System Dynamics

System Dynamics Seminars

MIT Sloan brings together industry and academic leaders to discuss how System Dynamics can help us better understand complex challenges, shape policy, influence decision-making, and yield lasting benefits for businesses and society.

System Dynamics Seminars are currently held every Friday from 12:00-1:30pm ET in the Jay W. Forrester conference room (E62-450) and via Zoom this semester, unless otherwise specified. Please email Jocelyn Climent at jcliment@mit.edu to be added to our mailing list and receive updates.

The schedule and guest speakers will be posted as information becomes available.

Current Seminars

  • October 4, 2024

    Jack Homer (Homer Consulting)

    An SD simulation model of industrial firm decarbonization

  • October 18, 2024

    Paul Smaldino (University of California, Merced)

    The cultural evolution of identity signals 

  • October 25, 2024

    Carter Butts (University of California, Irvine)

    Probing Organizational Resilience and Disruption with Relational Event Models

  • November 15, 2024

    Hart Posen (Tuck School of Business)

    Winner-Take-All Battles Revisited: Influence Decay, Battle Duration, and Bargain-Then-Rip-Off Strategy

  • December 13, 2024

    Mason Porter (UCLA)

    Mathematical Modeling of Opinion Dynamics