Doing good science with videogames

L. BARBERIS

Seminario; Fellow-in-Residence at CY AS Guest Lecture; 2023

Bring your laptop, and we will play with some "video games" intended to study multidisciplinary problems.We start with a simple "voter model" to investigate how neighbors influence elections and a "Fire in the forest" model to see some emergent properties. Investigate Hotelling’s law (1929) on where it is more profitable to place an store. We will explore Pareto´s Law addressing why "The rich get richer and the poor get poorer". We will study the propagation of a virus in a population, the synchronization of fireflies, and the formation of a flock.Finally, we study the influence of Cancer Stem Cells on tumor progression, which is one of the subjects of my research.