The Dartmouth Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics would like to invite you to the following session:

Time: Monday, April 30th at 6:00 PM

Location: Kemeny 006

Speaker: Steve Peterson (M.S., Resource Systems and Policy Design)

Seminar Topic: "Adventures in System Dynamics:  The Youth Violence Systems Project"
Food will be served.

Abstract: Since its initial development in the 1950s, system dynamics has been applied to a wide range of problems across a broad set of content areas.  The approach has been used productively, for example, to address issues associated with energy policy, defense logistics, community development, ecosystem resilience, and business strategy and tactics.  The approach draws applies concepts of accumulation, flow, and information feedback to provide a visual language for representing and simulating dynamic processes.
In this session I will provide a brief overview of the essential components of the system dynamics approach.  Then, I will illustrate one application of the approach using the Youth Violence Systems Project as a case study. This ongoing project, based in Boston, is using system dynamics as a focal point of a community-based process aimed at improving community understanding of the causes of violence among youth, and at helping communities to develop strategies for achieving sustained reduction in violence.