York Centre for Complex Systems Analysis
YCCSA is a community of researchers drawn from different departments developing novel mathematical, computational and analytical methods and tools for the analysis and modelling of complex systems.
About YCCSA
Professor Susan Stepney
YCCSA Director
Welcome to YCCSA. We are an open community of interdisciplinary researchers, drawn from a diverse range of departments across the University at York. We are working together, developing and applying novel methods and tools to analyse, model, explore, and solve complex problems that cannot be tackled by one discipline alone.
Some 70 YCCSA staff and research students are co-located in purpose-built dedicated research space in the Ron Cooke Hub on the new Heslington East campus. Other YCCSA members reside in their home departments, and are very much part of the YCCSA community.
As well as carrying out interdisciplinary research, we also reflect on the process itself, and develop new ways to help bring researchers together and bridge the gaps between disciplines. We each bring our own different and valuable perspectives to the challenges of researching complex systems.
Do browse our site to find out more about our people, our past and current research projects, and our engagement activities and events.
Research Themes
- Resilient and Adaptive Systems
- Biomedical and Ecological Systems
- Natural Computation and Engineering
Sabbaticals in YCCSA
Come and take your sabbatical in YCCSA
Are you interested in interdisciplinary work and want to work with interdisciplinary scientists - then consider taking your sabbatical in YCCSA. Please contact the member of staff you would like to work with and they will sponsor your application.
Featured research
CAPACITIE Project: Cutting-Edge Approaches for Pollution Assessment in Cities
CAPACITIE is a Marie Curie Initial Training Network, funded by the European Commission. The project aims to deliver a new generation of researchers who have the skills to develop and apply cutting-edge technologies to monitor pollutants in the natural environment, in addition to a detailed understanding of end user needs for monitoring data and of the social and ethical issues around the adoption and use of the selected technologies.
IGGI Project: Intelligent Games and Games Intelligence
The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training Intelligent Games and Games Intelligence (IGGI) is a collaboration between the University of York, the University of Essex and Goldsmiths College, University of London. It will train the next generation of researchers, designers, developers and entrepreneurs in digital games. The doctoral programme combines practical skills training with advanced teaching in cutting-edge research topics and the chance to contribute original research to a growing academic area.
Upcoming events
Friday, 25 May
RCH/204 at 13:30
Dr Drew Purvis, Google DeepMind
Title: Nature needs AI needs Nature
Friday, 9 June
RCH/204 at 13:30
Dr Dan Franks, Biology/Computer Science, York
Title: The evolution of prolonged post-reproductive lifespans
News
- 20 March - Only four days left to apply for the YCCSA Summer School open with 11 exciting and varied projects to choose from. Any questions, please yccsa-scholarships@york.ac.uk
- 9 February - See funded PhD opportunity with Dr Angelika Sebalda and Dr Simon O'Keefe
- 9 February - YCCSA Interdisciplinary Master by Research programme brings together teams of students and supervisors to address specific reserach proglems frm an interdiscipinary perspective. The first project is now available for an October 2017 start.
