CxConferences

Nowadays there is an ongoing intense scientific debate around the definition of the foundational concepts as well as about the most appropriate methodological approaches to deal with the understanding of social dynamics. The challenge of understanding human behaviors is complex and intricate. Humans are intentional (and not necessarily rational) and the dynamics of social behavior are influenced by multitude of factors. In particular, with the advent of the Big Data era– i.e. the explosion of available datasets from technological mediated communication – that challenge has increased its complexity. If on the one hand we can have access to an enormous set of observable social and mobility traces, on the other hand there is a lack of theoretical concepts to ground and interpret data as an expression of individual and social behavior. The event is intended to gather the most proficient scientists and companies working at the edge of the computational social science and big data to detail the new frontiers and challenges with an interdisciplinary, tight and non reductionist approach.The symposium is open to all researchers, scientists and practitioners.

Invited Speakers: Alessandro Vespignani, David Lazer, Nicola Santoro

July 11, 2013 - IMT Lucca, Italy

http://networks.imtlucca.it/index.php/events

CSSS-Chile is an intensive 11-day exploration of biocomplexity and the complex behavior in the environment and social sciences. This school is intended for graduate and postdoctoral fellows. Topics include social dynamics, scaling and network theory, ecology and nonlinear dynamics among others.
The school is open to students from all countries. Participants are expected to attend for the full 11 days.

http://www.santafe.edu/education/schools/complex-systems-summer-school-chile/

International Society for the Systems Sciences 57th Annual Conference.

Hai Phong, Vietnam. July, 2013

http://isss57.com

Peptides and Proteins: Beyond Structure, Function and Biotechnology

Saturday 27 July – Tuesday 30 July, 2013 Le Carré Plantagenet, Rue Claude Blondeau, 72000, Le Mans, France

http://www.peptidesandproteins.org/

Conformed speakers and participants:

Jean-Marie Lehn, University Louis Pasteur Strasbourg, Robert Langer, MIT Ada Yonath, Weizmann Institute of Science Alan Fersht, University of Cambridge Uwe Sleytr, University of Natural Resources & Life Sciences, Tom Blundell, University of Cambridge Charlotte Hauser, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology Andrew Marshall, Nature Biotechnology Astride Gräslund, Stockholm University, Maria Masucci, Karolinska Institute Ingemar Ernberg, Karolinska Institute Horst Vogel, EPFL-Lausanne Martin Egli, Vandelbilt University Marc Rioult, 3DMatrix-Europe, Lyon, France Joel Janin, CNRS Gif-sur-Yvette, France Philip Merssersmith, Northwestern University William DeGrado, University of California San Francisco Philipp Baask, NanoTemper, Münich, Germany Mary Chan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Hiroshi Fukumura, Tohoku University, Japan Lotta Tegler, University of Linköpin, Sweden Christian Riekel, ESRF, Grenoble, France Jörg Lebahn, DESYLAB, Hamburg, Germany Yusuke Nagai, Menicon Ltd, Japan Christophe Egles, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France Steve Yang, the Yang Trust Fund Sam Haryono, Cancer Clinic, Jakarta, Indonesia Shuguang Zhang, MIT

Second International Workshop on Complex Networks and their Applications
Kyoto, Japan, 2-5 December 2013
http://complexnetworks.org

2013 EUROPEAN CONTROL CONFERENCE, ZURICH, SWITZERLAND

http://www.ecc13.ch

WORKSHOP ON TIME DELAY SYSTEMS – Stability & Control in Applications

http://www1.coe.neu.edu/~rifat/ECC_Workshop-WEB.pdf

July 16, 2013 – 9.00 am – 5.30 pm

Lecturers:

Fatihcan M. Atay, GERMANY

Dimitri Breda, ITALY

Wim Michiels, BELGIUM

Silviu-Iulian Niculescu, FRANCE

Hitay Ozbay, TURKEY

Rifat Sipahi, USA

Lipari School on Computational Complex Systems Jacob T. Schwartz International School for Scientific Research

Dynamic Networks and Social Behavior
July 6 - July 13, 2013, Lipari Island

http://lipari.dipmat.unict.it/LipariSchool/ComplexSystems/

Bringing leaders from around the globe in science and practice from across disciplines together to explore and advance our understanding of complex systems in our modern world and the implications for opportunity and risk.
Boston, MA, 2013-4-29

http://businesscomplexity.com/bizcom2013/

TDN 2013 (Temporal and Dynamic Networks: From Data to Models) is a two-day workshop focused on all aspects of temporal and dynamic networks. The workshop is co-located with NetSci 2013,
the annual conference on network science, that will take place
in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 3 to 7 of June, 2013.

Deadline for abstract submission is April 1, 2013.

http://tdn2013.wix.com/tdn2013

ETH Zurich (Switzerland), September 12-13, 2013

Program
The workshop will run for two days, with an evening dinner cruise on Lake Zurich after the first day. Two sessions each day will consist of talks by invited speakers and there will be a panel discussion at the end of each day.
A detailed agenda will be published soon.

Poster session
The poster session offers an opportunity for an interactive presentation of your work.
If you want to present a poster, please submit a pdf file of it (max. 5 megabytes) to info-riskcenter@ethz.ch. The best posters will be selected for the poster exhibition by the program committee. The submission deadline is July 31.

http://www.soms.ethz.ch/workshop2013

University of Bolton, UK, 28 Jul - 3 Aug 2013

http://asc-cybernetics.org/2013/

The fundamental position taken by the conference designers is based in circular causality, which was at the heart of the concerns of the Macy Conferences (1946 to 1952) where cybernetics took its contemporary form. It is easy to talk about circular causality, but to live within it is harder. 

THE 14TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE SIMULATION & SYNTHESIS OF LIVING SYSTEMS

Javits Center, NYC

July 24th, 25th and 26th 2014

http://blogs.cornell.edu/alife14nyc/

You are cordially invited to participate in the thirteenth biennial Latin American Workshop on Nonlinear Phenomena, XIII LAWNP, to be held in Villa Carlos Paz, Córdoba, Argentina, from October 21 to October 25, 2013. The Workshop will begin on Monday noon and it will end on Friday at late evening. The main Workshop activities will be at the Portal del Lago Hotel located in a natural environment with an ideal atmosphere that promotes interactions between established senior scientists, junior researchers and PhD students.

http://www.famaf.unc.edu.ar/lawnp2013/

Workshop 2013 - ETH Risk Center: Vulnerability and resilience of supply chains
ETH Zurich (Switzerland), September 12-13, 2013

http://www.soms.ethz.ch/workshop2013

Topics
Supply chains as economic networks and “critical infrastructures”
Response to external shocks and inherent instabilities
Risk reduction, disaster response management, and insurance issues
The following questions will be addressed:
What kinds of hazards are there? What are the challenges?
What does the interaction of regulators and the industry look like during a critical event?
What are the critical parts in supply chains seen from the different perspectives? How can one identify them, what could be improved?

Speakers
The following speakers have already confirmed
Prof. Dr. Yossi Sheffi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Prof. Dr. Paul Schönsleben, ETH Zurich
Prof. Dr. ManMohan Sodhi, Cass Business School London
Prof. Dr. Anna Nagurney, University of Massachusetts
Prof. Dr. Uta Jüttner, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Dr. Till Becker, Jacobs University Bremen
Dr. Robert de Souza, Executive Director of the The Logistics Institute - Asia Pacific (TLI - Asia Pacific)
Dr. Kamil Mizgier, UBS
Adrian Clements, General Manager Asset Risk Management, ArcelorMittal
Paul Kriegbaum, Fraport AG

Networks are ubiquitous and the scientific discipline of network science has flourished in the last decade. As a means to study complex interactions, two particular application areas are social and information science. On the one hand side, the www as a pool of hyper-linked information can be represented with the help of networks (and this representation is the basis for google’s Page-rank algorithm), on the other hand side services like facebook, twitter or flickr provide the means for people to establish social networks of never-seen size – and hence provide the basis for what is now called computational sociology.

The scope of this this summer school is to provide PhD students and early PostDocs with a comprehensive 1-week insight into the “power of networks” in an information science and social media setting. In Six to nine lectures, established and well-known researchers (from Europe, US and Asia) will present cutting-edge research as well as provide the participants with valuable insight into challenges and methods.

The Summer School will take place from 10th to 15th June in Höllviken (south of Sweden, 1h by train from Copenhagen, Denmark), right after NetSci 2013.

http://networkfactory2013.wordpress.com

The school is intended for postdocs, lecturers and predocs with a background in computer science (artificial intelligence) or computational linguistics (corpus linguistics or natural language processing) and a strong interest in music and the origins of language. There will be background lectures that introduce concepts from biology, anthropology, psychology, music theory and linguistics that are helpful to understand the nature of creativity, the role and intimate relations between language and music, and the mechanisms underlying cultural evolution. It contains technical lectures on the fundamental computational components required for language processing and technical ateliers to learn how to set up evolutionary linguistics experiments. Participants have the opportunity to present their latest research in a poster session. The school also features artistic ateliers in which participants create new creative works and engage in performance.

Music and the Origins of Language
International Summer School on Agent-based Computational Models of Creativity, 15 – 20 September 2013 in Cortona (Italy)

http://ai.vub.ac.be/events/cortona-2013

Adaptive networks are networks whose topologies and states dynamically interact and coevolve. Modeling and predicting the dynamics of such networks is now recognized as one of the most significant challenges in network science.

STCAN 2013: NetSci 2013 Satellite Symposium on State-Topology Coevolution in Adaptive Networks solicits theoretical, computational, experimental and/or application-oriented research on any aspects of adaptive networks---either biological, social, or engineered. Its goals are to promote growth of the community on this emerging field of network research, to help develop common conceptual "languages" for modeling, analyzing and discussing the state-topology coevolution of various real-world adaptive networks, and thereby to galvanize interdisciplinary discussion and collaboration across many different areas of applications.

June 10 - 14, 2013 CX201: Complex Physical, Biological, and Social Systems

June 16, 2013 CX102: Computer Programming and Complex Systems

June 17 - 21, 2013 CX202: Complex Systems Modeling and Networks

Early registration deadline: April 16, 2013

http://www.necsi.edu/education/school.html