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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: 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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Call for papers: Session "Estimating agent based models" at the CFE 2012

posted by mraddant, 13 July 2012

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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...

Financial Regulation Research Lab (Paris, France) - call for positions [URL]

posted by ybiondi, 30 June 2015

The Financial Regulation Research Lab (Paris, France) offers renewable research position(s) for post-doctoral candidates (doctoral, visiting) interested in developing, coding, testing and applying agent-based modelling, computational and simulation techniques, and dynamic systems analysis to better understand the financial system dynamics and the evolving interaction of financial rules and norms with corporate structures and behaviors. Job description: http://yuri.biondi.free.fr/downloads/FIAR2015.pdf...

Postdoc in Complex Systems (Econophysics) [URL]

posted by guhr, 08 June 2015

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35 Scholarships - 2015/16 PhD Program in Computer Science and Systems Engineering (CSSE) at IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca [URL]

posted by maria.mateos, 24 March 2015

2015/16 PhD program in Computer Science and Systems Engineering (CSSE) at IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca Deadline for applications – June 29th 2015, 6 pm Italian time To apply: www.imtlucca.it/phd/prospective/application ...

Doctoral Program in Network Science [URL]

posted by liaohao, 18 November 2014

Central European University (CEU) proudly announces the launching of its Doctoral Program in Network Science. Application deadline is February 1, 2015. For more details see cns.ceu.hu ...