Paul Ormerod will give an SPS-BEHAVE seminar on “Big data, machine learning and measuring economic welfare” on 4th February 2020!

By |2019-11-25T15:00:30+00:00November 25th, 2019|

Brilliant economist, entrepreneur and author, Paul Ormerod (Volterra partner and visiting professor at UCL) will give an SPS-BEHAVE seminar on "Big data, machine learning and measuring economic welfare" on 4th February 2020, 12.30-14.30 at the Seminar Room of the Deparment of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan. Paul will present a paper co-authored with [...]

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BEHAVE-UNIMI will host the Social Simulation Conference 2020, on 14-18 September 2020

By |2019-09-26T23:39:46+00:00September 26th, 2019|

BEHAVE is proud to announce that the 2020 Social Simulation Conference will take place at the University of Milan on 14-18 September 2020. Supported by BEHAVE and hosted by the Department of Social and Political Sciences, SSC is the main annual event of ESSA-The European Social Simulation Association, the largest association connecting all scholars interested [...]

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Joshua M. Epstein will talk on “The philosophy and applications of agent-based computational modelling” at the BEHAVE Summer School on Sept 2, 9AM at the Collegio Lucchini, Brescia

By |2019-08-25T20:50:47+00:00August 25th, 2019|

Joshua M. Epstein (New York University) will give the inaugural lecture of the BEHAVE Summer School on ABM on Sept 2, 9AM 2019. He will talk on "The philosophy and applications of agent-based computational modelling". The talk will be recorded and published on the BEHAVE website after the school. Stay tuned! One of the pioneers [...]

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Flaminio Squazzoni will give a seminar on peer review at the Institute for Analytical Sociology (Linköpings University, Sweden) on 28 November 2019

By |2019-08-22T10:19:41+00:00August 23rd, 2019|

Flaminio Squazzoni (Behave head) will give a seminar on peer review at the Institute for Analytical Sociology (Linköpings University, Sweden) on 28 November 2019. In the seminar, he will discuss the pros and cons of open peer review and transparency in periods of academic hypercompetition. The full programme of the IAS seminars is available here.

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Simone Gabbriellini will talk on “Network effects on tax compliance: An agent-based model” at a SPS-BEHAVE workshop on 20 May 2019

By |2019-05-06T10:50:31+00:00May 6th, 2019|

Dr. Simone Gabbriellini (GECS-University of Brescia & Data Scientist and CEO @ Manent.AI will talk on "Network effects on tax compliance: An agent-based model" at a SPS-BEHAVE workshop on 20 May 2019 at 12.30, Seminar Room, Department of Social and Political Science, University of Milan, Via Conservatorio 7. The paper is co-authored with Flaminio Squazzoni [...]

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Andreas Flache will talk on computational research on segregation and polarisation in a NASP International Seminar on 22 March 2019 in Milan

By |2019-03-18T09:47:50+00:00March 15th, 2019|

Andreas Flache, member of the advisory board of BEHAVE, one of the most influential quantitative sociologists working on computational and experimenatal models of social behaviour in Europe, will talk on computational research on segregation and polarisation in a NASP International Seminar on 22 March 2019 at the University of Milan. The title of the seminar [...]

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Flaminio Squazzoni will give an invited talk at a Symposium on ABM @ Theory Building at the INAS 2019 Conference

By |2019-03-05T11:52:36+00:00March 4th, 2019|

Flaminio Squazzoni (the Behave head) will give an invited talk at a Symposium on "Agent-Based Modelling for Theory Building in the Social Sciences, at the INAS 2019 Conference in St. Petersburg, Russia, on 31 May-2 June 2019. The symposium is part of the 12th edition of the "International Network of Analytical Sociology" conference and aims [...]

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Flaminio Squazzoni (Behave lead) talks on big data and social research at Collegio Lucchini in Brescia

By |2019-02-28T09:30:07+00:00February 27th, 2019|

Are big data challenging the way social research is performed? On 12 March at 6.30PM at Collegio Lucchini in Brescia, Flaminio Squazzoni (Behave Lead, University of Milan) will talk about challenges and prospects of big data for social research to a group of Master and PhD students. The talk is part of [...]

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