The Complexity-GAINs International Summer School is a two-week, residential immersion in complex systems science, exploring the integration of theory, models, and empirical data to understand and predict complex behaviour. Participants will engage with seminars, workshops, discussions, and group research projects to gain knowledge and skills to apply in their own work.

The 2022 programme will focus on social disintegration, offering diverse approaches to understanding social cohesion and innovation, as well as polarisation and fragmentation, from historic, present, and future perspectives. Students need not be working in this area to benefit from the programme. A key element of the programme is transdisciplinary, international collaboration.

Quick facts:
Dates: July 4–15, 2022
Location: Vienna, Austria
Cost: No tuition cost. Housing, meals, travel support provided.
Focus: Application of complex systems theory, modelling and data analysis to socio-behavioural systems.
Who is it for: Ph.D. students from the physical, natural, and quantitative social sciences and mathematics.

Application deadline: 18 January 2022

This programme is a partnership between the Santa Fe Institute and the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences and Hamburg University of Technology (Germany), Complexity Science Hub Vienna (Austria), Quantitative Life Sciences, International Center for Theoretical Physics (Italy), and Institute for Advanced Study, University of Amsterdam (Netherlands).

Complexity-GAINs International Summer Institute takes place in:

• 2022 – socio-behavioural systems
• 2023 – intelligent systems
• 2024 – ecosystems