Social Dynamics Seminars

We are a multidisciplinary and international collective of Data, Computer, and Mathematical sciences researchers across borders that join forces to explore questions related to the dynamics of social systems. We aim to create a strong international community of like-minded researchers with a common interest in modelling social dynamics. Thematically, the seminars span a broad range of topics including, but not limited to:

Developing models to understand the underlying mechanics of opinion, innovation, and behaviour diffusion
Use data from social media user activity to test theories and models from social sciences
The emergence of institutions in social systems, their self-regulatory properties, and their competitive nature
Understand the role of complex networks in the unfolding of diffusion processes, in particular, those of social systems
The application of complex systems to the study of socio-economic phenomena

Upcoming Presentations

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Past Speakers

[23/01/2024] Tarik Roukny (Faculty of Economics and Business, KU Leuven) Barriers to Technological Change

[16/01/2024] Filipa Alves (NOVA IMS) European Identity

[12/12/2023] Montserrat Koloffon Rosas (Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) – VU Amsterdam) Towards a systems understanding of transformative partnerships for sustainable development

[12/12/2023] Casper van Elteren (University of Amsterdam), How to intervene? Criminal organizations exhibit hysteresis, resilience and robustness by balancing security and efficiency.

[5/12/2023] Dominik Hartmann (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina), Smart diversification and social mobility.

[21/11/2023] António Leitão (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), Social learning across symbolic cultural barriers in non-human cultures.

[14/11/2023] Mafalda Zuquete (School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin), Does political communication during campaigns answer the questions of voters?

[14/11/2023] Carlos Navarrete (ANITI, Université de Toulouse), Election Polarization: Mapping Citizen Divisions Through Elections.

[21/04/2023] Bas Chatel (Radboud UMC & University of Amsterdam), Alone in the Crowd: A computational social network model on clustering mechanisms of loneliness.

[31/03/2023] Martin Smit (University of Amsterdam), Cooperation, Fairness, and Reputation Dynamics.

[24/03/2023] Niclas Sturm (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Characterizing Nationwide Public Procurement Markets.

[24/03/2023] Xin Zhou (University of Amsterdam), The dynamics of corruption under an optional external supervision service.

[24/02/2023] Vittorio Nespeca (University of Amsterdam), Crisis Managment.

[9/12/2022] Cristian Candia (Universidad del Desarrollo), Modelling Collective Memory.

[18/11/2022] Astrid Dannenberg (University of Kassel), Human Behavioral experiments.

[4/11/2022] Alexander Stewart (University of St Andrews), From Gerrymandering to Polarization and Inequality.

[7/10/2022] Jorge Peña (University of Toulouse), Models of Cooperation and Conflict.

Organizers

Fernando P. Santos
Assistant Professor,
Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam

f.p.santos[at]uva.nl
https://fp-santos.github.io/

Flávio L. Pinheiro
Assistant professor,
NOVA IMS - Universidade Nova de Lisboa
fpinheiro[at]novams.unl.pt
www.flaviolpp.com

Vítor V. Vasconcelos
Assistant Professor
Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam

v.v.vasconcelos[at]uva.nl
https://www.vvvasconcelos.net/

Social Dynamics Seminars

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