April 16-18, 2012

Andrew Crooks attended a specialist meeting supported by the Human Factors and Medical Panel of the NATO Research and Technology Organization entitled: “Social Media: Risks and Opportunities in Military Applications” in Tallinn Estonia.

April 12-15, 2012

Anamaria Berea, CSS PhD Candidate, was one of 25 selected graduate students who participated in INET’s Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) at its third Annual Plenary Conference in Berlin, April 12-15, 2012, entitled “Paradigm Lost: Rethinking Economics and Politics.” This initiative is one of INET’s efforts to help the "new economic thinkers of tomorrow" interact with politicians, policymakers, economists and mass media. (http://ineteconomics.org/conference/berlin/students) 

April 12-15, 2012

Prof. Bill Kennedy presented a paper and organized a symposium at the 11th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling held in Berlin, 12-15 April 2012. As part of his work for the George Mason Center of Excellence in Neuroergonomics, Technology and Cognition (CENTEC), he presented a paper on implicit decision-making. The symposium he organized was based on his work on cognitive modeling of processes "beyond rational".

February 24-28, 2012

Andrew Crooks co-organized several sessions at the recent Association of American Geographers Annual Conference in New York City entitled “Agent-based models and Geographical

February 27-29, 2012

Research Assistant Professors Matthew Hendrey and Tim Gulden recently traveled to Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore as invited Young Scientists. They participated in the "More is Different" inaugural conference (More is Different) for NTU's new Complexity Program. Both presented posters during the main conference (February 27-29) and presented their ongoing work in post-conference workshops during the rest of that week.

March 12-15, 2012

The Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRiMS) conference was held outside Jacksonville, FL over GMU's Spring Break 2012. Research Assistant Professor Bill Kennedy served as co-chair of the program committee for the conference (http://brimsconference.org/).

7th December 2011

The Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) has awarded a grant to J Doyne Farmer (Santa Fe Institute), John Geanakoplos (Yale), Peter Howitt (Brown) and Rob Axtell (George Mason) to build an agent-based model of the housing bubble and the ensuing financial crisis. This is a joint project among the four institutions and will yield software that models the individual interactions between homeowners and banks through real estate markets.

6th December 2011

Maksim Tsvetovat has recently given two O'Reilly webcasts relating to Social Network Analysis. Both of which follow his recent book "Social Networks for Startups"

4th December 2011

Andrew Crooks has recently co-edited a book entitled Agent-Based Models of Geographical Systems with Alison Heppenstall, Linda See and Mike Batty. The volume brings together a comprehensive set of papers on the background, theory, technical issues and applications of agent-based modelling (ABM) within geographical systems.

19th November 2011

Bill Kennedy, a Research Assistant Professor the Center for Social Complexity and Department of Computational Social Science presented a talk at the American Anthropological Association annual meeting in Montreal on November 17th in collaboration with Ian A. Skoggard of the Human Resource Area Files of Yale University. The joint presentation addressed modeling human migration.