[spectre] New Club Night at Goldsmiths (London) on 30 Nov. with M. d'Inverno

[maria x]

*NEW CLUB NIGHT* on Thursday 30th NOVEMBER with *MARK D'INVERNO*

Thursday November 30, 6-8pm in the Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building, 
Goldsmiths, University of London, New Corss, SE14 6NW

FREE, ALL ARE WELCOME


CELL –An Interdisciplinary Investigation Into Adult Stem Cell Behaviour
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The CELL project was an interdisciplinary collaboration over 4 years 
that included an artist, a stem cell researcher, a curator, an ALife 
programmer and a mathematician. It employed a range of approaches to 
investigate stem cell behaviour. This included agent-based models; 
simulations and visualisations to model stem cell organisation in silico 
as well as art installations, which reflected on how different 
disciplines use representations and data visualisation.

The impact on all members of the team was very significant and it 
motivated Mark d’Inverno along with the artist Jane Prophet to set up an 
interdisciplinary research cluster (funded jointly by both the science 
council and the arts council in the UK) to further investigate the 
potential of interdisciplinary collaborative research in general.

In this talk I will reflect on my experience of this process of 
interdisciplinary collaboration and attempt to lay down some ideas 
relating to the minimal conditions that need to be in place for it to 
flourish, as well as enumerate some of the major obstacles.

*Mark d'Inverno* is Professor of Computer Science since 2001. In 2006 he 
took up a Chair at Goldsmiths College, University of London, principally 
to continue his investigations into interdisciplinary work. He has been 
interested in formal, principled approaches to modeling both natural and 
artificial systems in a computational setting. The main strand to this 
research, focuses on the application of formal methods in providing 
models of intelligent agent and multi-agent systems. This work 
encompasses many aspects of agent cognition and agent society including 
action, perception, deliberation, communication, negotiation and social 
norms. In recent years, ideas from both formal modeling and agent-based 
design, have been applied in a more practical and interdisciplinary 
settings such as biological modeling, computer-generated music, art and 
design.

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Next event on 14 DECEMBER TBC

Chris Brauer's presentation for the same date has been postponed.

For more information on the Thursday Club check 
http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/gds/events.php or email maria x: 
drp01mc at gold.ac.uk