INCOSE Natural Systems Webinars

[Curt McNamara]

Please join us this Saturday, January 20th for three excellent presentations!

Login details and bios can be found on this page:
https://sites.google.com/site/incosenswg/home/international-workshop-2018

Saturday, January 20th 10:30-noon EST:

Overview of the circular economy

·       Tools and techniques for the Circular Economy as described in British Standard BS 8001:2017

·       Infrastructure Ecology: ecological network analysis of material and energy flow in human systems (Marc Weissburg, GATech)

·       The Who and What of Communicating Biom* (Norbert Hoeller, Sustainable Innovation Network)

·       The Hero’s Journey To The Circular Economy: An Innovative Methodology To Guide Businesses In The Transition To A Circular Economy (Shari Welsh, Circular Design Solutions)

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Saturday, January 20th 1pm-3pm EST:

Cross-scale analytics

This session will host an exploratory discussion on units of analysis for natural systems and interdisciplinary applications of such models.  

We plan to cover 4 distinct scales: microbiological; human; urban; and terrestrial. 

Moderated by Randall Anway, AIA

Speakers and topics:

• Dr. Kate Adamala (U Minnesota): “Biological Control Systems”
• Dr. Fred Wulczyn (U Chicago): “Data Analytics for Human Services”
• Elizabeth Christoforetti (Supernormal, Cambridge MA): "Big Data for Small Places: Utilizing Emerging Quantitative Information for Improved Urban Quality."
• Dr. Caryl Johnson (Introspective Systems, LLC, Portland ME): "Managing Dynamic Complexity, A Biomimetic Perspective”

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Saturday, January 20th 3;30pm-5pm EST:

Joint system with NASA Virtual Interchange for Natural Systems (VINE)

·       Overview of VINE and the systemology cluster. Jacqueline Nagel, James Madison University; Vikram Shyam NASA; Nick Bense NASA

·       Survey of Biomimicry tools for use in PeTaL (Periodic Table of Life) Collen Unsworth, U Akron

·       An Ontology for Biomimetics. Julian Vincent

          Curt