Karl Mohy El Din stands with his 'winning' poster "Density-Dependent Equalizers and Biodiversity” at this year's CMPLXSYS 270 end of term poster session presentation.
Professor Patricik Grim taught Complex Systems 270 for many years in the ‘pre-pandemic’ times. He came up with the idea to have a public poster session as a final project for students in CMPLXSYS 270, as a way to give them an opportunity to make an academic poster and practice presenting their work. While there have been different syllabi, different programming languages, and different professors teaching 270 along the way, including Dr. David Sabin-Miller this term - the tradition of the end of term Poster Contest carries on.
Volunteer judges are invited from all walks of university life (parents have even come!) and as well, the students in the class visit each other’s posters and listen to their ‘spiel’ and then vote on their favorite poster. The incentive of pizza for everyone involved is also part of this great tradition (Joe’s Pizza no less!). It was wonderful to see Professor Grim volunteer to come in as special guest judge at this year’s contest on April 17. In addition to Dr. Sabin-Miller, CSCS Director Marisa Eisenberg, and class GSI Eric Boccaccio, other faculty members, building staff and friends joined in the fun this year.
Karl Mohy El Din picked up an awesome Complex Systems prize packet for getting the most votes (and hopefully picked up a good grade!). Karl is a junior studying cognitive science and economics. His project used agent based modeling with Python to determine whether introducing pathogens in an ecosystem will affect the biodiversity of the system.
Congratulations to all on the great posters!
