Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad from the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems will present a talk on Wednesday, May 10 at 3:30 PM.   Title: The First Steps in Understanding and Modeling Disease Ecology   Abstract: Diseases spread more complexly while interacting in an ecological system like syndemics. As an example, the flu (1918-1919)…

The aim of this school is to raise awareness about the importance of human-centric complex systems science and digital humanism and promote their adoption in technology and system design. We hope to achieve that by highlighting the works of complex system scientist, who focuses on analyzing and designing complex systems in a way that considers…

Dániel Kondor from CSH will present a talk on Friday, May 19, 2023, at 3 PM at the Salon.   Title: Costs and Benefits of Competition and Coordination in urban on-demand Mobility   Abstract: The past 15 years saw the introduction of several technologies with the potential for "disruptive change" in urban transportation systems. However, the…

Fanqi Zeng from Oxford University will present a talk on Friday, May 26, 2023 at 3 PM at the Salon.     Title: Waves of Cooperation in public goods games on Networks     Abstract: Cooperation is a reciprocal behavior that benefits others while costing oneself. In this work, we propose a general mathematical framework…

Ricardo-Baeza Yates (Northeastern University) will present a talk on Tuesday, June 2oth, 2023, at 3 PM at the Salon.     Title: Experiential AI   Abstract: In the first part, to set the stage, we cover irresponsible AI: (1) discrimination, (2) phrenology (e.g. biometric-based predictions), (3) incompetence, and (4)  indiscriminate use of computing resources. These examples…

Andreas Moxnes from the University of Oslo will present a talk on Wednesday, May 31, 2023, at 3 PM at the Salon.     Title: Growing Together and Apart: Scale Economies and Specialization     Abstract: This paper analyzes the role of the division of labor along the supply chain for generating scale economies and…

We cordially invite you to our next Vernissage at the Complexity Science Hub. Thursday, June 1, 2023  |  18:00 Complexity Science Hub Vienna About the artist will speak Peter Rosei. Please register below for the vernissage. Art by Wolfgang Zeindl On Wolfgang Zeindl   Wolfgang Zeindl’s visual languages are manifold. To some art enthusiasts who…

Guy Arie Amichay will present a talk on Friday, June 2nd, 2023, at 3 PM at the Salon.   Title: Modeling Firefly Swarms as Coupled Oscillators   Abstract: The study of collective synchronous behavior has primarily focused on the analysis of abstract and greatly simplified mathematical models. Many applications of these models to living systems have…