GSNP Short Course on Exploring the Physics of Human Social Systems: Theory, Methods, and Application

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.

Speakers:

• Luis Bettencourt, University of Chicago

• Annie Stephenson, Princeton University

• Guillaume Falmagne, Princeton University

• Daniel Seara, University of Chicago

• Emma Zajdela, Princeton University

If you have already registered for the meeting but would like to add the Short Course please contact registrar@aps.org