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vjf.cnrs.fr>Summer School: Models for Complex Systems in Human and Social Sciences Ecole Normale Sup�rieure de Lyon Ecole Normale Sup�rieure de Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon FRANCE July 19-31 2004 Web site : http://www.lps.ens.fr/%7Eweisbuch/scshs/eng.html http://www.lps.ens.fr/%7Eweisbuch/scshs/lyon.html Important dates: Deadline for application : May 7 2004 Acceptation : May 28 2004 School : July 19-31 2004 at the Ecole Normale Sup�rieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines Goals: Although complex systems based methods are more and more used to model social phenomena, there is no place in Europe where they are taught as a whole. The aim of the school will be to develop the technical abilities of the participants to build a simple model and to use it at its maximal potential. The following aspects will be studied: - Description of the problem, modelling process, scaling aspects - Choice of experimental protocols and of the best "measures" in order to highlight observable phenomena via simulations - Presentation of the main methods and their practical application, Topics: As we have just said, there is no place in Europe where the methods that can be used to model complex systems in human and social sciences are taught in a systematic way. Since these methods usually come from other fields (mathematics, physics, computer science...), they are often unknown. The school we propose to organize will fill this gap by proposing lectures given by world specialists of the domain and directed to an audience of researchers (including graduate students) working on modeling problems in human and social sciences. The contents of the courses will relate more to the methods rather to the application fields. Of course, the presented methods will be illustrated with examples coming from human and social sciences, but our wish is to focus on the methods rather than on specific particular cases. Computer simulations and experimentations will be studied under the format of mini-projects. Speakers: Lectures will be given in English, following the format of 4 sessions of 3 hours for each course, by Robert Axtell, Brooking Institution, USA, Agent-Based Computational Modeling in the Social Sciences with Applications to Economics Rama Cont, Ecole Polytechnique, France, Agent-based models of financial markets Sorin Solomon, J�rusalem University, Isra�l, Multi-agent theory, simulation and phenomena in Human and Social systems Alessandro Vespignani, Laboratoire de Physique Th�orique, Orsay, France, Structure and function of complex networks Sara Franceschelli (ENS LSH), Michel Morvan (ENS Lyon) and G�rard Weisbuch (ENS Ulm) will also teach and will ensure the scientific animation of the school. Organisation: The summer school will be organized by Ecole Normale Sup�rieure de Lyon and hosted by the Ecole Normale de Lettres et Sciences Humaines. It will take place from July 19 to 31 2004 (22 half days) in the Ecole Normale Sup�rieure de Lettres et Sciences Humaines, in Lyon, France. It will be one of the major events organized in 2004 by the Institut des Syst�mes Complexes (Complex Systems Institute) of Ecole Normale Sup�rieure de Lyon. The two Ecoles Normales Sup�rieures in Lyon are two of the most prestigious places for higher education in France. One is specialized in sciences and the other in literature and human sciences. The summer school will be one of the first steps in the creation of long term collaborations between them. They are installed on two campuses in the south of Lyon (one close to the other), and residences allow good quality accomodations to the participants. The organisation committee is composed of Sara Franceschelli (ENS LSH), Michel Morvan (ENS Lyon) and G�rard Weisbuch (ENS Paris). Participants: The participants will mainly be modelers having reasonable mathematical skills (graduate education in Mathematics, or Computer Science or Physics). Researchers from human or social sciences already having collaboration experiences with modelers and so having some basic mathematical culture can also apply. The school will be organized for both junior and senior researchers. The number of participants is limited to 50, mainly coming from European countries. Applications: Please send your short CV (no more than 2 pages) and a half page of motivations to scshsMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
imer.mah.se>Dear colleagues, This is to inform you about Georgian language online resources available at the School of International Migration and Ethnic Relations, Malmoe University, Sweden: - Georgian sounds: examples and audiofiles, information about the Georgian alphabet and how to write the Georgian letters: http://ezone.mah.se/projects/georgianV04/DEMO/anbani/00anban.html - Demo version of a Georgian language distance learning course, providing basic knowledge of the grammatical structure of Georgian with particular focus on typologically interesting features. All materials in transcription and Georgian script. http://ezone.mah.se/projects/georgianV04/INTRO/index.html Karina Vamling Associate professor School of International Migration and Ethnic Relations Malmoe University S-20506 Malmoe, Sweden Email: karina.vamlingMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue