Comp Social Sci @CSS_GMU
Computational Social Science Program at George Mason University, Agent-based Modeling, Social Networks, Complexity, Understanding & solving real world problems bit.ly/466x81S Fairfax, VA Joined January 2012-
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Congratulations to the @GeorgeMasonU Class of 2025! We are so proud of you! 🎉 #MasonGrad #Mason2025 #MasonNation 💚💛 gmu.edu/news/2025-05/g…
📢 Call for Papers! 📢 The 2025 Computational Social Science (CSS) Conference is accepting submissions! Share your cutting-edge research at the intersection of computation & social science. It will be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Nov 6 – 9, 2025. computationalsocialscience.org/wp-content/upl…
Today's #StaffShoutout goes to Sam Stone, academic programs manager in the Department of Computational and Data Sciences (CDS), for earning the Dean’s Student Service Award. 🌟 Learn more about Stone and all our Dean's Award winners: science.gmu.edu/celebrationofs…
You won't want to miss the Hayden Center's upcoming event! Join us for an open forum as expert panelists discuss national security challenges in 2025. Your questions will drive the discussion! Wed Feb 12. 7 pm ET. In-person or livestream. Register: signup.e2ma.net/signup/2008536…
An incredible opportunity for the right person: The Santa Fe Institute is seeking applications for full-time resident faculty positions at all academic levels For me, this has been the best possible job ever. More info here: santafe.edu/about/jobs/res…
📣📣CDS Colloquium/Friday Seminar📣📣 General growth models applied to companies Speaker: Chris Kempes, Santa Fe Institute Date: Friday, Dec 5, 2024 @ 3:00 PM (ET) Location: Center for Social Complexity @GMU_COS (and Zoom)
📣Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning With Mesa 3.0 Speakers: Dr. Tom Pike and Harsh Mahesheka Date: Friday, Nov 15, 2024 @ 11:00 AM (ET) Location: Center for Social Complexity @GMU_COS (and Zoom)
Join our seminar at GMU today 3:00 - 4:30 PM EDT. An Overview of Explainable and Interpretable AI by William (Billy) Lamberti, PhD. Location: Center for Social Complexity. Research Hall, Third Floor, GMU Fairfax Campus. Contact us to receive the zoom link for online access
Behave Summer School on ABM and ABM intro course: This is to inform you about two important summer schools on ABM in Europe this summer in which our team in Milan is involved: The Behave Summer School on Agent-Based Modelling, our usual hybrid… dlvr.it/T6SdKZ
Deadline extended to March 3rd now‼️More time to wrap up and submit your work🏃♀️🏃
Leveraging newspapers to understand urban issues: A longitudinal analysis of urban shrinkage in Detroit Na Jiang, Andrew T Crooks, Hamdi Kavak, and Wenjing Wang Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science doi.org/10.1177/239980… @JJiangna @AndyCrooks @hmdkvk
We are hiring two post-docs to work on urban simulation projects. Please, consider sharing. 1. Geospatial Simulation: listings.jobs.gmu.edu/jobs/7d9d5564-… 2. Geospatial Data Science and Machine Learning: listings.jobs.gmu.edu/jobs/c7b9bf86-…
🔖New paper: we (@AndyCrooks @hmdkvk and Wenjing Wang) utilize an advanced topic modeling technique (i.e., BERTopic) on a large number of newspaper articles from 1975 to 2021 to explore urban shrinkage in Detroit. More details: doi.org/10.1177/239980…
The Stability of Transient Relationships, our paper with @lopezmodeler, @simonecent, @Sam_GB_Roberts, @brulepri, and @RobinDunbar10 nature.com/articles/s4159… cc @CSS_GMU @Mason_CDS 1/5
Making model FAIR: An Educational Initiative to Build Good ABM Practices rofasss.org/2023/05/11/fai…
There are TWO ESSA summer schools this September! In Aberdeen 28Aug-1Sep for beginners to ABM hutton.ac.uk/events/europea… and 11-22Sept in Milan for the more advanced behavelab.org/behave-summer-…. (before&after the SimSoc conference) #ABM #simulation #summerschool #essa
⏰ Have a simulation paper to submit ? ⏰ Consider ANNSIM'23! Submission deadline for the 2023 Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM'23) has been extended through Jan 29, 2023. Submit your paper at scs.org/annsim/ #simulation
🚨 Publishing opportunity for CSS researchers 🚨 ≫ The 2023 Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference ≪ Paper submission due: Jan 8, 2023 scs.org/annsim/ Paper archival: #IEEE and #ACM DLs. #CFP #simulation #MachineLearning
There is still time to apply. This position will continue to be open until filled:

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