OCTOBER 22 2021, ONLINE

Complexity science provides the framework for understanding the behavior of social and natural systems. However, there is a huge gap between understanding and applying the principles and methods from complexity science in order to solve real problems. In this satellite we will cover applications of complex systems in multiple domains. We expect to raise awareness about how to manage and intervene in complex systems, including the risk we face when societies become global, the opportunities that are created, and the role of complexity in strategies and analytics.

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A Workshop Satellite of the
Conference on Complex Systems 2021
October 27 – 28, 2021
Submission deadline: July 06, 2021
Acceptance notification: July 09, 2021

Cities are massive systems whose tremendous complexity requires even greater efforts to be modeled, analyzed, understood, and governed. The city is the expression of a multitude of strongly intertwined systems that vary from people sociality to transport systems, from the cultural fabric to urban planning. Each of these city facets already represents in itself a complex system but their interconnection represents what is certainly one of the systems created by human beings with the highest complexity in the world. The aim of this event is to bring together researchers and practitioners from around the world interested in urban systems from the perspective of complexity science.

More  at: urbcompsys.github.io

October 22nd, 2021, ONLINE

This Satellite Meeting takes the form of a workshop aiming to stimulate the discussion and the collaborative co-construction of new ideas about the nature and state of development of the modes of thinking in and for Complexity Studies.

It aims at identifying key challenges and questions that call to be addressed, including those regarding the development of more complex modes of thinking. It will focus the discussion on the identification of key theoretical, empirical, methodological, technical and practical challenges and/or ways of addressing them.

The workshop will aim to identify and explore how these key questions and challenges relate to the development or adaptation of tools and strategies to support the practice of particular modes of thinking in research and practice and to guide real-world interventions and educational activities (formal and informal).

Through a transdisciplinary approach, this meeting aims at constructing and stimulating productive and generative dialogues for the development of more complex modes of thinking (in) Complexity.

More details at: www.complexthinking.org

CCS2021 is the flagship conference on Complex Systems promoted by the CSS. It brings under one umbrella a wide variety of leading researchers, practitioners and stakeholders with a direct interest in Complex Systems, from Physics to Computer Science, Biology, Social Sciences, Economics, and Technological and Communication Networks, among others.

Deadline for abstract submission: May 20, 2021
Notification to authors: June 20, 2021
Early Registration: July 15, 2021
Dates of the Conference: October 25-29, 2021
Link to submit: https://easychair.org/cfp/CCS2021

More info at: ccs2021.univ-lyon1.fr

The workshop will virtually take place from the European Center of Living Technology in Venice on 22-25 June 2021. 

Confirmed Invited Speakers are: 

 · Rosalind Allen, University of Edinburgh 

 · Eric Dykeman, University of York 

 · Daniel Fisher, Standford University 

 · Nigel Goldenfeld, University of Illinois at UC 

 · Susan Holmes, Standford University 

 · Terry Hwa, UC San Diego 

 · Eleni Katifori, University of Pennsylvania 

 · David Nelson, Harvard University 

 · Alvaro Sanchez, Yale University 

 · Agnese Seminara, CNRS, Institut de physique de Nice 

 · Corina Tarnita, Princeton University 

 · Amandine Veber, CNRS and Univ. of Paris 

20 free waiver for Ph.D students, special discount for publishing in related joint special issue of #Entropy & #Life, prize for best poster and best talk!

Living systems are characterized by the emergence of recurrent dynamical patterns at all scales of magnitude. Self-organized behaviors are observed both in large communities of microscopic components – like neural oscillations and gene network activity – as well as on larger levels – as predator-prey equilibria to name a few. Such regularities are deemed to be universal in the sense they are due to common mechanisms, independent of the details of the system. This belief justifies investigation through quantitative models able to grasp key features while disregarding inessential complications. The attempt of modeling such complex systems leads naturally to consider large families of microscopic identical units. Complexity and self-organization then arise on a macroscopic scale from the dynamics of these minimal components that evolve coupled by interaction terms. Within this scenario, probability theory and statistical mechanics come into play very soon.
The aim of this conference is to bring together scientists with different backgrounds (maths, biology, physics and computing, theoreticians along with experimentalists), interested in macroecology, microbial ecology and evolutionary biology, to discuss important and recent research topics in these areas as well as exchange methods and ideas. The style of the conference will purposely be informal so as to encourage discussions.

Read the full article at: liphlab.github.io