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Communities of Engagement – reflections from Dion O’Neale
By Dion O'Neale Engaging with communities is a focus for Te Pūnaha Matatini so I very much appreciated the point of Rhian Salmon's lightning talk at our initial research symposium. In her role as a climate scientist, Rhian has spent long periods of time in Antarctica,...
Very cool stuff: some thoughts from Marcus on our research symposium
Here's Victoria University-based investigator Marcus Frean reflecting on last week's symposium: I want to talk to Alexei Drummond about influenza, and was disappointed that I didn't get to do so at the meeting itself, due largely to being somewhat exhausted and in...
No turning back
What a week! It was nearly two years ago that I sat down with Dion O’Neale to first discuss about the possibility of establishing a Centre of Research Excellence in complex systems over a beer in Wellington. And finally, last Wednesday, in the University of Auckland’s...
Shaun talks complexity and business
Here’s Te Pūnaha Matatini Director, Shaun Hendy, talking to Andrew Patterson, Business Correspondent for RadioLIVE, on Sunday Business, 22 February 2015.
Compete to cooperate
The first conference I attended as a PhD student was held at a postcard-perfect alpine château up in the Canadian Rockies. The organisers had brought together particle physics, the physics of the very smallest things we can detect, with cosmology, the physics of the...
Network science gets dirty: complex network approaches to digital soil science
Before meeting with Dion O’Neale I would never have thought that a project about soil could be so interesting, however his clear passion for this project would cause even the biggest city slicker to sit up and take notice. Dion is a Research Fellow in the Physics...