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 Fridays 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 2022/2023 Schedule
Department of Social and Political Sciences, Via Conservatorio, Passione building, seminar room (2nd floor) (if not otherwise indicated).
Schedule (to be updated)
14 October 2022, 3 pm – 5 pm: Francesco Renzini, “Cognitive Social Structures, Diversity and Coordination: An Experimental Approach”
18 November 2022, 3 pm – 5 pm: Fabio Torreggiani, “Survey and survey experiments using Shiny (R); Elena De Gioannis, “ORSEE platform: recruitment for laboratory experiment”
21 December 2022, 11 am – 1 pm: Esteban Munoz, “Reputation diffusion in networks: The micro-steps of a (very) complex contagion”
24 January 2023, 3 pm – 5 pm: Massimo Airoldi, “Measuring culture with digital traces: some empirical examples”
28 March 2023, 3 pm – 5 pm: Carlo Debernardi e Francesco Renzin, “Who’s your peer? An ABM exploration of editors’ strategy in reviewer selection”
23 May 2023, 3 pm – 5 pm: Pietro Saccomanno, “Are political Internet memes more informative and more memorable than news articles?”; Marco Venturini, “The magic of the marketplace: An empirically calibrated agent-based model of the cryptocurrency market”
27 June 2023, 3 pm – 5 pm:
To join us or schedule a meeting, contact us at our email address here.
AY 2021/2022 Schedule
Department of Social and Political Sciences, Via Conservatorio, Passione building, seminar room (2nd floor) (if not otherwise indicated).
Schedule (to be updated)
28 September 2021, 11 am – 1 pm: Elisa Bellotti (University of Manchester, UK): Toward malaria eradication. The importance of social influence in the adoption of mosquito bites preventive measures in Meghalaya, India
12 October 2021, 11 am – 1 pm: Gianluca Pasin: “Institutions and social norms of tax compliance: An experimental analysis of the Italian case”
26 October 2021, 11 am – 1 pm: PhD students’ dissertation project presentations
9 November 2021, 11 am – 1 pm: Shyaam Ramkumar: “Role of inter-firm networks in the adoption and diffusion of eco-innovations to accelerate the circular economy transition” + Francesco Renzini, “Punishment mechanisms in a behavioral network formation game”
9 December 2021, 11 am – 1 pm: Elena De Gioannis, “Gender bias in the classroom: Self and peers’ ability attribution among high-school students in Italy”
21 December 2021, 11 am – 1 pm: Giovanni Abbiati (University of Brescia, Italy)
25 January 2022, 3-5 pm: Marco Cremonini, “The dynamical formation of ephemeral groups on networks and their effects on epidemics spreading”
8 February 2022, 3-5 pm: Elena De Gioannis, “Correlates of school closure during the COVID-19 pandemic. A global comparative analysis”
22 February 2022, 3-5 pm: Francesco Renzini, “Explaining advice exchange networks by status-driven preferences and cognitive overload: an agent-based model”
8 March 2022, 3-5 pm: Raffaele Vacca, “Toward testing the intergenerational contact hypothesis: the prevalence and variation of intergenerational ties among older adults in a Covid-19 epicenter”
26 April 2022, 2.30-4.30 pm: Federico Bianchi, “Complex networks keep you smart: a personal-network study on the effect of social relationships on older adults’ cognitive abilities”
17 May 2022, 3-5 pm: Raffaele Vacca, “Introduction to multi-level analysis with R” – part 1
31 May 2022, 3-5 pm: Raffaele Vacca, “Introduction to multi-level analysis with R” – part 2
14 June 2022, 3-5 pm: Fabio Torreggiani, “Social mechanisms of misinformation perception. A survey experiment on the role of social norms and anti-elitism”
To join us or schedule a meeting, contact us at our email address here.
Behave Opening Workshop
21 March 2019
Sala Lauree
Faculty of Political, Economic and Social Sciences
University of Milan
Via Conservatorio 7, 20122 Milan
PROGRAMME
(Antonio Chiesi, SPS Department Director)
(Flaminio Squazzoni, BEHAVE head)
“Social Research in the Digital Age”
(Matthew Salganik, Princeton University)
“Towards empirically more realistic simulation models of opinion dynamics”
For any question contatct
flaminio.squazzoni@unimi.it
More workshops planned
Online Workshop on «Social infrastructure and cognitive abilities in an ageing population», 1 June 2021
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Paul Ormerod will give an SPS-BEHAVE seminar on “Big data, machine learning and measuring economic welfare” on 4th February 2020!
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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
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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
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The Behave Opening Workshop on 21 March 2019
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Behave-NASP Seminar by David Stark (Columbia University) on 12 April 2019
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