Academics, students and industry representatives will gather for the official opening of the Centre for Research in Complex Systems (CRiCS) at the School of Computing and Mathematics  at Charles Sturt University (CSU) at Bathurst on Thursday 12 November. The Director of CRiCS, Professor Terry Bossomaier, said, “The natural, biological and social worlds abound with patterns in time, in space, and in human knowledge, and understanding how patterns emerge and evolve is a key research focus of the sciences of complexity. Increasing research activity over the last decade has revolved around human systems. It is this psychological and sociological dimension that is particularly strong in CRiCS which has three main integrated research themes. These are the nature of complexity itself and the theories which characterise it; complexity as a methodology for solving problems in the real world; and complexity as a model for theorising about social systems, dynamics and change.” Guests at the official opening of the CRiCS laboratories will also be able to inspect the Newcrest Mining Research and Robotics Lab, the Computer Vision Lab, the Visualisation Lab, and the Advanced Computing Lab.