York Cross-disciplinary Centre for 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 cross-disciplinary 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 cross-disciplinary 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 cross-disciplinary work and want to work with cross-disciplinary 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
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
Summer Seminar Series to be advertised shortly
Fridays at 13:30 in RCH/204
Friday, 27 April
Professor Gillian Bentley, Durham University
Title: Evolutionary Perspectives on Medicine and Health
News
- Stand Up 2 Cancer Bake Off and Cake Staff - Friday, 27 April - Cake staff from 09:00 and Bake Off entries by 09:30 please. See here for further details!
- Two PhD studentships - see YCCSA Opportunities to join our team of researchers working on the Spinspired reasearch project funed by EPSRC and the Univesity of York. An interdiciplinary collaboration between researchers from York’s Departments of Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, and Chemistry, and the York Cross-disciplinary Centre for Systems Analysis (YCCSA).
- Professor Susan Stepney - will be on a panel debating Artificial Life at the Science Museum, Wed 28 March.
- Professor Reidun Twarock - has been awarded and EPSRC Established Career Fellowship to work on the project "Geometry as a key to the virosphere: Unmasking the fundamental roles of geometry in virus structure, evolution and pathology'
