- Postgraduate course at the University of Sydney: Master of Complex Systems (MCXS) — Anticipate, Control and Manage Complexity of the Unexpected — video and alumni perceptions
- Lunch talk "Myths and realities of the russo-Ukrainian war" at The Rotary Club of Mosman, August 19, 2024
- Talk "Modelling tipping points and pattern formation during social contagions", at the Center for Social Complexity, George Mason University, July 15, 2024
- Australian COVID-19 Modelling Initiative (AusCMI) submission to the Australian COVID-19 Response Inquiry
- Talk "Pattern formation and criticality during social contagions" at the 2nd Workshop on Evolution of Social Complexity, Sydney, February 21, 2024
- Plenary talk "How to quantify pandemic inequality?" at Oceania Chapter of the System Dynamics Society "Systems Thinking & Modelling Symposium", Sydney, February 9, 2024
- Grant from the Australian Academy of Science, under the Ukraine-Australia Research Fund, to support a visit of Prof. Nataliia Kuznietsova (National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”), January, 2024
- Invited talk (online) "Pattern formation during social contagions: epidemics, infodemics and civil unrest" at the conference "Dynamics of biological systems: emergent phenomena at different scales", Krakow, Poland, December 3, 2023
- Seminar "Pattern formation and critical regimes during social and epidemic dynamics", at The Institute for Data Science Foundations, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany, October 25, 2023
- Seminar "Health vs Economy: a false choice of pandemic modelling", at The Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (INI), University of Cambridge, UK, October 19, 2023
- Invited talk "Multiscale Modelling of Behaviour-induced Critical Regimes during Epidemics" at The Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (INI), Workshop "Connecting Micro to Macro in Epidemiological Models", University of Cambridge, UK, October 18, 2023
- Invited talk "Computation at the edge of chaos: from the Liar Paradox and the Halting Problem to dynamical systems" at Complexity Science Hub (CSH) Vienna Workshop "Computation in Dynamical Systems", Obergurgl, Austria, October 9, 2023
- Talk "Agent-based modelling of the COVID-19 pandemic: tipping points and amplification effects" at "Digital Epidemiology and Pathogen Genomics" Workshop, Westmead Hospital, September 22, 2023
- Talk "Evolutionary pathways and genotype networks of foodborne pathogens" at "Digital Epidemiology and Pathogen Genomics" Workshop, Westmead Hospital, September 22, 2023
- Seminar "The Liar paradox, the halting problem and the edge of chaos" at the School of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney, September18, 2023 (video)
- Invited talk "Principle of the “super-efficiency”: Thermodynamic efficiency of self-organisation" at the Conclave on "Complexity in Physical Interacting Systems, Computation and Thermodynamics", Santa Fe, USA, July 10, 2023 (video)
- Dinner talk "How to connect security and recovery within a “New Deal” for Ukraine?" at The Rotary Club of Lane Cove (August 22, 2023); also at The Rotary Clubs of Chatswood & Roseville (June 27, 2023) and Mosman (May 15, 2023)
- Our paper "Thermodynamic efficiency of interactions in self-organizing systems" won 2023 Entropy Best Paper Award. Five winners were selected out of all papers published in Entropy during 2021
- Breakfast talk "How to connect security and recovery within a “New Deal” for Ukraine?" at North Sydney Sunrise Rotary Club, April 4, 2023
- Breakfast talk "Devising a “New Deal” for Ukraine: innovative solutions to recovery efforts" at The Rotary Club of Sydney Cove, March 3, 2023
- Talk "Optimising cost-effectiveness of pandemic response under partial intervention measures" at the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium, Wellington, NZ, February 22, 2023
- Talk "Survival of the "super-efficient": Thermodynamic efficiency of self-organisation" at C3-2023, The International Symposium on Complexity, Criticality and Computation, January 15-21, 2023, Heron Island, Australia
- Talk "Self-organisation and thermodynamic efficiency: magnets, swarms, cities and contagions..." at the The Tenth International Conference on Guided Self-Organisation (GSO-2022), December 12-13, 2022, Auckland, New Zealand
- Keynote talk "Modelling tipping points and amplification effects of the COVID-19 pandemic response" at The Biarri Applied Mathematics Conference ("The limits of predictability"), November 29, 2022
- Tutorial at ALIFE 2022 "Simulating pandemics with agent-based models (SimPanABM)", July 20, 2022
- Our COVID-19 modelling software, AMTraC-19, is released as open source
- Our paper “Game theoretic modelling of infectious disease dynamics and intervention methods: a review” received The Lord Robert May Prize awarded for the best paper published in Journal of Biological Dynamics during 2019-2020
- Media coverage of our modelling of the third COVID-19 pandemic wave in Australia
— ABC The World Today: "Battle of the modellers", 13 September 2021
— Create (Engineers Australia): "The role of engineers in predicting the next COVID-19 wave", 7 September 2021
— ABC 7.30 Report: "Are lockdowns still the best way to protect the community at this stage in the pandemic?", 2 September 2021
— SBS Russian: "Infections across Australia may rapidly grow to 40,000 per day...", 31 August 2021
— news.com.au: "NSW is expecting ‘worst’ month in October as Covid hospitalisations hit their peak", 31 August 2021
— The Age: "Government considers easing some restrictions as state braces for prolonged lockdown", 29 August 2021
— Daily Mail: "...new modelling shows...", 27 August 2021
— Radio New Zealand: "Covid-19 peak in NSW six weeks away, cases may reach 6000 per day - study", 27 August 2021
— Daily Telegraph and Herald Sun: "University of Sydney covid study warns peak covid cases to come in October", 26 August 2021
— ABC News: "Study finds COVID peak still six weeks away and NSW could reach 6,000 cases a day", 26 August 2021
— Daily Telegraph: "Covid vaccine target: Sydney Uni modelling says 40,000 cases a day if we reopen too fast", 26 August 2021
— Media release (University of Sydney): "Pandemic peak in sight - but we must brace for an infection surge", 26 August 2021
- Media coverage of our modelling of the Delta variant:
— ABC The World Today: "Sydney COVID lockdown may go for months experts warn", 30 July 2021
— The Guardian (and news feed): "Five weeks into the greater Sydney lockdown, the rules are eye-glazingly complicated", 29 July 2021
— ABC News: "Sydney's lockdown could extend until September if social distancing doesn't improve, data shows", 29 July 2021
— news.com.au: "Mobility data shows Greater Sydney residents are still not isolating enough", 29 July 2021
— The Sydney Morning Herald: "Scientists split over whether Sydney’s lockdown is tight enough to tame outbreak", 29 July 2021
— Media Release (University of Sydney): "Social distancing up but still inadequate to control outbreak", 29 July 2021
— news.com.au: "Delta variant surprises experts, defies expectations and has blindsided NSW authorities", 25 July 2021
— ABC News: "...a COVID 'crystal ball' to end Sydney's lockdown — these people could have one", 24 July 2021
— The Sydney Morning Herald: "The lowdown on lockdowns: Do they work?", 24 July 2021
— news.com.au: "Comparison to UK and US shows how many deaths Australia has avoided", 23 July 2021
— The Sydney Morning Herald and WA today: "Delta-skelter: Community thirsts for clarity as lockdown lingers", 17 July 2021
— The New Daily: "Sydney braces for tougher lockdown to curb movement after NSW cabinet’s late crisis meeting", 17 July 2021
— Daily Mail and Forbes Alert: "Shock modelling claims nearly half of Sydneysiders aren’t staying at home in lockdown", 17 July 2021
— 7 News (TV): "Melbourne and Sydney both in the fight to eliminate the Delta strain", 16 July 2021
— SBS World News (TV): interview with Dr Sheryl Chang, 16 July 2021
— ABC Coronacast: "All for one, and one for all?", 16 July 2021
— ABC Radio National Drive: "Stricter rules, more compliance needed to end Sydney lockdown...", 16 July 2021
— ABC News: "Sydney COVID-19 outbreak extended significantly by minor non-compliance...", 16 July 2021
— The Australian Financial Review: "Sydney outbreak could go on for two more months", 16 July 2021
— The Australian: "Just 40pc of Sydneysiders staying home", 16 July 2021
— SBS News: "Sydney's current social distancing 'inadequate' in controlling COVID-19 outbreak...", 16 July 2021
— Medical Xpress: "COVID-19 modeling finds level of social distancing in Sydney inadequate to control Delta outbreak", 16 July 2021
— Media release (University of Sydney): "Far more social distancing needed to control Sydney outbreak", 15 July, 2021
— ABC News: "As the Delta variant spreads, Australian experts say ... ", 29 June 2021
- Invited talk at JP Morgan Australia conference "What will the "New Normal" look like post COVID-19 vaccine rollout?", 10 June 2021
- Media coverage of our COVID-19 vaccination modelling:
— The Sydney Morning Herald: "‘Flu on steroids’: Former deputy health officer warns of epidemic among unvaccinated", 25 July 2021
— The Daily Telegraph: "Big thing we’re missing in call for open borders", 19 June 2021
— The Sydney Morning Herald: "Life after the pandemic: will we meet COVID again?", 22 May 2021
— The Sydney Morning Herald: "The COVID-19 vaccines are here. Now what do we do?", 26 April 2021
— The Australian: "Our jab strategy 'won't achieve herd immunity'", 19 March 2021
— SBS Russian, 25 March, 2021
— Media release (University of Sydney): "How will mass-vaccination change future COVID-19 lockdowns?", 19 March, 2021
- Our research article in Nature Communications is in Top 50 SARS-CoV-2 articles from 2020
- GMT Morning Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics and Statistics, 9 Dec 2020, my talk: "Modelling the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia: a tipping point in social distancing"
- Special Issue "New Advances in Biocomplexity" in Entropy journal, 2020
- Tutorial at ALIFE 2020 "Tracing epidemics with agent-based and network based models (EpiAgeNet)", July 13, 2020
- Opening address to "Beyond COVID-19: modeling sustainable exit strategies", Virtual Workshop hosted by the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science: "Lessons learned from modelling COVID-19 transmission and control in Australia", May 28-29, 2020
- Our findings are included in a report by World Health Organization (Western Pacific Region): "Calibrating long-term non-pharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19: Principles and facilitation tools", May 16, 2020 (updated July 30, 2020)
- Contributed to “Roadmap to Recovery” report to Federal Government, prepared by Go8 Taskforce, April 29, 2020
- Our findings are included in a report by World Health Organization (European Region): "Strengthening The Health Systems Response to COVID-19. Creating surge capacity for acute and intensive care. Technical Guidance #2", April 6, 2020
- Media coverage of our COVID-19 modelling work (there have been several hundred reports):
— ABC Radio National: Health Report with Dr Norman Swan, April 13, 2020
— The Australian Financial Review: March 25, 2020, April 9, 2020 and April 15, 2020
— Voice of America: April 11, 2020; April 13, 2020, and April 21, 2020
— SBS Russian (April 7, 2020) and SBS Tamil (May 4, 2020)
— The Guardian, April 6, 2020
— 9 News, April 6, 2020
— 7 News (TV), April 3, 2020 and 7News.com.au, April 6, 2020
— ABC News, April 3, 2020
— The Australian, April 2, 2020
— Xinhua, March 31, 2020
— The Canberra Times, 27 March 2020
— Yahoo News Australia, 26 March 2020, and earlier, on previous modelling, February 5, 2020
— news.com.au, March 25, 2020
— Sydney Morning Herald, March 25-26, 2020, and later: April 26, 2020
— SBS News, March 25, 2020
— The New Daily, March 25, 2020
— ABC News, March 25, 2020, and earlier, on previous modelling, March 7, 2020 and February 1, 2020
— BBC News, on quarantine in Wuhan, China, January 23, 2020
- Workshop on “Evolution of Social Complexity”, 13 February 2020, Sydney, Australia, my talk: "Self-reference and Evolution of Evolvability"
- Complexity, Criticality, and Computation (C3) Third International Biannual Symposium and Camp, December 2-5, 2019, Sydney, Australia, my talk: "The Edge of Chaos and Undecidable Dynamics"
- Invited presentation at the Workshop on Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Complex Agents: Information Processing from Nanophysics to Life (the 2019 International Conference on Complex Systems), "On Thermodynamic Efficiency of Swarming Behaviour", October 2, 2019, Singapore
- Invited talk at National Science Week and Sydney Science Festival, "Complex Systems: Computer Modelling of Epidemics", 15 August 2019 (pdf of the talk)
- News coverage of our RoboCup win, 10-12 July 2019, by The University of Sydney, Startup Daily, and SBS Radio, including an update
- Fractals2019 win the 2D Soccer Simulation League at RoboCup-2019; July 7, 2019, Sydney, Australia; replay the final on YouTube
- Keynote talk at Modelling Complex Warfighting (MCW) Symposium, Department of Defence, The Defence Science and Technology, "Large-scale agent-based modelling of pandemics: health risks and intervention strategies", Sydney, 4 June 2019
- Article in Scientia magazine "Mastering Complex Systems: Predicting the Unpredictable", 22 May 2019
- News coverage of our network-based study of Salmonella outbreaks, 18 April 2019, by ScienceDaily, Outbreak News Today, Infection Control Today, MedicalXpress, EurekAlert!, and 7news.com.au
- News coverage of our agent-based modelling of influenza pandemics, 17 December 2018 — 27 January 2019, by MedicalXpress, news.com.au, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age
- The Royal Society Interface Focus theme issue, Computation by natural systems, 06 December 2018
- News coverage of our research into demise of medieval Angkor, 17-23 October, 2018, by Science News magazine, Discover magazine, Xinhua, EurekAlert!, The University Network (TUN, New York), Anthropocene magazine, and BBC
- News coverage of our modelling study of Greater Sydney transformations, 17-23 October 2018, by Xinhua, Scimex, and Roads and Infrastructure Australia
- Complex Systems Postgraduate Entry Scholarship — apply by 14 February 2019
- The Ninth International Workshop on Guided Self-Organization (GSO-2018), March 26-28, 2018; Leipzig, Germany
- The Royal Society Theo Murphy scientific meeting, Computation by Natural Systems, March 21-22, 2018, Newport Pagnell, UK
- Complexity, Criticality, and Computation (C3) Second International Biannual Symposium, December 11-13, 2017, Sydney, Australia
- Special issue, Complexity, Criticality, and Computation (C3), in Entropy journal (submit by 30 Dec 2016)
- Complexity, Criticality, and Computation (C3) Research Camp, November 30 - December 6, 2016, Sydney, Australia
- Invited talk at Royal Society of NSW and Four Academies Forum, "Modelling Complex Systems and Guided Self-Organisation", Sydney, November 2016
- IT Innovation Breakfast Seminar Series: Complex Systems, Modelling Complex Systems and Crisis Response, M. Prokopenko, 19 October 2016, Sydney, Australia
- Q & A session: How to win a World Cup: Engineering, Science and RoboCup, 31 August 2016
- The Conversation article: How we evolved a winning strategy for the RoboCup competition by imitating nature, M. Prokopenko, 15 August 2016
- Invited talk at Sydney Science Festival, Complex Systems and Swarm Intelligence, Royal Society of NSW, 12 August 2016
- Information Thermodynamics at the Edge of Chaos: PhD Scholarship in Complex Systems at the University of Sydney
- The Eighth International Workshop on Guided Self-Organization (GSO-2016), July 7, 2016; Cancun, Mexico
- The Third ISAL Summer School on Artificial Life: Information dynamics in complex systems; ALIFE 2016, Cancun, Mexico (pdf of the tutorial)
- Gliders2016 win the 2D Soccer Simulation League at RoboCup-2016; July 3, 2016, Leipzig, Germany; replay the final: HELIOS2016 (Japan) vs Gliders2016 (Australia) 1:2; also on YouTube in pure 2D
- Blog in Frontiers: Complexity of the unexpected, M. Prokopenko, 31 May 2016
- Special issue, "Theory and Applications of Guided Self-Organisation in Real and Synthetic Dynamical Systems", in Frontiers of Robotics and AI (Computational Intelligence)
- Complexity, Criticality, and Computation (C3) Research Camp, November 30 - December 4, 2015, Sydney, Australia
- Complexity, Criticality, and Computation (C3) First International Biannual Symposium, November 26-27, 2015, Sydney, Australia
- Invited talk at ECSO-2015: Guided self-organization: information dynamics of complex computation; Conference on Complex Systems, September 2015, Tempe, Arizona
- Blog in World Economic Forum’s Agenda: Is humanity just a phase in a robotic evolution?, M. Prokopenko and D. Budden, 8 September 2015
- Workshop on Complexity, Criticality and Computation, C3-Autumn 2015, April 30, 2015, Sydney, Australia
- Workshop on Complexity, Criticality and Computation, C3-Summer 2015, February 23, 2015, Sydney, Australia
- The Seventh International Workshop on Guided Self-Organisation (GSO-2014), December 16-18, 2014, Freiburg, Germany
- a Springer book, Guided Self-Organization: Inception, M. Prokopenko (ed)., 2014
- The Sixth International Workshop on Guided Self-Organisation (GSO-2013), September 18, 2013, Barcelona, Spain
- The Fifth International Workshop on Guided Self-Organisation (GSO-2012), September 26-28, 2012, The University of Sydney, Australia
- The Third International Workshop on Computation in Cyber-Physical Systems (CompCPS-2012), June 25, 2012, Mexico City, Mexico
- A special issue on Guided Self-Organization in Advances in Complex Systems, 2013
- A special issue on Guided Self-Organisation in Theory in Biosciences, 2012
- The Second Australasian Workshop on Computation in Cyber-Physical Systems (CompCPS-2011), October 28, 2011, Sydney, Australia
- The Fourth International Workshop on Guided Self-Organisation (GSO-2011), September 8-10, 2011, The University of Hertfordshire, UK
- A special issue on Complex Networks in Artificial Life journal, 2010
- The Third International Workshop on Guided Self-Organisation (GSO-2010), September 4-6, 2010, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
- The First Australasian Workshop on Computation in Cyber-Physical Systems (CompCPS-2010), July 15-16, 2010, Sydney, Australia
- A session on Complex Networks at ALife XII: The Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, August 19-23, 2010, Odense, Denmark
- A special issue, vol. 3(5), October, 2009, on Guided Self-organisation in HFSP Journal (Human Frontiers Science Program)
- Article "Stigmergic gene transfer and emergence of universal coding", published in HFSP Journal 3(5), 2009, has been selected for the November 15, 2009 issue of Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research, published by the American Physical Society and the American Institute of Physics
- The Second International Workshop on Guided Self-Organisation (GSO-2009), August 18-20, 2009, Leipzig, Germany
- The First International Workshop on Guided Self-Organisation (GSO-2008), November 24-27, 2008, Sydney, Australia
- Themed session at ALife XI, the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (August 5-8, 2008, Winchester, UK), on Information in Complex Systems and Artificial Life
- Special session at AHS-2008, the NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (June 22-25, 2008, Noordwijk, The Netherlands), on Evolutionary and Self-Organizing Sensors, Actuators and Processing Hardware (ESOSAPH)
- M. Prokopenko (ed.), Advances in Applied Self-organizing Systems, Springer, London, UK, 2007.
- Keynote at The 6th International Workshop on Agent-Based Simulation "Towards `Ageless' Aerospace Vehicles: Design vs Self-organisation", Erlangen, Germany, 2005.