioneered decentralized data fusion which has led, inter
alia, to the world’s first demonstration of a cooperative, multi-platform fleet of
unmanned aircraft for search and surveillance.
11:00 - 12:00 Prof. Terry Bossomaier, Charles Sturt University, Australia
Research interests: Theory and applications of complex theory; agent based modelling;
cognitive networks; simulation and visualisation; econophysics.
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:00 Prof. Mikhail Prokopenko, University of Sydney, Australia
Research interests: analysis, modelling and predictions of critical phenomena, aimed to
improve robustness and resilience in a range of complex self-organising systems during
technological, sociological and socioeconomic crises. The approach is motivated by the
search for a fundamental theory of non-equilibrium information thermodynamics in
systems capable of complex computation.
14:00 - 15:00 Dr. Francesco Caravelli, University College London, UK
Research interests: Physics in a broad sense, classical and quantum, and in complexity
theory. Complex networks, cellular automata, machine learning, agent-based modelling,
complex networks and their applications to engineering and economics.
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 16:30 Prof. Peter Robinson, University of Sydney, Australia
Research interests: Member of the Brain Dynamics Group within the Complex Systems
Group. The Brain Dynamics group is an interdisciplinary team with backgrounds in
physics, engineering, mathematics, IT, psychology, physiology, medicine, and other
areas. Its aim is to understand the connections between physiology and stimuli, on one
hand, and resulting brain activity and experimental data, on the other.
16:30 - 17:30 Dr. David Balduzzi, University of Wellington, New Zealand
Research interests: machine learning, computational neuroscience, information theory,
statistical learning theory
17:30 – 18:30 Dr Virgil Griffith, Chief Technology Officer, Backbone Telecommunications, Singapore
Research interests: information theory, synergy, consciousness, irreducibility.
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