Juniper Lovato

Juniper Lovato is an educator and researcher in the field of complex systems and data science. Her current research focuses on data ethics, group privacy, privacy policies, AI ethics, ethics of AI art, complex systems, the science of stories, and open source ecosystems. Juniper is a member of the Computational Ethics Lab and director of partnerships and external programs at the Vermont Complex Systems Center/CEMS; University of Vermont. She recently completed her PhD in complex systems and data science at the University of Vermont.

Juyong Park

Juyong Park is a theoretical physicist who has worked on a diverse range of interdisciplinary topics in complex systems including the statistical physics formulation of networks, football (the American variety) competition networks, social network of musicians, human communication and movement patterns, and bioinformatics. After joining the Graduate School of Culture Technology at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology), he has pursued a complex systems-based study of culture and arts, most notably how human creativity can be scientifically understood.

Nicola Gaston

Nicola Gaston is a physicist at the University of Auckland and co-director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology. In 2023, she was awarded the Thomson Medal by the Royal Society Te Apārangi for her transformative leadership in the research, science and innovation sector and for driving change towards equity for women in science. Nicola has recently been thinking about how concepts such as emergence that underpin complex systems research can help us to better understand and deal with issues such as minoritisation as they relate to equity, diversity and inclusion.

Ciro Cattuto

Ciro Cattuto is the scientific director of ISI Foundation, a non-profit research institute based in Turin, Italy, focusing on data science, complex systems, and their applications to public health and social impact. He holds a PhD in physics from the University of Perugia, Italy and has worked at the University of Michigan in USA, at the Enrico Fermi Center in Rome, and at the Frontier Research System of RIKEN in Japan. He is a founder and principal investigator of the SocioPatterns project, an international collaboration measuring and modeling human proximity networks.

Joel Miller

Joel Miller is an applied mathematician from La Trobe University who uses a wide array of techniques from physics and computer science to study biological questions with impact on public health. He primarily studies infectious diseases, dynamic processes on random networks, and the spread of infectious diseases in random networks. Joel’s recent research has focused on COVID-19 mitigation in many different contexts. He has also been focused on how heterogeneities in the structure of a population affects the spread of infection.

General Admission NZ$200

Student NZ$100

Organising committee

• Professor Markus Luczak-Roesch (co-chair)
• Dr Dion O’Neale (co-chair)
• Associate Professor Cilla Wehi
• Dr Emily Harvey
• Béatrice Désy
• Jonathan Burgess (communications)
• Pauline Donougher (operations)

The call for abstracts for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium closed on Friday 1 December 2023 and notifications of acceptance were sent on Thursday 14 December 2023.

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