BRIDGES LECTURE Friday, March 13th at 7:30PM -- Dancing the Math of Complex Systems

[Alysia Kolentsis]

Subject: [Sjufaculty] JOIN US! Friday, March 13th at 7:30PM -- Dancing the Math of Complex Systems

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Friday, March 13, 2015 at 7:30 p.m, | Siegfried Hall, St. Jerome's University
FREE ADMISSION | FREE PARKING | PUBLIC LECTURE | FOLLOWED BY A RECEPTION

Speakers: Sarah Tolmie, University of Waterloo (English)
Dawn Cassandra Parker, University of Waterloo (Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation)

Moderator: Scott Kline, Vice President Academic & Dean, SJU

 Dancing the Math of Complex Systems
The Raw Nerve Research Group (RNRG) is an interdisciplinary collective based at UW that specializes in “thinking with our feet,” using dance and game-like movement to explore research questions, and as an alternate means of data presentation. It was founded by Sarah Tolmie in 2011 and Dawn Parker has just joined. We are going to use our “embodied cognition pedagogy” to explain some key concepts in Dawn’s area of research, the mathematics of complex systems. We will walk the audience through a definition of a complex system and introduce deterministic and stochastic theories of how emergent data patterns form, showing diverse examples: how plants grow, how people distribute themselves in a city, how improv performers interact. In an agent-based model we will ask audience members to join us in a walking demonstration of preferential attachment, one principle that generates common emergent forms such as fractals or power law distributions.

Speakers:
[cid:image008.jpg at 01D05747.FC816F60]Sarah Tolmie (English)
Sarah Tolmie is an Associate Professor of English at UW, trained as a medievalist at Cambridge. She is the author of the novel The Stone Boatmen, the short fiction collection NoFood and the poetry collections Sonnet in a Blue Dress and Other Poems and Trio. She is a contact improvisation dancer, co-founder of the Raw Nerve Research Group, and has performed with various ensembles across southern Ontario. She teaches British literature and creative writing.








[cid:image009.jpg at 01D05747.FC816F60]Dawn Cassandra Parker (Complex Systems)

Dawn Parker is Associate Professor, School of Planning, University of Waterloo. In her first career, she danced as an apprentice and company member with Milwaukee Ballet, Omaha Ballet, Ballet Met, and Ballet Oregon. Currently, she competes and performs in American and International ballroom styles.  In her real job, she builds and analyzes mathematical outcomes of computational simulation models of complex socio-ecological systems and directs the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation, which supports the use of movement and dance to visualize and understand complex systems.







Note: St. Jerome’s University is currently under way with our Campus Renewal Project; therefore, parking is not available at St. Jerome’s. Please feel welcome to park at St. Paul’s University College at 190 Westmount Road North, Waterloo.

For more information regarding the Bridge Lecture Series:      http://sju.ca/bridges

Contact Information: CON
TACT INFO
Benoit Charbonneau
Pure Mathematics
519-888-4567 x37336
benoit.charbonneau at uwaterloo.ca<mailto:benoit.charbonneau at uwaterloo.ca>
Alysia Kolentsis
St Jerome's University
519-884-8110 x28280
amkolentsis at uwaterloo.ca<mailto:amkolentsis at uwaterloo.ca>



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