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 hybrid workshop aims to explore new frameworks and tools to integrate agent-based modeling and social network research. It is especially targeted to the youngest generation of computational social scientists, e.g., Master and PhD students, who will be exposed to new research agendas by leading scholars in agent-based and social network studies.
The line-up of speakers and participants include:
Filip Agneessens (University of Trento, Italy), Jen Badham (Durham University, UK), Michal Bojanowski (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain), Federico Bianchi (University of Milan, Italy), Cristina Chueca del Cerro (Durham University, UK), Daniel Cowen (University of Groningen, NL), Andreas Flache (University of Groningen, NL), Yunsub Lee (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain), Alla Loseva (University of Groningen, NL), Miranda Lubbers (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain), Gianluca Manzo (Sorbonne University, France), Francesco Renzini (University of Milan, Italy), Christoph Stadtfeld (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Christian Steglich (University of Groningen, NL), Károly Takács (Linkoping University, Sweden), Tanzhe Tang (University of Groningen, NL), Raffaele Vacca (University of Milan, Italy), Jochem Tolsma & Tibor Zingora (University of Groningen, NL).
The workshop is chaired by Flaminio Squazzoni (University of Milan, Italy).
To join the workshop online, please fill in this form by 18 April 2024 here. You will receive the link to join the meeting by email on 19 April 2024.
BEHAVE Rendez-vous
The BEHAVE lab hosts monthly regular group meetings for all lab members, including guests, invited speakers and Ph.D. and Master students. They typically take place on Thursdays from 3pM to 5PM at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, Via Conservatorio, Passione building, seminar room (2nd floor), if not otherwise indicated.
The meetings revolve around everything that is relevant to research or training of the group, such as (but not limited to):
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- Discussion of working papers to be submitted to journals (which should ideally be previously shared)
- Confidential discussion of review reports received on manuscripts submitted to journals, including ideas and suggestions for the response
- Mock presentations of members’ conference talks (or Ph.D. defence)
- Discussion of new (even crazy) ideas and calls for collaboration
- Presentation of research published by non-members relevant to the group (e.g., a recently published article or book)
- Discussing ideas for grant applications
- Advanced training: quick hands-on tutorials on new tools/techniques by group members (e.g., “let me show you how to make the best graphs with ggplot2”).
The goals of these meetings are:
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- Fostering group cohesion and solidarity
- Stimulate new projects
- Ensuring that every member can be at the frontier of research
- Strengthening the quality of training
To join us or schedule a meeting, contact us at our email address here.
AY 2024/2025 Schedule
Department of Social and Political Sciences, Via Conservatorio, Passione building, seminar room (2nd floor) (if not otherwise indicated).
Schedule (to be updated)
19 September 2024, 3 pm – 5 pm: Yick William Chung “How generative Artificial Intelligence changes work: Applying the task-based approach in the digital platform labour” ; Riccardo Sandretto “Agent-based modeling applied to the context of organizations in order to observe the conditions and dynamics of the emergence of cooperative behaviors within hierarchical structures“.
17 October 2024, 3 pm – 5 pm: Federico Bianchi “SOLIDITY – Population-scale solidarity networks in Italiano multi-ethnic society“.
14 November 2024, 3 pm – 5 pm: Vieri Pistocchi TBD, Minsu Jang TBD
12 December 2024, 3 pm – 5 pm: Ayan Gupta TBD
AY 2023/2024 Schedule
Department of Social and Political Sciences, Via Conservatorio, Passione building, seminar room (2nd floor) (if not otherwise indicated).
Schedule (to be updated)
8 November 2023, 3 pm – 5 pm: Nigel Van Herwijnen “An Agent-Based Modelling Approach to Social Cohesion“; Eduardo Coltre Ferraciolli “Agent-based modeling and the sociology of money: a framework for the study of coordination and plurality“.
12 December 2023, 4 pm – 5.30 pm: Pietro Saccomanno “Satirical Meme pages on social media: Jokers or Opinion leaders?“; Marco Venturini “An exploratory analysis of the Bitcoin transaction network“.
22 January 2023, 3 pm – 5 pm: Arturo Bertero “The political belief systems of Italian voters“.
27 February 2023, 3 pm – 5 pm: Gian Luca Pasin “A social tipping intervention to promote the adoption of reusable food packaging solutions“; Pietro Saccomanno “Using memes to engage the younger generations with news and politics, A field experiment conducted on 350.000 Instagram users“.
19 March, 3.00 pm – 5.00 pm: Margherita Criveller “Too embedded to fail? A network study of contracts and betrayal between states and mercenaries in renaissance italy’s warfare market” (seminar room Conservatorio building).
4 April, 11.00 am – 1.00 pm: Francesco Renzini “Network Footprints: A Laboratory Experiment on Brokerage and Information Diffusion” (seminar room Conservatorio building).
20 May, 3.00 pm – 5.00 pm: Kevin Tang (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) “Navigating Human Behavior in Health and Education through the Lens of Natural Language” (seminar room Passione buidling)
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