Simon Angus

Resources for CSSS Participants

• Mapping science: http://scimaps.org/
• Asthma modelling from the NECSI conference last year: http://necsi.org/events/iccs6/viewabstract.php?id=377

About me

G'day all,

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

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 of a beautiful stand of Eucalyptus trees (mainly Eucalyptus pilularis (Blackbutt) or E. saligna (Sydney Blue Gum)) in the Blue Gum Forrest -- a famous walking destination to the West of Sydney, Australia, where I work. Sadly, the forrest is mostly destroyed now due to bushfires that hit in the recent Summer. A shame, but I thought I'd share them with you all the same.

The Blue Gum forrest, Blue Mountains National Park, West of Sydney, Australia.

I'm working at the School of Economics, University of NSW, Sydney, Australia. My background is in engineering/chemistry, and have continued to be fascinated by self-organizing systems -- then studying self-organizing polymer membranes, and now, studying self-organizing/endogenous network formation processes in human interaction networks. This means working in game theory, graph theory, and computational modelling of human behaviour -- specifically trying to ask, What is the outcome of a system of interacting individuals who are able to change their interaction environment themselves? Follow the link below for more info on this, including my recent PhD dissertation on the topic.

Other than walking, other things I'm into include going to church (I currently attend Unichurch, UNSW), mountain running (see The B-List) and road and mountain biking.

I was in Santa Fe in 2004 and am looking forward to becoming an 'ossy' again...

See you in Santa Fe!

Email:

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Homepage:

• Simon's homepage at the Theory Group wiki