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.

The program for this year's DPG Spring Meeting (Berlin, March 25-30, 2012) is out! You can download the SOE portion here and the full conference program from the conference homepage.

The "Young-Scientist Award for Socio- and Econophysics 2012" goes to Dr. Arne Traulsen, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Biology. The award ceremony will take place during the DPG spring conference on March 28, 2012. See the conference program for details.

Media coverage of the SOE program: "Das Klickgeheimnis des Erfolgs", "Börsencrash mit Ansage", and "Zehn rote Luftballons".

Interview with Prof. Dr. Jürgen Mimkes: "Physik der menschlichen Gesellschaft - Formeln der Freiheit".

The program of the DPG conference in Dresden, March 13 to 18th 2011, was published at http://www.dpg-verhandlungen.de/2011/dresden/index_en.html. The program of our division can be found here (Graphical Schedule).

Article in Israel's leading economic newspaper "TheMarker" about econophysics (What does the stock market have in common with our brain?, Download)

Informations for the past DPG Spring Meeting (Regensburg, March 21-26, 2010):
    SOE: Conference Program (19 pages)
    SOE: Overview of Invited Talks and Sessions (2 pages)
    SOE: Conference Highlights (2 pages)
    Dirk Brockmann will receive the Young Scientist Award (Poster)

Download the Φ·SOE newsletter (April 2010)

Download the Φ·SOE newsletter (October 2009)

Download the Φ·SOE newsletter (August 2009)

Download the Φ·SOE newsletter (July 2009)

Working Group on Physics of Socio-Economic Systems (AGSOE) is a Division of the DPG (SOE), starting October 1, 2009 >>more

download the poster (pdf)