Centre for Complex Systems Studies
Events Overview
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| CCSS Events Overview (February 2026) |
The Centre for Complex Systems Studies (CCSS) stimulates and facilitates the collaborations on complexity science over the boundaries of disciplines, by offering workspaces where researchers from different fileds can meet and work together, as well as bring various ideas and expertise through various activities that we organize:
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| CCSS Meeting #79: Tipping in ecosystems |
Time: 12:00-13:00, Thu Feb 12 (with lunch).
Speaker (in-person): Prof. dr. ir. Max Rietkerk, Environmental Sciences (UU) Content: Max will trace the ecological origins of tipping point theory, its applications across ecosystems and early-warning signals, and uses tropical forest–savanna transitions to show how spatial scale complicates and reshapes the concept of tipping. |
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Young Complexity Researchers’ Lunch (YCRL) #30: Modeling the Roots of Ideological Polarisation: Replicating Issue Asymmetry and Alignment using Opinion Dynamics |
Time: 12:00-12:30, Thu Feb 26 (with lunch).
Speaker (in-person): Bart de Bruin, Technology, Innovation & Society (TU/e) Content: Bart will introduce an agent-based model combining issue-level and response-level consistency mechanisms to show how social perception and cognitive dissonance jointly generate complex, empirically realistic political belief systems and patterns of polarisation. |
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| ADS-CCSS Workshop #3: Not All Bonds Are Created Equal: Dyadic Latent Class Models for Relational Event Data |
Time: 15:15-17:00, Thu Feb 19 (with drinks afterwards).
Speaker (in-person): Prof. dr. Joris Mulder, Social and Behavioral Sciences (Tilburg University) Content: Jointly organised by the Special Interest Group on Network Science from the Applied Data Science (ADS) and the CCSS, this event is open to everyone and offers a great opportunity for those interested in network science and complex systems to learn from an expert speaker, exchange ideas, and connect with colleagues. |
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| Swaantje Mondt travel fund call #9 |
Are you a PhD candidate at Utrecht University or outside the Netherlands who is currently working on complexity research? Would you like to visit a foreign research institute or the CCSS in the Netherlands to further develop your research skills? The Swaantje Mondt Fund will provide you a great opportunity with max. € 2500 to exchange knowledge and develop new research skills on complexity. Over the past 9 years, the grant helped 46 PhD candidates to work or study at an institute abroad and at the CCSS. Online submission for the current call is open from 13 April - 8 May 2026. |
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| Summer School Utrecht - Introduction to Complex Systems #11 |
Time: 17-21 August 2026 Course fee: 400 euros (course + course materials + meals) Coordinator: Dr. Reyk Börner Lecturers: CCSS Associate Members (from all faculties of Utrecht University)
Content: The course consists of tutorial lectures and guest lectures from the broadest possible range of topics/fields/problems where complex systems play a role, as well as hands-on computer practice in the afternoons. |
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Also coming up
12 March 2026
CCSS Meeting #80 on Tipping behavior in Natural and Societal Systems
1 April 2026
CCSS Half-day Tutorial #2 on Risk analysis for tipping systems: Dealing with uncertainty
21 April 2026
CCSS Science Jam #66 on Translational Immunology by Theo van den Broek (UMCU) |
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