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<h2 style="margin-bottom:0;font-size:20px;padding-right:10px">Host: New England Complex Systems Institute</h2>
<h1 style="color:#2059A6;margin:2px 0 5px 0;padding:0 0 0 0;font-size:30px;">Ninth International Conference<br>on Complex Systems (ICCS 2018)</h1>
<h2 style="color:#898989;font-style:italic;font-size:25px;border-bottom:1px solid #2059A6;padding:0 0 8px 0;margin:5px 0;">Early Registration Ends April 13</h2>
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<td width="165" style="padding-right:10px" valign="top"><p style="font-size:16px;color:#898989;"><i>July 22 - 27, 2018<br>
Hyatt Regency<br>
Cambridge, MA, USA<br><br>
<a href="http://www.necsi.edu/events/iccs2018/"><b>Click here to register</b></a></i></p>
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<td><p style="font-size:16px;">The International Conference on Complex Systems is a unique interdisciplinary forum that unifies and bridges the traditional domains of science and a multitude of real world systems. Participants will contribute and be exposed to mind expanding concepts and methods from across the diverse field of complex systems science.</p><p style="font-size:16px;"><b>Special Topic - Artificial Intelligence:</b> This year’s conference will include a day on AI, including its development and potential future.</p>
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</tbody></table><p style="font-size:16px;">The deadline for registering at the early registration rate is Friday, April 13. To take advantage of the discounted rate, <a href="http://www.necsi.edu/events/iccs2018/register.php"><b>register now</b></a>.</p><p style="font-size:16px;">We expect to have some limited funds to assist students and postdocs in attending the conference. <a href="http://www.necsi.edu/education/postdoc/ICCS-financialaid.php"><b>Apply online</b></a>.</p>
<h2 style="font-size:20px;border-bottom:1px solid #2059A6;padding:0 0 8px 0;margin:5px 0;color:#2059A6;">IMPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES:</h2>
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<td width="190" style="" valign="top"><p style="font-size:16px;">Early registration:</p>
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<td style=""><p style="font-size:16px;">April 13, 2018</p>
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<td width="190" style="" valign="top"><p style="font-size:16px;">Camera-ready abstract<br>& full paper submission:<br>
(full paper submission is optional)</p>
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<td style=""><p style="font-size:16px;">May 4, 2018</p>
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<td width="190" style="" valign="top"><p style="font-size:16px;">Late abstract submission:</p>
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<td style=""><p style="font-size:16px;">June 1, 2018</p>
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<td width="190" style="" valign="top"><p style="font-size:16px;">Conference:</p>
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<td style=""><p style="font-size:16px;">July 22-27, 2018</p>
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<h2 style="font-size:20px;border-bottom:1px solid #2059A6;padding:0 0 8px 0;margin:5px 0;color:#2059A6;">INVITED SPEAKERS:</h2><p style="font-size:16px;">Albert-László Barabási (Northeastern University)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Real World Risk Institute)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">Marta González (University of California Berkeley)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">Stuart Kauffman (Institute for Systems Biology)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">Peter Turchin (University of Connecticut)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">Mercedes Pascual (University of Chicago)<br>
<i>Pending confirmation</i></p><p style="font-size:16px;">Iyad Rahwan (MIT Media Lab)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">Natalia Komarova (University of California Irvine)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">Theresa Whelan (U.S. Department of Defense)<br>
<i>Pending DOD approval</i></p><p style="font-size:16px;">Simon DeDeo (Carnegie Mellon University)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">H. Eugene Stanley (Boston University)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">Stephen Wolfram (Wolfram Research)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">César Hidalgo (MIT Media Lab)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">Jessica Flack (Santa Fe Institute)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">Sandy Pentland (MIT Media Lab)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">Carmen Reinhart (Harvard Kennedy School)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">Olaf Sporns (Indiana University Network Science Institute)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">Michelle Girvan (University of Maryland)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">Cameron Kerry (MIT Media Lab)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">Irving Epstein (Brandeis University)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">Ricardo Hausmann (Harvard University)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">Steven Hassan (Freedom of Mind)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">John Sterman (MIT Sloan School of Management)<br>
<i>Pending confirmation</i></p><p style="font-size:16px;">Spencer Wells (The Genographic Project)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">Josh Bongard (University of Vermont)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">Stephen Grossberg (Boston University)</p><p style="font-size:16px;">Hyejin Youn (Kellogg School of Management)</p>
<h2 style="font-size:20px;border-bottom:1px solid #2059A6;padding:0 0 8px 0;margin:5px 0;color:#2059A6;">WORKSHOPS:</h2><p style="font-size:16px;">The following workshops have been confirmed for ICCS 2018:</p><p style="font-size:16px;"><b>Crowdsourcing and Collective Intelligence</b>
<br> Ágnes Horvát (Northwestern University, USA)</p><p style="font-size:16px;"><b>Artificial Intelligence in Drug Discovery and Design</b>
<br> Ed Addison (Cloud Pharmaceuticals, USA)</p><p style="font-size:16px;"><b>Evolution and Lifespan</b>
<br> Mark Kon (Boston University, USA)</p><p style="font-size:16px;"><b>Blockchain Networks and Information Flow</b>
<br> Yaniv Altshuler (MIT Media Lab, USA)
<br> Sandy Pentland (MIT Media Lab, USA)</p><p style="font-size:16px;"><b>How Nations Learn: Knowledge diffusion in society and the economy</b>
<br> César Hidalgo (MIT Media Lab, USA)
<br> Cristian Jara (MIT Media Lab, USA)
<br> Cristian Candia (MIT Media Lab, USA)</p><p style="font-size:16px;"><b>Complex Systems in Bio Medicine</b>
<br> Edna Pasher (Edna Pasher PhD & Associates, Israel)</p><p style="font-size:16px;"><b>Network Interventions Social Good</b>
<br> Flávio L. Pinheiro (MIT Media Lab, USA)
<br> Cristian Candia (MIT Media Lab, USA)
<br> Diana Orghian (MIT Media Lab, USA)</p><p style="font-size:16px;"><b>Causal Inference</b>
<br> X. San Liang (Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China)</p><p style="font-size:16px;"><b>Risk, Fat Tails, and Precaution</b>
<br> Joseph Norman (Freelance complex systems and data scientist)</p><p style="font-size:16px;"><b>Law and Complexity: Law, Cognition and Complexity</b>
<br> Enrique Cáceres Nieto (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico)</p><p style="font-size:16px;"><b>Social, Political and Economic Events Through Social Media</b>
<br> Rosa M. Benito (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
<br> Juan C. Losada (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)</p><p style="font-size:16px;"><b>Shifting Paradigms: Complex Adaptive Systems In Neuroscience and Psychotherapy</b>
<br> Yakov Shapiro (University of Alberta, Canada)
<br> J. Rowan Scott (University of Alberta, Canada)</p><p style="font-size:16px;"><b>Complex Systems: Literacy and Learning</b>
<br> Catherine Cramer (New York Hall of Science, USA)
<br> Evelyn Panagakou (Northeastern MOBS Lab,USA)
<br> Hiroki Sayama (Binghamton University, USA)
<br> Steve Uzzo (New York Hall of Science,USA)</p><p style="font-size:16px;"><b>Network Cascades: Unfolding, Modeling, and Control</b>
<br> Adilson E. Motter (Northwestern University, USA)</p>
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