This PhD thesis aims at investigating the cognitive and behavioral processes involved in collective decision-making in pedestrian groups with an approach that tightly combines experiments with models. We are looking for a student, familiar with the tools of statistical physics and the use of numerical simulations, which will participate in the design and analysis of dedicated experiments, and in the analytical and numerical study of theoretical models inspired from statistical physics and based on these experiments. Only non-French students can apply to the present PhD fellowship. Candidates must contact (complete CV and, if possible, a recommendation letter from a responsible of Master studies) both advisors (see the last page of this document) ideally before June 16th 2013. The position will start on October 2013 and the net salary (for 36 months) is around 1450€/month, including medical coverage. LPT and CRCA will cover travel expanses to Toulouse, a lively student city in the southwest of France.

The International Conference on EconoPhysics which will be held in Kavala Greece on September, 13-14, 2013. The conference is organized by Kavala’s Institute of Technology. Research papers have to be submitted by June 30th, 2013.

The Barcelona Graduate School of Economics welcomes the summer with a diverse range of summer schools in economics and related fields. These short summer programs are addressed to researchers, professionals and graduate students who want to improve their competences in specific fields of knowledge. Renowned academics and leading practitioners teach our summer school courses, which draw participants from all over the world. The 2013 summer course offering includes four professionally-oriented summer schools: Labor Economics Summer School, Banking Summer School, Microeconometrics Summer School, Macroeconometrics Summer School.

The Complex Systems Team is looking for a person interested in developing mathematical models for energy markets. The research is being done in cooperation with the Polish Transmission System Operator. The main task is to develop (i) computationally effective methods of designing sustainable energy market structures (uniform/zonal/nodal) and (ii) methods of market structures assessment.

The Group of Complex Systems and Random Networks (GNET) invites applications for two postdoctoral positions in the field of multiplex networks to develop analytic and computational tools for the study of the structural properties and dynamics of multiplex and interdependent networks.

The 2013 edition addresses PhD students and young researchers to the forefront of research activity on data mining and computational models for dynamic networks and social behavior. Recognized authorities in the field will give formal lectures tailoring these for an interdisciplinary audience. Participants will also have the opportunity to present the results of their research during a short communication session. As a whole, the planned summer school will allow participants to be exposed to cutting edge results in one of the most challenging research area, while at the same time enjoying the relaxing atmosphere of one of the most beautiful Italian islands.

We are searching for a creative and highly motivated researcher who is fascinated by the relationship between information flow on the Internet and real world behaviour, and who is keen to build interactive tools to allow various external stakeholders to explore this relationship, to work with Tobias Preis, Helen Susannah Moat and Nick Chater in the Behavioural Science Group at Warwick Business School.

The Journal of Statistical Physics has recently published a special issue on Statistical Mechanics and Social Sciences with contributions by several researchers from this field.

The 2nd International Conference on EconoPhysics (ICE) in Greece that will take place in Kavala from 13- 14 September of 2013 and is organised by the Kavala Institute of Technology. For more information, please visit the conference web site http://econophysicsii.teikav.edu.gr/ Conference topics include: · Chaos and Order In Economy · Non-linear Dynamics and Econometrics · Neural Networks and Economy · Thermodymanic Approach of Economy · Markets as Complex Adaptive Systems - Evolutionary Economics · Physics of Risk · Statistical and probabilistic methods in Economics and Finance · Evolutionary economics · Econophysics of Stock and other Markets · Complex socio-economic networks · Nonadditive entropy and nonextensive statistical mechanics in socio-economics · Agent-based models: Theory and Simulations The research papers have to be submitted by June 30th, 2013. Selective papers that will be accepted for presentation will also be included in the scientific journal “Journal of Science and Technology Review” (jestr.org). Official language of the conference is English. Selective papers from the 1st ICE are available in the special issue of “Journal of Science and Technology Review” (jestr.org). in the web adress: http://www.jestr.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23&Itemid=61

The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) is seeking to recruit postdoctoral research fellows to work in a research group within MPIDR directed by Prof. Dr. Frans Willekens. The new group will start on 1 April 2013 for an expected duration of three years and its work will focus on agent-based modeling (ABM) of international migration.The objective is to develop simulation models of causal mechanisms driving international migration. How do migration patterns emerge? Which feedback mechanisms give rise to migration systems?

Abstract submission deadline for STATPHYS 25 is on 31st March 2013. Abstract submission deadline for FNET 2013 is on 19th April 2013.

Vittoria Colizza, senior researcher at ISI Foundation (Turin, Italy) and at Inserm (Paris, France) is this year’s recipient of the Young Scientist Award for Socio and Econophysics. This is the third time that an Italian scientist receives the award of the German Physical Society (after Fabrizio Lillo in 2008 and Santo Fortunato, ISI researcher as well, in 2011), among the most prestigious prizes in the world in the field of the physics of social and economic systems, assigned to researchers under 40. Colizza receives today the prize in Regensburg, Germany, during the annual meeting of the German Physical Society.

Prof. Helbing's Chair of Sociology at ETH Zurich, in particular of Modeling and Simulation, has an interdisciplinary focus, bringing together sociologists, physicists, political scientists, and computer scientists in order to answer fundamental scientific questions regarding socially interactive systems, using a quantitative approach. In particular, the team uses a combination of modeling, simulation, data mining and experiments to address fundamental questions concerning the way our society works. Prof. Helbing is looking for 1 highly motivated postdoctoral student with a background in massive agent-based simulation of artificial societies using evolutionary game theoretical models for the ERC Advanced Investigator Grant "Momentum – Modeling the Emergence of Social Complexity and Order: How Individual and Societal Complexity Co-Evolve".

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral research associate position in the prediction and containment of livestock diseases with spatiotemporal network modeling.

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has vacancies in the Centre for Transport Studies and are looking for highly able, enthusiastic and well motivated applicants wishing to make a career in one of Europe's leading teaching and research Institutions.

The Global Financial Crisis and the ensuing Great Recession call for new ideas in the modeling of the interplay between the financial system and the real economy. Several international reforms are pointing in the direction of increased monitoring, surveillance and regulation of different types of interlinkages. The demand for a deeper understanding of systemic risks that stem from interconnectedness, and their effects on the financing of real activities, is exceptionally high. The goal of the Workshop is to realize a gathering of an interdisciplinary group of researchers working in different areas, to improve the analysis and the modeling of interlinkages and the associated systemic risks.

The research proposal TRAMAN21 (Traffic Management for the 21st Century) has been recently selected by the European Research Council (ERC) to receive funding through an ERC Advanced Grant. The principal investigator of TRAMAN21 is Prof Markos Papageorgiou, Technical University of Crete, Greece. This is an announcement for 1 Post‐doc research position and 3 PhD candidate positions. Successful applicants will be hired from the 1st of March 2013, the earliest, and for a period of up to 4 years.

Supported by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, the Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics and Social Sciences awards three post-doctoral fellowships. Applicants from all fields of Economics, Management and Social Sciences who have finished their PhD are invited to apply.

The Department of Sociology at Stony Brook University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position, beginning Fall 2013. We invite applications from all substantive areas and with training and/or research experience in utilizing the novel data and methodologies from the emergent field of Computational Social Science, e.g. large-scale digital data on social behavior, social network data, and data from internet experiments.

Institute IMDEA Networks is a networking research institute whose multinational team is engaged in cutting edge fundamental science. As a growing, English-speaking institute located in Madrid, Spain, IMDEA Networks offers a unique opportunity for pioneering scientists to develop their ideas. IMDEA Networks is establishing itself internationally at the forefront in the development of future Internet technologies and has already incorporated highly-reputed scientists (see our research team at http://www.networks.imdea.org/Researchteam/tabid/636/Default.aspx). Our researchers share the potential to shape the future of networking science over the coming years.

The 2013 edition of the traditional summer school addresses PhD students and young researchers to the forefront of research activity on data mining and computational models for dynamic networks and social behavior. Recognized authorities in the field will give formal lectures tailoring these for an interdisciplinary audience. Participants will also have the opportunity to present the results of their research during a short communication session. As a whole, the planned summer school will allow participants to be exposed to cutting edge results in one of the most challenging research area, while at the same time enjoying the relaxing atmosphere of one of the most beautiful italian islands.

WEHIA 2013, The 18th Annual Workshop on Economic Science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents June 20-22, 2013 Reykjavik University, Iceland

We invite the submission of both theoretical and empirical papers addressing aspects related to the structure and dynamics of interbank networks, with the potential of giving recommendations for regulatory policy.

Central European University, an English-language graduate university launches a new PhD Certificate Program, which provides tools to understand how complex networks are structured and how they function, what are the principles governing social, political, economic, and environmental networks. There are scholarships available. Application deadline: January 24.

The School of Mathematical Sciences at Dublin City University seeks to appoint two Lecturers in Financial Mathematics, as part of the new ERC Starting Grant Market Frictions in Mathematical Finance. Applicants must possess at least an honours degree and preferably a PhD in Mathematics or related discipline, and show strong commitment to excellence in research.

ESSA@work is a workshop where any modeller can receive and give support on their and others’ simulation-work-in-progress. During one day, a group of participants (max. 8) and experts will discuss the simulation project of each participant (presentation phase) and form small parallel discussion groups based on any desired topic (discussion phase). The combination of involved people, cutting edge research and a good constructive atmosphere makes the meetings valuable for any participant.

Following recent success, the Department of Civil Engineering is seeking to expand by appointing people with outstanding potential to contribute to its internationally leading education and research. As part of this, following the recent appointments of Professor Eddie Wilson and Dr Anders Johansson, we seek an open-ended appointment in transport and mobility modelling. The successful candidate will combine a proven research track record in transport and mobility applications with excellence in a technical domain relating to engineering, computer science or applied mathematics. The deadline for applications is Friday 14th December 2012.

The European Social Simulation Association and Warsaw School of Economics, Division of Decision Analysis and Support, invite researchers and scholars interested in applications and theoretical foundations of simulation modeling in social sciences to participate in the 9th European Social Simulation Association Conference. The conference aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum for social scientists, theorists, applied researchers and simulation modelers to cooperate and exchange ideas concerning state of the art in methods and applications of computational social sciences.

You know the country is in a financial mess when even establishment figures such as Rachel Lomax, a former deputy governor of the Bank of England, are calling for revolutionary thinking.

The Department of Civil Engineering and Department of Mathematics jointly seek a postdoc in connection with a research project dealing with the mathematical modeling, analysis and control of crowd motion in the built environment aiming to support decision making on risk management. The position is available for a maximum of two years, preferably starting in the first quarter of 2013, and is funded through a grant from Knud Højgaards Fond.

The Senior Research Professor vacancy at the Antwerp Centre of Evolutionary Demography (ACED) has recently been reopened. We are looking for a Senior Research Professor who is willing to develop the future of ACED together with us and whose work fits into the major themes of our research centre. The closing date for application is January 6, 2013.

Global Science and Technology Forum (GSTF), a leading provider of global research platforms for International conferences and Journals, is pleased to invite you to submit your research papers for review and publication in the GSTF Journal of Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research (JMSOR) - Print ISSN: 2251-3388, E-periodical: 2251-3396 (Vol 1 No 2). JMSOR is indexed by Cabell’s Directories, EBSCO, CrossRef, Ulrichsweb and Proquest. It will also be submitted to Scopus and ScienceDirect amongst others where applicable. A complimentary copy (print version) of the JMSOR (Vol.1 No.2) issue that carries your reviewed paper will be mailed to your mailing address. The JMSOR (Vol.1 No.2) will also be available in the GSTF Digital Library, a repository of proceedings and journals managed by GSTF. The Paper submission deadline for publications in the JMSOR is 30th November 2012. Authors must consult i) Guideline to Paper submission / Formatting and ii) Submitting your paper on the JMSOR (Vol.1 No.2) Journal Webpage – http://www.globalstf.org/journal-jmsor.php Please do not hesitate to contact jmsor@globalstf.org for further queries.

We are seeking to recruit a Senior Research Fellow in Complexity Economics (up to 3 posts) to join the research team based at INET@Oxford at the University of Oxford. The Complexity Economics Programme is based at the Said Business School and at the Mathematical Institute. The successful candidates will be based at one of these departments.

We would like to ask you for your nominations for the Young Scientist Award in Socio- and Econophycis (5,000 EUR), which will be awarded during the annual Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society in Regensburg in the week from March 10-15 2013. The Young Scientist Award recognizes outstanding original contributions that use physical methods to develop a better understanding of socio-economic problems and is intended for scientists in the earlier stage of their career, aged 40 or less on the day of the award ceremony.

The University of Vermont (UVM) seeks a tenure track assistant professor with outstanding research and teaching capabilities in the realm of Computational Social Science.

FuturICT, scientifically lead by Professor Dirk Helbing (ETHZ) and coordinated by Professor Steven Bishop (UCL) has now submitted an outstanding proposal to the EC on behalf of a consortium of leading EU universities and research organisations.

If you are interested in collective dynamics of socio-techno networks and affective interactions in such systems then you are invited to the Final Conference of the EU FP7 CyberEmotions Project. We welcome researchers dealing with computational and mathematical modeling of social processes in which the emotional component plays an important role.

Three post-doctoral research associate positions (1+1 years) are available at the University of Barcelona (Spain), to work on the field of complex networks/ network science. We are looking for strongly motivated candidates with excellent skills in theoretical modeling, programming/simulation, data collection and analysis, and a keen interest in multidisciplinary research. The candidate should have a PhD in Physics, Applied Mathematics, Computational Science, or any closely related discipline. Proficiency in spoken and written English is required. The successful candidate will undertake the development of analytic and computational tools for the study of multilayer networks, including time dependence, dynamical processes, and underlying metric spaces.

At the Chair of Systems Design at ETH Zurich, we are looking for a PhD student who shall work on modeling systemic risk, in a joint project with Prof. Hans Herrmann. Suitable candidates should have a strong background in statistical physics, analytical skills, and a dedicated interest in interdisciplinary research.

Three post-doctoral research associate positions (1+1 years) are available at the University of Barcelona (Spain), to work on the field of complex networks/ network science. We are looking for strongly motivated candidates with excellent skills in theoretical modeling, programming/simulation, data collection and analysis, and a keen interest in multidisciplinary research. The candidate should have a PhD in Physics, Applied Mathematics, Computational Science, or any closely related discipline. Proficiency in spoken and written English is required. The successful candidate will undertake the development of analytic and computational tools for the study of multilayer networks, including time dependence, dynamical processes, and underlying metric spaces.

The Center for Applied analysis, Scientific computing, and Applications (CASA) of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) offers a full-time (1.0 fte) tenured position for a Full Professor of Mathematics of Complex Systems This position will be in close collaboration with the TU/e interdepartmental Institute for Complex Molecular Systems.

IMT is currently looking for senior faculty members with a background in mathematics, engineering, computer science, economics, or physics, with research experience in domains such as (but not limited to) management science and quantitative finance, risk analysis, numerical analysis, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data mining.

The goal of the research will be to develop a theoretical and computational formalism for Information Processing in Multilevel Complex Systems in the context of criticality, emergence and tipping points, to validate it against canonical benchmarks such as cellular automata with underlying multilevel scale free network topologies, and to apply it to large real-world datasets.

ETH Zurich's Chair of Sociology, in particular of Modeling and Simulation, lead by Prof. Dirk Helbing, the scientific coordinator of the FuturICT project, is looking for two highly motivated Postdocs.

Phil Ball’s little book is one of the best summaries I have come across on complexity theory and its applications.

ICAART 2013 welcomes the submission of position papers whose deadline is set for next October 29. A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused on one of the conference topics.

The IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca (www.imtlucca.it) invites applications for two Assistant Professor positions (deadline October 12th) and two Post-Doctoral Fellow positions (deadline September 28th) in Statistical Physics. We will consider highly qualified candidates with a strong theoretical background in the field to perform research activities in the context of Crisis Lab, (http://axes.imtlucca.it/crisislab/), a strategic research project financed by Italian Government (Progetti di Interesse CNR), especially for the analysis of financial, social, and economic systems, as well as for traffic and infrastructural networks. Candidates with a Ph.D. in Statistical Physics, Mathematics or Information Science are preferable, and candidates should have a strong quantitative background with an orientation towards applied research. Experience in interdisciplinary applications of Complex Network theory with particular emphasis on community detection and analysis of large data sets is ideal, in addition to knowledge of computer programming and experience in European projects. Candidates should have excellent knowledge of English, both written and spoken, and should demonstrate enthusiasm for performing applied research in an interdisciplinary Research Unit. Candidates must have an excellent record of high-impact international publications. Interested candidates must apply by filling in the online application form at http://www.imtlucca.it/faculty/positions/junior_faculty_recruitment_program.php. They will also be asked to submit a CV, research paper (published or working) and the name and contact details of three referees. For further information about the position, applicants can refer to the website, or can contact ap.calls@imtlucca.it.

IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca (www.imtlucca.it) is accepting applications, from extremely motivated students oriented towards dynamic and highly applicative research opportunities, for fully-funded positions in its 2013 Doctoral Research Program in Economics and Management Science. The Program offers advanced courses with a focus on the analysis, the design and management of a large variety of socio-theorical systems and aims to contribute the advancement of the frontiers of research. The Economics Track deals with issues in political economy, applied public economics, and the functioning of industries and markets, and the impact of macroeconomic factors on the functioning of markets, as well as on productivity and growth. The Management Science curricula is oriented towards managerial decision making in complex organizations based on a quantitative approach to finance, marketing, information systems, operations, organizational behavior, innovation and industrial dynamics. For more information and the online application form please see http://www.imtlucca.it/phd/call_for_applications/index.php. The deadline for applications is September 26th 2012.

The editorial board of Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination would like to invite you for the submission of your papers to the special issue in honor of Professor Masanao Aoki.

The Institute for Future Studies is looking for a highly qualified postdoc. The ideal candidate has a recent social science PhD, good knowledge of statistical methods, and an interest in empirical analyses of segregation processes. Skills in network analysis and agent-based modelling is a plus. This is a two-year appointment with a start date of October 1 (or as soon thereafter as possible), but the appointment may be extended for an additional year pending funding decisions. For further information, please contact Peter Hedström.