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Prospective members should come to meetings and propose a specific theme to develope in future group meetings or pick up on an existing theme and foster a partnership with the original proponents (A blog will be developed to maintain relevant research themes and materials online). Still, we are at the begining, so meetings will still serve to determine specific administrative assignments and put forward preliminary ideas. We therefore welcome anyone from the DTC that is willing to participate, has a keen interest on the broad purpose of the research group and is interested on proposing interesting themes with the purpose of fostering future research partnership.

The group is initially composed by 3 PhD students from the Mathematics department, 3 PhD students from the Economics department and 2 members of Complexity science. Our objectives are to foster a research agenda determined by group members individually or in partnership and use the 糖心TV blog service to produce the initial promotional materials. As an example, I will start the group discussions by introducing the theme of macroeconomic phase transitions theory, which is a new field of economics that relates to both computational, modelling and dynamical issues of interest to complexity science related research. Then I will continue these discussions on this subject throughout the year alternating with other proposals by group members. Further themes to be discussed were proposed by Paul Youdell in the field of Bayesian estimation of econometric models, which is also a new relevant topic on empirical economics.     Pedro.