Under the leadership of Professor Han van der Maas and supported by grants from the European Research Council (ERC)* and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)**, the Cascading Transitions Lab is focused on integrating mathematical modeling techniques to study complex, multi-level cascading transitions in psycho-social systems. These techniques will be applied to:

• opinion change from individuals to populations and back*;
• learning, where progression and drop-out are embedded in collective processes*;
• addiction, where transitions to addiction or abstinence within individuals are part of cascading epidemiological changes of substance use in populations*;
• multistable perception, where perception of one ambiguous figure can spontaneously flip between interpretations and trigger similar perceptual shifts in sequentially observed identical images**. 

This highly interdisciplinary project holds promise for stimulating future scientific inquiry on cascading transitions in other disciplines.

This is an invitational event.