Announcements

COSMOS 2025

Dear future COSMOnauts, we are taking a brief hiatus in 2024 while Wataru relocates to a new position at Riken in Tokyo.

In the meantime, we will be writing a tutorial paper and looking for future funding sources to return in 2025. Stay tuned!

COSMOS 2023 starting July 4th!

We look forward to welcoming you to the Computational Summer school on Modeling Social and collective behavior (COSMOS) taking place from July 4th - July 7th 2023 in Konstanz, DE.

Please take a look at the schedule to familiarize yourself with what will be taking place over this week. We have already updated the teaching materials, where the publicly accessible code notebooks you find there will be companions to the tutorials we are running.

Have a great trip and see you in Konstanz!

Apply by April 14th

We invite you to apply to the Computational Summer school on Modeling Social and collective behavior (COSMOS) taking place from July 4th - July 7th 2023 in Konstanz, DE. COSMOS is designed to provide attendees (COSMOnauts) from diverse fields (e.g., psychology, economics, neuroscience, biology, computer science, etc…) and career stages (masters, PhD, postdoc, and junior PI) with the computational skills required to tackle emerging challenges in understanding social learning and collective behaviour. Taking advantage of the close collaboration networks and interdisciplinary expertise available at the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour (CASCB) in Konstanz, COSMOS will invite leading researchers from diverse disciplines as guest instructors who will mentor attendees’ own modelling projects during the School. In addition to providing hands-on instruction and mentorship for in-person attendees, we also publish openly accessible teaching materials) and recorded talks. The goal of the students will be to develop a foundational understanding about how computational modeling can be a strong thread that unifies and advances the study of a wide range of social and collective phenomena.

Attendees will benefit from tutorials teaching the fundamentals of computational modeling in social and cultural settings, attend talks by leading researchers from around the world, and gain career advice during mentorship sessions. New for 2023, we will also have group projects, where participants can directly apply their new knowledge on a number of provided dataset under the supervision of our instructors.

COSMOS 2023 is free to attend, and successful applications will be provided free shared accomodations. In addition, we will provide travel stipends for ~15 attendees on the basis of merit and need.

To apply, you will need to submit the following materials as a single pdf

1. One page cover letter describing your motivation to attend the summer school and how you think it will inform your research
2. Curriculum Vitae
3. One letter of recommendation

You can submit your application by April 14th: application portal.

Shortlisted for funding

We are excited to announce we have secured funding to host COSMOS again in 2023. This next iteration features a whole new set of faculty, improved hands-on

Shortlisted for funding

We have been shortlisted for another round of funding to host COSMOS 2023. Stay tuned for more information!

Apply by April 14th

We invite you to apply to the Computational Summer school on Modeling Social and collective behavior (COSMOS) taking place from July 4th - July 7th 2022 in Konstanz, DE.

COSMOS is designed to provide attendees (COSMOnauts) from diverse fields (e.g., psychology, economics, neuroscience, biology, computer science, etc…) and career stages (master, PhD, postdoc, and junior PI) with the computational skills required to tackle emerging challenges in understanding social learning and collective behaviour. Taking advantage of the close collaboration networks and interdisciplinary expertise available at the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour (CASCB) in Konstanz, COSMOS will invite leading researchers from diverse disciplines as guest instructors who will mentor attendees’ own modelling projects during the School. In addition to providing hands-on instruction and mentorship for in-person attendees, our proposed hybrid format will also allow any number of remote participants to benefit from the openly accessible teaching materials) and recorded talks. The goal of the students will be to develop a foundational understanding about how computational modeling can be a strong thread that unifies and advances the study of a wide range of social and collective phenomena.

To apply, you will need to submit the following materials

1. One page cover letter describing your motivation to attend the summer school and how you think it will will inform your research
2. Curriculum Vitae
3. One letter of recommendation

You can submit your application by April 14th: application portal.