SEMINARS (unless otherwise indicated)

Year 2006

June15th, Organizations as Learning Systems Prof. Marjatta Maula, Tampere University of Technology, Finland. 
"Getting Value From IT.  Can Complexity Help?"
Dr Paul Stevens, HR VP, GlaxoSmithKline, UK

May 26th, New Product Development as a Complex Adaptive System of Decisions with Dr. Ian McCarthy, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Is there anything to fear from the politics of complexity? with Prof. Robert Geyer, Lancaster University, UK (PP presentation) 

February 28th The Application of Complexity Science to Human Affairs, Conference at Open University Campus, Milton Keynes

Year 2005

November 28th, Business Use of Complexity Sciences, Complexity Workshop at Grenoble, France

October 7th, Art, Complexity and Design Workshop, at UCL

July 20th, Workshop on Community & Urban Renewal & Complexity Theory

June 27th, Complexity Workshop "A Celebration of Cultural Theory"

May 5-6th, Torino, Italy. Complexity Symposium. "Art, Complexity and Technology: Their Interaction in Emergence"

March  8th, Workshop on Community & Urban Renewal 

January 12th, Dialogue on Complexity & Design’ , led by Eve Mitleton-Kelly and held at UCL, London. Part of the 'Embracing Complexity in Design' Cluster programme, funded by the EPSRC and AHRC and co-sponsored by Exystence, the European Network of Excellence in Complex Systems

Year 2004

November 12th Helsinki, Finland. " Complexity in Business. Complexity Research Meets Futures Studies" 

June 29th "Is Hierarchy Unnecessary? If So, What Are The Alternatives?" with Gerard Fairtlough 

June 4th "The Application of Complexity" Rolls-Royce Marine, Modernisation Agency, NHS, Complexity Group, LSE

March 25-26 Complexity Symposium, Complexity Science and 21st Century Issues, Co-sponsored by the Santa Fe Institute, the European Commission and the London School of Economics

Year 2003

OCTOBER 29th at Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain "Complexity Science as an Enabler of Intra and Inter Organizational Network Development" with Prof. Richard V. Sole, Prof. Eve Mitleton-Kelly and Peter Fryer

SEPTEMBER 17th and 18th Complexity, Ethics and Creativity Conference

MAY 21st 2003 "Redirection" with Professor David Lane and Enzo Badalotti

MAY 21st 2003 EXYSTENCE COMPLEXITY WORKSHOP

MARCH 26th 2003 "The Physics of Institutions" with Dr Philip Ball and Paul Ormerod. Ball's PP presentation/Ormerod's presentation

FEBRUARY 25th 2003 "Harnessing Business Complexity through Agent-based Modelling" with Dr Eric Bonabeau from Icosystem Corporation, Boston   (PP presentation)

JANUARY 31st 2003 "Predicting the Future" with Dr Bernardo A Huberman from HP Labs, Palo Alto, USA    (PP presentation)

Year 2002

NOVEMBER 18th 2002 "Visualizability in the New Economy: Some Challengers in the Representation of Complex Organizations", with Professor Arthur Miller and Professor Max Boisot

JUNE 18th 2002 "Managing Networkorganisations: A practitioners view" with Herman Roose, CEO of Oranje Belgium

APRIL 29th 2002 "Measuring Complex Systems" with Gerry Frizelle and Janet Efstathiou

MARCH 7th 2002 COMPLEXITY WORKSHOP "A 2-day Workshop on Complexity: Introduction and Advanced" by the LSE Complexity Group

FEBRUARY 20th COMPLEXITY STUDY GROUP "Dissipative structures and far from equilibrium systems" with Professor Peter Allen

Year 2001

NOVEMBER 22nd 2001 COMPLEXITY WORKSHOP "An Introduction to Complexity"  Complexity Group

JUNE 8th 2001 COMPLEXITY WORKSHOP "Complexity Science and Order-Creation" with Professor Bill McKelvey

MAY 30th 2001 "Cognition and Robotics" with Professor Igor Alksander and Inman Harvey

APRIL 25th 2001 COMPLEXITY STUDY GROUP "Is Social Evolution Lamarckian or Darwinian?" with Professor Geoff Hodgson

MARCH 19th 2001"Clustering and Swarming as self-organising techniques in virtual communities" with David Snowden and Yasmin Merali

MARCH 9th 2001"Knowledge Management in Action - How BP is "learning to fly"...  with Chris Collison and Geoff Parcell

FEBRUARY 8th 2001"Complexity and Industrial Networks: New Organisational Forms and New Managerial Approaches" with Pierpaolo Andriani and Giuseppina Passiante.    

Year 2000

MAY 31st 2000 COMPLEXITY STUDY GROUP on "Evolution"

MARCH 14th 2000 "Strategy, Microcoevolution, Distributed Intelligence, and Prigogine" Professor Bill McKelvey, UCLA, Los Angeles

MARCH 14th 2000 COMPLEXITY STUDY GROUP "Dynamics of New Science Leadership" with Bill McKelvey, UCLA, Los Angeles

FEBRUARY 22nd 2000 COMPLEXITY STUDY GROUP "Biological Evolution as a model for Social Systems" Professor Brian Goodwin

Year 1999

OCTOBER 28th 1999 "Complexity and Business Success" with Roger Lewin and Birute Regine

JUNE 24th 1999 COMPLEXITY GAME

JUNE 10th 1999 "Science and Magic" Dr Jack Cohen

MAY 6th 1999 COMPLEXITY GAME

MAY 4th 1999 "Biological and Economic Network" Dr Eric Bonabeau, SFI, discussed the problem solving characteristics of social insects

MARCH 9th 1999 COMPLEXITY GAME

MARCH 4th 1999 "Herding Behaviour in Financial Market" Dr Gérard Weisbuch (physicist), Laboratoire de Physique Statistique ENS, Paris and Dr Alan Kirman (economist) discussed self-organising markets, how interactions evolve leading to complexity, contagion effects, 'epidemics' of opinion and herding behaviour in financial markets.

FEBRUARY 23rd 1999 "Conditioned Emergence - Complexity theory in action" Dr Robert MacIntosh and Dr Donald MacLean, Glasgow University and Ian Arbon, MD of Peter Brotherhood Ltd, Peterborough, discussed the implementation of the theories of complexity in practice, within PB Ltd.

JANUARY 18th 1999 "Expanding the Potentialities of Knowledge-Based Organisations" Professor Raul Espejo, Professor of Information Management and Director of the Centre for Systems Research at the Lincoln School of Management, University of Lincolnshire and Humberside

JANUARY 14th 1999 COMPLEXITY GAME

Year 1998

DECEMBER 4th and 5th 1998 Joint CONFERENCE with Warwick, "ORGANISATIONS AS COMPLEX EVOLVING SYSTEMS" Keynote Speakers: Professor Ervin Laszlo, Dr. Jack Cohen, Susanne Kelly, Vice President, Citicorp Technology Office Citybank, New York. Papers were presented by academics and practitioners.

NOVEMBER 11th 1998 "The Complexity Advantage" Susanne Kelly, Citibank, New York Christopher Davis, BDA, Germany.

OCTOBER 12th 1998 "How to Make Real Change Happen" Goran Carstedt, M.D. SOL International, and ex-President Volvo and IKEA

OCTOBER 8th 1998 WORKSHOP "The Complexity Game" Co-creators: Gerard Fairtlough, Julie Allan, Eve Mitleton-Kelly

JUNE 8th and 9th Joint WORKSHOP with EIASM* on "Complexity and Organization", Brussels, Belgium Selected papers were presented at the December Conference. *European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management

MAY 15th 1998 "Would-Be Worlds, The Science and the Surprise of Artificial Worlds" Professor John Casti, Santa Fe Institute

MAY 11th & 12th 1998 COLLOQUIUM "A Colloquium on Autopoiesis and Social Systems" Professor Humberto Maturana, University of Chile Professor Gunther Teubner, LSE Dr Loet Leydesdorff, University of Amsterdam Dr John Mingers, Warwick University Dr Lucas Introna, LSE Dr Soren Brier, Denmark

MARCH 30th 1998 . "Sim Store: Complex Adaptive Modelling at J Sainsbury" Dr Mark Venables, J Sainsbury.

FEBRUARY 3rd 1998 COMPLEXITY STUDY GROUP "On the issue of scale" Professor Marilyn Strathern, Social Anthropologist, Cambridge University

JANUARY 23rd 1998 COMPLEXITY STUDY GROUP "Complexity, Information Space and Social Information Flows" Professor Max Boisot Michael Lissack

JANUARY 15th 1998 "Organising to Learn" John Leggate, BP "Learning to Unlearn" Professor Petruska Clarkson, Psychologist

Year 1997

DECEMBER 17th 1997 "The Complexity of Power Relations- an interdisciplinary approach to complex systems thinking" Dr Kim James, Psi International

DECEMBER 3rd 1997 "Developing Knowledge through Dialogue- The Sencorp Management Model" Kenneth R. Slocum, Senior Vice President, SENCORP. D. Scott Frondorf, Manager of Strategic Systems and Technologies, SENCORP.

NOVEMBER 19th 1997 "Strategy & Requisite Variety" Professor Raul Espejo, Professor of Information Management, University of Lincolnshire and Humberside, and Director of the Centre for Systems Research, Lincoln School of Management.

JUNE 18th 1997 COMPLEXITY STUDY GROUP "The Law as an Autopoietic System" Professor Gunther Teubner, Otto-Kahn-Freund Professor of Comparative Law and Legal Theory at the LSE "Autopoeisis and Organised Complexity" Professor Helmut Willke, Universitat Bielefeld

APRIL 23rd 1997 "Complexity and the Participatory Worldview" Professor Brian Goodwin, biologist and author of "How the Leopard Changed Its Spots". Dr Peter Reason, author of "Participation in Human Inquiry".

MARCH 5th 1997 "Eight Principles of the New Science Applied to Leadership" Andrew Stone, Joint MD, Marks & Spencer Danah Zohar, Oxford Brookes University.

FEBRUARY 13th 1997 "Complexity, Metaphor and Knowledge Landscapes in Organisations" Professor Johan Roos, International Institute for Management Development, Lausanne. Michael Lissack, Senior Advisor to Tripod Inc and Research Associate at Henley Management College.

Year 1996

NOVEMBER 20th 1996 "Learning from Complexity: Expanding the Possibility Space" Arthur Battram, Tools for Learning project Manager in the Training Development team at the Local Government Management Board, the Industry Training organisation for local authorities. Steve Trivett, Senior Consultant with FCI, Birmingham City Council.

OCTOBER 30th 1996 "Complexity in Practice at the DOT and Humberside TEC" Paul Waller, Head of the Information and Technology Management Unit at the Department of Transport. Graham Hodgson, DOT Peter Fryer, Chief Executive of Humberside Training and Enterprise Council.

JUNE 5th 1996 "Strategy & Complexity in the Public Sector" Professor Jonathan Rosenhead, Head of the Department of Operational Research at LSE. Professor Hari Tsoukas, Associate Professor of Organisation and Management at the University of Cyprus and an Associate Fellow at Warwick Business School and Cranfield School of Management.

MAY 20th 1996 COMPLEXITY STUDY GROUP The "Learning Network": Conditions for Distinguishing Productive Self-Organising Systems From Permanently Failing Organisations Tony Bovaird, Lecturer and Founder member of the Public Sector Management Research Centre, Aston Business School "Chaos, Complexity and the Firm: A Generic Model of Interfirm Relationships" David Parker, Senior Lecturer in Managerial Economics and Director of the Research Centre for Industrial Strategy, University of Birmingham Business School. Andrew Tobias, Senior Lecturer in Operational Research, University of Birmingham. Simon Whitby, Doctoral Student, University of Birmingham.

MAY 8th 1996 "Is Learning a Prerequisite for Adaptation in Complex Social Systems?" Arie de Geus, ex-Group planning Co-ordinator of the Royal Dutch Shell Group Professor Peter Allen, physicist, International Ecotechnology Research Centre, Cranfield University.

APRIL 24th & FEBRUARY 7th 1996 "Control & Self-Organisation: Paradoxes of Leadership in Complex Organisations" Professor Ralph Stacey Director of the Complexity and Management Centre at the University of Hertfordshire Patricia Shaw, Associate Director and Founding Fellow of CMC.

MARCH 6th 1996 "Institutionalising Complexity: The Chinese Development Experience" Professor John Child, Judge Institute, Cambridge Professor Max Boisot, E.S.A.D.E., Barcelona

Year 1995

NOVEMBER 17th and DECEMBER 6th 1995 WORKSHOP "Managing Complexity" Alex Trisoglio, Visiting Professor at the Copenhagen International Management Institute.

MAY 10th 1995 "Organisations As Community: Complexity and Relationships at Work" Arie de Geus, ex-Group planning Co-ordinator of the Royal Dutch Shell Group Michael McMaster , Director of Knowledge Based Development Ltd.

MARCH 16th 1995 "Business Innovation and Information Technology: Dangerous Liaisons?" Professor Robert Galliers, Chairman and Lucas Professor of Business Systems Engineering, Warwick University Business School David Orchard, Head of Group Information Technology at Thomas Cook

FEBRUARY 16th & JANUARY 19th 1995 WORKSHOPS "Managing the Change" Rohit Talwar, Strategic Planning Society.

FEBRUARY 10th 1995 "Can Information Systems Investment be Appraised?" Professor John Ward, Professor of Strategic IS and Director, IS Research Centre, Cranfield Roger Davies, senior consultant with Admiral Management Services

JANUARY 25th 1995 "Managing Complexity" Dr Michael Thompson, anthropologist Alex Trisoglio, Director, Environmental Strategies

Year 2005
Workshop27/06
Symposium5-6/05
Workshop 8/03

Year 2004
Seminar 12/11
Seminar 29/06
Seminar 4/06
Symposium 25-26/03

Year 2003
Bilbao 29/10
Conference 17-18/9
Seminar 21/5
Workshop 21/5
Seminar 26/03
Seminar 25/02
Seminar 31/01

Year 2002
Seminar 18/11
Seminar 18/6
Seminar 29/4
Workshop 7/3
Study Group 20/2

Year 2001
Workshop 22/11
Workshop 8/07
Seminar 30/05
Study Group 25/04 
Seminar 19/03
Seminar 9/03
Seminar 8/02

Year 2000
Complexity Day 8/06
Study Group 31/05
Seminar 14/03
Study Group 14/03
Study Group 8/02

Year 1999
Seminar 28/10
Game 24/06
Seminar 10/06
Game 6/05
Seminar 4/05
Game 9/03
Seminar 4/03
Seminar 23/02
Seminar 18/01
Game 14/01

Year 1998
Conference 4/12
Seminar 11/11
Seminar 12/10
Workshop 8/10
Seminar 15/05
Colloquium 11/05
Seminar 30/03
Study Group 3/02
Study Group 23/01
Seminar 15/01

Year 1997
Seminar 17/12
Seminar 3/12
Seminar 19/11
Study Group 18/06
Seminar 23/04
Seminar 5/03
Seminar 13/12

Year 1996
Seminar 20/11
Seminar 30/10
Seminar 5/06
Study Group 20/05
Seminar 8/05
Seminar 24/04
Seminar 6/04

Year 1995
Workshop 17/11
Seminar 10/05
Seminar 16/03
Workshop 16/01&19/02
Seminar 25/01