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EU-China Summer
School on "Internet, Sciences, and Society"
1st-4th June 2008, Warsaw, Poland.
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Inflation
expectations and social influence - workshop of ISS and the National Bank
of Poland
This small closed event will be held on June 11th,
2007. It is organised to sum up current projects regarding inflation
expectations and role of social influence and media message in their
shaping, undertaken together by OBUZ and the Bureau
of Macroeconomic Research, National Bank of Poland.
Sunbelt conference -
social networks
2 studies undertaken in OBUZ ISS will be presented at
the XXVII
International Sunbelt Social Network Conference taking place at Corfu, Greece, May 1-6 May 2007. It
is the largest annual conference on social networks analysis, organized
by the International Network for Social
Network Analysis. The conference program and abstracts may be found
at link.
2 studies presented by members of OBUZ:
Jan M. Zajac, Kamil Rakocy, Andrzej Nowak
"Structure and popularity: Bloggers and their readers" Kamil
Rakocy, Aleksandra Pogorzelska, Andrzej Nowak, Jan M. Zajac
"Triathlon networks: Social structure and results in an individual
sport"
General Online
Research conference - researching the Internet
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studies authored and co-authored by members OBUZ ISS will be presented at
the 9th International
General Online Research Conference taking place in Leipzig, Germany,
March 26-28 2007. It is a large interdisciplinary annual conference for
researchers doing their studies on the Internet, with strong interest on
methodology. The conference program in English may be found at
link. This year there is going to be a strong representation of
Polish researchers from Warsaw
University, with 6
presentation and 1 poster, among others the following ones authored and
co-authored by members of OBUZ:
Kamil
Rakocy, Dominik Batorski, Paweł Kucharski, Andrzej Nowak "The
spatial structure of internet social networks and communication"
Jan
M. Zajac, Andrzej Nowak, Kamil Rakocy
"Online social networks of bloggers and their readers"
Pawel
Mazurek, Kamil Rakocy, Jan M. Zajac "Online digital surveillance:
What they know about you depends on what you know"
Filip
Raciborski, Kamil Rakocy "Net popularity and social support"
Jan
M. Zajac, Kamil Rakocy "Is it all rubbish? Credibility of answers in
web surveys"
Social Aspects
of the Internet (SAI; in Polish: Społeczne Aspekty Internetu) conference
Members of OBUZ are involved as organizers and
presenters of the 2nd national
conference SAI, held in Warsaw,
December 8-10 2006 . After the big success of the first such conference
that took place in December 2005, 4 academic institutions from Warsaw University
and Warsaw School for Social Psychology,
supported by Polish Computer Science Society and private sponsors,
organized the 2nd conference on a bigger scale. There were in total 98
submissions, and 44 oral presentations and 24 posters were included in
the programme after peer-review. The keynote speaker will be professor Henry
Jenkins from MIT. Besides it, the conference will be held in Polish. The
programme can be found at link in polish.
Works authored and co-authored by members of
OBUZ:
Jan M. Zajac, Kamil Rakocy "Sieci społeczne
autorów i czytelników blogów" ("Social networks of authors and
readers of weblogs")
Kamil Rakocy, Dominik Batorski, Paweł Kucharski
"Znaczenie dystansu geograficznego dla struktury internetowych sieci
społecznych" ("Importance of the physical distance for the
structure of internet social networks")
Pawel
Mazurek, Kamil Rakocy, Jan M. Zajac
"Co wiesz? i co Oni wiedzą o Tobie? Postawy i zachowania
internautów wobec cyfrowego nadzoru" ("What do you know? And what do they know about
you? Attitudes and behaviour towards the digital surveillance")
Filip
Raciborski, Kamil Rakocy
"Popularność w sieci a poparcie społeczne. Czy możliwe jest
wykorzystanie wyszukiwarek internetowych do przewidywania wyników
wyborów?" ("Popularity
online and social support: Is it possible to use internet search engines
to predict elections results?")
Kamil
Rakocy, Jan M. Zajac, "Czy wierzysz w słowa te... :Wiarygodność
odpowiedzi uzyskiwanych w ankietach internetowych" (Data quality and
credibility of answers in online survey research)
Dominik
Batorski, Jan M. Zajac, "Zwiększanie realizacji próby w badaniu
internetowym: Rekomendacje." ("Increasing response rate in online surveys:
Recommendations")
Dynamics and Complexity of Intractable
Conflicts Kazimierz Dolny, 19-22 Październik 2006
The meeting will be a three-day invitational
conference, the first of its kind, and was held at The Warsaw School of
Social Psychology in Warsaw,
Poland
from October 19th through 22nd, 2006. The objectives for the meeting will
be 1) to stimulate intellectual and practical work on understanding and
addressing protracted social conflict from the perspective of dynamical
systems theory, 2) to identify a few foundational principles or laws of
protracted conflict that could be used as the basis for a robust
theoretical model of intractability, and 3) to work collaboratively on
developing a preliminary set of papers, which specify the basic
principles discussed in the meeting, and develop them further in a manner
that will allow them to be integrated into one unifying dynamical theory
of intractability in conflict. Students from OBUZ will be presented
research work on additional poster session.
CO3 meeting
On the 13th till 15th of September 2006 a CO3
coordination meeting will take place in Warsaw, Poland.
The participants will discuss progress made towards the STREP's
deliverables and plan future activities.
Participants of CO3 meeting
(working list)
Institute for scientific interchange – Sorin Solomon
Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies – Giovanni Dosi
Universite
de Paris – Annick Vignes, Gerard Weisbuch, Gerard Ballot
University of Warsaw – Andrzej Nowak, Marek Kus
Bar Ilan
University – Nadav
Shnerb, Yoram Louzoun
Università
di Roma "La
Sapienza" – Guido Cozzi, Maria Augusta Miceli
Venue
The CO3 meeting's venue is Old Library building of
the
Warsaw
University (it is on the main campus of Warsaw University,
Krakowskie
Przedmiescie Street 26/28). The Old Library
building is situated in
front of the main entrance to the University Campus.
Accommodation
The speakers will be accommodated in IBIS Hotel Stare
Miasto. To get there from Warsaw
airport, take the bus nr 175 from the airport
and take off at "Muranowska" bus stop, right beside the hotel.
IBIS STARE MIASTO
ul. Muranowska 2
00-209 WARSZAWA
(for
details, click here).
The reservation is taken care of by the organizers.
Language
simulations
From September 11 to 14 a workshop on
language simulations will be held in Warsaw
(Poland).
The presentations will take place mainly during the first half of the
meeting so there will be time for productive interaction later.
The
official organizer is the NEST
project GIACS,
an EU Coordination Action.
Organising comittee
- Andrzej Nowak, Warsaw and Florida Atlantic
Universities
- Dietrich Stauffer, Koeln University
Invited speakers are, in alphabetical order:
- A. Baronchelli or V.
Loreto (Roma) Complex systems
approach to language games
- T. Briscoe (Cambridge) Simulating iterated language learning and
(thus) language change
- V.M. Eguiluz or M. San
Miguel (Palma di Mallorca) Dynamics
of language competition:effects of bilingualism and social structure
- P.W. Culicover (Columbus, Ohio)
Language change – the
perspective of a linguist
- K. Kosmidis (presently Giessen) Is there a language temperature? And what
could we learn from it?!
- A. Nowak (Warszawa) Social influence in language change
- M. Patriarca (presently Augsburg) Influence of the Geography on Language
Spreading
- G.J. Rodgers (Uxbridge) Network properties of written human
language
- D. Stauffer (Koln) Modelling
the size distribution of all human languages.
- G. Weisbuch (Paris) To be announced (Axelrod model of culture
competition?)
- S. Wichmann (presently Leipzig and Leiden) How computer simulations may help
linguists: recent progress and prospects for more
Venue
The conference's venue is Old Library building of the
Warsaw University
(it is on the main campus of Warsaw
University, Krakowskie Przedmiescie Street
26/28). The Old Library building is situated in front of the main
entrance to the University Campus.
Accommodation
The speakers will be accommodated in IBIS Hotel Stare
Miasto. To get there from Warsaw
airport, take the bus nr 175 from the airport and take off at
"Muranowska" bus stop, right beside the hotel.
IBIS STARE MIASTO
ul. Muranowska 2
00-209 WARSZAWA
(for
details, click here).
The reservation is taken care of by the organizers.
Summer School: Applications of Complex Systems to Social Sciences
from
Sept 3rd to 9th (2006)
Kazimierz Dolny, Poland
Organising comittee
- Andrzej Nowak, Warsaw and Florida Atlantic
Universities
- Dietrich Stauffer, Koeln University
- G´erard Weisbuch, Ecole Normale, Paris.
Goal
The aim of the school is to provide some training on
the application of Complex Systems methods to problems in the Social
Sciences: essentially Sociology, Economics, Geography. Since Complex
Systems methods are based on mathematical formalisms and computer
simulations, some literacy in maths and computer science are a minimal
requirement. Lectures will be given in English.
Format of the school
Four lectures of 90 minutes everyday, during six
days. Each lecturer will give a series of four lectures. Attendance is
for the whole week.
Venue
The GIACS Summer School will take place in Kazimierz
Dolny, a little town in eastern part of Poland.
Annual meeting of CSS
research team
On
10-11 of June 2006 in
Mądralin near Warsaw
a scientific session took place which was aimed at recapitulation of the
yearly scientific activities of CCS’ employees and collaborators. The
meeting was held with guest participation of Giovanni Arconi, a postdoc
at Hebrew University
in Jerusalem,
Izrael who gave a lecture “Quantum Physics – applications to Social
Science”.
Pictures from
Madralin and form bicycle trip at here.
Agent Based models:
from analytical models to real life phenomenology
April
5-10, 2006, Torino, Italy
The meeting was
aimed at enhancing collaboration's links among Complexity researchers
coming from different fields of interest. For that reason the main target
was to put together some of the leading scientists of Complexity as well
as the younger generation of researchers. Professor Andrzej Nowak and
nine young researchers from Center for Complex Systems participated in
the meeting (Wojciech Borkowski, Wiesław Bartkowski, Kamil Rakocy, Łukasz
Jochemczyk, Michał Ziembowicz, Ludmiła Rycielska, Małgorzata Póltorak,
Magdalena Roszczyńska, Karolina Lisiecka).
CSS researchers’ presentations:
prof.
dr hab. Andrzej Nowak and mgr
Kamil Rakocy: “Local effect in the Polish economic transition, social
influence and historical factors”
dr Wojciech Borkowski – “Social Impact Model
and the languages distribution”
mgr Michal Ziembowicz and mgr Łukasz
Jochemczyk- “Socially constructed reality: constructing a semantic
network”
To learn more about
the meeting, click here.
Dynamical Social Change - from understanding the
processes to computer simulations
On the 25th of
November, from 10.30 AM till 3.00 PM, OBUZ organizes an open scientific
session on "Dynamical Social Change - from understanding the
processes to computer simulations" Prof. Andrzej Nowak will give an
introductory speech on "Emergent properties of socioeconomical
change". The session will take place in the ball hall of
Tyszkiewiczów-Potockich
Palace on
Krakowskie Przedmiescie Street 32.
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