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| Mathematical sociologists use the language of mathematics to describe the structure, explain the events, and predict the dynamics of the social world. The effort is a inter-disciplinary, with contributions from physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists, psychologists, economists, etc. |
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The new issue of the Mathematical Sociologist is available!
The newest issue of our section newsletter, the Mathematical Sociologist, is available in the publications section of the website! |
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Conference announcement from Professor Sun-Ki Chai
I would like to invite section members to attend the International Conference on Social Computing,
Behavioral Modeling, & Prediction (SBP10), the largest conference devoted to social science-related
research in computer science. Next year's conference will be held March 29-April 1 on the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) Campus in Bethesda, MD near Washington D.C. (Short) paper and poster
submissions are due November 15. As in past years, there will be opportunities to hear presentations
from and talk to representatives of the largest federal funding agencies for scholarly research,
including the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Office of Naval Research,
and Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Conference proceedings will be published as a book in the Lecture
Notes in Computer Science Series by Springer/Verlag. More information, including the call for
papers and previous years's programs, can be found at the conference website.
I am co-program chair this year, and am particularly interested in gaining the participation of more sociologists
in order to make this a fully interdisciplinary conference. This year, we will be featuring some unique events
designed to promote that interchange. The first day will be devoted to tutorial sessions, including those on
computer science methods for social scientists and vice versa. Tutorials tentatively scheduled include introductions
to principles of agent-based simulation; comparisons of network models in sociology, physics, and economics; and
application of computational behavioral models to public health. If you have a proposal for a tutorial, particularly
one introducing methods from mathematical sociology to outsiders, please send them directly to me
by November 15.
The last half-day will be devoted to informal round tables to bring together social and computer scientists for intellectual
cross-fertilization, as well as for forming interdisciplinary, interuniversity teams that could work together on grant applications.
I welcome suggestions for topics to be covered at these roundtables.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me: sunki@hawaii.edu
Now accepting papers for a session on Mathematical Sociology at the 2010
meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association (PSA)!
John Angle is looking for papers that fit with the PSA theme of C. Wright Mills' "The Sociological Imagination." Suggestions
include: network studies of elites, analyses of the right-tail of an income distribution, etc. All papers on Mathematical
Sociology will be considered. All abstracts and papers should be submitted to the MathSoc session on the PSA 2010 website. |
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