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Dirk Helbing (18 September 2013)

The Internet and Social Media change our way of decision-making. We are no longer the independent decision makers we used to be. Instead, we have become networked minds, social decision-makers, more than ever before. This has several fundamental implications. First of all, our economic theories must change, and second, our economic institutions must be adapted to support the social decision-maker, the "homo socialis", rather be tailored to the perfect egoist, known as "homo economicus". ...

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Fribourg team (10 June 2013)

The EU-funded project QLectives for which the Econophysics Forum has been an important living lab is now coming to its end. Within the project, we prepared an updated version of the web site which features a new reputation system, improved user functionality, and new design. We believe that the new web site will serve the community well. ...

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Call for papers: Call for papers GSI'15 [URL]

posted by barbaresco, 26 February 2015

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Call for papers: Complex Systems 2015 [URL]

posted by matus, 17 February 2015

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Other: Dirk Helbing on open data for the Horizon magazine [URL]

posted by matus, 05 February 2015

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15 Mar 15 - DPG Spring Meeting
21 Mar 15 - Exploring complex socio-techno-environmental systems across the boundary
08 Apr 15 - NetMob 2015
21 May 15 - The 20th Annual Workshop on the Economic Science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents (WEHIA)
29 Jun 15 - Lake Como School of Advanced Studies

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Permanent position in big data/data analysis at CEU

posted by matus, 20 February 2015

The Center for Network Science and the Department of Mathematics and its Application invites applications for a full-time Assistant Professor position in the area of Big Data and data visualization. We expect applications from data scientists with an excellent publication record on processing and analysis of Big Data. The candidate should have strong motivation for interdisciplinary research and be interested in participating in projects of several departments at CEU. Professional experience in visualization is not a condition but an advantage....

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Postdoc position in sociology at the University of Tübingen

posted by matus, 17 February 2015

Am Institut für Soziologie der Universität Tübingen ist für die Dauer von zunächst drei Jahren (mit Möglichkeit der Verlängerung) die Stelle eines/einer Akademischen Mitarbeiters/Mitarbeiterin (A 13, 100%) mit Aufgaben in Forschung und Lehre im Bereich Empirische Sozialforschung/Quantitative Methoden zu besetzen....

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Two postdoc positions in the Human Mobility and Networks Lab at MIT [URL]

posted by matus, 17 February 2015

The Human Mobility and Networks Lab (http://humnetlab.mit.edu/) at MIT is looking for candidates to fill two postdoctoral positions in predictive modeling of urban organization and human mobility....

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Two calls for faculty positions in data science at Rutgers [URL]

posted by matus, 01 February 2015

The Department of Computer Science at Rutgers University and the associated Centers for Computational Biomedicine, Imaging and Modeling (CBIM) and the NSF I/UCR Center on Dynamic Data Analytics (CDDA), invite applications for two tenure-track faculty positions at the rank of Assistant Professor. The appointment will start in September 2015, subject to the availability of funds. The position is in the area of Data Science broadly construed. ...

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PhD position in "Simulating the Emergence of Social Intelligence and Culture in Early Societies" (ETH Zurich) [URL]

posted by matus, 01 February 2015

The group of Prof. Dirk Helbing at ETH Zurich is looking for a PhD student referably with a background in computer science or physics or computational anthropology for the ambitious ERC Advanced Investigator Grant "Momentum – Modeling the Emergence of Social Complexity and Order: How Individual and Societal Complexity Co-Evolve". The Momentum project is about creating emergent social intelligence based on computational evolution and learning....

Latest Blogs

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Interference of the budgetary risks (Интерференция бюджетных рисков)

posted by valgam, 07 October 2014

This blog will speak about physics of the budgetary risks. Keywords - the wave theory of risks, coherence, an interference of risks, etc....

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Market price – is it economic or sociological concept?

posted by Gontis, 27 July 2014

This text follows up our recent article „Consentaneous Agent-Based and Stochastic Model of the Financial Markets“ published in open access interdisciplinary journal PLoS ONE [1]. This article is a result of the ongoing research at the Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy of Vilnius...

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Petition on modern economics

posted by StefanoBalietti, 07 October 2013

It might be worth reading it https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/offener-brief-an-die-wirtschaftsfakultaet-der-uzh-mitdenken-statt-mitlaufen-in-der-oekonomik...

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Interested in a Degree in Physics applied to economics and Finance?

posted by Raio, 27 July 2013

Anyone interested in econophysics should look for complex systems programs....

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Has anyone some experience in getting necessary funds to present a paper at a Conference?

posted by ovidiu69, 18 July 2013

Recently a paper of mine was selected for presentation at 2-nd International Econophysics Conference that will be held in Greece, in the fall. The paper emphasize with an extension of quantum tunneling theory in financial markets and its findings are important for market practitioners, helping them to correctly timing the market....

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Underpricing, underperformance and overreaction in initial public offerings: Evidence from investor attention using online searches

Vakrman, T. & Kristoufek, L.

posted by LKristoufek, 04 March 2015

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Power-law correlations in finance-related Google searches, and their cross-correlations with volatility and traded volume: Evidence from the Dow Jones Industrial components

Ladislav Kristoufek

posted by LKristoufek, 04 March 2015

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Rotational invariant estimator for general noisy matrices

Joël Bun, Romain Allez, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Marc Potters