Dear colleagues,
I would like to point you to an event on Computational Social Science
taking place in Cologne on Dec 2/3. We have an exciting program with 8
distuingished speakers and 70 posters. I'd be excited if you would
consider attending, please find more information below.
best,
Markus Strohmaier
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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
* more than 70 contributed posters and 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
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
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