📣 Thu 5 Nov. 12:00-13:00. CCSS Meeting #84. Dr. Vítor V. Vasconcelos (vvvasconcelos.bsky.social) will visit our #ccss living room to give a talk on "Policy simulation to find leverage in Complex Systems". For more info and to sign up 👇 (free 🥪 included) www.uu.nl/en/events/cc...

CCSS MasterClass #9. Causal Inference for Complex Systems: From Graphical Models to Agent-Based Models by Prof. dr. Mark Gilthorpe. 📆Mon 26, Tue 27 & Thu 29 October from 10:00-15:00 📍CCSS living room (MIN4.16) For more info and to sign up for free: www.uu.nl/en/events/cc...

CCSS MasterClass #8. Immunodynamics - holistic systems-immunology approaches to tackle the complexity of immune responses by dr. Grégoire Altan-Bonnet. 📆Mon 12, Tue 13 & Thu 15 October from 10:00-15:00 📍CCSS living room (MIN4.16) For more info and to sign up for free: www.uu.nl/en/events/cc...

CCSS Lunch Meeting #83: The Illusion of Control: Intervention in Complex Adaptive Systems 🗓️🕛Thu 17 Sept. 12:00-13:00. Prof. dr. Peter Sloot will kick-off the new series of CCSS Lunch Meetings with the topic 'Interventions in Complex Systems' Please sign up 👇 for free 🥪 www.uu.nl/en/events/cc...

The academic year has come to an end and with this also our series of lunch meetings on the topic: Tipping behavior in Natural and Societal Systems. Recordings of the final talks that took place before the summer break are now available on our YouTube Channel. www.youtube.com/@centreforco...

The recording of the talk "Making Complexity Science Actionable" by dr. Brian Dermody is now available on our YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=grNf...

Science Jam #66: Making Complexity Science Actionable

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📣 Thu 11 June. 12:00-13:00. CCSS Meeting #82. Prof. dr. ir. Jan Kwakkel (@jhkwakkel.bsky.social) will visit our #ccss living room to give a talk on "Model-based analysis of tipping dynamics under uncertainty". For more info and to sign up 👇 (free 🥪 included) www.uu.nl/en/events/cc...

📣 Tue 12 May. 12:00-13:00. Science Jam #66. Dr. Brian Dermody will give a talk at the #ccss on "Making Complexity Science Actionable". The science jam sessions are organised by the Young Complexity Researchers Utrecht (YCRU). For more info on the talk and to sign up👇 www.uu.nl/en/events/sc...

📣 Science Jam #65. Tue 21 Apr. 12:00-13:00. One of our new associate members, dr. Theo van den Broek (theovandenbroek.bsky.social) will visit the #ccss living room to give a talk on "The Complexity Behind Effective Immune Responses". Please sign up below to join (free 🥪) www.uu.nl/en/events/sc...

Science Jam #65: The Complexity Behind Effective Immune Responses

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PhD Position in Statistical Physics & Data-Driven Viral Evolution Join an interdisciplinary PhD project that uses large-scale viral genome and epidemiological data to develop predictive theory for rapidly evolving viruses. Apply before 23 April 2026 👇 www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

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Use genomic data, stochastic modeling, and epidemiology to build a predictive theory of evolution for rapidly evolving viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 and influenza.

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You can now watch the talk "Failure to track a stable AMOC state under rapid climate change" by dr. René van Westen on our YouTube Channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6nf...

CCSS Meeting #80: Failure to track a stable AMOC state under rapid climate change

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Up Next Wed Apr 1 (12-17): CCSS Tutorial #2: Model-based analysis of tipping dynamics under uncertainty by Prof. dr. ir. Jan Kwakkel Thu Apr 9 (12-13): CCSS Meeting #81: Thresholds for Accelerating Sustainability Transitions by Prof. dr. Johan Schot Info & ✍️ for free🥪 www.uu.nl/en/research/...

Thursday next week (12 March), dr. René van Westen will give a presentation on "Failure to track a stable AMOC state under rapid climate change" during lunch time. For more information and to register for free lunch, please check out the link below. www.uu.nl/en/events/cc...

CCSS Meeting #80: Failure to track a stable AMOC state under rapid climate change

By dr. René van Westen (Physical Oceanography, Utrecht University)

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New recording online 💻 CCSS Meeting #79: Tipping in ecosystems by Prof. dr. ir. Max Rietkerk. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE94...

CCSS Meeting #79: Tipping in ecosystems

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📣#Entropy2026 Special Issue 👉Entropy: Exploring Complexity and Information in Science Submit your work & join the conference in July! 📝Abstract submissions open until 1 March sciforum.net/event/Entrop... Organized by the MDPI journal Entropy #Entropy #ResearchOpportunities #MDPIConferences

🎉1st ever NetLogo conference this summer June 29-July 1 in Chicago! Calling both researchers & educators: Share your ABM research, educational ideas & creative approaches with the NetLogo community. 📝 Proposals/abstracts open now → conference.netlogo.org/2026/ #NetLogo #ABM

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🏄‍♂️🏄‍♀️ Applications are now open for the SURF@IFISC 2026 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships. Undergraduate students can join research projects in complex systems at IFISC this summer. Deadline: March 22, 2026. 🔗 ifisc.uib-csic.es/en/about-ifi...

The recording of the CCSS lunch meeting talk by dr. Aneta Koseska (koseskalab.bsky.social) on "Ghost scaffolds guiding long transients in natural systems" is now available on our YouTube channel. youtu.be/dqbJ0NnlUU4

CCSS Meeting #78: Ghost scaffolds guiding long transients in natural systems

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Be part of the first Optiver & Utrecht University Trading Academy. Over four sessions, you’ll learn from Optiver industry experts, progress from options theory to hands-on Python algorithm design, and test your skills on Optiver’s 24/7 simulated exchange, Optibook. optiver.com/recruitment-...

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Utrecht University students will join the Optiver Trading Academy, led by Optiver industry expert Robbert Pullen, this exclusive program takes you from the foundations of options theory to hands-on al...

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📣 Thu 12 Feb. 12:00-13:00. CCSS Meeting #79. Prof. dr. ir. Max Rietkerk will visit our #ccss living room to give a talk on "Tipping in ecosystems". For more info and to sign up (free 🥪 included) please check out the link below www.uu.nl/en/events/cc...

Coming Monday Jan 12 our Young Complexity Researcher Niek Mooij will given a talk on Scale-Rich Network-Based Metamaterials. Join us at CCSS living room from 12-12:30 for his presentation and to enjoy a free lunch. For more info and registration: www.uu.nl/en/events/yo...

CCSS Lunch Meeting #77 (Thu 11 Dec. 12:00-13:00) Nico Wunderling from @pik-potsdam.bsky.social will give a hybrid talk on "Interactions between tipping elements: Assessing the risk of cascading transitions in the climate system". Please sign up or join online below www.uu.nl/en/events/cc...

CCSS Meeting #77: Interactions between tipping elements: Assessing the risk of cascading transitions in the climate system

By Nico Wunderling (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)

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Call for applications @acscc.bsky.social: Amsterdam Complexity School on Climate Change (April 27–May 1, 2026), a multidisciplinary workshop at the Institute for Advanced Study where early-career researchers and non-academic stakeholders collaborate on climate-related projects acscc.nl

The recording of the introductory talk of the first CCSS tutorial on Early warning signals for tipping in complex systems by dr. Paul Ritchie (paulritchie.bsky.social) is now available on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCOJ...

Critical mass or myth? The risks of framing change through tipping points. On Thu Nov 13, Ammy Vogtlander will visit the CCSS to give the second talk within the topic Tipping behavior in Natural and Societal Systems. For more info & registration www.uu.nl/en/events/cc...

Prof. dr. Erik van Sebille (erikvansebille.bsky.social) visited the CCSS to show how their OceanParcels team uses the Lagrangian framework to map the complex ocean flows and spatial patterns using trajectories of fluid parcels and particulates. Please find the recording 👇 youtu.be/ZJIxgdnSlTk

CCSS Tutorial on 'Early warning signals for tipping in complex systems' by dr. Paul Ritchie (paulritchie.bsky.social) coming up next Wed Oct 15 Program: 12-13 Lunch 13-14 Introductory talk 14-14:15 Break / Group formation 14:30-16:30 Group work 16:30-17 Wrap-up Info & ✍️ www.uu.nl/en/events/cc...

📣 Science Jam #61. Coming Tue 7 Oct. 12:00-13:00. Prof. dr. Irene Monasterolo (iremonas.bsky.social) will visit our #ccss living room to give a talk on "Climate stress-test: lessons learned, steps ahead". Please sign up below to join (free 🥪 included) www.uu.nl/en/events/re...

The recording of CCSS Meeting #75: 'Tipping behavior in complex systems – an introduction' is now available on our YouTube. For a brief non-exhaustive overview of the theory of tipping points and tipping dynamics, please have a look at this lecture. youtu.be/hVO4zZTVPtE

CCSS Meeting #75: Tipping behavior in complex systems – an introduction

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Up Next Tue 23/9: Science Jam #64: Chasing Oceans: Tracking how complex ocean flows move material around by @erikvansebille.bsky.social Wed 1/10: YCRL#26: From theory to data: a data-driven dynamical MaxEnt approach for macroecology by Fleur Slegers Info & ✍️ for free🥪 www.uu.nl/en/research/...

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