Tuesday, November 19, 2013

The RiftLand Project: Modeling Droughts and Displacement Among Traditional People in East Africa

Time: Thu, November 21, 12:15pm – 1:30pm
Location: 1203 Van Munching Hall
Presented by Timothy Gulden, Research Assistant Professor, Center for Social Complexity, George Mason University


Timothy Gulden is a Research Assistant Professor with the Center for Social Complexity in the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George Mason University. His research focuses on modeling complex systems in the context of empirical data.  He holds a PhD from the University of Maryland School of Public Policy where he explored agent-based modeling as a tool for policy analysis. He has been a research scholar at CISSM, a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution's Center for Social and Economic Dynamics (CSED) and attended the Santa Fe Institute's Complex Systems Summer School. During the 1990’s he was the technical director of the GIS program for Westchester County, New York.  His interests include the quantitative study of conflict dynamics, modeling adaptation to a changing climate, understanding the human and economic flows driving changes in the global urban system, and the development of novel urban metrics based on nighttime lights.

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