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CASA runs a weekly seminar series on Wednesdays between 5pm - 6pm in the Pearson Lecture Theatre.  Why not come along?

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Flow Network Analysis - Martin Zaltz Austwick

Flow Network Analysis - Martin Zaltz Austwick

29 February 2012

Network analysis has tried since the 1970s to understand the inter-relation of human beings and their structures, and the partitioning, resiliences and vulnerabilities of social and functional networks. It's only in recent ...

Collective behavior and universality in human activity: from urban growth and the economy, to the obesity epidemic and the brain - Hernán Makse

02 March 2012

In this talk, I will discuss how the application of paradigms from critical phenomena of physical systems at phase transitions can help to explain different sets of natural phenomena out of equilibrium. I ...
Surnames and Spatial Analysis - James Cheshire

Surnames and Spatial Analysis - James Cheshire

07 March 2012

This presentation will outline the insights surnames can provide into both population structure and spatial processes. The limits to computational analysis of spatial distributions are particularly apparent in representing the individual and collective ...

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