Out of House Talks | Calendar

Hub Researcher David Garcia will present his online talk within the conference "MEi: CogSci Lecture Series 2020" on Tuesday, October 27, 2020 via BigBlueButton.   If you would like to join, please click on the following link: https://moodle.univie.ac.at/mod/bigbluebuttonbn/guestlink.php?gid=A62LzXYBfwWg   ABSTRACT   The wealth of data generated by our digital society, when combined with computational methods like agent-based modeling and natural language understanding, provides a new window to study human affect at new scales and resolutions. I present an overview of this…

This lecture, given by Rudolf Hanel, is an online discussion organised under the Scaling in Complex Systems lecture series by Utrecht University. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the lecture will take place online.   The 45-min lecture is followed by a 45-min Question & Answer session. Abstract:   Emergent features of steadily driven non-equilibrium processes (e.g. cells, ecosystems, etc.) are not mutually independent. At coarse grained levels of description they can often be understood as regulatory networks that represent systems of typically non-linear…

CSH President Stefan Thurner will give a lecture on "Power Laws" at the Santa Fe Institute's new online course "Complexity Interactive," which takes place from Oct 12 to 30, 2020.     Program Overview   A new program from the Santa Fe Institute combines the guided interaction of an in-person course with the flexibility to learn from anywhere in the world. This three-week, part-time, online course offers participants a theory- and applications-based view of complexity science.   Complexity Interactive will focus on providing…

David Garcia will present a talk in the SciBeh 2020 Virtual Workshop session on "Managing Online Research Discourse" on Tuesday, November 10 at 14:30 (CET).   For the full program of the virtual workshop and more information on the sessions, click here.   Session overview Online environments are increasingly important spaces for research discourse, as review, critique, and discussion expand beyond journal peer review and publication to pre-print servers and even social media (e.g., Twitter). Discourse has important functions for research: Review,…

CSH researcher Anna Di Natale will give a talk at the Natural Language Processing Group at University of Utrecht on  December 3, 2020. Details on how to join will be announced here.   Abstract: Colexification is a linguistic concept that has recently been used to assess the semantic similarity of words. Unfortunately, such assumption lacks validation at scale. In this talk, I consider one form of meaning, affective meaning, and show that colexification networks follow such relationship in the creation of links…

CSH President Stefan Thurner will give a talk on big data and diabetes during the Carl von Noorden symposium, taking place online this year, organized by the Wiener Gesundheitsverbund. For more information and to register, click here.    

CSH President Stefan Thurner is invited to give a lecture on "The influence of biodiversity on health and economy. COVID-19 as the start of a series of pandemies?" in the framework of the publication of the 12th yearbook for health policies and health econonomics in Austria.   Title: "The influence of biodiversity on health and economy. COVID-19 as the start of a series of pandemies?"   About the event:   This event is organized by Sanofi Austria and the platform…