Reception of the Winter School:

5th January 2009, ISCTE, Building 2, room B202 (in front of the coffee-shop), at 17h.

The first session will start at 17h30.  


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The Complexity Sciences Winter School will take place at  ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute, between the 5th and the 10th January 2009. This edition will be organized by John Symons (University of Texas at El Paso), Rui Lopes and Jorge Louçã (both from ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute), around the subject "Social structures in communication networks".  

The Winter School will be the first event associated to the new International Doctoral Program in Complexity Sciences, allowing to present the new academic program scientific goals and organization. 

The Winter School will propose an interdisciplinary approach for the study of appearing new social structures supported by communication networks, such as Internet. Different points of view and scientific contexts will be applied to the study of social dynamic structures in communication networks. This approach associates the scientific domains of philosophy of science, computer networks, social networks, and social simulation. Specifically, computer networks sessions will concern mainly the hardware and software design of networks, social network theory will allow network analysis from the social sciences point of view, and social simulation will provide tools for models design, hypotheses test and validation. Philosophy of science will discuss the validity of this interdisciplinary context and the relevance of focusing research on the new communication networks.

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Target audience

The sessions are intended for faculty, graduate students, master and PhD students, researchers and others who would like to gain an understanding of the crossed-perspective of philosophy of science, computer networks, social networks, and social simulation. 

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Closing workshop 

The Winter School will end with an open workshop, the 2nd ICC Workshop on Complexity in Social Sciences, that will take place at ISCTE Saturday 10th January. The workshop will take all day and will include the presentation of research papers, conclusions of the school and a final discussion. 

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Time schedule

The Winter School will have 2 sessions every day during 1 week, the first session between 17h30 and 19h and the second session from 19h30 to 21h. This time schedule will allow working people to come to all sessions. It will allow also non-portuguese participants to use the morning and early afternoon free moments to interact with local research teams at the university. 

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Speakers

Please check also the list of speakers that will participate in the 2nd ICC Workshop on Complexity in Social Sciences (10th January 2009) that will end the 2009 edition of the Winter School.

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Registration

Registration deadline is December 31. To register please send an email to "idpcc dot dcti at iscte dot pt" asking to attain the winter school, and informing your name, address, nationality, institution and telephone. The registration fee is 120 euros, allowing to participate in the Complexity Sciences Winter School (5-9 January 2009) and in the  following 2nd ICC Workshop on Complexity in Social Sciences (10th January). Participants will be asked to pay the registration fee by cash, at the registration desk, just before the beginning of the Winter School, the 5th January. 

ISCTE has reserved some rooms at his International Students Residence, available to students attaining both the Winter School and the Workshop. Please contact the organization of our Winter School for more informations. 

   

contact : idpcc dot dcti at iscte dot pt    idpcc