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Starting from academic year 2005/2006 a
new Ph.D. program in complexity opened in OBUZ. Its aim is to educate
professionals that could implement complex systems theory in various,
often very narrow, areas, skillfully connecting specific and general
methods of this area of science. Therefore the program is divided into
two parts - general, covering subjects like introduction to complexity
and computer simulations - and specific, aimed at implementation of
complex systems paradigm in social and cognitive sciences, economy and
neuroscience. Courses and lectures proposed by OBUZ do not form a
stand-alone program, rather they are a complementary course to Ph.D
programs at other departments.
All the lectures are conducted in English.
Courses
(2007/2008) winter semester:
Monday
12.00
– 13.30 - Dynamical
Social Psychology - Advanced Topics
14.15
– 16.00 - Complexity
in social and psychologial processes
16.10
– 17.40 - Non-linear
dynamics of social and psychological processes
Tuesday
14.00
– 15.30 – Statistic
Courses
2006/2007:
COMPLEXITY SCIENCE AND DYNAMICAL
PSYCHOLOGY
Lecturer:
Professor Andrzej Nowak
During
this workshop the existing dynamical models and theories in complexity
are discussed with special respect to psychology and social sciences.
With help of the lecturers language and knowledge tool for understanding
socio-psychological reality is coined to result in creation of new
dynamic models developed by students.
NETWORKS
Lecturers:
Professor Andrzej Nowak, Professor Sorin Solomon (synchronic
online teaching)
This
workshop is devoted to the theory and analysis of networks. Students
study properties of graphs, WWW, the Internet, social networks, knowledge
networks in culture and science, etc. After selecting their own set of
data, students gain practice while being introduced to standard software
for network analysis.
NONLINEAR EQUATIONS
Lecturer:
Professor Marek Kuś
Nonlinear
mathematics does not have to be difficult. In a format friendly to the
arts and humanities' students, with real-life examples and freedom to ask
questions, such phenomena as chaos effects, noise, diffusion, attractors,
running waves are explored and explained.
PROGRAMMING AND COMPUTER MODELING
Lecturers:
Wojciech Borkowski, Wiesław Bartkowski
According
to Wikipedia, computer model is a computer program that attempts to
simulate an abstract model of a particular system. It is a tool widely
used in complexity science. During the workshop, students gain practice
in using programming language in order to be able to investigate their
assumptions and predictions concerning natural systems while building
their computer models.
References:
Nowak
A., Vallacher R.R. (1998). Dynamical Social Psychology. New
York: Guilford
Press
Vallacher
R.R., Nowak A., eds., (1994). Dynamical Systems in Social Psychology, San Diego: Academic
Press.
Barabasi
A.-L. (2002). Linked: The New Science of Networks. Perseus.
Watts D. J. ( 1999). Small Worlds: The Dynamics of
Networks Between Order and Randomness . Princeton
University Press, Princeton.
Carrington,
P. J., Scott J., Wasserman, S., eds. (2005). Models and Methods in Social
Network Analysis, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Wasserman
S., Faust K. (1994). Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications. Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge.
W. de Nooy, A. Mrvar, V. Batagelj (2005)
Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek. Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge.
Students:
mgr Wiesław Bartkowski
Computer
scientist. His research topics include human-computer interaction,
computer simulations, algorithmics, software creation process, virtual
reality and social networks. He is coauthor of the merlin.pl internet
shop engine and many computer simulation and research tools.
Mgr Piotr Jabłoński
Mgr Łukasz Jochemczyk
Ph.D. thesis subject: Formation of mutual representation of reality
during negotiation process.
Mgr
Marta Kacprzyk
Mgr
Karolina Lisiecka
Mgr Dariusz Parzelski
Psychologists. He specializes in sports psychology and stress coping and self-assurance
strengthening techniques. He works with athletes on mental preparation
during both training and competition events. He gives lectures on sports
psychology to Olympic Teams couches. His hobbies are computers and cars.
Mgr Małgorzata Półtorak
Ph.D. thesis subject: dynamical modeling of close relations
Mgr Jadwiga Przewłocka
MA Wouter de Raad
Graduate from Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Title of PhD
thesis: 'a dynamical model of acculturation'. The research is aimed to
achieve a better understanding of the process of adaptation of people to
a new or changing multicultural environment. The focus lies on the
relationship between individual behavior and general emerging properties.
Mgr Kamil Rakocy
Sociologist. Ph.D. thesis subject: spread of epidemics- network
simulation, analysis of space dynamics.
Oder scientific interest: social
space analysis and its impact on the dynamics of economical behaviors in
bubble theory approach, social network analysis, research of Blogs and
other phenomena in Internet.
Mgr
Magdalena Roszczyńska
Mgr
Agnieszka Rychwalska
- student affairs coordinator
Psychologist. Areas of research
include: consciousness and its neural correlates, integration of sensual
information in the brain, neuronal synchronization - in vivo research and
computer simulations and more generally: cognitive neuroscience,
neurophysiology and neural basis of memory formation. Her hobbies are
sleddog sports and cycling.
Mgr Agata Zabłocka-Bursa
Ph.D. thesis subject: Social change analysis at social entrepreneurs
operation areas.
mgr Jan Zając
Psychologist. His interests are centered on psycho-social aspects of the
internet. Other research areas include: social psychology, political and
intercultural psychology and human resources management.
Mgr Michał Ziembowicz
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