Simon Angus

G'day all,

Just saying hello here -- other work-related stuff is below. Tried to find a photo bushwalking in the Australian mountains, but I'm usually behind the lense, rather than infront of it, so this is the best I could do -- walking in the Malverns -- hills near to where my sister was studying in Oxford, GB. The other pic is taken

Walking in the Malverns (GB) with my nephew, Lachlan.

NB: The following is a slender version of Simon's home page at the UNSW School of Economics Theory Group wiki. Stay here, or go there as you please, though both are in that strange third-person voice (!).

OK, so I may not have the curls in Santa Fe..

e-mail
voice	+61 2 9385 3334
fax	+61 2 9313 6337
post	School of Economics University of New South Wales Sydney 2052 NSW Australia

Brief Bio

(apologies for the third-person view, see note above..!)

Simon joined the University of New South Wales School of Economics to begin PhD studies in 2002. Prior to which he graduated with a B.Sc (Industrial Chemistry) and B.A.(Pols) from the same institution, completing honours in the Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD) where he investigated self-organizing polymer films (see publications below). In 2004 he was accepted into the Santa Fe Institute (SFI)'s Graduate Workshop in Computational Social Science Modeling and Complexity, lead by John Miller and Scott Page , which was great fun. Since then, he has had a continuing involvement with the Network Theory Working Group, formed out of the Complexity Science theme at the CSIRO.

He recently received his Ph.D. and currently works as a Lecturer in the School. His teaching mostly involves the honour of delivering and developing the first year Quantitative Methods A (QMA) course, and currently helping out the second/third-year course in Game Theory and Business Strategy.

Non-Research Interests

I'm hoping to do some running and riding in Santa Fe. Last time at St John's found some nice running up towards the Santo Christo mountains from the back of the campus... Let me know if you'd like to head out for a run some time.

• Mountain Running (see B-List, a running group loosely associated around runs starting with 'B');
• Cycling, bushwalking, photography etc.

Research

Simon's research interests are eclectic due to his background, but currently fall roughly into areas such as:

• Complexity Science
• Networks
• Game Theory
• Computational Economics
• Agent-based Social Simulation
• Artificial life

Other academic interests include:

• Matlab programming techniques
• LaTeX document preparation programming (including the use of excellent packages such as Beamer and PSTricks in lecture preparation and delivery)
• Integration of the above two
• (and recently) Wiki development

Recent/Current Work

• Angus, S.D.; `Endogenous Economic Networks: Cooperation, Communication and Complexity', PhD Dissertation, University of NSW, Sydney, Australia (2007).
• Angus, S.D.; `Cooperation Networks: Endogeneity \& Complexity' (submitted July 2006 to the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organisation, in first-revision stage).
• Masson, V. and Angus, S.D.; `Network Structure and Strategic Convergence in a Model of Neighbors versus Strangers' (in preparation).
• Angus, S.D.; `A Noncooperative Model of Network Formation (Econometrica, 68(5) (2000), 1181--1229) ' Comment.
• Angus, S.D.; `Endogenous Communication Networks with Boundedly Rational Agents' (in preparation).