NICO faculty gather outside the NICO offices before the last installment of the highly stimulating 2012-13 Wednesdays@NICO lunch seminar series.
Luis Amaral will join Brian Uzzi as NICO Co-director, effective September 1, 2013.
In a world of increasing global connections, predicting the spread of infectious diseases is more complicated than ever. McCormick’s Dirk Brockmann has created a model that could provide better insight into how today’s diseases strike.
A new study by Profs. Adilson E. Motter and Takashi Nishikawa published in Nature Physics identified conditions and properties that power companies can consider using to help make a self-healing power grid a reality.
Janet Pierrehumbert and The University of Canterbury are collaborating on a new research project which seeks to answer questions via playing computer games to find out how expressions like "LOL," or "DIY," come about.
The Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems serves as a hub and facilitator for pathbreaking and relevant research in complexity science transcending the boundaries of established disciplines.
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NetLogo in Science, Education, and Policy
The NetLogo agent-based modeling software, developed by NICO member Uri Wilensky, has impacted a variety of fields.
A Community Within a Community: the NICO Reading Group Encourages Interdepartmental Collaboration and Learning
Every two weeks a group of graduate students and postdocs from different academic departments meet at the NICO reading group to discuss a wide range of topics in complex systems research, including pattern formation, ecological systems, collective behavior, population dynamics and social networks.
Research
Robotic Sensor Swarms
Transportation Networks
Social and Information Networks
The Science of Teams
Weight Loss in the Internet Age
