Complex Systems:Community Portal

Organisations

The Santa Fe Institute is a private, not-for-profit, independent research and education center founded in 1984, for multidisciplinary collaborations in the physical, biological, computational, and social sciences. Understanding of complex adaptive systems is critical to addressing key environmental, technological, biological, economic, and political challenges. Renowned scientists and researchers come to Santa Fe Institute from universities, government agencies, research institutes, and private industry to collaborate in attempts to uncover the mechanisms that underlie the deep simplicity present in our complex world.

Complex Agent-Based Dynamic Networks (CABDyN) Research Cluster at the University of Oxford. Its members are interested in network dynamics and agent-based models of complex systems across a broad range of application domains. CABDyN brings together a truly multi-disciplinary group of researchers in Oxford, ranging from the physical, biological and computational sciences to the social, economic and political sciences. They collaborate closely with NNNR, a multi-disciplinary group of researchers based at Nuffield College with a special interest in social networks.

Warwick Complexity Complex. This research centre aims to connect and develop interdisciplinary research in complexity science at all levels, train a new generation of complexity scientists via a doctoral training centre (DTC), understand, control and design complex systems, produce break-throughs in the principles and applications of complexity science, link with end-users as sources of real-world problems and beneficiaries from the resulting knowledge and trainiees, and sustain a lively intellectual and practically based environment for complexity centre.

European Complex Systems Society (ECSS). The purpose of the Society is to promote the development of all aspects of complex systems science in the countries of Europe, in relation with the whole international scientific community. The Society will, in the European context, aim to promote complex systems research (pure and applied), assist and advise on problems of complex systems education, concern itself with the broader relations of complex systems to society, foster the interaction between complex systems scientists of different countries, establish a sense of identity amongst European complexity scientists, and represent the European complexity community at all international levels.

Dr. David Chavalarias (Ecole Polytechnique). David Chavalarias is doing research at the Center for Research in Applied Epistemology (CREA) of the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris). After studies in mathematics and computer sciences at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Cachan), he got involved in cognitive sciences at the Ecole Polytechnique. Financed by the French National Center for the Scientific Research (CNRS) he is now doing his researches on social cognition and evolution of social systems. His focus is on the problem of endogenous preferences and social network formation, developing a new framework based on complex systems, multi-agent modelling and mathematical analysis. These researches have various applications in social sciences in fields like economy, collective discovery, emergence of cooperation, and cultural evolution.
Prof. Abbas Edalat (Imperial College), my PhD supervisor.
Dr. Michael Huth (Imperial College), my second PhD supervisor.
Prof. Benoit B. Mandelbrot (Yale University), the father of fractal geometry.
Prof. Didier Sornette (UCLA), a professor of geophysics at UCLA that has applied the complex systems techniques to stock market crashes.
Prof. Stephen Wolfram (Wolfram Research), the pioneer of complex system research.