Welcome to the CAS Lab
Western's Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) Lab is a network hub where researchers, staff, students, and collaborators studying complex adaptive systems can easily find one another across faculties and departments, learn from one another, and build upon one each other's work. Interdisciplinarity is at our core: we aim to foster new research activity that reimagines the traditional dividing lines of academic disciplines.
The CAS Lab is a grassroots research development initiative, organized in collaboration with Western Research.
Next Conference
The purpose of the Western Complex Systems Conference is foster interdisciplinary collaboration as we explore the application of complexity theory and systems thinking across disciplines. Over vast diversity in academic fields, methodologies, and domain expertise, our common thread is curiosity about the ways that nonlinear dynamics and systemic thinking invite us to understand and respond to our world.
The Western Complex Systems Conference is held on the last Thursday of March.
Learn More
- Read about the lab's objectives
- Meet the faculty members involved
- Learn more about complex adaptive systems
Opportunities
- Research development and networking
- Access to lecturers on complexity
- Faculty and student membership
- Biennial Western Complex Systems Conference
- Practicum and Community Engaged Learning placements
