Lee Worden

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= mathematician, studies Ecology, Evolution, Cooperation, and other collective processes.

Bio

Lee Worden is a mathematician who uses models to study how communities work, in both ecological and social settings.

Several of the projects he has worked on have involved transitions between competitive and cooperative dynamics or long-term changes in structure and process in complex communities. The thread that connects his research is his underlying interest in distributed governance: how to coexist to mutual benefit when control is not centralized but immanent throughout the community.

He completed a Ph.D. in applied mathematics at Princeton University in 2003, focusing on evolution and ecology.

Since that time, he has worked with Alan Hastings and Louis Botsford at UC Davis, on the population biology of age-structured Pacific salmon species, with Dick Norgaard as a Ciriacy-Wantrup postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley, on cooperation, self-organization and sustainability, and with Jonathan Dushoff of McMaster University on dynamics of social norms and processes of social change.

Currently (as of 2013) he is teaching at the San Francisco Art Institute, collaborating with Jonathan Dushoff (McMaster University) on dynamic models for processes of abrupt social change, and working with Dushoff, Juliet Pulliam (U. of Florida), and Wayne Getz (UC Berkeley) on wiki software development.

Worden is the author of WorkingWiki, an extension to the widely-used MediaWiki platform that makes it into a full-featured environment for managing research data together with the software scripts that process the data, simulation software, the figures made from the software's output, and the papers that include the figures.

He continues to pursue research on wisdom of crowds, dynamics of consensus formation, and several other ongoing projects.

Links

More information is available at http://leeworden.net:

And at his open research wiki: