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"Conceptual Structures for Knowledge Representation for STEM Research and Education".
Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (TIFR) Mumbai, India, Jan 10-12, 2013

1st COBRA Summer School on Biological and Chemical Information Technologies (BioChemITSchool2012)

9-21 September 2012, San Candido, Italy

September 14-16, 2012
Stanford University
Palo Alto, California

This two-and-a-half day course is an intensive tour of the sciences of complexity, a broad set of effort that seek to explain how large-scale complex, organized, and adaptive behavior can emerge from simple interactions among myriad individuals. This course, sponsored by the Santa Fe Institute, is specifically designed for professionals, faculty, students and others who are curious to explore and apply this new transdisciplinary scientific approach.

The Research Days are an annual event concentrating on the core competence of Lakeside Labs - Self-organizing Networked Systems. During this workshop organized by Lakeside Labs GmbH in cooperation with the University of Klagenfurt, international experts devote themselves to a special topic in self-organization. The event is organized as a five days workshop in July. It takes place at Lakeside Labs in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria, near a beautiful lake and Alps scenery. Invited experts, local professors, and young researchers discuss and elaborate ideas in the field of Self-Organizing Systems (SOS). The main emphasis of the workshop is on soliciting discussions and creating new ideas regarding a topic related to self-organizing systems. The event greatly supports scientific exchange, networking, establishment of international collaborations, and joint research projects.

Research Days 2012

Lakeside Labs, Klagenfurt, Austria

July 9-13, 2012

http://www.lakeside-labs.com/index.php?id=622

Workshop on Technologies for the Organisation, Adaptation and Simulation of Transportation Systems
To be held at SASO 2012, in Lyon (France) on Friday, September 14, 2012

With the increasing mobility of people and goods around the globe, the management of the transportation system as a whole becomes a very complex task, and it requires a better knowledge of users' travels and behaviours as well as their interactions with their environment. To carry out this work, modeling methods and simulation tools are playing an increasingly importance.
Self-adaptive and self-organising systems seem to be particularly appropriate for infrastructure design, network operation and new mobile services.

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IV International Conference on Science Matters

Humanities as Science Matters

June 25-27, 2013

Porto, Portugal

 Science Matters (SciMat) is the new discipline that treats all human-dependent matters as part of science, wherein, humans (the material system of Homo sapiens) are studied scientifically from the perspective of complex systems. That “everything in Nature is part of science” was well recognized by Aristotle and da Vinci and many others. Yet, it is only recently, with the advent of modern science and experiences gathered in the study of evolutionary and cognitive sciences, statistical physics, complex systems and other disciplines, that we know how the human-related disciplines can be studied scientifically [1].

Humanities, the knowledge about humans, are thus a part of SciMat. Like in any other subject, humanities could be studied at three different levels or with three approaches—empirical, phenomenological and the bottom-up approach. The first two approaches were and are still employed in the last 2,500 years since the early Greeks and ancient Chinese. They brought fruitful results, as witnessed by the large number of books published and the enormous programs found in every respectable university. However, it was in the last 20 years that we saw the blossoming development of the bottom-up approach in the study of humanities. This development—in the forms of “neurohumanities” and “evolutionary humanities” in particular—raises the scientific level and provides mechanisms, deepening the understanding of humans. Such development is at its initial stage in the West but seems to be absent in China.

The conference will emphasize Arts (including Literature), History and Philosophy. This fourth international conference in the biannual series[2] will feature reviews by top experts from around the world, plus contributed papers.[3] The conference covers all three approaches, with particular attention to the bottom-up approach. The first three SciMat conferences were held in Portugal. Keeping the series of international conferences on SciMat in Portugal will help to maintain the leadership of Portugal in new research disciplines among European countries and around the world.

[1] For further discussion on the motivation, concept, method and implications of Science Matters, see Chapter 1 in Science Matters: Humanities as Complex Systems, edited by M. Burguete and L. Lam (World Scientific, Singapore, 2008), downloadable from the publisher’s website. For the SciMat program, see the webpage: www.sjsu.edu/people/lui.lam/scimat/.

[2] See Appendix below for the previous SciMat conferences.

[3] This conference is under the auspices of the International Science Matters Committee; members: Manuel Bicho (Portugal), Peter Broks (UK), Maria Burguete (Portugal), João Caraça (Portugal), Paul Caro (France), Patrick Hogan (USA), Brigitte Hoppe (Germany), Lui Lam (USA), Bing Liu (China), Dun Liu (China), John Onians (UK), David Papineau (UK), Nigel Sanitt (UK), Ivo Schneider (Germany), Michael Shermer (USA) and Robin Warren (Australia).

Call for Abstracts for the Fifth International Workshop on Guided Self Organisation (GSO-2012) to be held at University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, September 26-28, 2012: http://prokopenko.net/gso5.html

The workshop will bring together researchers from a richly diverse background who share interest in understanding and designing self-organising systems. Of particular interest are well-founded, but general methods for characterising such systems in a principled way eith the view of ultimately allow them to be guided toward pre-specified goals. Information theory, nonlinear dynamics and graph theory are core to many of these methods, and quantifying complexity and its sources is a common theme.

The 5th workshop on Complex Systems Modelling and Simulation (CoSMoS 2012) will take place as a satellite workshop of the Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation (UCUN) at the University of Orléans, France on 3rd September 2012.

Modes of Explanation
A Discussion Conference
May 22-24, 2013 at the American University of Paris

Three days to discuss and learn about advances in modes of explanation. A look at how our mode of explanation affects our affordances for action.

The annual IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation is one of the leading events in the area of evolutionary computation.

Cancun, Mexico, 2013/06/20-23

In anticipation of preparing the next generation of network scientists, as well as addressing the urgent needs in improving STEM education overall, we are hosting the first symposium to specifically address how network science will transform STEM education in the coming years. The Satellite Symposium Education-Infuse Network Science into K-12 and Undergraduate Education (NetSciEd) will include preeminent speakers from education practice and research as well as the network science community, culminating in a highly interactive panel discussion to determine directions in support of research and practice in the use of network science to improve education.

Northeastern University Evanston Campus
Evanston, IL, USA

June 18th, 2012