Category: Conferences

2025 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2025) – Trondheim, Norway 17th – 20th March

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

ICTP – SAIFR » School on Active Matter

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

Migration and Mobility Research in the Digital Era (MIMODE 2024)

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

Eleventh International Conference on Guided Self-Organization (GSO-2025)

​”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.
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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

Celebrate 20 years of the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit

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