Computational Social Science at GMU

Computational Social Science Program at George Mason University, Agent-based Modeling, Social Networks, Complexity, Understanding & solving real world problems

[Computational Social Science at GMU @CSS_GMU]

Can AI make social media more trustworthy or easier to manipulate? Filippo Menczer of Indiana University explores “AI Good vs Evil” in this GMU Computational and Data Sciences Seminar. Watch: https://t.co/qpvfaoXeeZ #AI #SocialMedia

[Computational Social Science at GMU @CSS_GMU]

Can AI make social media more trustworthy or easier to manipulate? Filippo Menczer of Indiana University explores “AI Good vs Evil” in this GMU Computational and Data Sciences Seminar. Watch: https://t.co/qpvfaoXeeZ #AI #SocialMedia

[Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience]

Agent-Based Modeling: Worlds Within Worlds, a new interactive story from the Santa Fe Institute, chronicles the rise of ABMs in the social sciences, with a focus on SFI contributions.

Over the next few weeks we’ll highlight pieces of this story. First, how it begins:

PART 1: In a former convent in Santa Fe in the late 1980s, economists, physicists, and computer scientists scribble equations on a blackboard where an altar used to be. They are  discussing a promising new approach to scientific modeling, one that represents individual actors in, say, an economy or a pandemic, and the rules those “agents” follow.

Today, the method — known as agent-based modeling — offers powerful insights for predicting financial crises, managing pandemics, and even uncovering truths about the past.

Read the full story and run the models yourself: https://t.co/UBuyHwT2fJ

[George Mason University @GeorgeMasonU]

Congratulations to the @GeorgeMasonU Class of 2025!

We are so proud of you! 🎉

#MasonGrad #Mason2025 #MasonNation 💚💛 https://t.co/8OdJQquRpg

[CSSSA_org @CSSSA_org]

📢 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.
https://t.co/2vFSIKXYLP

[College of Science @GMU_COS]

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: https://t.co/XLmETRi5Xz

[Schar School @ScharSchool]

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: https://t.co/o96WTvN6W8

[Melanie Mitchell @MelMitchell1]

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: https://t.co/aTbLuwwGGN

[Computational Social Science at GMU @CSS_GMU]

📣📣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)

[Computational Social Science at GMU @CSS_GMU]

📣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)

[Computational Social Science at GMU @CSS_GMU]

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

[CoMSES Net @comses]

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… https://t.co/1J2EZXsPsR

[IC2S2 @IC2S2]

Deadline extended to March 3rd now‼️More time to wrap up and submit your work🏃‍♀️🏃

[Filip Biljecki @fbiljecki]

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
https://t.co/Ruex6WcQ7Y
@JJiangna @AndyCrooks @hmdkvk

[Hamdi Kavak @hmdkvk]

We are hiring two post-docs to work on urban simulation projects. Please, consider sharing.

1. Geospatial Simulation: https://t.co/jhNmVaIrSR

2. Geospatial Data Science and Machine Learning: https://t.co/gYSDahJmWH

[Richard_NaJiang @JJiangna]

🔖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: https://t.co/U6uoSopXYc

[Valentín Vergara Hidd @Nitnelav]

The Stability of Transient Relationships, our paper with @lopezmodeler, @simonecent, @Sam_GB_Roberts, @brulepri, and @RobinDunbar10

https://t.co/QIIQuXbQSk

cc @CSS_GMU @Mason_CDS

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[CoMSES Net @comses]

Making model FAIR: An Educational Initiative to Build Good ABM Practices

https://t.co/LiIKk02A8k

[European Social Simulation Association @EuroSocSim]

There are TWO ESSA summer schools this September! In Aberdeen 28Aug-1Sep for beginners to ABM https://t.co/41f632HBG0 and 11-22Sept in Milan for the more advanced https://t.co/EI6bz4z09T. (before&after the SimSoc conference) #ABM #simulation #summerschool #essa

[Hamdi Kavak @hmdkvk]

⏰ 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 https://t.co/4YYUwwx7hv
#simulation