Events – Behave Lab

Applications to our two-year Master’s programme in Computational Social and Political Science, AY 26/27, are now open!

Applications to our two-year Master’s programme in Computational Social and Political Science, AY 26/27, are now open!

By Flaminio Squazzoni|2026-03-25T12:10:34+00:00March 25th, 2026|

Applications are open for our two-year Master's programme in Computational Social and Political Science at the University of Milan, which provides students with training in a wide range of quantitative and computational methods for social and political analysis, including agent-based modelling, networks, machine learning and LLM, text analytics, experiments, surveys and more. The course is [...]

Rainer Hegselmann’s seminar on “Computational Social Epistemology”, 28 May 2025, 2.30PM

Rainer Hegselmann’s seminar on “Computational Social Epistemology”, 28 May 2025, 2.30PM

By Flaminio Squazzoni|2025-05-15T21:12:10+00:00May 15th, 2025|

On 28 May 2025, 2.30PM, Prof. Rainer Hegselmann (Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Germany) will give a seminar on "Computational Social Epistemology: A case study on two-armed bandits versus inductive truth seekers and epistemic free riders" at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan. You can find the abstract below. The [...]

MA programme in Computational Social and Political Science!

MA programme in Computational Social and Political Science!

By Flaminio Squazzoni|2025-03-27T10:56:16+00:00January 23rd, 2025|

A New Master's Programme in Computational Social and Political Science The call for applications for students to participate in our new Master's programme in Computational Social and Political Science is now open. The deadline for apply is on 26 August 2025. Th The Master's Degree Programme in Computational Social and Political Science (CSPS) equips students [...]

Tutorial Workshop on “Agentizing Computational Models”, by Francesco Renzini and Flaminio Squazzoni, Computational Social Science Italy Conference, University of Trento, 15 January 2025

Tutorial Workshop on “Agentizing Computational Models”, by Francesco Renzini and Flaminio Squazzoni, Computational Social Science Italy Conference, University of Trento, 15 January 2025

By Flaminio Squazzoni|2024-11-12T15:39:15+00:00November 12th, 2024|

Tutorial Workshop on "‘Agentizing’ Computational Models", by Francesco Renzini & Flaminio Squazzoni, Computational Social Science Italy Conference, Department of Sociology & Social Research Socia, University of Trento, Italy, Wednesday 15 January 2025 Agent-based modelling (ABM) is a computational method for understanding how social dynamics emerge from heterogeneous agent interaction. ABM allows researchers to study otherwise [...]

The Behave Summer School 2024 is running!

The Behave Summer School 2024 is running!

By Flaminio Squazzoni|2024-09-09T15:13:04+00:00September 9th, 2024|

Hybrid workshop on “Agent-based models of social networks”, 22-23 April 2024

Hybrid workshop on “Agent-based models of social networks”, 22-23 April 2024

By Flaminio Squazzoni|2024-04-23T16:24:34+00:00March 20th, 2024|

Hybrid workshop on "Agent-based models of social networks", Department of Social & Political Sciences, Seminar room, Via Conservatorio 7, 20122 Milan, 22-23 April 2024 Organised by the Computational Models and Designs Hub, and funded by the Department of Social & Political Science of the University of Milan under the "Departments of Excellence" MIUR grant. This [...]

BEHAVE will host the Social Simulation Conference 2022 in Milan!

BEHAVE will host the Social Simulation Conference 2022 in Milan!

By Flaminio Squazzoni|2022-02-03T21:48:08+00:00February 3rd, 2022|

BEHAVE is glad to announce that the Social Simulation Conference 2022 will take place at the University of Milan on 12-16 September 2022! Organised by ESSA-European Social Simulation Association, the major event for any scholar using agent-based models and computer simulation to study social dynamics and processes since its first edition in 2003, SSC2022 will [...]

Welcome to the CSSC-BL-C2S2 Cyber Mondays!

Welcome to the CSSC-BL-C2S2 Cyber Mondays!

By Flaminio Squazzoni|2021-12-19T23:15:06+00:00December 19th, 2021|

The BehaveLab, the Computational Social Science Center (University of Bologna) and the Center for Computational Social Science and Human Dynamics (University of Trento) jointly organise the CSSC-BL-C2S2 Cyber Mondays, a teaser series of short talks and tutorials addressed to students/PhDs/postdocs of the three universities (Milan, Bologna and Trento). The events will be online, on Monday [...]

Online Workshop on «Social infrastructure and cognitive abilities in an ageing population», 1 June 2021

By Flaminio Squazzoni|2021-07-27T17:17:26+00:00June 1st, 2021|

Online Workshop on «Social infrastructure and cognitive abilities in an ageing population» 1 June 2021 Programme 9.00 - 9.10 AM | Welcome (Flaminio Squazzoni, University of Milan, Behave Director & Marco Castellani, University of Brescia, Sociable PI) 9.10 - 9.30 AM | Social relationships and cognitive abilities in older adults. A meta-analysis (Matteo Piolatto, University [...]

Wojtek Przepiorka talks about “How norms emerge from conventions (and change)” at a NASP International and Interdisciplinary Seminar, on 9 April 2021, 2.30-4.30PM

Wojtek Przepiorka talks about “How norms emerge from conventions (and change)” at a NASP International and Interdisciplinary Seminar, on 9 April 2021, 2.30-4.30PM

By Flaminio Squazzoni|2021-04-08T10:45:24+00:00April 8th, 2021|

Wojtek Przepiorka (Utrecht University, Department of Sociology/ICS) presents a paper entitled "How norms emerge from conventions (and change)" at a NASP International and Interdisciplinary Seminar, on 9 April 2021, 2.30-4.30PM. The seminar will be held online on Zoom. If you are interested to join the seminar, please contact us here to have the link. Abstract. [...]