In the main train station “Life Science Zurich”, a joint initiative by ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) and UZH (University of Zurich), participated with an exhibition explaining the principles of Darwin’s theory to the public at the occasion of Darwin’s 200st birthday.
NOVA was also included in the exhibit to run real-time experiments as they are used to study evolutionary game theory which is a special field in social science focusing on the evolution of social behavior. Christian Hauert (University of British Columbia, Vancouver) has created the mathematical framework to study the long-term impact of cooperative versus uncooperative behavior of individuals and groups which determines the survival of an entire population. These algorithms have been transformed by Chandrasekhar Ramakrishnan of ETH Zurich to make them available as interactive applications on the NOVA terminal, where the audience can play some of the experiments themselves.
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