Program

Monday, May 26th

Chairman: Felix Reed-Tsochas

9:15-9:30 Opening remarks
9:30-10:00 Mark Buchanan: Prospects for "social physics"
10:00-10:20 Jan Lorenz: Continuous opinion dynamics
10:20-10:40 Floriana Gargiulo: Convergence scenarios in an opinion dependent comunication framework
10:40-11:00 Dimitri Volchenkov: The future poverty hiding in cities

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

Chairman: Gerard Weisbuch

11:30-12:00 Janos Kertesz: Searching people's digital footprints
12:00-12:20 Diego Garlaschelli: Testing the effects of bounded confidence on real data: the organization of scientific culture across Europe
12:20-12:40 Takashi Odagaki: Self organization of hierarchy and villages in timid and challenging societies

12:40-15:00 Lunch break

Chairman: Claudio Castellano

15:00-15:20 Jose' Javier Ramasco: Human dynamics revealed through Web analytics
15:20-15:40 Marcelo Del Castillo-Mussot: Many-body interactions in sociophysics and their role in coalition forming
15:40-16:00 Simone Righi: On the evolution of a Social Network
Tuesday, May 27th

Chairman: Vittorio Loreto

9:30-10:00 Sidney Redner: Dynamics of the Voter Model
10:00-10:20 Eduardo Lopez: Limited path percolation in complex networks
10:20-10:40 Valentina Alfi: Self-organization and stylized facts in agent based models for economics
10:40-11:00 Paolo Pin: Opportunity and choice in social networks

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

Chairman: Janos Kertesz

11:30-12:00 Kimmo Kaski: Model of community emergence in weighted social networks
12:00-12:20 Filippo Radicchi: Universality in citation distributions
12:20-12:40 Carlos Roca: The complex effect of population structure on the evolution of cooperation

12:40-15:00 Lunch break

Chairman: Bertrand M. Roehner

15:00-15:30 Fredrik Liljeros: Sexual networks
15:30-15:50 Luca Dall'Asta: Strategic substitutes: equilibria and structural stability
15:50-16:10 Zdzislaw Burda: Adaptive networks in a simple model of multi-agent macro-economy
16:10-16:30 Sudhir Jain: Persistence in a random bond Ising model of socio-econodynamics

Wednesday, May 28th

Chairman: Sidney Redner

9:30-10:00 Vittorio Loreto: Cultural route to the emergence of names and linguistic categories
10:00-10:20 Jukka-Pekka Onnela: Legislatures as spin glasses?
10:20-10:40 Tobias Galla: Opinion dynamics in modified Axelrod and voter models
10:40-11:00 Suresh Pillai: Robust dynamic classes revealed by measuring the response function of a social system

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

Chairman: Kimmo Kaski

11:30-12:00 Felix Reed-Tsochas: From the biological to the social with techniques borrowed from physics: modelling cooperation in ecological and organisational networks.
12:00-12:30 Bertrand M. Roehner: Challenge and promises of observational econophysics
12:30-12:50 Luis Mario Floria: Evolutionary Game Dynamics and Thermodynamical Formalism

12:50-15:00 Lunch break

15:00-17:00 Round table and discussion on sociophysics

20:00 Social Dinner

Thursday, May 29th

Chairman: Fredrik Liljeros

9:30-10:00 Gerard Weisbuch: Start-up venture capitalists investment networks 10:00-10:20 Alain Barrat: Who's talking first? Consensus or lack thereof in coevolving opinion formation models
10:20-10:40 Sylvie Huet: Rejection can lead to more consensus
10:40-11:00 Andrea Gabrielli Application of percolation and random walk theory to priority driven models of queueing theory

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break