I spent this week in Columbus, Ohio, to attend a workshop on “Sustainability and Complex Systems”, which was organized by Chris Cosner, Volker Grimm, Alan Hastings, and Otso Ovaskainen at the Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI). To quote the organizers: This workshop aims to engage computational and mathematical modelers, empiricists, and mathematicians in a dialogue about…
Apocalyptic news are always in high demand, especially when transiting into a new year. So, after surviving the end of the Maya calender, and just before entering the year of the Snake, a new variation on an old song caught my eye: Paul and Anne Ehrlich just published an article in Proc. B, asking “Can…
The last two weeks, I was serving as a teaching side-kick for a course on agent-based modeling at the Global Sustainability Summer School 2012, which was jointly organized in Potsdam close to Berlin by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), in partnership with the Santa…
theoretical ecology 