6. Sociophysics and Econophysics

Workshop organized by: M.L. Bertotti and V. Constantoudis

 

Income and wealth inequality and related issues

M.L. Bertotti

 

As has also been recently acknowledged in several speeches of important political and economical representatives, rising levels of economic inequality represent a major moral and political issue of our time. Yet, statistical physics can provide methods and tools which are both innovative and helpful towards a deeper comprehension of the mechanisms underlying the emergence of this and similar collective phenomena. Thanks to its very nature and to the exploratory character of his models, statistical physics can, in a continuous dialogue with economics, political economics and related disciplines, contribute to the identification of actions towards inequality reduction and to the study and treatment of related questions as well.

 

Statistical Physics of Social Networks

 

Recent events in volatile geo-political regions underscore the need to develop models and theories predicting emergent properties of social systems associated with socio-political instabilities and tipping points. Statistical physics applied to social networks have seen a burst of new activity in the last few years addressing some of these issues. In particular, the properties of nonequilibrium opinion dynamics on a range of ideal and real networks such as the time scales to consensus as a function of underlying topology and local interactions have been extensively reported. Human behavior, the spreading of population-level trends, and the evolution of cultural norms are profoundly affected by the influenceability of individuals and the social networks that link them together. The roles and optimal placement of committed agents with fixed opinions which model individuals and institutions such as mavens and extreme fundamentalists have been of central focus in view of their relevance to recent social upheavals. This session will discuss latest results on the above signficant topics from a statistical and dynamical approach.

 

Statistical physics of language

V. Constantoudis

 

Motivation: In the last years, it has been realized that the concepts and methods of statistical physics can be applied successfully to systems besides the traditional areas of their applications. One outstanding example is the natural language including both the analysis of written texts and speech signals. Due to the enormous impact of language technologies in the communication and networking facilities of modern societies along with the concomitant collection of big data and the rapidly emerging issue of their taxonomy and structuring, the prospects and future of the statistical methods in these fields should be further elaborated and critically discussed.

Aim: The intention of this workshop is to gather physicists working on the analysis of language to give them the opportunity to exchange ideas and methods and discuss their results and the future of this approach. Furthermore, the challenge is to attract also quantitative and computational linguists to expose their methods and interact with/criticize physicists’ approaches and results. We believe that such an interaction would have a mutual benefit and enrich the conceptual and methodological tools of both communities.

News

SigmaPhi Awards

During the conference, six works selected out of all the oral and poster presentations have been awarded. The prizes have been supported by the following institutions: - European Phy...

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School of Statistical Physics

New Trends in StatPhys: Organized by G. Caldarelli and G. Kaniadakis

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EPS Young Researcher Grants

The Organizing Committee of the SigmaPhi 2017 International Conference is very please to inform that the EPS Young Researcher Grants have been assigned

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Elsevier lectures

The publishing company Elsevier sponsors two lectures

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Springer Nature Lectures

The publishing company Springer Nature sponsors three lectures

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EPS-SNP Meeting

The summer board meeting of the European Physical Society - Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Division (EPS-SNP) will be held during the SigmaPhi2017 Conference

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SigmaPhi2017 Europhysics Conference

The European Physical Society (EPS) has recognized the SigmaPhi2017 as Europhysics Conference.

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Workshops

1. Kappa Distributions and Statistical Mechanics

Workshop organized by: G. Livadiotis, P. Yoon and K. Dialynas

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2. Statistical Physics for the Digital Economy

Workshop organized by: T. Aste, G. Caldarelli, T. Di Matteo and G. Livan

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3. Quantum Matter

Workshop organized by: S. Kourtis, D. Ellinas and J. Pachos

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4. Statistical Physics of Environment, Climate and Ecosystems

Workshop organized by: P. Ditlevsen, D. Hristopulos and D. Valenti

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5. Complexity and self-organization in biology and physiology

Workshop organized by: P. Paradisi and R. Metzler

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6. Sociophysics and Econophysics

Workshop organized by: M.L. Bertotti and V. Constantoudis

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Special Sessions

A1. Stochastic Processes in Complex Environments

Special Session organized by: J. Talbot and C. Mejia-Monasterio

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A2. Kinetic Theory and its applications

Special Session organized by: G. Palasanzas and A. Rossani

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A3. Information Geometry

Special Session organized by: D. Johnston, H. Matsuzoe, G. Ruppeiner and T. Wada

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Scientific Sponsors 2017

 Statistical and Nonlinear

Physics Division 

Politecnico di Torino

Italy

 

 

 Department of Applied

Science and Technology

 

 ISC - CNR

Roma, Italy

 Technical University of

Crete Chania, Greece

 Aristotele University of

Thessaloniki, Greece

N.C.S.R. Demokritos

Athens, Greece

Italian National Institute

for Nuclear Physics

 

University of Cagliari

Italy

 

 

University of Leuven

Belgium

 

 

 

 

 Springer

 

 

 

 Entropy

 

 

 

 Elsevier

 

Chaos, Solitons

& Fractals

 

Modern Physics

Letters B

 

International Journal

of Modern Physics B