============================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - REGISTRATION OPEN UNTIL NOV. 18, 2015 ============================================================== 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 ============================================================== 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 ----------------------------- KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ----------------------------- 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 --------------------- REGISTRATION --------------------- Registration is free of charge and open until November 18th, 2015. PLEASE NOTE: Unfortunately we cannot take responsibility for support on visa related issues. ------------------- VENUE ------------------- 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. ------------------- CONTACT ------------------- CONFERENCE CHAIR: ----------------- 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@gesis.org<mailto:markus.strohmaier@gesis.org> Twitter: @mstrohm Phone: +49 (221) 47694-225 WORKSHOPS/TUTORIALS CHAIR: ------------------------------ 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@gesis.org<mailto:katrin.weller@gesis.org> Twitter: @kwelle Phone: +49 221 47694472 LOCAL ORGANIZATION: ---------------------- 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@gesis.org<mailto:diana.lindner@gesis.org> Phone: +49 (0221) 47694-401