[Kb-complexity] SIG Content, and a Complexity Science for Beginners Course.

[Carol Webb <carolwebb75@yahoo.com>]

Hi All

And thanks to Bill and Pete for their recent comments,
re complexity *and* Cuba :-)

Pete also sent me an article he has written for
inclusion in the new SIG space on the KB site - would
love to hear from any/all of you with any of your work
too. Just email me content contributions to my
Cranfield address at c.webb@cranfield.ac.uk

And... on another promotional note... am sending the
following round to different groups at the moment:

I just wanted to drop you a line to mention / promote
a course we are running twice at Cranfield University
this September, called, ?Complexity Science for
Beginners? (see
http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/sims/mem/short_courses/complexity_science.htm
for more info). 

The course is intended for EPSRC PhD research students
in the first 18 months of their research and is free
for them. The course is ideal for people in that
category who wish to get a taster of what complexity
science is all about, its historical origins, the
journey so far, how it fits in to a number of
disciplines and how you can begin to make sense of it
in the context of your own work or research. You can
find photo?s from our pilot course that we ran in May
at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/complexcarol/sets/72057594143008112/


For those with a hard technical/engineering background
it will enable you to get to grips with how complexity
science can be used to build models and simulations
and what it means for nanotechnology, but will also
present you with a framework for how to deal with the
interface between the hard *and* the soft, i.e. where
the world of engineering and social issues converge.
This will become more relevant the further on in your
career you get when the problems you are asked to deal
with will not only be of a technical nature, but also
involve the people dimension too! The good news here
is that complexity science makes sense across the
boundaries of all disciplines, albeit with subtle
differences here and there. 

If you know of anyone else who may be interested in
this course then please do forward on this email and
encourage them to have a look at
http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/sims/mem/short_courses/complexity_science.htm

We would love to hear from you if you want to know
more!

Thanks and best wishes, Carol




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