It was a pleasure to host the 2023 academic event, where HDR and post-doctoral students from the Schools of Mathematics and Statistics, Physics, Computer Science, Engineering, and the Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology presented their research findings. The event provided a platform for presenters to engage with the audience and share their insights into diverse approaches to modeling and representing the underlying mechanisms of various systems. Additionally, the networking opportunities between speakers and attendees facilitated meaningful face-to-face interactions among individuals working on similar projects from different perspectives. Special thanks to our keynote speakers, Joe Lizier and Michael Harre, for their up-to-date and insightful talks.
The event was held on Friday, 29th Sept. 2023, in Lecture Theatre 1, Peter Nicol Russell Building (J02.03.304.PNR).
| Time | Title | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 09:30AM | Workshop opening | Prof Mikhail Prokopenko |
| 09:40AM | Analytic relationship of relative synchronizability to network structure and motifs | Joe Lizier |
| 10:40AM | Classifying Heterogeneity within Psychopathology from a Complex Systems Perspective | Alexander Tashevski-Beckwith |
| 11:00AM | Classical and Contemporary Methods of Fixed Income Portfolio Optimisation | Cathy Drysdale |
| 11:20AM | The effect of climate change on habitability and migration dynamics in Pacific Island states | Emily Nabong |
| 11:40AM | Human identity classes revealed through the use of large language models | Justin K Miller |
| 12:00PM | Lunch | |
| 01:00PM | A Free Energy Principle Approach to Expert Perception in Complex Tasks | Michael Harre |
| 02:00PM | Studying neural dynamics and neuropathological burden in Alzheimer's disease with complex systems analysis | Annie Bryant |
| 02:20PM | Designing communicable disease surveillance for the genomic age | Carl Suster |
| 02:40PM | Measuring unequal distribution of pandemic severity | Dang Quang Nguyen |
| 03:00PM | Tipping points in susceptibility acquisition during spatial contagions | Christina Jamerlan |
| 03:20PM | Refreshment | |
| 03:40PM | A feature-based information-theoretic approach for detecting interpretable long-timescale pairwise interactions from time series | Aria Nguyen |
| 04:00PM | A systematic comparison of time-series feature sets on classification tasks | Trent Henderson |
| 04:20PM | Fundamental limits to learning closed-form mathematical models from data | Oscar Fajardo |
| 04:40PM | Three’s a Crowd: Theory of Mind in Mixed-Motive Collective Action | Jaime Ruiz Serra |
| 05:00PM | Panel assessment | |
| 05:15PM | Announcement of the best presentation | |
| 05:30PM | Networking |
