國立政治大學

National Chengchi University, Taiwan

AI-Econ Research Center

http://www.aiecon.org

Call for Participation

2007 NCCU Summer School on Computational Social Sciences

http://www.aiecon.org/2007_summer_school

VENUE:

National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan.

DATE:

August 27th – September 7th, 2007

OBJECTIVES:

Simulation, a new niche in studying social phenomena, has emerged and finds its way to prosper in the field of social sciences. Aligned with human subject experiments and fundamental studies in human behavior, simulations are increasingly acknowledged to provide insights of complex social interactions, which are hard to be characterized by any traditional research methods. Such promising approach, yet, needs important contributions from interdisciplinary researchers to harvest its benefits. This Summer School is accordingly established to promote such interdisciplinary researches and to cultivate interested scholars to devote themselves to the development of computational social sciences.

TOPICS AND INVITED LECTURERS:

by Prof. David Sallach (Argonne National Lab and University of Chicago, USA)
by Prof. Joel Jeffrey (Northern Illinois University, USA)
by Prof. Klaus Jaffe (Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela)
by Prof. Thomas Lux (Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel, Germany)
by Dr. Martin Rosvall (University of Washington, USA)

PROGRAMME COMMITEE:

Ruey-Ming Liao (Dept. of Psychology, NCCU)

Ryuichi Yamamoto (Dept. of International Business, NCCU)

Shu G. Wang (Dept. of Economics, NCCU)

VENUE DESCRIPTION:

The summer school will take place in the campus of National Chengchi University (NCCU), Taipei, Taiwan. NCCU is located at the foot of Chi-nan Mountain, the famous tourist tea mountain in the south of Taipei City, with the Ching-mei River in the west, creating a beautiful and tranquil learning environment and easy access to many Chinese cultural attractions, such as Palace Museum, the world’s tallest building Taipei 101, Chi-nan Temple, Mao-kong Tourist Tea Garden, and traditional Taiwanese night markets, etc.

COST OF SUMMER SCHOOL:

NTD 1000 (approx. US$30). Free for students

ELIGIBILITY AND APPLICATION PROCESS:

Interested researchers with educational background equivalent to or higher than senior undergraduate level are welcome to send their application via e-mail to register@aiecon.org for evaluation.The application should include a one-to-two-page statement of intent,a copy of transcript, and one letter of references (two letters preferred).

For details, please visit http://www.aiecon.org/2007_summer_school

The deadline for submissions is July 15th, 2007. Admission decisions will be announced to all applicants via email by July 22th, 2007.

We look forward to seeing you at the summer school!