报告名称：The case for considering Society as a complex system (作为复杂系统的社会问题研究)

报告人：　Philip Ball,前nature编辑

报告时间：2013年4月7日（星期日）上午10：00

报告地点：嘉定园区学术活动中心307室

报告简介：报告对英国的经济，英国、希腊等2011年的骚乱、中东的事件等社会问题，从复杂系统的观点加以了探讨。

报告人简介：

Philip Ball is an English science writer. He holds a degree in chemistry from Oxford and a doctorate in physics from Bristol University. He was an editor for the journal Nature for over 10 years. He now writes a regular column in Chemistry World. Ball's most-popular book is the 2004 Critical Mass: How One Things Leads to Another, winner of the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books. It examines a wide range of topics including the business cycle, random walks, phase transitions, bifurcation theory, traffic flow, Zipf's law, Small world phenomenon, catastrophe theory, the Prisoner's dilemma. The overall theme is one of applying modern mathematical models to social and economic phenomena.
See also: http://www.philipball.co.uk/