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INTERDISCIPLINARITY & COMPLEXITY ORIENTED RESEARCHERS and EDUCATORS

Welcome to the UCCS-ICORE (Interdisciplinarity & Complexity Oriented Researchers and Educators) where Interdisciplinarity is celebrated through the lens of subtle science of Complexity, and Complex Systems are nurtured at multiple scales. Lens of Complexity and Complex Systems are providing a better understanding of diversity of life and nature all around.  

Co-founded by Drs. Christensen and Semwal, ICORE (aka IASP) was announced by Dr. Tom Christensen in April 2021 with a 5 member-advisory board and reports to the UCCS Provost office. Our vision (https://iasp.uccs.edu/final-proposal) has benefitted from suggestions of sharper focus on Complex System and acronym change.  We remain focused on supporting interactions originating from faculty and staff from three or more different colleges providing us novel and niche opportunities. Since then, UCCS-ICORE has organized two five-hours internal symposia that included participation from many interdisciplinary programs and are posted on YouTube for wide dissemination.  

In just two short years since our inception as UCCS-ICORE you all have grown us to a membership of ~55 partners consisting of both UCCS faculty and staff, including six non-voting external members from both local and international community. XR and Complexity group consists of GMI Program and other interdisciplinary faculty wrote an NSF proposal, a plan to implement fully funded ~$2M PhD in Complex Systems plan to NSF (denied). Dr. Brown from this group recently won funding (here).  Our membership talks Autism, Game Theory, Evolution, Dynamical Systems, Quantum Entanglement, Transhumanism, Sea-Turtles, Homelessness, Mind, Robotics, Societies, and much more, and how Complex Systems theory and practice can frame such diverse ideas. Helen and Arthur E. Johnson Beth-El College of Nursing Faculty is using an IRB study at the SimLab to show VR&Empathy Virtual Environment developed by GMI students Abhishek Chepe and Ron Jackson, which can be used for training Nursing students online.

Media Convergence is all about Complex Systems studies pursued by Computer Science’s MSCS GMI program since 2003. ICORE, partnering with the Computer Science’s MSCS GMI faculty, is launching the following initiatives motivated by our ICORE members and community partners in the general area of complex systems studies (i) Texas Turtles and Wildlife, (ii) Homelessness and tiny homes Project, (iii) Whispers and Stories from the four corners area, and (iv) Technology as dual-edge sword.  Graduate students interested in these topics and many others in Complexity and Complex Systems should contact Ali Langfels (alangfels@uccs.edu) or Dr. SK Semwal (ssemwal@uccs.edu). ICORE’s MSCS GMI: XR and Complex Systems group faculty will lead these MS and PhD topics in Complex Systems supporting the above, and many topics of interests to all of us.