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June 26, 2024 6:56 AM
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IEEE SSCI is widely recognized for cultivating the interchange of state-of-the-art theories and sophisticated algorithms within the broad realm of Computational Intelligence Applications. The Symposia provide for cross-pollination of research concepts, fostering an environment that facilitates future inter and intra collaborations. The 2025 event marks a significant milestone in the evolution of IEEE SSCI, launching the newly restructured biennial Symposia Series featuring ten dedicated Applied Computational Intelligence Symposia. More at: ieee-ssci.org
The recent availability of massive amounts of digital data have profoundly revolutionized research on migration and mobility, enabling scientists to quantitatively study individual and collective mobility patterns at different granularities as generated by human activities in their daily life. Read the full article at: www.demogr.mpg.de
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May 28, 2024 1:10 PM
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Please join us to celebrate 20 years of the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit! The exhibit is curated here at CNS and has traveled the globe showcasing best examples of information visualization.
When? June 6, 2024 from 4PM to 6PM EDT.
Where? In person at University Collections at McCalla, 525 E 9th St., Bloomington, IN 47408 or online via Zoom webinar.
What? Reception. Enjoy refreshments, remarks from the exhibition curators, presentations from teams whose works have been selected for inclusion in the exhibit this year, and the opportunity to try out a data visualization in VR.
Why? To introduce the latest additions to the exhibit and celebrate the 20th anniversary of the inception of the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit, see 100 maps and 40 interactive macroscopes at scimaps.org. More at: cns-iu.github.io
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May 7, 2024 4:47 PM
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We are organizing an international Conference on Complex Systems and Stochastic Processes to be held from the 1st to the 5th of July 2024, hosted by the Universidad de Guadalajara at the University Center for Exact and Engineering Sciences (CUCEI) in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. The scope of the Meeting is to discuss recent exciting developments in critical dynamics, quantum thermodynamics, classical and quantum walks, sociophysics and opinion dynamics, search and optimization, econophysics, networks, fractals, among others. See: https://sites.google.com/view/meetingcomplexsystems
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March 25, 2024 2:00 PM
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NERCCS 2025: The Eighth Northeast Regional Conference on Complex Systems will follow the success of the previous NERCCS conferences to promote the emerging venue of interdisciplinary scholarly exchange for complex systems researchers in the Northeast U.S. region (and beyond) to share their research outcomes through presentations and online publications, network with their peers, and promote interdisciplinary collaboration and the growth of the research community. NERCCS will particularly focus on facilitating the professional growth of early career faculty, postdocs, and students in the region who will likely play a leading role in the field of complex systems science and engineering in the coming years. The 2025 conference will be held primarily in person in the Innovative Technologies Complex at Binghamton University, with an online participation option via Zoom. More at: nerccs2025.github.io
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March 4, 2024 11:17 AM
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After the success of previous editions, we are pleased to announce the 5th Edition of the World Conference on Complex Systems, WCCS24. This conference will be organized by the “Faculty of Science and Technology of Mohammadia (FSTM), affiliated with Hassan II University of Casablanca”, in partnership with the “ Moroccan Society of Interdisciplinary Sciences” . WCCS24 will take place from November 11 to 14, 2024, in Casablanca, Morocco
WCCS24 will provide an international forum for researchers and Ph.D. students to present recent research results, address new challenges, and discuss emerging trends in the field of complex systems and interdisciplinary science.
The conference aims to foster a debate on the most relevant methodologies and approaches for understanding, modeling, simulating, predicting, evaluating, and mastering societal, ecological, biological, and engineered complex systems..
More at: mscomplexsystems.org
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February 26, 2024 5:52 PM
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Application for the second Complexity Global School – to be hosted simultaneously at Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, and Santa Fe Institute, USA from July 21 to August 3 – is now open. Applicants based in Latin America and the Caribbean are eligible for the Colombia location, and applicants based in USA, Canada, and western Europe are eligible for the USA location. Supported by the Omidyar Network, the school is free for all admitted students, inclusive of tuition, room, board, and travel stipend. Read the full article at: www.santafe.edu
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February 5, 2024 12:46 PM
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May 13-17, 2024 Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy Over the past decade, computational social science (CSS) has risen as an interdisciplinary field that combines methods and theories from computer science, statistics, and social sciences to study complex social phenomena using computational tools and techniques. By leveraging the power of computing and data, computational social scientists aim to uncover patterns and trends in complex social systems that may be difficult or impossible to discern through traditional research methods. Topics of interest include social networks, online communities, opinion dynamics, and collective decision-making, among others. Computational social science has become increasingly important as our world becomes more digitised, and its insights have significant implications for fields such as public policy, marketing, and sociology. The First edition of the school Computational Social Science: Advances, Challenges and Opportunities is designed to provide an intensive and immersive learning experience for graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and early career faculty interested in utilising computational methods to study social phenomena. The school will be open to 45 selected students. Application deadline: February 25th, 2024 More at: css.lakecomoschool.org
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February 2, 2024 3:49 PM
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Complexity72h is an interdisciplinary workshop designed for young researchers in complex systems, where participants collaborate in a project for 72 hours. Next edition will be held in Madrid from June 24th to 28th. These projects are led by experienced researchers who propose and guide them throughout the week. *The Call for Participants is currently open until February 29th*. To apply, you will need to provide some information about yourself, including your CV and a motivation letter. You will also need to read all the projects offered and rate each project, and to select a double (€320 fee) or single (€500 fee) room. The earlier you register, the higher the chance you will get the room you want. But do not worry: everybody will get accommodation! Don’t worry if your CV is not fat. Complexity72h is looking for committed, hardworking and curious people! We aim at having participants coming from different stages of their careers: Master’s students, PhD students, and postdocs. We thus encourage Master and young PhD students to apply! We will award scholarships to motivated young students and researchers who may lack funding to attend Complexity72h. The number of scholarships and what they cover will depend on the funding we can secure. If you are interested in applying, you can do so in the application form. The fee includes: The type of room selected Accommodation for 5 nights (check-in on Sunday, check-out on Friday) All meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner) starting on Monday at breakfast Nine coffee breaks The Madrid city tour on Sunday The social event/dinner on Monday evening Welcoming kit Several facilities for work, sport and leisure activities
If you are interested in participating, please don't hesitate to apply, and spread the word among your fellow researchers!
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January 30, 2024 12:23 PM
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September 11-13, 2024 in Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, UK Shaping collaborative ecosystems for tomorrow The complexity of interactions and relationships in our world have consistently surpassed our ability to fully comprehend and govern. The presence of intelligent tools, both in the digital and physical realms, is progressively enhancing our capacities to act on personal, organizational, national, and international levels, leading to both intended and unintended consequences. Collectively, these changes are reshaping our primary habitat—the planet Earth—at a speed and scale that necessitate earnest consideration. In the midst of uncertainty, the development and utilization of these new capabilities would greatly benefit from CyberSystemic approaches and methods of learning. This advancement is crucial for fostering a sustainable understanding and taking actions to avert major threats to our civilization. More at: wosc.world
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December 20, 2023 1:32 PM
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In the last decade, network theory has been revealed to be a perfect instrument to model the structure of complex systems and the dynamical process they are involved into. The wide variety of applications to social sciences, technological networks, biology, transportation and economic, to cite just only some of them, showed that network theory is suitable to provide new insights into many problems.
Given the success of the Eighth Edition in 2023 of the Mediterranean School of Complex Networks, we call for applications to the Ninth Edition in 2024. More at: mediterraneanschoolcomplex.net
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December 4, 2023 12:01 PM
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May 27-31, 2024
Villa del Grumello,
Como, Italy Many real systems can be modeled as networks, where the elements of the system are nodes and interactions between elements are edges. An even larger set of systems can be modeled using dynamical processes on networks, which are in turn affected by the dynamics. Networks thus represent the backbone of many complex systems, and their theoretical and computational analysis makes it possible to gain insights into numerous applications. Networks permeate almost every conceivable discipline —including sociology, transportation, economics and finance, biology, and myriad others — and the study of “network science” has thus become a crucial component of modern scientific education. The school “Complex Networks: Theory, Methods, and Applications” offers a succinct education in network science. It is open to all aspiring scholars in any area of science or engineering who wish to study networks of any kind (whether theoretical or applied), and it is especially addressed to doctoral students and young postdoctoral scholars. The aim of the school is to deepen into both theoretical developments and applications in targeted fields. Read the full article at: ntmh.lakecomoschool.org
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October 9, 2023 1:33 PM
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January 29 - February 1, 2024
Jerusalem, Israel Establishing the future research communities on interacting networks and network dynamics.
We invite aspiring young researchers, students and postdocs, to meet with leaders of these fields, to discuss their research and highlight future directions and open challenges.
Students are encouraged to also present their works in lightning talk format. We are now accepting applications to the meeting. Once accepted, you will be able to secure your final registration.
We will charge a symbolic registration fee (TBD) that will cover your entire stay at the conference venue. More at: www.israelnetworks.org
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June 11, 2024 12:16 PM
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Date: September 30 – October 4, 2024 Venue: IFT-UNESP, São Paulo, Brazil Active matter describes systems whose constituent elements consume energy locally in order to move or to exert mechanical forces. As such, active matter systems are intrinsically out of thermodynamic equilibrium. Examples include flocks or herds of animals, collections of cells, components of the cellular cytoskeleton and even artificial microswimmers. Active matter is a rapidly growing field involving diverse scientific communities in physics, biology, computational sciences, applied mathematics, chemistry, and engineering. Numerous applications of active matter are constantly arising in biological systems, smart materials, precision medicine, and robotics.
This school is intended for graduate students and researchers interested in the physics of active matter. The lectures will cover well-tested and successful theoretical approaches as well as a discussion of experimental results. To achieve this purpose, leading experts will present lectures on fundamental aspects of active matter and a pedagogical exposition of its recent trends.
Applicants are invited to submit abstracts for poster presentations.
There is no registration fee and limited funds are available for travel and local expenses.
Lecturers: - Julia M Yeomans (University of Oxford, UK): From Active Nematics to Mechanobiology
- Rodrigo Soto (Universidad de Chile, Chile): Computational Modeling of Active Systems
- Aparna Baskaran (Brandeis University, USA): Theoretical Foundations of Active Matter: Lessons from Ideal Microscopic Models
- Francesco Ginelli (University of Insubria, Italy): Physics of Flocking
Application deadline: July 27, 2024
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May 28, 2024 3:12 PM
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"Guided Self-Organization: Machine Learning in Embodied Agents"
The 11th International Conference on Guided Self-Organization takes place during 12-14 February 2025 in Tübingen, Germany. GSO-2025 is organized by The University of Tübingen, The Hamburg University of Technology, The Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, and The International Association for Guided Self-Organization (TIA-GSO).
Research Aims and Topics
The goal of Guided Self-Organization (GSO) is to leverage the strengths of self-organization (simplicity, parallelization, adaptability, robustness, scalability) while still being able to direct the outcome of the self-organizing process. GSO typically has the following features: (i) an increase in organization (structure and/or functionality) over some time; (ii) the local interactions are not explicitly guided by any external agent; (iii) task-independent objectives are combined with task-dependent constraints. GSO "aims to regulate self-organization for specific purposes, so that a dynamical system may reach specific attractors or outcomes. The regulation constrains a self-organizing process within a complex system by restricting local interactions between the system components, rather than following an explicit control mechanism or a global design blueprint." Information theory, nonlinear dynamics and network theory are core to many of these methods, and quantifying complexity, its sources and effects is a common theme.
The GSO-2025 conference will bring together invited experts and researchers in machine learning, artificial life, self-organizing systems, and complex adaptive systems, with particular emphasis on autonomous agents, information theory, critical phenomena and emergent behaviour. Special topics of interest include: reinforcement learning, intrinsic motivations, origin of life, systems biology, physics of life, unconventional computation, swarm intelligence, measures of complexity, criticality, complex networks, information-driven self-organization (IDSO), etc. The program includes three days, with five keynote talks, and a number of regular onsite presentations on each day. There are no registration fees for the conference. More at: www.guided-self.org
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May 8, 2024 6:49 PM
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School on Water: From the Anomalies to the Biological and Technological Applications Date: September 2 – 7, 2024 Venue: IFT-UNESP, São Paulo, Brazil We can all agree that a liquid that occupies 70 percent of Earth’s surface and two-thirds of our body is very important. Do we already know everything about water? Water has more than 70 thermodynamic, dynamic and structural anomalies and also shows new strange behavior upon analysis of the biological or material nanostructures. For instance, at nanoconfinement, water violates the hydrodynamic equations. Since water is present everywhere, understanding how the anomalies affect different systems is relevant. In this school, we explore the water anomalies starting from the basic ideas of phase transitions and critical phenomena, and show how they can be measured from scattering experiments and simulations of the nanoscale results.
There is no registration fee and limited funds are available for travel and local expenses.
Lecturers: - Gustavo Appignanesi (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina): Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Surfaces and Interfaces
- Marcia Barbosa (UFRGS, Brazil): Nanoconfined Water
- Paola Gallo (Roma Tre University, Italy): Dynamics and Supercooled Water
- Enrique Lomba (CSIC, Spain): Scattering and Structural Factor
Application deadline: June 22, 2024
Advances in computational power and statistical algorithms, in conjunction with the increasing availability of large datasets, have led to a Cambrian explosion of machine learning (ML) methods. For population researchers, these methods are useful not only for predicting population dynamics but also as tools to improve causal inference tasks. However, the rapid evolution of this literature, coupled with terminological disparities from conventional approaches, renders these methods enigmatic and arduous for many population researchers to grasp. This workshop on November 5 to 6, 2024 at the Max Planck Intsitute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock, Germany, clarifies the goals, techniques, and applications of machine learning methods for population research. The workshop covers - an introduction to ML methods for population researchers,
- showcases of ML applications to answer causal questions,
- discussions of the current developments of ML for population health, fertility and family dynamics, and
- fosters critical discussions about the shortfalls of these techniques.
The main focus of this workshop is on ML techniques using quantitative population data and research questions, not on ML language models. The workshop consists of keynotes, contributed sessions, and a tutorial. More at: www.demogr.mpg.de
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March 8, 2024 1:41 PM
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The 15th edition of Traffic and Granular Flow (TGF) will be held in Lyon, France, from December 2nd to December 5th 2024. In-person participation will be favoured.
The international conference on TGF has been held biennially in different parts of the world since 1995. The conference is especially designed for an interdisciplinary audience working in the area of physics, computer sciences, engineering, granular, vehicular and pedestrian flow.
It focuses on giving a global perspective on the latest developments and new ideas in traffic and granular flows broadly speaking which encompasses the fields of granular flow, pedestrian dynamics, collective animal behaviour, and urban mobility. Read the full article at: tgf2024.sciencesconf.org
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February 27, 2024 11:02 AM
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The recent COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the power of modeling to support policymaking. However, most South American countries lack capacity in the field of modeling. This seven-day school will address how modeling allows us to use the health resources we currently have more efficiently, increasing their impact, improving people’s well-being, and saving lives as a result. The school includes a course on epidemic models, on numerical treatment of models and on epidemiological data analysis, and will be focused on group work involving “hands-on” modeling challenges. There will be classes in the morning and group projects in the afternoon. Participants from all areas related to the subject are welcome to apply. Knowledge of basic differential calculus is required. Apply at: www.ictp-saifr.org
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February 20, 2024 5:10 PM
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To extend the reach and diversity of its annual meetings, the American Physical Society has developed a pilot program of APS Satellite Meetings with the participation of ICTP-SAIFR in Latin America. As part of the APS March Meeting from March 3-8, 2024, ICTP-SAIFR is organizing on March 5 (Tuesday) a 2-hour Satellite Session on Complex Systems that will be broadcast live to all participants of the APS March Meeting, as well as a session on Complex Systems for student/postdoc presentations.
Graduate students and postdocs can apply until February 10, 2024 to give oral presentations or posters at the student-postdoc session on complex systems. More at: www.ictp-saifr.org
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February 4, 2024 10:20 AM
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20 years of CCS
Welcome to the 20th Conference on Complex Systems, CCS2024! The CCS is the flagship annual meeting for the complex systems research community, operating within the framework of the Complex Systems Society. This special 20th anniversary conference is jointly organised by Northeastern University London and the University of Exeter.
We welcome participants looking to appreciate the connection with the multidisciplinary community that CCS brings together. In this 20th edition of the conference we welcome young researchers for a warm-up session in beautiful London, followed by the main conference just a train ride away in Exeter.
More at: ccs24.cssociety.org
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January 31, 2024 5:37 PM
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TO BE HELD ONLINE ON MARCH 20-22, 2024 This FREE event brings together a wide range of speakers to discuss the many challenges and opportunities in Embodied Intelligence research! The workshop is structured with a morning session and afternoon session each day to accommodate different time zones. Each session includes plenary talks, panel discussions (including flash talks by leading researchers), and breakout sessions as shown in the tentative programme here. While plenary and panel speakers are invitation-only, we solicit wider contributions in breakout sessions to facilitate more focused and technical discussions. Register at: embodied-intelligence.org
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January 8, 2024 11:04 AM
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Complex Systems Summer School (CSSS) offers an intensive four-week introduction to complex behavior in mathematical, physical, living, and social systems. CSSS brings together graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and professionals to transcend disciplinary boundaries, take intellectual risks, and ask big questions about complex systems. The residential program comprises a series of lectures and workshops devoted to theory and tools, applications-focused seminars, and discussions with faculty and fellow participants. CSSS participants put what they learn from these didactic sessions into practice through group research projects, conducted throughout the program and often extending into manuscripts and longer-term collaborations. CSSS provides an unparalleled opportunity for early-career researchers to expand their professional networks, produce a novel research product, and gain valuable experience working in transdisciplinary teams. More at: www.santafe.edu
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December 12, 2023 11:52 AM
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FRCCS 2024 is the 4th edition of the French Regional Conference on Complex Systems. It aims at bringing together the French scientific community working in complex systems. It intends to federate the French community.
We encourage researchers from various disciplines supporting interdisciplinary exchanges to respond to this call (archaeology, biology, computer science, economics, geography, history, linguistics, management, mathematics, medicine, physics, statistics, sociology, …). FRCCS 2024 is an opportunity to promote the cross-fertilization of ideas by presenting recent research work, industrial developments, and original applications. Special attention is given to research topics with a high societal impact from the perspective of complexity science from the complexity science perspective. More at: iutdijon.u-bourgogne.fr
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October 30, 2023 11:00 AM
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NERCCS 2024: The Seventh Northeast Regional Conference on Complex Systems will follow the success of the previous NERCCS conferences to promote the emerging venue of interdisciplinary scholarly exchange for complex systems researchers in the Northeast U.S. region (and beyond) to share their research outcomes through presentations and online publications, network with their peers, and promote interdisciplinary collaboration and the growth of the research community.
NERCCS will particularly focus on facilitating the professional growth of early career faculty, postdocs, and students in the region who will likely play a leading role in the field of complex systems science and engineering in the coming years.
The 2024 conference will be held as a hybrid at Clarkson University in Potsdam, NY on March 20-22. More at: nerccs2024.github.io
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