Jason Bates
Engineering / Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Jason Bates studies quantitative physiological function, focusing on the mechanical properties of the lungs and the electrical properties of the heart. He is particularly interested in how the components of these organs collectively conspire to produce emergent function at the level of the whole organ, and how this helps us understand the complex set of features characterizing diseases such as asthma and atrial fibrillation.
Engineering / Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Jason Bates studies quantitative physiological function, focusing on the mechanical properties of the lungs and the electrical properties of the heart. He is particularly interested in how the components of these organs collectively conspire to produce emergent function at the level of the whole organ, and how this helps us understand the complex set of features characterizing diseases such as asthma and atrial fibrillation.
Brian Beckage
Plant Biology
Brian Beckage's research focuses on understanding the dynamics of wildland fire and ecological transitions between forest, savanna, and grassland states. Brian is also interested in the linkages between ecological, social, and climate systems, and the resultant dynamics of this coupled human and natural system.
Plant Biology
Brian Beckage's research focuses on understanding the dynamics of wildland fire and ecological transitions between forest, savanna, and grassland states. Brian is also interested in the linkages between ecological, social, and climate systems, and the resultant dynamics of this coupled human and natural system.
Arne Bomblies
Engineering
Arne Bomblies' work broadly seeks to understand the impacts of climate and land use change on human and natural coupled systems. His research focuses on system resilience to environmental perturbations, and has included studies of malaria transmission dynamics and watershed behavior under future climatic uncertainty and nonstationarity.
Engineering
Arne Bomblies' work broadly seeks to understand the impacts of climate and land use change on human and natural coupled systems. His research focuses on system resilience to environmental perturbations, and has included studies of malaria transmission dynamics and watershed behavior under future climatic uncertainty and nonstationarity.
Josh Bongard
Computer Science
Co-Director, Vermont Complex
Systems Center
Josh Bongard's work focuses on understanding the general nature of cognition, regardless of whether it is found in humans, animals or robots. His approach focuses on the role that morphology and evolution plays in cognition, and has taken him into the fields of biology, psychology, engineering and computer science.
Computer Science
Co-Director, Vermont Complex Systems Center
Josh Bongard's work focuses on understanding the general nature of cognition, regardless of whether it is found in humans, animals or robots. His approach focuses on the role that morphology and evolution plays in cognition, and has taken him into the fields of biology, psychology, engineering and computer science.
Chris Danforth
Mathematics & Statistics
Co-Director, Vermont Complex
Systems Center
Chris Danforth is an applied mathematician interested in modeling a variety of physical, biological, and social phenomenon. He has applied principles of chaos theory to improve weather forecasts as a member of the Mathematics and Climate Research Network, and developed a real-time remote sensor of global happiness using messages from Twitter. He also helps run UVM's reading group on complexity.
Mathematics & Statistics
Co-Director, Vermont ComplexSystems Center
Chris Danforth is an applied mathematician interested in modeling a variety of physical, biological, and social phenomenon. He has applied principles of chaos theory to improve weather forecasts as a member of the Mathematics and Climate Research Network, and developed a real-time remote sensor of global happiness using messages from Twitter. He also helps run UVM's reading group on complexity.
Adrian Del Maestro
Physics
Adrian Del Maestro's research is concerned with the search for cooperative emergent phenomena in strongly interacting quantum many-body condensed matter systems. Using a combination of large scale high performance computational and field theory methods, he tries to understand the interplay between topology, fluctuations and disorder in superfluids and superconductors.
Physics
Adrian Del Maestro's research is concerned with the search for cooperative emergent phenomena in strongly interacting quantum many-body condensed matter systems. Using a combination of large scale high performance computational and field theory methods, he tries to understand the interplay between topology, fluctuations and disorder in superfluids and superconductors.
Peter Dodds
Mathematics & Statistics
Director, Vermont Complex
Systems Center
Peter Dodds is a scientist in the Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics working on large-scale, system-level problems in many fields including sociology, geomorphology, biology, and ecology. For more information, please see his website.
Mathematics & Statistics
Director, Vermont Complex Systems Center
Peter Dodds is a scientist in the Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics working on large-scale, system-level problems in many fields including sociology, geomorphology, biology, and ecology. For more information, please see his website.
Mary Dunlop
Engineering
Mary Dunlop's research explores how biological systems use feedback. She works with single-celled microorganisms, engineering novel feedback regulation or studying the function of naturally occurring feedback loops. Her work integrates information across multiple spatial and temporal scales and has applications to energy and medicine.
Engineering
Mary Dunlop's research explores how biological systems use feedback. She works with single-celled microorganisms, engineering novel feedback regulation or studying the function of naturally occurring feedback loops. Her work integrates information across multiple spatial and temporal scales and has applications to energy and medicine.
Maggie Eppstein
Computer Science
Maggie Eppstein's research focuses on the development and use of bio-inspired computing methodologies, including evolutionary computation, agent-based models, complex networks, and artificial neural networks. She applies these methods to the modeling and analysis of a wide variety of complex biological, environmental, sociological, and/or technological systems.
Computer Science
Maggie Eppstein's research focuses on the development and use of bio-inspired computing methodologies, including evolutionary computation, agent-based models, complex networks, and artificial neural networks. She applies these methods to the modeling and analysis of a wide variety of complex biological, environmental, sociological, and/or technological systems.
Hugh Garavan
Psychology / Psychiatry
Hugh Garavan's research applies functional brain imaging to understanding human cognition. He has a specific interest in the cognitive control functions performed by the prefrontal cortex and how their dysfunction might be relevant for clinical conditions such as addiction.
Psychology / Psychiatry
Hugh Garavan's research applies functional brain imaging to understanding human cognition. He has a specific interest in the cognitive control functions performed by the prefrontal cortex and how their dysfunction might be relevant for clinical conditions such as addiction.
Bill Gibson
Economics
Bill Gibson studies economic processes using the methodology of complex systems. His recent work focuses on real-financial interactions in multi-agent economies and how aid to developing countries can be used and/or abused. The approach is to build up economies from the actions of individual agents and then explore how incentives might be changed to to improve the efficiency or fairness of the emergent structures.
Economics
Bill Gibson studies economic processes using the methodology of complex systems. His recent work focuses on real-financial interactions in multi-agent economies and how aid to developing countries can be used and/or abused. The approach is to build up economies from the actions of individual agents and then explore how incentives might be changed to to improve the efficiency or fairness of the emergent structures.
Charles Goodnight
Biology
(Coming soon)
Biology
(Coming soon)
Paul Hines
Engineering
Paul Hines' work broadly focuses on finding ways to make electric energy more reliable, more affordable, with less environmental impact. Particular topics of interest include understanding the mechanisms by which small problems in the power grid become large blackouts (cascading failure), identifying and mitigating the stresses that could be caused by large amounts of electric vehicle charging, and quantifying the impact of high penetrations of wind and solar on electricity systems.
Engineering
Paul Hines' work broadly focuses on finding ways to make electric energy more reliable, more affordable, with less environmental impact. Particular topics of interest include understanding the mechanisms by which small problems in the power grid become large blackouts (cascading failure), identifying and mitigating the stresses that could be caused by large amounts of electric vehicle charging, and quantifying the impact of high penetrations of wind and solar on electricity systems.
Stuart Kauffman
Vermont Complex Systems Center
Building on his foundational work in complexity, Stuart Kauffman's recent work focuses on evidence for a new physical "Poised Realm" hovering between quantum coherent and classical behaviors with implications for quantum biology, cell biology, and drug design. Kauffman is also looking at enablement in the evolution of the biosphere, where he is arguing that no physics-like law entails evolution; as well as application of the ideas of fitness landscapes to the clinical setting, looking at the efficacy of random clinical trials versus team learning on rugged landscapes.
Vermont Complex Systems Center
Building on his foundational work in complexity, Stuart Kauffman's recent work focuses on evidence for a new physical "Poised Realm" hovering between quantum coherent and classical behaviors with implications for quantum biology, cell biology, and drug design. Kauffman is also looking at enablement in the evolution of the biosphere, where he is arguing that no physics-like law entails evolution; as well as application of the ideas of fitness landscapes to the clinical setting, looking at the efficacy of random clinical trials versus team learning on rugged landscapes.
Christopher Koliba
Community Development & Applied Economics (CDAE)
Chris Koliba is interested, broadly, in questions pertaining to the governance of democratic societies. By observing and modeling the inter-organizational networks of public, private and nonprofit entities that govern modern societies as complex adaptive systems, he seeks to better understand how these governance networks may be designed to perform more effectively and with greater measures of accountability. With active projects in the areas of watershed governance, transportation planning, smart gird implementation and food systems analysis he works with stakeholders and colleagues from the fields of social science, engineering, ecology, biology, and computer science to operationalize CAS governance models to inform practical decision-making and advance our basic understandings of social complexity.
Community Development & Applied Economics (CDAE)
Chris Koliba is interested, broadly, in questions pertaining to the governance of democratic societies. By observing and modeling the inter-organizational networks of public, private and nonprofit entities that govern modern societies as complex adaptive systems, he seeks to better understand how these governance networks may be designed to perform more effectively and with greater measures of accountability. With active projects in the areas of watershed governance, transportation planning, smart gird implementation and food systems analysis he works with stakeholders and colleagues from the fields of social science, engineering, ecology, biology, and computer science to operationalize CAS governance models to inform practical decision-making and advance our basic understandings of social complexity.
Dave Novak
School of Business Administration
Dave Novak's work focuses on measuring and modeling various aspects of quality-of-service from a system-wide perspective. He is particularly interested in the need to better integrate spatial and temporal analyses into different modeling approaches.
School of Business Administration
Dave Novak's work focuses on measuring and modeling various aspects of quality-of-service from a system-wide perspective. He is particularly interested in the need to better integrate spatial and temporal analyses into different modeling approaches.
Donna Rizzo
Engineering
Donna Rizzo's research focuses on the development of new computational tools to improve the understanding of human-induced changes on natural systems and the way we make decisions about natural resources and multi-scale environmental problems.
Engineering
Donna Rizzo's research focuses on the development of new computational tools to improve the understanding of human-induced changes on natural systems and the way we make decisions about natural resources and multi-scale environmental problems.
Brian Tivnan
Affiliate / MITRE
Brian Tivnan's research focuses on understanding the strategic interaction of adaptive agents in competitive contexts. To date, he has focused in the areas of conflict and finance. His approach relies heavily on the analysis of multi-agent systems and the development of agent-based models, which have taken him into fields as diverse as anthropology, computer science, economics, physics, psychology, and sociology.
Affiliate / MITRE
Brian Tivnan's research focuses on understanding the strategic interaction of adaptive agents in competitive contexts. To date, he has focused in the areas of conflict and finance. His approach relies heavily on the analysis of multi-agent systems and the development of agent-based models, which have taken him into fields as diverse as anthropology, computer science, economics, physics, psychology, and sociology.
Austin Troy
Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources (RSENR)
Austin Troy's research focuses on the spatial analysis of land use in urban and urbanizing environments. Using GIS, remote sensing, dynamic modeling, spatial statistics, and qualitative analysis as tools he addresses issues such as simulation of urban growth patterns, characterization of forest fragmentation, analysis of the environmental determinants of property values, and assessment of how crime locations relate to environmental factors.
Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources (RSENR)
Austin Troy's research focuses on the spatial analysis of land use in urban and urbanizing environments. Using GIS, remote sensing, dynamic modeling, spatial statistics, and qualitative analysis as tools he addresses issues such as simulation of urban growth patterns, characterization of forest fragmentation, analysis of the environmental determinants of property values, and assessment of how crime locations relate to environmental factors.
Asim Zia
Community Development & Applied Economics (CDAE)
Asim Zia's research focuses on the development of computational and complex-systems based approaches for informing the theory and practice of public policy analysis. He applies computational modeling approaches to evaluate complex policy and governance problems that span global climate change, energy, transportation, forest conservation, disaster management, watershed management and international development.
Community Development & Applied Economics (CDAE)
Asim Zia's research focuses on the development of computational and complex-systems based approaches for informing the theory and practice of public policy analysis. He applies computational modeling approaches to evaluate complex policy and governance problems that span global climate change, energy, transportation, forest conservation, disaster management, watershed management and international development.