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The great econophysics debate (source: "Econophysicists Matter", Editorial, Nature 441(7094) (2006): 667)

(14 June 2005)

Economics and physics are two disciplines that, contrary to widespread perceptions, have significant common agendas. Shame, then, that the professionals don't do more to recognize the fact. After hearing a talk on the application of physics to the social sciences, a physicist in a notoriously traditional department was heard to mutter that it was all very well but it wasn't 'real physics'. It was an article of faith to him that many-body theories in physics could not be applied to animate objects. Now that it seems clear that bacteria, locusts and even road traffic undergo types of dynamic phase transition, this objection is hard to sustain. ...

Collective Evaluation Project An application of the "new information theory"

Yi-Cheng Zhang (14 June 2005)

As if it were yesterday, Econophysics Forum web site actually is seven years old. Around the summer of 1998 a handful of my colleagues who later to be labelled as ’econophysicists’ were wondering how to tap the then new WWW phenomenon to foster the fledging community. The dream was to have a kind of ‘virtual institute’, enabling scientists working on the margins of the traditional disciplines and institutions to mingle and work together. Seven years is a long period, especially in the Information Age. The original vision didn’t bear out completely, but it was an interesting experiment leveraging then primitive web technologies and to have gathered a consistent crowd among the physicists and other scholars in the interdisciplinary domain. ...

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Call for papers: Network Science PhD Certificate Program at CEU

posted by Anonymous, 12 December 2012

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Call for papers: GSTF International Journal of Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research (JMSOR) Vol 1 No 2: Call for Papers [URL]

posted by jmsor, 16 November 2012

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Call for papers: Call for Papers in honor of Professor Masanao Aoki

posted by mraddant, 27 August 2012

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11 Dec 18 - COMPLEX NETWORKS 2018
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Research Scientist (Post-Doc) [URL]

posted by mraddant, 03 November 2015

The Institute of Economics at Kiel University is seeking to fill a position for a Research Scientist (at post doctoral level with a 3/4 position on German public pay scale E 14) to contribute to the work within the ongoing research project “Financial Distortions and Macroeconomic Performance: Expectations, Constraints, and Interaction of Agents” funded by the European Commission....

Research Scientist [URL]

posted by mraddant, 03 November 2015

The Institute of Economics at Kiel University is seeking to fill a position for a Research Scientist (at doctoral student level with a 3/4 position on German public pay scale E13) to contribute to the work within the ongoing research project “Financial Distortions and Macroeconomic Performance: Expectations, Constraints, and Interaction of Agents” funded by the European Commission....

Research Assistant - Kiel University [URL]

posted by mraddant, 01 October 2015

Job opening The Department of Economics, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (Germany) seeks to fill a position for a Research Assistant...

Postdoc fellowship at the Centre for Applied Mathematics

posted by slobodan, 01 October 2015

Applicants holding PhD degree in physics, mathematics, computer sciences or related disciplines, and demonstrate a commitment to full-time research and publication. The precise area of research is open though the possibility of collaboration with mentor support on existing and new project application is also encouraged. The Centre for Applied Mathematics at the Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School invites applications from qualified researchers for 2-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowships....

Two postdoctoral positions in the statistical physics of multiplex networks

posted by jfmendes, 16 July 2015

Two postdoctoral researchers are expected to open to start on September 1st, 2015 as part of the FP7 project MULTIPLEX. The postdoctoral researchers will work at the Interdisciplinary Group of Complex Systems and Random Networks in the Department of Physics of University of Aveiro. Application deadline: July 31, 2015 Submitted: July 15, 2015 Contact: Jose Fernando Mendes or Sergey Dorogovtsev E-mail: jfmendes@ua.pt, sdorogov@ua.pt...

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