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In a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a research team of the Institute of Complex Systems of the UB (UBICS) analysed the time evolution of real complex networks and developed a model in which the emergence of new nodes can be related to pre-existing nodes, similarly to the evolution of species in biology.

In this new model, the emergence of new nodes can be related to pre-existing nodes in a similar way to the evolution of species in biology. ...

It is crucial for us as a society to educate students, from preschoolers and up, on recognizing and dealing with complexity. NetLogo models simulate complex systems in natural and social sciences, from pandemics’ dynamics, climate change and ecosystems to economics and voting.

University of Canterbury (UC) maths Professor Michael Plank , who has co-led essential Covid-19 modelling work in New Zealand, has won an Australasian award for outstanding research, expertise and distinguished service in the field of Applied Mathematics. ...

Press Release – University of Canterbury University of Canterbury (UC) maths Professor Michael Plank , who has co-led essential Covid-19 modelling work in New Zealand, has won an Australasian award for outstanding research, expertise and distinguished service in the field of Applied Mathematics. … University of Canterbury (UC) maths Professor Michael Plank, who has co-led essential Covid-19 modelling work in New Zealand, has won an Australasian award for outstanding research, expertise and...

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    “Humans are strange…We are the aliens,” observes Columbia University astrophysicist, Caleb Scharf, noting that humans are a striking anomaly in the natural world. “We also have a truly outsize impact on the planetary environment without much in the way of natural attrition to trim our influence (at least not yet).  “Like a Sudden Invasion by Extraterrestrials” “But the strangest thing of all,” notes Scharf for Scientific American, “is how we generate, exploit, and propa...

 E-Mail The ease with which anyone can create online content for free, especially on social media, has led to superabundance of information being one of the defining characteristics of todays communication systems. This situation has resulted in increasingly intense competition for attention, which has become a scarce good. The researchers from the Complex Systems group (CoSIN3) at the UOCs Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) María José Palazzi and Albert Solé --professor at the Facu...

This second article on The Flow System dives into the three helixes of complexity thinking, distributed leadership, and team science.

David McMillon was a middle schooler in Saginaw when he dreamed of space travel and outer space. Anthony Della Pella was working in his high school library when he found a book on theoretical math—and his direction in his educational life. But the route to a doctorate degree in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics for students like McMillon, who is Black, and Della Pella, a first-generation college graduate from River Rouge, isn’t always clear cut. Trachette Jackso...