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
Fridays at 13:30 in RCH/204
14 December
Dr Halim Kusumaatmaja, Durham Univeristy
Title: Surveying Energy Landscapes: From Protein Folding to Bistable Liquid Crystal Device and Cylindrical Buckling
18 January
Dr Peter Hines, York
Title: Information flow and assumptions in linguistic models of natural language
01 February
Dr Roger Cremades, Climiate Service Centre, Hamburg
Title: Transforming Human Network Systems to a Sustainable Nexus Multiplex
Please note this seminar is in the Berrick Saul Building, Tree House, B/S104
01 March
Dr Paul Tiffin, Health Sciences, York
Title: tbc
News
- December - Pierre-Philippe Dechant has a new paper in the Proceddings of the Royal Society.
- December - "Engineering Simulations as Scientific Instruments" just published, Susan Stepney and Fiona Polack.
- December - Three keynote speakers now confirmed for TWCR2018 on Emergence
- November - Pierre-Philippe Dechant gave a talk at the The Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics semester programme on Non-linear Algebra in Application on Thursday, 15.
- November - Calls for YCCSA Summer School Project Proposals are now open. Please see the following link for details. For further information please contact Sarah Christmas on sarah.christmas@york.ac.uk
- November - YCCSA intern adds new insights into the significance of healthcare to human evolutionary success'. Becky Padget, working with Penny Spikins, Calvin Dytham and Barry Wright contributed to new research on the importance of Neanderthal healthcare, developing an agent based simulation of injury rates and healthcare practices.