Φ·SOE News
Φ·SOE = Fachverband Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme
(= Physics of Socio-Economic Systems Division)
The mathematical and computer simulation of social and economic systems is receiving more and more attention. The dedicated scientific community is rapidly growing and involves, besides sociologist and economists, also physicists, mathematicians, computers scientists, biologists, engineers, and the communities working on complex systems and operations research. To keep an overview, it is important to be well connected, and to benefit from shared information platforms.
The division on "Physics of Socio-Economic Systems" (Φ·SOE, previously AKSOE/AGSOE) is committed to support the scientific exchange between the scientific disciplines involved. It has currently more than 200 members and organizes a spring conference with more than 50 contributions each year. During this conference, it features outstanding international speakers not only from socio- and econo-physics, but also from sociology and economics. Furthermore, scientists are awareded for outstanding innovative work in this field.
Call for suggestions for plenary speakers and joint symposia!
Next DPH spring meeting, 30.March - 4.April 2014 in Dresden, is approaching! If you would like your favourite plenary speaker, or your favourite symposium (5 speakers, joint with 2+ other divisions) be considered, please send your suggestion by 1. of June
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The Young Scientist Award 2013 for Socio- and Econophysics
goes to Vittoria Colizza. Congratulations!
The prize is awarded during the award session on Monday afternoon, 16:00 at lecture hall H37. Alan Kirman setting the stage with his invited talk "Mind the gap: What economics, social insects and statistical physics can learn from each other", followed by the prize presentation and the awardee's talk. The session is followed by a social get-together with beer, pretzels and Leberkäs.
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Current event: Spring meeting, Regensburg 10.-15. March 2013. Do not miss the exciting program! Registration is still possible, even on-site.
From the program:
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Ian Couzin (Princeton, USA) "Distributed sensing and decision-making in animal and human collectives"
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Jörg Reichardt (Würzburg) "Spin models for the analysis of network data across the sciences"
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Kim Sneppen (Copenhagen, Denmark) "Modeling co-existence of competing opinions"
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Dirk Brockmann (Northwestern, USA) "Have we been looking at the spread of epidemics all wrong?"
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Alan Kirman (Marseille, France) "Mind the gap: What economics, social insects and statistical physics can learn from each other"
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and as a special highlight: Plenary talk (Monday, noon): Sidney Redner (Boston, USA) "The dynamics of wealth, popularity and persuasion"
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Change in program: Thursday 15:00-15:45
Jörg Reichardt (Würzburg) "Spin models for the analysis of network data across the sciences"
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The program for this year's DPG Spring Meeting (Regensburg, March 11-15, 2013) is out! You can download the SOE portion here and the full conference program from the conference homepage.
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