The workshop "Complex Network Analysis: From Graph Theory to Systems Biology" will take place in the city of Hall near Innsbruck in Austria from 2 to 4 October 2012. The concept of this workshop is that we want to bring together mathematicians, working on graph analysis and characterization, and scientists interested in application of mathematical methods to particular physical and biological systems. There is no registration fee and we can help you in booking accommodation in Hall.

Social simulation is a multidisciplinary research field that uses multi-agent computational models to approach the study and understanding of complex social phenomena such as the functioning of markets, the emergence of social norms, the ethnogenesis, or the dissemination of information in societies among others. The Summer School in Social Simulation: A hands-on approach program, organized by the Laboratory for Socio-Historical Dynamics Simulation (LSDS - UAB) offers an intensive hands-on course on multi-agent modeling applied to the social sciences using the Netlogo modeling environment. Participants will be able to debut immediately in the field and to present their own simulation model at the end of the course. The program will be conducted by researchers in artificial intelligence, sociology, economics, archeology and other fields in the social sciences who, parallel to the course, will present the state-of-the-art research on the implementation of social simulation in their fields of expertise. The course is mainly directed to advanced students and researchers in the various fields of the social sciences who wish to approximate or to deepen in the knowledge of agent-based simulation to analyze complex phenomena in the context of social dynamics.

From 12 - 14 September 2012, we (Frank Schweitzer, Ernst Fehr und Didier Sornette) organize the Latsis Symposium 2012 "Economics on the Move: Trends and Challenges from the Natural Sciences" as a high-level conference, including a Satellite Workshop, to be held at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. More information can be be found in the attached CFP as well as at the conference homepage: http://web.sg.ethz.ch/Latsis_2012/.

We would like to announce the II Gefenol Summer School on Statistical Physics of Complex and Small Systems organized by the Grupo de Fisica Estadística y No Lineal (GEFENOL) of the Spanish Physical Society. The School will take place at the “Centro de Ciencias Pedro Pascual” in Benasque, Huesca, Spain on September 3-14 2012. Applications to attend the school can be submitted through the school web page until June 15. Fellowships covering the lodging cost will be available.

The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences started a computational humanities programme this year. In one of the projects, "Elite Network Shifts", a postdoc position is offered for a person with a profile in physics/mathematics/engineering (preferably complex networks) and interest for social and political dynamics and history. While this is a unique possibility we are aware that it is also a challenge to find such a person, and this is why I would like to alert you to this positions and also ask you to send the advertisement to possible candidates. Deadline for application is June 30.

The focus of SocialCom is on information and communication technologies aimed at modeling, analysis and synthesis of social interactions. The program will cover the whole spectrum of contexts where computers play a role in human-human and human-machine interaction, from co-located, face-to-face dyadic interactions up to large-scale on-line social networks. Submission deadline: May 18, 2012.

The 2012 edition addresses PhD students and young researchers to the forefront of research activity on data mining and modeling of complex techno-socio-economic systems. 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.

Social life is increasingly characterized by interdependencies among actors, which give rise to self-organization, feedback-loops, unpredictable and unexpected system behavior, and other complex dynamics. Providing novel and fast ways through which the behavior of individuals may have implications for the behavior of others, information and communication technologies (ICT) seem to dramatically emphasize these tendencies. Agent-based modeling promises to be a major tool for a better understanding of such complexities that fundamentally challenge the way social phenomena are approached. The workshop invites poster contributions of cutting-edge research that draws on such techniques or on empirical data tostudy interdependencies in social life, with a special focus on techno-social systems.

The candidate's areas of interest should revolve around individual and collective animal behavior, animal cognition, animal movement, human social behavior, social transfer of information, and/or the development of new methods (GPS, RFID, computer vision, etc.) to collect and analyze large scale behavioral data. Candidates with experience in experimental work (lab and field) and/or theoretical work are welcome, as well as candidates with an engineering background but a demonstrated interest in biology, in particular the research areas mentioned previously.

Recommender systems have been recognized as a promising way to solve the information overload problem, whose main task is to find out what their users might like. Recent evidence demonstrates the significance of social influence and indicate that recommendations made by advanced techniques and algorithms are often less appreciated than those coming from our friends or acquaintances. The emergence of large-scale social network services, such as Facebook and Twitter, is facilitating the development of social recommendation. We seek high-qualified, original submissions of reports on research covering all the aspects of designs, techniques, algorithms, experiments, and empirical analyses on social recommender systems.

Latsis Symposium 2012 is a high-level conference to be held at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. The day preceding the Latsis Symposium, TUE 11 September 2012, is reserved for a SATELLITE WORKSHOP that addresses in three parallel tracks the relation between economics and other quantitative sciences from different viewpoints. We invite contributed talks (30 min) to these parallel tracks.

The International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2012) is an interdisciplinary venue for researchers from Computer Science, Informatics, Social Sciences and Management Sciences to share ideas and opinions, and present original research work on studying the interplay between socially-centric platforms and social phenomena. The ultimate goal of Social Informatics is to create better understanding of socially-centric platforms not just as a technology, but also as a set of social phenomena. To that end, we are inviting interdisciplinary papers, on applying information technology in the study of social phenomena, on applying social concepts in the design of information systems, on applying methods from the social sciences in the study of social computing and information systems, on applying computational algorithms to facilitate the study of social systems and human social dynamics, and on designing information and communication technologies that consider social context.

Researchers are invited to submit a contribution to the Third International Workshop on Managing Financial Instability in Capitalist Economies (MAFIN 2012), to be held in Genoa (Italy), September 19th-21st, 2012. Unorthodox methodological approaches will be appreciated, e.g. agent-based modeling and simulation, flow-of-fund analyses and stock-flow consistent modeling, networks economics, statistical equilibrium techniques, institutional and evolutionary economics perspectives, data mining techniques.

The page says... We welcome submissions in the areas of multi-agent systems, aggregation mechanisms and crowd-sourcing, belief elicitation, reward based systems, game theory and mechanism design, online trading and portfolio selection, prediction markets, and auctions or any other areas of relevance. In each of these areas there are often transactional or reward mechanisms that can be thought of in economic terms.

In the framework of the European research and training activities in Complexity Science we announce the continuation of a series of annual Ph.D. Schools on "Mathematical Modeling of Complex Systems". This Ph.D. School is intended for postgraduate students from all over Europe and offers four coherent lecture courses, taught by experts in each field.

The Institute for Future Studies is looking for a highly qualified postdoc. The ideal candidate has a background in social science, programming skills in Matlab, and good knowledge of statistical methods (preferably including Bayesian methods) and dynamical systems.

Applications are invited for this position in the Madrid groups involved in the RESINEE project. The position is available from 1 September 2012 to 30 June 2013 (non-renewable). The position will be held at the Grupo Interdisciplinar de Sistemas Complejos (GISC, Interdisciplinary Group for Complex Systems), where a very active area of research is the application of the ideas and techniques of statistical physics to biological and social systems and to questions in economics.

The course is addressed to PhD students of the Politecnico di Milano, but also to other PhD students and researchers working in various areas of science and engineering interested in applying dynamical system theory to social sciences.

We are pleased to announce the Aalto Complex Networks Factory, combining 3 days of summer school with 2 days reserved for a workshop and presentations. The Factory will take place in Porvoo, near Helsinki, between 4th and 8th June, 2012, in the Sannäs countryside manor. If you wish to participate, please send an email to santo.fortunato@aalto.fi or jari.saramaki@aalto.fi as soon as possible. In the email please attach your updated CV, including a list of publications.

The ECCS conference series has become a major international event for people interested in interdisciplinary science and applications. The call for abstract submission for the next European Conference on Complex Systems (Brussels 3-7 September 2012) is extended until 18 April. Please see our webpage for details.