Question: when did you start having intress in complex system simulstion

Frank Longford answered on 15 Mar 2015:

I read “Chaos” by James Gleick in my 2nd year of university which first really made realise that there may be different ways to understand the natural world. It was only in my last year that I began to seriously think about complexity though, when I applied to the Institute of Complexity Science in Southampton. The first year of my 4 year PhD course allowed me to learn more about complex systems and explore how it affects chemistry as well as improving my programming skills in order to build my own simulations.

Complexity amazes me because it offers a way to explain the behaviour of things in nature that seem like something is guiding them, but are actually acting randomly. For instance, water molecules have no brain, they can’t think and they don’t “try” to behave in a certain way around each other. However, they do interact in ways that seem like there is an overall purpose to their actions. Finding out why this is and why they behave differently on their own than when they are together is important to our understanding of chemical solutions, biological systems and physical interfaces.