Doing Good Science with Videogames

Participate in an interactive guest lecture by Professor Lucas Barberis on using video games for scientific research. Bring your laptop to engage in hands-on exploration of multidisciplinary problems through simple game models. Investigate topics like voter influence in elections, emergent properties in forest fire simulations, and Hotelling's law for optimal store placement. Explore Pareto's Law to understand wealth distribution dynamics, study virus propagation in populations, observe firefly synchronization, and examine flock formation. Delve into Professor Barberis' research on Cancer Stem Cells and their impact on tumor progression. Download the required software (NetLogo 6.3.0) prior to attending this practical session led by the physics professor from Universidad Nacional de Córdoba and researcher at CONICET, currently a Fellow-in-Residence at CY Advanced Studies.