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Date: Tuesday, 25 January, 2005
Time: 16:00
Location: F121 conference room
Formal modelling of the signature of commodity transactions
Paul Cockshott, University of Glasgow
Formal modelling of the signature of commodity transactions

This talk will outline an approach to the modelling of complex systems based on the identification of the underlying symmetries of the system in question. It will illustrate this first with the work that I did at Strathclyde on using FPGAs to simulate the behaviour of 2D lattice gases. The talk will go on to look at how a similar analysis of symmetries can be applied to the modelling of commodity exchanges. The talk will argue that commodity exchanges are characterised too by certain symmetries which can be represented as rotation operations on a complex vector space. The aim of this work is to be part of an exploration of the underlying similarities between thermodynamics, information theory and the operation of capitalist economies, motivated by the work of two illustrious past members of this University Smith and Watt.

Contact: Dr Alice A Miller (alice@dcs.gla.ac.uk)

URL: Hilbert spaces

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