[agents] YRS at ECCS'10 Call for Participation

[Young Researchers Session]

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Young Researchers Session @ European Conference on Complex Systems 

September 15 , 2010
http://phd.eccs2010.eu

Deadline: June 30

Bursaries to Attend ECCS'10 are Available
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Final Call for Presentations

Young Researchers (<8 yrs) are invited to submit a presentation
as a short 300 word abstract on a subject within complex systems science
or topics concerning research and academic careers, complex systems
domains
and applications, job opportunities for complex systems science
graduates, 
curriculum networking, skills matrices for complex systems studies as a 
whole or any other relevant matter.
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At pivotal moments throughout history, technological innovation
triggers massive social and cultural transformation. Apparently
unrelated developments, which had been gradually unfolding for years,
suddenly converge to create changes that are as disruptive as they are
creative. We are currently living in a moment of extraordinary
complexity when systems and structures that have long organized life
are changing at an unprecedented rate. Such rapid and pervasive change
creates the need to develop new ways of understanding the world and of
interpreting our experience. (Marc C. Taylor, “The Moment of
Complexity: Emerging Network Culture”)

In the last decade there has been a growing interest in the study of
complex systems. The concept of complexity is pervasive in many fields
of research, from social sciences such as politics and economics to
'hard' sciences such as theoretical physics and systems biology. This
growing interest and concurrent widening of research domains creates
the need to develop new ways of understanding and interpreting the
world. This is particularly important for young researchers tackling
their initial research questions within the domain of complex systems.

The Young Researchers Session @ ECCS'10 seeks to bring together a
group of complex systems science researchers at an early stage in
their careers (graduates, M.Sc., Ph.D., Postdoctoral researchers and
Lecturers), to facilitate a dialogue beween individuals and groups
from an intentionally diverse set of domains. We aim to encourage the
presentation of experimental results within this supportive,
interdisciplinary group, and to foster collaboration between people
from within the complex systems community who may not otherwise have
come across experimental techniques and approaches from outside their
'comfort zone'.

Emphasis will therefore be on creating a stimulating and interactive
environment, with a focus also on the bigger questions at large within
complex systems research. To this end, presenters will be asked to
allude to the 'bigger picture' questions within their domain and in
complex systems science as a whole from their perspective. Crucially,
we aim to establish a collaborative environment that will continue
after ECCS'10 to foster these links.  

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Invited Speakers
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David Chavalarias - TBA

CNRS Researcher at the Complex Systems Institute Paris Ile-de-France
and Center For Research in Applied Epistemology (CREA, Ecole
Polytechnique), Team Complex Systems, Adaptive Rationality and Social
Cognition
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Vitorino Ramos - Assembling the superset of 4 critical research areas
in Complexity: Evolution, Self-Organization, Cognition, Network
Topology

LaSEEB - Evolutionary Systems and Biomedical Engineering Lab., IST,
Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, PORTUGAL.

GeNeura Team Lab. - Department of Architecture and Computer
Technology, University of Granada (UGR), Granada, SPAIN. (GeNeura)
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Anders Lyhne Christensen - Experiments In Swarm Robotics

Assistant Professor at Lisbon University Institute, Portugal.
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