2024

Please find attached the calendar invite and program for this year. The event will take place on Thursday, 29th August 2024, in the Cullen Room, Holme Building (A09).

Program:

Time Title Presenter
09:30AM Registration
09:45AM Workshop opening Prof Mikhail Prokopenko
10:00AM Swarm assembly required: how weaver ants use simple rules to build complex structures Chris R Reid
10:15AM Multi-modal Turing Patterns for Amorphous Computing Simon Dowd
10:30AM Morning Tea
11:00AM Social outcomes of the housing market under climate change Peyman Habibi Moshfegh
11:15AM Temporary organising for resilience and justice in the face of extreme heat Amir Hossein Pakizeh
11:30AM Investor Networks in Infrastructure PPP Markets Affected by Corruption John Salazar
11:45AM Using natural language processing (NLP) to bridge the gap between academic research and policymaking practice Wei-Ting Hong
12:00PM Lunch
01:00PM Noise-Induced Drifts in Evolution Emanuele Crosato
01:30PM Simulation of HPV Dynamics and Vaccination Using the SeCoNet Growth Model Weiyi Wang
01:45PM Financial Networks Callum Shaw
02:00PM A unified cross-scale corticothalamic model of the state and contents of consciousness Christopher Whyte
02:15PM Cross-scale spatiotemporal dynamics of visual cortical computation Brendan Harris
02:30PM Whole-brain dynamics shaped by long range connections Rishi Maran
02:45PM Enhancing Youth Mental Health in Western Sydney through Participatory Systems Modelling Hossein Hosseini
03:00PM Topological Data Analysis: Computation and Application Siddharth Pritam
03:30PM Stability of Brain Networks in Epilepsy Jieru (Ruby) Liao
03:45PM Scaling (Inter)Active Inference with Factorised Generative Models Jaime Ruiz Serra
04:00PM The use of tree network models for the exploration of infectious diseases scenarios and possible policies Oscar Fajardo Fontiveros
04:15PM Super-efficiency in complex collective systems Qianyang Chen
04:30PM Best presentation