8^th  Granada  Seminar  
Computational and Statistical Physics
 

February 7-11, 2005

Organized by the Institute "Carlos I" for Theoretical and Computational Physics, University of Granada. Sponsored by the European Physical Society. Endorsed by the American Physical Society.

Modeling Cooperative Behavior in the Social Sciences

Proceedings:

• MODELING COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: Eighth Granada Lectures, AIP Conference Proceedings, volume 779, American Institute of Physics, New York 2005

Program (main lecturers and oral contributions):

• Enrique Abad, University of Brussels
  Generalized ruin problems and asynchronous random walks
   

• Mark Ya. Azbel, Tel Aviv University
  Exact laws of nature in complex systems
   

• Daniel ben�Avraham, Clarkson University, New York
  Patterns of fame and merit in physics and other social groups
   

• Americo T. Bernardes, Universidade de Ouro Preto, Brazil
  A fractal analysis of global response
   

• Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, CEA, Saclay, Paris
  Random walks, liquidity molasses and critical response in financial markets
   

• Claudio Castellano, Universit� di Roma, I
  topic to be confirmed
   

• Michel Droz, University of Geneva
  Individually based models approach to the dynamics of social cooperative behavior
   

• Lazaros Gallos, University of Thessalonik
  Prisoner's dilemma on scale-free networks
   

• Malte Henkel, University of Nancy
  Ageing phenomena and local scale-invariance
   

• Hiroshi Iyetomi, Niigata University, Japan
  Construction of a microscopic agent-based model for firm dynamics
   

• Janos Kertesz, University of Budapest
  Intensity and coherence of motifs in weighted complex networks
   

• Krzysztof Kulakowski, AGH University, Poland
  The Heider balance - A continuous dynamics
   

• Joaqu�n Marro, University of Granada
  Models for recognition and categorization strategies
   

• Matteo Marsili, Abdus Salam ICTP and SISSA, Trieste
  On the non-trivial dynamics of social networks
   

• Sidney Redner, Boston University, MA
  Opinion dynamics: consensus, contention, etc. (tentative)
   

• Maxi San Miguel, Universidad de las Islas Baleares
  Globalization, polarization and cultural drift
   

• Anxo Sanchez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
  On the evolutionary origins of altruistic behavior: can selection at the individual level be enough?
   

• Johannes J. Schneider, Gutenberg University, Mainz
  Keeping a democracy alive with contrarians and opportunists - The Sznajd model
   

• Dietrich Stauffer, Cologne University
  Simulations of opinion dynamics: the models of Sznajd, Deffuant et al.
   

• N. Stollenwerk, Porto University
  Self-organized criticality in human epidemiology
   

• Bal�zs Szekfu, University of P�cs, Hungary
  Three degrees of inclusion: the gossip effect
   

• Ra�l Toral, C.S.I.C., Universidad de las Islas Baleares
  Finite size effects in the dynamics of opinion formation
   

• Tam�s Vicsek, E�tv�s Lor�nd University, Budapest
  Collective motion of humans and collaboration networks
   

• Eduard Vives, Universitat de Barcelona
  Long range Ising model for credit risk modeling in homogeneous portfolios
  
   

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