Talks

   
 
 
August 2010: Design for a Biosphere: Daisystat a model of multidimensional homeostasis., ALIFE XII, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
 
July 2010: Niche construction, the JeDi approach., International workshop on ecological niche as a window to biodiversity, Frankfurt, Germany.
 
June 2010: The Living Planet: a review of life's role in the evolution of the Earth, Research Academy Leipzig, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
 
February 2010: Bringing Earth System Science to Life: Capturing evolutionary dynamics in biogeochemical models, Workshop on Evolutionary modelling in Earth System Models, University of East Anglia, UK. Download PDF
 
December 2009: Artificial life, real worlds: Can Alife help explain the past and future evolution of life on Earth?, SENSE (Science and Engineering of Natural Systems) seminar series, University of Southampton, UK. Download PDF
November 2009: Artificial life, real worlds: Can Alife help explain the past and future evolution of life on Earth?, Alergic (Artificial Life Reading Group) University of Sussex, UK.
September 2009: Why do surface-interior interactions matter to the atmosphere?, HA surface processes working group meeting, DLR, Berlin, Germany. Download PDF
June 2009: Life & Rocks: modelling components of the global rock cycle, HA Planetary Evolution & Life Workshop, DLR, Berlin, Germany. Download PDF
May 2009: Hot Rocks: quantifying the thermodynamic evolution of the Earth in the context of the MEPP. International workshop on the Maximum Entropy Production, MPI Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany. Download PDF
March 2009: Life, the universe and everything, Colloquium  lecture, MPI Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany. Download PDF
August 2008: Entropy production in an energy balance Daisyworld, Alife XI, Winchester, UK. Download PDF
 

December 2007: Beyond Flower Power: Developments of Daisyworld. Science and Engineering of Natural Systems (SENSE) seminar series at University of Southampton, UK. Download PDF

   
  November 2007: New Perspectives on Daisyworld: Niche Construction and Rein Control.  'Gaia Week' at York University, UK. Download PDF
   
 

September 2007: Complexity Increases Stability in a Self-Regulating Ecosystem. Presented at ECAL 2007, Lisbon, 14th September 2007 and MMEE, University of Sussex, UK Download PDF

   

Febuary 2005: The Maximum Entropy Production Principle. What is it? Is it useful? Presented to Alergic (Artificial Life Reading Group) University of Sussex, UK. Download PDF