Systems Science Graduate Program

The explosion of big data – headlined in Time, The Wall Street Journal and 60 Minutes – may worry ordinary citizens, but offers promise of new discoveries for scientists to whom Portland State University (PSU) is now offering a new tool in a course, “Data Mining With Information Theory.”

Jeff Fletcher, Systems Science and University Studies faculty, co-authored an article, "Spatio-Temporal Differentiation and Sociality in Spiders," published in the journal PLoS ONE, April 24.

Jeff Fletcher, Systems Science and University Studies faculty, co-authors an article, "Hamilton's Rule in Multi-level Selection Models," published in the April 21 issue of the Journal of Theoretical Biology, Vol. 299.

Martin Zwick and Jeff Fletcher, Systems Science, co-authored "Levels of Altruism" presented at the Northwest Philosophy Conference, Lewis & Clark College, Nov. 4-5.

Jeff Fletcher, Systems Science and University Studies faculty, gave an invited presentation titled "Theories and Models of the Evolution of Altruism: Unification and Controversy" at the Conférence Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale Theory of Cooperation conference in Adelboden, Switzerland, in August.