This short course is held annually at different universities in Africa and the U.S. and we have been asked whether it would be possible to run it in Australia. We therefore would like potential participants Read more…
Have you ever wondered about how to describe adaptive (human) behaviour in MARS? One of our team members, Ulfia A. Lenfers, published a recent paper on that. Check it out: http://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/7/3/97
Last week the MARS team got together for a socializing event. We had a barbecue to celebrate the end of the past semester. As special guests we had Gabriel and Devotha from South Africa, who Read more…
As you might have realized, our site has been redesigned. The new site has a completly new look, the pages have been restructured and texts edited. All this has been done to better present ourselves Read more…
This week, we were visited by Rick D. McKenzie, PhD from the “Old Dominion University in Virginia, USA”. Rick is professor and chair at the department of “modeling, Simulation and Visualization Engineering”. The reason Read more…
Another short course on social-ecological modelling was successfully conducted by members of the Ars Africae project and the MARS team at Witwatersrand University, South Africa (Wits Rural Facility). The general aim of this course is Read more…
This week, we have been granted research funds from the city of Hamburg. The funds have been granted to the SmartOpenHamburg project which is part of the information platform ahoi.digital. Members of the MARS group Read more…
For the last two weeks, Gwendoline Traisnel has been visiting the MARS team. She is a Ph.D. student at Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Her studies focus on the behavioral ecology of African penguins. She analyses between-individual Read more…
Dr. Simon Scheiter and Carola Martens from the Senckenberg Research Institute at the University of Frankfurt visited the MARS lab between August, 14th and 17th. Both groups are currently working on different approaches for modelling Read more…
The MARS Team is looking for 2 students who are interested in taking a job for 40 – 80 hours per month and help with the Development of our MARS Urban model and the corresponding Read more…