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SUMMARY:A philosophy on mathematics and modelling: what can computational 
 models do? - Dr. Philip J. Underwood - United Nations Environment Programm
 e World Conservation Monitoring Centre
DTSTART:20170303T163000Z
DTEND:20170303T180000Z
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CONTACT:Jim Jordan
DESCRIPTION:Can everything theoretically be described with mathematics? So
 me argue it can. Some go as far as to suggest that we may be living inside
  a computer simulation\, and oddly enough there's a reasoned argument for 
 why that might be the case! What about modelling complex systems? The most
  simple of these require numerical integration to solve their differential
  equations\, if they exist. Others require computational models that becom
 e so complex that describing them becomes almost as time consuming as writ
 ing the program code. This talk will explore some of these questions. It w
 ill offer few answers\, but as computational power increases it will sugge
 st that computational models offer the potential to explore completely new
  questions.
LOCATION:British Antarctic Survey\, Room 307
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