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If you have a work-in-process/progress project and would like to share it in a WPI Collective Learning Meeting (CLM) next semester, please contact ctang@wpi.edu. WPI System Dynamics CLMs will be on Fridays Noon-1PM ET (Boston time). Recording and sharing the recording are optional. CLM Guidelines for presenters, facilitators and attendees. Sign-up form:

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News/Updates/Reminders
Review Requests
Prof. Khalid Saeed (saeed@wpi.edu) would like feedback on:
People Express
Prof. Saeed will use this in his undergrad course SS 1505: Games for Understanding Complexity
"Fishy" Banks: A Game about Human Trafficking
Developed by two WPI undergrad students
Advised by Prof. Saeed and Prof. Renata Konrad
Francisco "Paco" Araujo would like feedback on updated his MIES Project model which investigates the dynamics of research, knowledge, and understanding
The Waters Center for Systems Thinking's Habits of a Systems Thinker cards are available for free online. They updated/re-designed the cards earlier this year.
No WPI System Dynamics CLM this Friday, Oct 9th. WPI is hosting a virtual event on the new Global School at WPI which focuses on global and grand challenges.
Friday, Oct 9th 9AM - 2PM ET (Boston time)
Details and registration
WPI CLMs resume on Oct 16th. We will host Forrester Seminar Series showings on the 3rd Friday of each month from now on. Thank you those who voted on how/when they want to view the Forrester videos.
The video for Christine Tang's CLM "On Collective Learning Meetings" this past Friday is now up on YouTube. Here is a link to the slides.
Project Performance International's monthly publication on Systems Engineering articles and news is available online.
The Climate Interactive created a free online training course for the En-ROADS model.
Professors Carmine Bianchi, Luis Luna-Reyes and Eliot Rich made the introduction to the book Enabling Collaborative Governance through Systems Modeling Methods Public Policy Design and Implementation System Dynamics for Performance Management & Governance freely available on ResearchGate
Professor Benjamin Turner uploaded presentation slides (in Linked data) to his "Model laboratories: A quick-start guide for design of simulation experiments for dynamic systems models" article on ResearchGate
Drs. Ali Asgary and Mahdi M. Najafabadi's "Drive Through Mass Vaccination Sim for COVID-19" Agent-Based and Discrete-Event Simulation model was the AnyLogic model of the month
University of Bergen's System Dynamics group published "Reflections on adapting group model building scripts into online workshops"
The System Dynamics Society sent out a survey requesting feedback on how the society can provide more value to you.
The System Dynamics Review's impact factor is at an all-time record high of 1.879
For other System Dynamics news, we refer you to the latest news section on the System Dynamics Society's home page
Listen to SD-cast's "What is your SDory?" series using the links and button below. There are transcripts for each episode. SD-cast is also available on iTunes/Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google Podcasts
SD-cast: What is your SDory?

COVID News/Resources
Drs. Ali Asgary and Mahdi M. Najafabadi's "Drive Through Mass Vaccination Sim for COVID-19" Agent-Based and Discrete-Event Simulation model was the AnyLogic model of the month
Prof. Jeroen Struben's "The coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) pandemic: simulation‐based assessment of outbreak responses and postpeak strategies" article is available for free online
The video of "Simulating the COVID19 Pandemic a Facebook Live AMA with special guest Raafat Zaini on 9/18/2020." is available on Tim Clancy's InfoMullet YouTube Channel
Professors Julie Swann and Pinar Keskinocak presented "How to Model 'Diseases' and Use those Models to Drive Timely Decisions and Actions that Produce Rapid Benefits" Prof. Keskinocak presented an Agent-Based model
Prof. Kim Warren released version 4 of his COVID-19 model and created a short course explaining the model
Prof. Navid Ghaffarzadegan's "Simulation-Based What-If Analysis for Controlling the Spread of Covid-19 in Universities" article is available online
AnyLogic blog post on "COVID-19 and Simulation" has videos and links to other posts on System Dynamics and Agent-Based Models
Apply your systems understanding & problem-solving skills in full-scale complexity, where it matters. Come help today, join with Yaneer Bar-Yam to end the pandemic at http://EndCoronavirus.org. Humanity will be glad you did. - Tomás Gutiérrez
Join The Modeling and Simulation Coronavirus Pandemic Task Force
Join the COVID-19 Resources (Systems Community) Facebook group
For more COVID-19 modeling resources see
System Dynamics Society's COVID-19 page
CDC spreadsheet-based tools for:
state and local policy makers to compare different contact tracing strategies
hospital admins and public health officials to estimate demand
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's resources page
The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics' (SIAM) Mathematical Resources to Help Understand COVID-19 page
INFORMS' Information on COVID-19 and Pandemics page
The Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE)'s Coronavirus Resource & Response page
Please feel free to add videos to this COVID-19 simulation models playlist

Job Opportunities
Adjunct Part-Time Faculty in System Dynamics
Worcester Polytechnic Institute Social Science and Policy Studies Department
Positions filled on an add needed basis
Start dates vary by course and semester
More details
Assistant, Associate and Full Professor (tenure track) in Systems Engineering
Worcester Polytechnic Institute Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
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Assistant, Associate and Full Professor (tenure track) positions in systems modeling and simulation
Naval Postgraduate School Operations Research Department
Application Review Begins: Oct 1
Application Deadline: Dec 1
More details
Management Consultants specializing in system dynamics and advanced analytics
Sage Analysis Group
1-page overview
More details
Research Scientist / Postdoctoral Research Associate with experience in system dynamics modeling
City University of New York (CUNY) Center for Systems and Community Design (CSCD)
More details
See the SD Society's Career Link page

Upcoming System Dynamics/Dynamical Systems/Systems Thinking Events
One World Dynamics Seminars
Monthly Dynamical Systems (DS) seminars
2nd Friday of each month
Two Talks
9-9:45 AM EDT (Boston time) Talk towards a general DS audience, "set[s] the scene for the"
9:45-10:30AM EDT Specialized talk
Fri, Oct 9th
9:00 AM EDT Prof. Misha Lyubich
9:45 AM EDT Dr. Luna Lomonaco
Registration and details
The En-ROADS Climate Workshop
Thu, Oct 15th
7AM - 8AM EDT
2PM - 3PM EDT
Registration and details
XVIII Latin American System Dynamics Conference (CLADS2020)
Virtual
Oct 26 - 30th
The System Dynamics Society (SDS) hosts Prof. Jason Jay in their Seminar Series
The Fish Banks Seminar
Thu, Oct 29th 10AM - 1PM EDT
Free for SDS members / $25 for non-members
Registration and details
Note: Daylight Savings Time ends Sun, Nov 1
The Waters Center for Systems Thinking's Studio Series
6 sessions on Tuesdays, Nov 10 - Dec 15
Nov 10, 17, 24
Dec 1, 8, 15
Leading for Impactful Change
9AM - 11AM PDT // 11AM - 1PM EST
$300/person
Introduction to Systems Thinking
2PM - 4PM PDT // 4PM - 6PM EST
$300/person
Registration and details
The Waters Center hosts free open sessions on various topics
Various Systems Thinking Events

Call for Papers/Abstracts
Special Issue of Industrial and Corporate Change (IIC) on Marco Economics and Development
Deadline: No fixed deadline. The end of Sept/early Oct would be ideal.
Announcement and submission information
2020 INFORMS Conference on Service Science
Deadline Extended to: Thu, Oct 15th
Conference website
10th OR Society Simulation Workshop 2021 (SW21)
Deadline for papers: Fri, Oct 2nd
Deadline for posters: Tue, Jan 12th
Call for Papers page
11th Annual International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management
Deadline: Thu, Oct 15
Conference website
Health Care Management Science is seeking submissions to a forthcoming Special Issue on Management Science in the Fight Against COVID-19
Deadline: Sat, Oct 31st,
Call for papers page
Journal of the Operational Research Society special issue on Operational Research in times of crises: Experiences with COVID-19
Deadline: Sun, Nov 1st
Special issue information
The Modeling & Simulation Division of the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE) is sponsoring the Modeling & Simulation Track at the 2021 IISE Annual Conference & Expo
Deadline: Sun, Nov 15th
Call for abstracts page
SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (DS21)
Deadline: Mon, Nov 23rd
Submissions & Deadlines page
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences Special Issue on Food Loss and Waste Management During COVID-19: Exploring the Major Challenges and Future Directions along the Food Supply Chain
Deadline: Thu, Dec 31st
Call for papers page
Other Upcoming Events
The University of Cincinnati Data Science Symposium 2020
Tue Oct 6, 13, 20, 27 from 12PM - 2:30PM EDT (Boston time)
Free
More details
The University of Hong Kong hosts Prof. Christopher Tang in their Systems Analytics Global Leaders' Seminar
Wed, Oct 7th 10PM HKT // 10AM EDT
Presentation Title: Faster Deliveries and Smarter Order Assignments for an On-Demand Meal Delivery Platform
Free and open to public
More details
The Computational Social Science Society of the Americas 2020 International Conference
Oct 8th - 11th
Details
AnyLogic Events
AnyLogic User Experience Online Session
Mon, Oct 12th 1:30PM - 3:10PM UTC // 9:30AM - 11:10AM EDT
Free
Live online only. Not recorded
Pypeline - a Python connector library for AnyLogic
Thu, Oct 15h 3PM - 4PM UTC // 11AM - Noon EDT
Free
IISE Annual Conference & Expo 2020
Nov 1st - 3rd
Details
2020 INFORMS Annual Meeting
Nov 7th - 13th
Details
Winter Simulation Conference 2020
Dec 14th - 18th
Details
11th Annual International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management
Mar 9th - 11th
Conference website
Please provide suggestions for the digest or any type of feedback on WPI SD services either by emailing Christine Tang, ctang@wpi.edu, replying to this email, or anonymously through:

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We try to share articles/videos/etc. on social media that are freely available so we do not exclude folks who are interested in learning SD but do not have access to articles.

Well wishes,
Christine Tang
WPI System Dynamics Social Media Manager

p.s. I like the following excerpt from "AI Weekly: A deep learning pioneer’s teachable moment on AI bias" and wanted to share it with you:

“I think my take-home message here is fairness is not just about data sets, and it’s not just about math. Fairness is about society as well, and as engineers, as scientists, we can’t really shy away from that fact,” Gebru said in the tutorial.

There’s no shortage of resources explaining why bias extends beyond data. As Gebru was quick to point out, LeCun is president of the ICLR conference, where earlier this year Princeton professor and sociologist Ruha Benjamin asserted in a keynote address that “computational depth without historic or sociological depth is superficial learning.”

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