Sydneyagents
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Welcome to Sydney Agents
An informal group set up via a pub discussion between David Goldbaum (UTS), Valentyn Panchenko (UNSW) and Simon Angus (UNSW).
Aims
We hope to provide a community of interest around agent-based modelling and related computational techniques for researchers and students in the Sydney region. For more information, please email David (david.goldbaum AT uts.edu.au), Valentyn (v.panchenko AT unsw.edu.au), or Simon (s.angus AT unsw.edu.au).
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- This seminar series is currently a joint-collaboration between the School of Economics, UNSW and the School of Finance and Economics, UTS; though many members are also drawn from COSNet -- the Australian Complex Open Systems Network.
Events
Seminars are to be held at either UNSW or UTS (for the moment).
- Day, Time: Tuesday, 4:45pm
- Locations:
- UNSW: Australian School of Business Building, UNSW (campus map)
- UTS: Room D301, Level 3, Block D, Bldg. 5, UTS Haymarket
- General Map: (campus map)
- Building Map: (building map) Enter at "D", take lift or stairs to 3rd floor, see reception to right for entry.
- Rule: Every three weeks (!)
Seminar Schedule
(feel free to edit)
| Date | Location | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 21 Aug | UNSW | Valentyn Panchenko | Asset Price Dynamics with Small World Interactions under Heterogeneous Beliefs (.pdf) |
| Tue 11 Sep | UTS | Simon Angus | Genotype or Phenotype? The conflation of two concepts in evolutionary agent-based modeling (.pdf) |
| Tue 2 Oct | UTS | Ian Wilkinson | Mean Bad Birds vs Kind Friendly Chickens (.pdf) |
| Tue 23 Oct* | UTS | Terry Bossomaier | Agent Based Modelling of Trust (tentative) |
| Tue 13 Nov | UTS | Carl Chiarella | TBA |
| Tue 4 Dec | UTS | Remco Zwinkels | TBA |
(*) Indicates a 'Blue' seminar (2nd for the month)
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Further Directions/Discussion
Events
- Invite non-Syd speaker of interest every 'blue seminar' (A 'blue seminar' is the second one falling in a month).
- Run a work-shop?
- Do we need another workshop?
- What would be distinctive about a Syd-Agents one?
- Host a targetted conference?
- ...
Coordination/Collaboration
- Set up a code-sharing/software comment service
- i.e. have a name, or names to contact for help with a particular software/environment
- Run a course for students from near-campuses
- ...
Site Wish-list
- Notifications of updates/changes
- RSS/Atom feed from 'Events' page; and/or
- By email notifications through the 'watch' feature
Site News
- Oct 2007
- Syd-Agents site moved to http://sydneyagents.bluwiki.com
- Aug 2007
- Syd-Agents site up and running in its (hopefully) temporary home.




