For a Zoom link contact: jennifer.king@durham.ac.uk
Online via Zoom, 8.30 – 9.20 am UTC, 9.30 am – 10.20 pm CET, 10.30 – 11.20 pm EET
Professor Dirk Helbing: How Networks Can Change Everything for Better or for Worse
Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, ETH Zurich
https://coss.ethz.ch/people/helbing.html
Complexity science has been studying the result of dynamical and network interactions in multi-agent systems for a long time. This work has revealed many intriguing relationships between structure, function, and dynamics. By now, it is known that the interaction mechanisms and the network structure can decide about success or failure, disease or disaster. I will present examples from logistics to economics, from game theory to society, and from traffic light control to pandemics to illustrate how changing the network structure and interactions can make all the difference between paradise and hell.