Please distribute to others who may be interested... You are hereby invited to a seminar in our tenth interdisciplinary series on Evolution, Complexity and Cognition <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108>(ECCO 2013-2014)
Time: *Thursday *Oct 24, 14h-16h - *not the usual day!*** * * Place:* room L2.208** - not the usual room!* ------------------------------ * *A Planetary Nervous System, and What to Do with It Dirk Helbing <http://[email protected]> (ETH Zürich) The Speaker: Dirk Helbing has launched the FuturICT Initiative (http://www.futurict.eu) aiming at better understanding and managing our increasingly complex world, using future information technologies. The December 2011 issue of Scientific American featured the project on its title page as no. 1 world-changing idea, and The Economist has compared Helbing with Hari Seldon in establishing Psychohistory. The FuturICT vision has excited many people all over the world. Helbing is Professor of Sociology and member of the Computer Science Department at ETH Zurich, continental Europe’s leading university. He earned a PhD in physics and was Managing Director of the Institute of Transport & Economics at Dresden University of Technology in Germany. He is famous for his work on pedestrian flows, crowd disasters, vehicle traffic, and simulating social systems. This is documented by hundreds of scientific articles, keynote lectures and media reports worldwide, in all major languages. Helbing is elected member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Complex Systems and of the prestigious German Academy of Sciences “Leopoldina”. He is also co-founder of ETH Zurich’s Risk Center. ------------------------------ Upcoming Seminars * * *Nov. 8 * Mixel Kiemen (ECCO)* * *Interversity, a concept for self-organizing distributed university* * * *Nov. 15** * Viktoras Veitas (GBI) * * *ChallProp: an agent-based modelling framework for simulating the Global Brain* * * *Nov. 22** * Jon Echanove (ECCO) * * *Inclusiveness and Exposure: the experience of becoming global and the impact on organizations* * * *Nov. 29** * Wolfgang Hofkirchner (Technical University of Vienna) * * *Global Consciousness – the global brain in the perspective of a global sustainable information society* * * *Dec. 6 ** * Lotte van Lith * * *Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration* * * *Dec. 13 ** * Atanu Chatterjee (Indian Institute of Technology) * * *? (the principle of least action as foundation for the theory of self-organization) ? * More info about the ECCO seminar program: http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108 -- Evo Evo Busseniers - Seminar Coordinator ECCO Group (VUB) Email: [email protected] Website: http://vub.academia.edu/EvoBusseniers
