CxConferences

The conference “Statistical Mechanics for Complexity – A Celebration of the 80th Birthday of C. Tsallis” will be held at the Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from November 6 to 10, 2023, and it will address the latest advances in the area of Statistical Mechanics and Complex Systems*. In this event we will have the pleasure to celebrate the 80th birthday of Constantino Tsallis and his many seminal contributions to statistical physics.

More at: www.cbpf.br

Complexity72h is an interdisciplinary workshop for young researchers in complex systems. Participants form teams and carry out projects in a three days' time, i.e. 72 hours. The goal of each team is to upload on the arXiv (or similar repositories) a report of their work by the end of the event. The editions of 2018 and 2019 were a success: 11 out of 11 projects became arXiv preprints and new collaborations were born. Complexity72h is back for a 2023 edition, which will take place in Palma (Mallorca, Spain) on June 26-30.

More info & application: www.complexity72h.com 
Deadline for applications: March 1st 2023

What is the nature of intelligence in social insect societies, adaptive matter, groups of cells like brains, sports teams, and AI, and how does it arise in these seemingly different kinds of collectives?

The Symposium & Short Course will search for unifying principles in collective intelligence by tackling its foundations, and explore radical ideas for harnessing collective potential. The event will begin with a broad discussion of first-principles approaches from the physical and natural sciences for deriving group performance from microscopic, individual-level behavior and interactions. Participants will debate the most promising measures of intelligence across systems and consider the dynamics of collective intelligence in changing environments. Finally, we will explore radical ideas for harnessing collective intelligence in human and hybrid systems and invite scholars, artists, writers, musicians, actors, directors, dancers, and inventors, in addition to scientists, to participate in this discussion.

APPLY by February 1st, 2023 for priority review.

More at: www.santafe.edu

The International Conference on Complex Networks (CompleNet) brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines working on areas related to complex networks. CompleNet has been an active conference since 2009. In its 14th year, and after being an online event for three years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are very enthusiastic about reuniting in-person and delighted to have the next CompleNet in Aveiro, Portugal, hosted by Universidade de Aveiro. 
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​Over the past two decades, we have witnessed an exponential increase in the number of publications and research centers dedicated to this field. From biological systems to computer science, from technical to informational networks, and from economic to social systems, complex networks are becoming pervasive for dozens of applications. It is the interdisciplinary nature of complex networks that CompleNet aims to capture and celebrate.​
The CompleNet conference is one of the most cherished events by scientists in our field. Maybe it is because of its motivating format, consisting of all plenary sessions; or perhaps the reason is that it finds the perfect balance between young and senior participation, or maybe it is just the quality of the work presented. Whatever your reason is, we hope that you will join us at the 2023 Event. Welcome to CompleNet 2023!

Read the full article at: complenet.weebly.com

The dates for the 2023 school are June 26-30. 

The Oxford Summer School in Economic Networks seeks to create a stimulating and friendly environment to bring students from varied disciplines together to learn about theories, techniques, quantitative methods, applications and impacts of network theory within economics. 

We are excited to host world leading academics, scientists, and global policy makers to guide lectures, engage with students and host workshops on topics relating to network theory and economics. These will include topics of social networks, games and learning, financial networks, economic complexity, urban systems and innovation. 

We are looking forward to welcoming a large number of world leading experts pushing the global knowledge frontier across economic networks and complexity science. Confirmed speakers for 2023 include keynote Cesar Hidalgo (University of Toulouse), Renaud Lambiotte (University of Oxford), Josh Becker (University College London), Mohsen Mosleh (University of Exeter), Marya Bazzi (University of Warwick), Balázs Lengyel (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Riccardo Di Clemente (University of Exeter), Rama Cont (University of Oxford), Andrea Baronchelli (City University of London) and Tiziana di Matteo (King's College London). More speakers will be announced soon. 

The Oxford Summer School in Economic Networks is hosted by the Mathematical Institute and the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School. 

The school is in person only. No lectures will be streamed. Lectures and tutorials will be held in the Department of Statistics (24-29 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3LB) and the Oxford Martin School (34 Broad St, Oxford OX1 3BD).

Read the full article at: www.maths.ox.ac.uk

Certificate program preparing entrepreneurs, leaders, innovators, changemakers to anticipate, analyze and respond strategically to business problems in today’s world
The only constant in today’s world is change: change that constantly becomes more unpredictable, striking and rapid. Because of the increasing complexity of current business problems and their effects, traditional decision-making and strategy falls short.

Complex Systems Science (CSS) holds the key to success with a revolutionary framework to understand and react optimally to highly-dynamic scenarios. In two intense but enlightening days, obtain the only offered executive-focused introduction to CSS from NECSI, the leading research organization in the field.

When the unexpected occurs, you will be glad that you have Complex Systems Science and NECSI in your toolbox.

More at: necsi-exec.org

Conference Theme: Ghosts in the machine
Artificial life seeks to unravel the mysteries of life and mind, to naturalise the “ghosts in the machine”. What is life? What is the mind? Are these two concepts related?

These ghosts are however elusive, and difficult to identify or even just define at times. To try and learn more about the mind, research in artificial life and other related fields has more recently focused on studies of complexity, emergence, agency, autonomy, or information theory. As a results, this has led to major advancements in robotics, synthetic biology and artificial intelligence, among others. The main research programs in these areas however seem to be simply forgetting about the mind, rather than trying to explain it.

At the same time, with the advent of new technologies such as brain-machine interface, cyborgization, virtual/augmented reality and the metaverse, the boundaries between agents/living organisms and their environment have began fluctuating. Minds are no longer in our (living organism) shells, expanding beyond current spatial boundaries and into a new form of the "extended mind" hypothesis. At ALIFE 2023, we will bring back the focus to studies of the mind, facing the challenges and embracing the opportunities that come with studies of an often neglected but ever so important concept in both artificial life research and our daily lives.

More at: sites.google.com

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: ntmg.lakecomoschool.org

The workshop will be held remotely and will include keynote presentations, contributed talks, and posters. To facilitate participation from different time zones, each day the activities will start at 10:00am and end by 3:40pm EDT. Participation is open to the entire community (not only to SIAM members), but registration is required.

Network science is concerned with the structure and dynamics of graphs (and generalizations of graphs), dynamical processes on such graphs, and the design and analysis algorithms that compute with and on them. The goal of the SIAM Network Science workshop is to promote cross-fertilization and new research among the communities that study and apply networks, both inside and outside SIAM.

More at: dyn.phys.northwestern.edu

The Center Leo Apostel for Transdisciplinary Studies (CLEA) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) organises its first international artscience conference: ‘Systems At Play: A Self-Organising Symposium on Self-Organisation’ taking place in Brussels from February 15th until 18th, 2023. 

The ‘Systems at Play’ symposium starts from the understanding that art and science are mutually beneficial means of perception and insight creation. It thus provides a transdisciplinary contact zone for artists and scientists to meet, exchange, think, share, take time, and, ultimately, play together.

Then, what shall we talk and play about? Well, it’s up to you where it ends up, but our starting points are the ideas of ‘emergence’, ‘self-organisation’, and ‘goal-directedness’.

As far as goals go, the symposium invites you to tackle creative challenges collectively. During the symposium, participating artists and scientists will together create ‘embodied models of emergence’ in the form of live games, scores, presentations, conversations or small algorithmic performances. We will offer inputs to this process in the form of presentations, talks and workshops during the day; as well as an evening programme of immersive and interactive performances and film screenings. 

More at: clea.research.vub.be

June 11 - July 7, 2023.

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

NERCCS 2023: The Sixth 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 2023 conference will be held as an in-person at Clarkson University in Potsdam, NY.

More at: nerccs2023.github.io

The Complex Systems Society (CSS) organizes every year a main conference (CCS) - the most important annual meeting for the complex systems research community.

The Complex Systems Society invites bids to host the edition for 2024 and 2025.

The conference is generally held in September/October of each year.

More at: cssociety.org

The field of complex systems, which is mathematically broad and interdisciplinary, concerns the study of individual entities that interact to produce collective dynamics.

Complex social systems include the spread of memes on Twitter, the adoption and evolution of opinions during political discourse, and the formation of social movements that can affect both norms and policy. In all of these examples, the interactions of individuals, as well as how they react to external forces and shape their environment, lead to emergent features. Uncovering these interactions and determining how behaviors affect group-level dynamics has important societal implications. Complex social systems also inspire the development of new methods and draw on many different areas, including computational social science, political science, economics, legal scholarship, mathematical and statistical modeling, data and network analysis, dynamical systems, probability, and scientific computation.

The intersection of society, data, and computation in complex social systems creates an inherently interdisciplinary problem space, with a need for community-building between experts from a variety of backgrounds (including many who may not traditionally participate in mathematics research). This MRC aims to introduce early-career researchers to complex social systems and to foster new collaborations among mathematical, computational, and social scientists. MRC participants will come from a wide variety of mathematical and computational subfields and disciplinary traditions. We will explore some of the key methods and applications in complex systems, and we will engage in interdisciplinary research to attack open questions ranging from theoretical problems that are inspired by complex systems to data-analysis projects in social justice.

Please note that you may apply to more than one MRC conference if they match your research interests. A separate application is needed for each one. However, you can only be selected as a participant in one conference.

Applications are being accepted on MathPrograms, with a deadline of February 15, 2023.

More at: www.ams.org

The global pandemic showed the critical importance of integrating fundamental , computational and clinical research to promote systemic understanding of a global threat to humankind. Global epidemiological assessments informing national and regional policy-making around the world were only made possible due to fundamental mechanistic knowledge of coronavirus biology dating back decades, large-scale data on human mobility patterns enabled by recent technologies, as well as massive onsite and dynamic clinical reporting from health institutions.

It is now clear that complex human diseases can only be tackled by transdisciplinary efforts that integrate fundamental, computational, and clinical research. This is not, however, an easily achievable feat, as fundamental laboratory discoveries are often not directly transferable into clinical settings, with controlled experiments not necessarily reflecting organismic and societal complexity. Only with synergy between fundamental researchers, clinicians, and data scientists can we hope to gain the depth of understanding required to address the physiological mechanisms behind some of the most challenging human diseases at the interface between hosts and pathogens.

The goal of the [3C] Cells, Computers & Clinics Symposium is to do exactly that, to bridge fundamental, computational, and clinical research in the scope of complex diseases, particularly those related to host-pathogen interactions.

More at: gulbenkian.pt