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
Fridays at 13:30 in RCH/204
Friday, 13 July
Dr Nikolai Bode, University of Bristol
Title: Smart swarms or mindless mobs: modelling competition and cooperation in pedestrian crowds
News
- Elva Robinson has a new @NSF grant to study Dynamic Ant Networks as biological transport systems! The project will investigate ecological constraints on network organisation, and how ants optimize transport in complex environments
- 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)
- 5 June 2018: Susan Stepney gave an invited presentation on "Semantic Closure Demonstrated by the Evolution of a Universal Constructor Architecture in an Artificial Chemistry" at the Beilstein Bozen Symposium on Information and Noise: Chemistry, Biology and Evolution Creating Complex Systems
