by Rick Quax | Feb 26, 2019 | Hot News, News
What is compelxity? What does it have to do with the Three-worlds-model of Sir Roger Penrose? Which role does entropy play? What is emergent behavior? Peter Sloot, professor Complex Adaptive Systems, director of the UvA Institute of Advanced Study, professor in the...
by Rick Quax | Feb 25, 2019 | Hot News, Jobs, News
Applications are invited for a computational modelling position to work within an exciting project linked to the Health Systems Complexity team at the Institute of Advanced Study in the University of Amsterdam. The team is an interdisciplinary group of researchers,...
by Rick Quax | Jan 30, 2019 | Hot News, News
Dates: 25-27 September 2019 Place: Institute of Engineering & Technology, Savoy Place, London, UK. The conference will address all aspects of the rapidly burgeoning domain of computational biomedicine, from genome through organ to whole human and population...
by Rick Quax | Dec 17, 2018 | Hot News, News
In this interview, Peter emphasized the role of interdisciplinarity, computational modeling, and the role of complex systems thinking: the idea that systems are adaptive and intricately connected into a whole which cannot be studied reductionistically. Selected quote:...
by Rick Quax | Oct 16, 2018 | Hot News, News
An interdisciplinary consortium on health systems complexity has recently kicked off to better understand the onset of diabetes type 2, taking into account all relevant levels from cell biological to socio-economic. The project is led by PI Prof. Karien...
