News
NANIA Meeting 2008
The closing date for submission of papers has now passed. A timetable is now available. The meeting has also been shortened to two days, 11-12 September.
Applications for audience members are still being accepted.
The venue for the academic conference on the 12 September has
been confirmed as:
Old Infirmary Room 2.13, Drummond Street, Edinburgh.
A flyer and application for the 2008 meeting is now available.
New papers
Richard Blythe's work with Alan McKane, Gareth Baxter and Bill Croft on New Zealand English has recently been featured in various media sources around the world. There are two papers associated with the work Fixation and consensus times on a network: a unified approach (Baxter, Blythe, McKane) and Modeling language change: An evaluation of Trudgill's theory of the emergence of New Zealand English (Baxter, Blythe, Croft, McKane). Richard also has additional information.
Ian Main and Mark Naylor have a new paper describing how the 2004 Sumatra earthquake has changed the facts surrounding frequency-magnitude distributions: Nature Geoscience 1:142 (2008)
About NANIA
This project is funded under the EPSRC Novel Computation Initiative and aims to bring together researchers from a wide variety of disciplines to investigate generic computational techniques to study and understand complex dynamic systems. It is one of a number of research clusters set up in this area.
Many systems can be thought of as local objects – autonomes, or agents – which interact with a spatially distributed set of neighbours and with some overall external environment or forcing. It is envisaged that novel computational approaches will be particularly important in areas where the external environment is currently treated by mean field approximations. This project will bring together researchers from different disciplines with the aims of (a) transfering experience of novel computing and (b) allowing exchange of ideas and analysis techniques. See the project overview for more details.
How to Get Involved
For further information on how to get involved please contact nania@ph.ed.ac.uk.