Our Behave Summer School featured at the NetLogo conference 2026!
Dr. Francesco Renzini from our team has presented at the NetLogo conference 2026 in Chicago (June 29th - July 1st, 2026) the lessons learned after years of experience in teaching agent-based modelling and NetLogo to hundreds of PhD students and early career researchers. The title of his workshop was "From Beginner to Modeler: Teaching Agent-Based Modeling [...]
Birgit Müller invited lecturer at the Behave Summer School 2026!
Birgit Müller (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ, Germany) will be one of the invited lecturers at the Behave Summer School 2026! She will give a lecture on “Modeling Policy Impacts on Farmer Decisions and Ecosystems”. Birgit is Head of Working Group POLISES (POLicy Instruments and Socio-Environmental Systems under global change) at the [...]
Clémentine Cottineau-Mugadza invited lecturer at the Behave Summer School 2026!
Clémentine Cottineau-Mugadza (TU Delft, The Netherlands) will be one of the invited lecturers at the Behave Summer School 2026! She will give a lecture on "Synthetic populations, synthetic cities and the spatio-temporal effects of urban inequality and segregation". Clementine is a geographer, currently Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at the Faculty of Architecture and the [...]
Applications to our two-year Master’s programme in Computational Social and Political Science, AY 26/27, are now open!
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 [...]
Behave Summer School on ABM 2026. The call for applications is open!
Behave Summer School on Agent-Based Modelling, University of Brescia, Italy, 31 August-11 September 2026. Jointly organised by the University of Milan (BehaveLab) and the University of Brescia (Department of Information Engineering), this year our summer school on agent-based modelling takes place in a hybrid format in Brescia, Italy, on 31 August-11 September 2026. For any [...]
Marco Venturini
On Saturday 31 January 2026, Dr. Marco Venturini from our team was awarded second prize for the best article published by an early career researcher at the SISEC (The Italian Society of Economic Sociology) Annual Conference in Florence. The article is entitled "Mapping network structures and dynamics of decentralised cryptocurrencies: The evolution of Bitcoin (2009–2023)" and can [...]
Rainer Hegselmann’s seminar on “Computational Social Epistemology”, 28 May 2025, 2.30PM
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 [...]
Behave Summer School 2025: call for applications open!
Behave Summer School on Agent-Based Modelling,University of Brescia, Italy, 1-12 September 2025. Jointly organised by the University of Milan (BehaveLab) and the University of Brescia (Department of Information Engineering) and supported by ESSA-European Social Simulation Association, this year our summer school on agent-based modelling takes place in a hybrid format in Brescia, Italy, on 1-12 [...]
MA programme in Computational Social and Political Science!
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 [...]