Activities

Guest lecture by Federico Cornalba

On 22.05.2024 at 15:00 (CET) the MATH+ Activity Group “Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences” will host a guest lecture by Federico Cornalba (University of Bath) on “ An inertial PDE system for the Cucker-Smale model of flocking dynamics: derivation and analysis”.

→ Place: ZIB Red Salon, Takustraße 7, 14195 Berlin

→ Abstract: In the context of particle systems, the term ‘flocking’ refers to phenomena in which the particles’ individual velocities align with one another as time goes to infinity. A well-established mathematical model describing flocking is the so-called Cucker-Smale model. Many continuous descriptions of the Cucker-Smale model use PDEs with both particle position and velocity as independent variables, thus providing a full description of the particles’ mean field dynamics. In this talk, we instead investigate the benefits of studying the Cucker-Smale model using a reduced inertial PDE system (two equations, both depending on position only). For such a PDE system, we will discuss derivation, closing approximations entailed by the model reduction, analysis, simulations, and future directions.

Based on a joint work in progress with Ana Djurdjevac, Natasa Djurdjevac Conrad, Sebastian Zimper.

CHANGES+

MATH+ YOUNG RESEARCHER COLLOQUIUM

This colloquium is organised by young researchers from the Math+ emerging fields Particles and Agents (EF4) and Concepts of Change (EF5), as well as from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). They aim to bring together young scientists from different disciplines and parts of Berlin who are interested in modeling social, historical, and political/societal change processes with a special focus on the driving agents (individuals, other entities, or groups thereof).

Recent talks:

Matteo Straccamore (CREF): Interplay between technologies and development of metropolitan areas

Gesine Steudle (ZIB): Agent-based modelling of the private mobility demand and its use as a decision support tool

Aida Sarai Figueroa Alvarez (FU): The agentization of the first Green Growth Mechanics’ building block: the endogenous technical progress block

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past activities:

Guest lecture by Camille Roth

On 22.02.2024 at 11:00 (CET) the MATH+ Activity Group “Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences” hosted a guest lecture by Camille Roth (CNRS & EHESS (CAMS, Paris & Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin)) on “The Echo Chamber of Echo Chambers”.

Guest lecture by Alex Brandsen and Karsten Lambers:

On 6.07.2023 at 12:00 the MATH+ Activity Group “Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences” and the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) hosted a guest lecture at ZIB by Alex Brandsen and Karsten Lambers (Leiden University) on “Creating AGNES: a multilingual search engine for texts about Dutch archaeology”.

Guest lecture by Michael Barton (ASU):

On 30.05.2023 the MATH+ Activity Group “Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences” and the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) hosted a guest lecture at ZIB by Prof. Michael Barton on “Risk, Resilience, and Archaeology: Where the Invisible Past Meets the Invisible Future”. Michael Barton is a Professor in the School of Complex Adaptive Systems and in the School of Human Evolution & Social Change, and a Director of the Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity at Arizona State University (USA).

Thematic Einstein Semester (TES)

In the summer semester of 2022, the Thematic Einstein Semester (TES) “The Mathematics of Complex Social Systems: Past, Present, and Future” was organized at Zuse Institute Berlin. This interdisciplinary event aimed at unlocking the potential for mathematical modeling and reasoning within the extremely large and diversified fields of study that constitute modern social sciences and the humanities. The TES consisted of a series of events, including workshops, a summer school, a final conference, the Einstein lecture series, a seminar for undergraduate students and the TES Data Challenge, fostering innovative ideas and concepts for analyzing real-world social systems. Further information can be found here.

Spring School

The “Logic, Limits, Contingency: A Critical Digital Spring School” held from March 27-30, 2023, at Freie Universität Berlin, successfully brought together PhD researchers from Germany and the UK. The interdisciplinary event explored the intersections of digital research approaches in the arts, sciences, and humanities, fostering insightful discussions and collaborative activities. Main topics of the spring school were mathematical approaches to time and human societies, artistic approaches to archives, humanistic research, and concepts of history, and humanities approaches to data, aesthetics, and exhibition. Further information can be found here.