System Dynamics Seminars
MIT Sloan brings together industry and academic leaders to discuss how System Dynamics can help us better understand complex challenges, shape policy, influence decision-making, and yield lasting benefits for businesses and society.
System Dynamics Seminars are currently held most Fridays from 12:00-1:30pm ET in the Jay W. Forrester conference room (E62-450) and via Zoom this semester, unless otherwise specified. Please email Kelsey Alford at kalford@mit.edu to be added to our mailing list and receive updates.
The schedule and guest speakers will be posted as information becomes available.
Current Seminars
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February 13, 2026
Carol Long (Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Science)
Can GenAI agents 🤖 manage a supply chain? Lessons from the classical Beer Game
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February 20, 2026
Megan Mahajan (Energy Innovation)
The Energy Policy Simulator: Architecture and Use Cases
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February 27, 2026
Marlo Raveendran (UC Riverside)
Problem trajectories determine whether groups outperform individuals
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March 13, 2026
Tessa Charlesworth (Kellogg University)
Attitude and Stereotype Change (and Stability) Over History
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April 3, 2026
Babak Heydari (Northeastern University)
Making LLM Agents Work for Complex Systems: Modeling Bounded Rationality and Designing Multi-Agent Policy
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April 10, 2026
Kim van Oorschot (Norwegian Business School)
The Dynamics of Supply Chain Resilience: A Dialectics-Based Process Model
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April 17, 2026
Brian Rubineau (McGill University)
"Substantively Significant" Model Results: Examples from Segregation
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May 1, 2026
Xinyan Li & Nikolai Kazantsev (Institute for Manufacturing, Cambridge)
Informal Trade in Circular EV Battery Supply Networks: Who controls the flow?
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May 8, 2026
Chengwei Liu (Imperial College London)
Title TBD