About the course
The past several decades have seen an increase in physics approaches for modeling complex social and biological systems. In particular, physics has been used to study the dynamics of human social systems across many sectors of society, including transportation, epidemiology, science and innovation, and political polarization. Approaches to studying these systems include applied dynamical systems, statistical physics, agent-based modeling, scaling methods and network science. Participants in this course will learn the main theoretical and methodological advances of the physics of human social systems and learn to apply them to several datasets using python.
Who should attend?
Scientists at all stages wishing to learn modern physics-based approaches to the dynamics of social systems.
Organizers
- Emma Zajdela, Princeton University
- Annie Stephenson, Princeton University
- Guillaume Falmagne, Princeton University
- Daniel Seara, University of Chicago
Speakers
- Luis Bettencourt, University of Chicago
- Annie Stephenson, Princeton University
- Guillaume Falmagne, Princeton University
- Daniel Seara, University of Chicago
- Emma Zajdela, Princeton University