Talk Title: Control = Prediction + Engineering: Lessons from Evolution, Epidemics, and Society
In this presentation, Professor Ugbunu will explore our ambitions to steer and control complex biological systems. All of these systems are limited both by the engineering tools to manipulate systems, and more importantly, our predictive models for how these systems will behave. Using evolutionary biology and epidemiology as examples, he will highlight the conceptual, technical, and ethical barriers to using predictive models to steer complex biological and social systems.
C. Brandon Ogbunu
C. Brandon Ogbunu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University, and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He is a computational biologist whose research focuses on disease evolution, epidemiology, and the intersection between science and culture.