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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION – REGISTRATION OPEN UNTIL NOV. 18, 2015

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2nd COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE WINTER SYMPOSIUM

Cologne, Germany

Main symposium dates: December 2-3, 2015

Pre-symposium workshops and tutorials: December 1, 2015

Website: http://www.gesis.org/css-wintersymposium/

Hashtag: #cssws15

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The main program for the CSS Winter Symposium 2015 has be announced: http://www.gesis.org/css-wintersymposium/program/

We are looking forward to:

* an exciting program featuring a eight invited talks that will provide different perspectives on current advances and limitations of computational social science

* 70 contributed posters and 11 presentations of recent research from the area of computational social science

* the opportunity to participate in workshops and tutorials on the day prior to the symposium

* plenty of possibilities for interdisciplinary networking including an informal evening event at the famous Cologne Christmas markets

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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Andrea Baronchelli (City University London): The Spontaneous Emergence of Social Conventions - An Experimental Study of Cultural Evolution

Johan Bollen (Indiana University): Modeling critical transitions in mental health from longitudinal social media data

Munmun De Choudhury (Georgia Tech): Communities in Distress: Opportunities and Challenges of Social Media in Mental Well-being

Noshir Contractor (Northwestern University): Leveraging Computational Social Science to address Grand Societal Challenges

Andreas Flache (University of Groningen): Ethnic segregation and the fragility of opinion pluriformity in a diverse society

Sune Lehmann (Technical University of Denmark): The fundamental structures of complex social systems

Jürgen Pfeffer (Carnegie Mellon University): Know Your Data! Know Your Methods!

Ralph Schroeder (University of Oxford): Big Data and Social Theory

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REGISTRATION

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Registration is free of charge and open until November 18th, 2015.

PLEASE NOTE: Unfortunately we cannot take responsibility for support on visa related issues.

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VENUE

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The CSS Winter Symposium will take place at the heart of Cologne, at Maternushaus within walking distance of the central train station and the Cologne cathedral.

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CONTACT

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CONFERENCE CHAIR:

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Prof. Dr. Markus Strohmaier

GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

Computational Social Science Department

Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8

D-50667 Köln

Germany

E-mail: [log in to unmask]

Twitter: @mstrohm

Phone: +49 (221) 47694-225

WORKSHOPS/TUTORIALS CHAIR:

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Dr. Katrin Weller

GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

Computational Social Science Department

Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8

D-50667 Köln

Germany

E-mail: [log in to unmask]

Twitter: @kwelle

Phone: +49 221 47694472

LOCAL ORGANIZATION:

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Diana Lindner, M.A.

GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

Computational Social Science Department

Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8

D-50667 Köln

Germany

Email: [log in to unmask]

Phone: +49 (0221) 47694-401