[Air-L] Call for Participation: Computational Social Science Winter Symposium, at GESIS Cologne, Dec 2-3 2015

[Weller, Katrin]

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - REGISTRATION OPEN UNTIL NOV. 18, 2015
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2nd COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE WINTER SYMPOSIUM

Cologne, Germany

Main symposium dates: December 2-3, 2015
Pre-symposium workshops and tutorials: December 1, 2015

Website: http://www.gesis.org/css-wintersymposium/

Hashtag: #cssws15
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The main program for the CSS Winter Symposium 2015 has be announced: http://www.gesis.org/css-wintersymposium/program/

We are looking forward to:

* an exciting program featuring a eight invited talks that will provide different perspectives on current advances and limitations of computational social science
* 70 contributed posters and 11 presentations of recent research from the area of computational social science
* the opportunity to participate in workshops and tutorials on the day prior to the symposium
* plenty of possibilities for interdisciplinary networking including an informal evening event at the famous Cologne Christmas markets

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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Andrea Baronchelli (City University London): The Spontaneous Emergence of Social Conventions - An Experimental Study of Cultural Evolution

Johan Bollen (Indiana University): Modeling critical transitions in mental health from longitudinal social media data

Munmun De Choudhury (Georgia Tech): Communities in Distress: Opportunities and Challenges of Social Media in Mental Well-being

Noshir Contractor (Northwestern University): Leveraging Computational Social Science to address Grand Societal Challenges

Andreas Flache (University of Groningen): Ethnic segregation and the fragility of opinion pluriformity in a diverse society

Sune Lehmann (Technical University of Denmark): The fundamental structures of complex social systems

Jürgen Pfeffer (Carnegie Mellon University): Know Your Data! Know Your Methods!

Ralph Schroeder (University of Oxford): Big Data and Social Theory

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REGISTRATION
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Registration is free of charge and open until November 18th, 2015.

PLEASE NOTE: Unfortunately we cannot take responsibility for support on visa related issues.

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VENUE
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The CSS Winter Symposium will take place at the heart of Cologne, at Maternushaus within walking distance of the central train station and the Cologne cathedral.


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CONTACT
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CONFERENCE CHAIR:
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Prof. Dr. Markus Strohmaier
GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Computational Social Science Department
Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8
D-50667 Köln
Germany

E-mail: markus.strohmaier at gesis.org<mailto:markus.strohmaier at gesis.org>
Twitter: @mstrohm
Phone: +49 (221) 47694-225


WORKSHOPS/TUTORIALS CHAIR:
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Dr. Katrin Weller
GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Computational Social Science Department
Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8
D-50667 Köln
Germany

E-mail: katrin.weller at gesis.org<mailto:katrin.weller at gesis.org>
Twitter: @kwelle
Phone: +49 221 47694472


LOCAL ORGANIZATION:
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Diana Lindner, M.A.
GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Computational Social Science Department
Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8
D-50667 Köln
Germany

Email: diana.lindner at gesis.org<mailto:diana.lindner at gesis.org>
Phone: +49 (0221) 47694-401