Vermont Complex Systems Institute
The Vermont Complex Systems Institute at the University of Vermont is a post-disciplinary team working on real-world, data-rich, meaningful complex systems problems of all kinds. vermontcomplexsystems.org
- Reposted by Vermont Complex Systems InstituteWe're excited to welcome @begus.bsky.social as a keynote speaker for IC2S2 2026!
- Reposted by Vermont Complex Systems InstituteOnly six days left! Tutorial submissions close on February 2nd. Submit here: ic2s2-2026.org/submit-tutor...
- Reposted by Vermont Complex Systems InstituteJan Eiẞfeldt will be a keynote speaker for IC2S2 2026! Jan is an external fellow at @sfiscience.bsky.social and serves as Director, Global Head of Trust & Safety at the Wikimedia Foundation @wikimediafoundation.org, the non-profit hosting Wikipedia, Wikidata, and other free knowledge projects.
- Reposted by Vermont Complex Systems InstituteI'm teaching my evolutionary robotics course again, for those who want to follow along. Lecture 1: why make robots? youtu.be/FjNNFRDvQgs?...
- Reposted by Vermont Complex Systems InstituteConference update: IC2S2 Virtual Day. While Vermont is an incredibly kind and welcoming state, national policies and federal actions have a real impact on conference access, particularly for people from countries who cannot enter the US due to federally enacted travel bans. 1/6
- Reposted by Vermont Complex Systems InstituteWe are thrilled to announce that @katymilkman.bsky.social will be a keynote speaker at IC2S2 2026. Milkman is best known for her award-winning research on to identify and overcome barriers that prevent positive behavioral change.
- Reposted by Vermont Complex Systems InstituteWe are excited to welcome @rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social as a 2026 keynote for IC2S2. His work at the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna, as well as his work with OECD - OCDE and the The World Bank focuses on mobility, migration and urban dynamics:
- Reposted by Vermont Complex Systems Institute2026 tutorial submissions are open! ✔️ Submission deadline: February 2nd, 2026 ✔️Acceptance Notification: February 16th, 2026 View the guidelines here: lnkd.in/eBHVe2tP
- Reposted by Vermont Complex Systems InstituteThere’s a secret language beneath your favorite movies, musicals, and even video games. We visualized every motif in Wicked, Hamilton, and Les Mis to show how tiny musical ideas can build entire emotional worlds. 🔗: pudding.cool/2025/12/moti...
- Reposted by Vermont Complex Systems InstituteKeynote Announcement! We're thrilled to have Kate Starbird from the University of Washington's Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering speak at IC2S2 2026. Registration is open with submissions opening on 12/15: ic2s2-2026.org
- Woohoo! We're excited.
- IC2S2 2026 registration is open! Explore the 2026 conference here ➡️ ic2s2-2026.org ✔️ Submissions open December 15th ✔️ Keynotes will be announced between now and February ✔️ Full program of selected talks and tutorials will be available in late April
- Reposted by Vermont Complex Systems InstituteWe're excited to announce that the website and registration for IC2S2 2026 (July 28-31) will launch in early December! The Vermont Complex Systems Institute @vcsi.bsky.social at the University of Vermont will be hosting IC2S2 in 2026: youtube.com/watch?v=p412S4GnPkc&feature=youtu.be
- Core faculty Juniper Lovato recently joined Across the Fence to discuss artificial intelligence. Check out the episode "What Does a Computer Scientist (and Philosopher) think of A.I.?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5V8...
- Eight arms clapping for our champions: "Complex City United" is #1! Our complex systems team of faculty and graduate students won UVM's recreational soccer finals this month:
- Congratulations (to us) for making a Valencian-approved paella 🥘 under suboptimal (regular) stove top conditions in honor of our excellent cohort of visiting PhD scholars from Spain:
- Reposted by Vermont Complex Systems InstituteWe wrote a little something! @nwlandry.bsky.social and I talk about how new software to study networks with groups (like @xgi.bsky.social !) can help interdisciplinary collaborations tackle old questions from social ontology and the science of groups. www.siam.org/publications...
- It’s fall in Vermont and here we are with @uvmvermont.bsky.social president Dr. Marlene Tromp for the annual social on the green 🍁🍂
- Reposted by Vermont Complex Systems InstituteNew paper dropped! Led by @thosvarley.bsky.social and Pai Vaibhav, we show that flows of information within a #xenobot resemble flows of information observed in adult human brains. Thomas provides caveats and context below. w/ @drmichaellevin.bsky.social, Caitlin Grasso, & Jeantine Lunshof.
- Reposted by Vermont Complex Systems Institute🎓 I've joined the PhD in Complex Systems & Data Science at @vcsi.bsky.social to work w/ @lhd.bsky.social & @juniperlov.bsky.social to explore social (complex) dynamics 🔬 Huge thanks to @joanagsa.bsky.social & Lília Perfeito for helping me get ready for this chapter 🚀 Excited for this next step!
- Excited about this paper and the interactive story to accompany it. Congrats @lhd.bsky.social @juniperlov.bsky.social @giulioburgio.bsky.social @sfiscience.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social and nice story telling @jstonge.bsky.social!
- The interactive story is by @jstonge.bsky.social and other friends: complex-stories.uvm.edu/friends-funn.... The paper is with friends from @vcsi.bsky.social @sfiscience.bsky.social and @unioflimerick.bsky.social.
- Reposted by Vermont Complex Systems InstituteOur Physical Review Letter looks at how to get power-law distributions of cascade size without tuning or self-organization to criticality by allowing cascades to improve in quality and jump over gaps or dead-ends TL;DR complex-stories.uvm.edu/friends-funn... Paper: journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
- Working on an interesting data project? Want to enjoy Vermont during leaf peeping season? Submit a talk for PyData Vermont 2025! We will be hosting this event at UVM through our open source program office, VERSO: pydata.org/vermont2025/
- We love this research profile on Vermont Complex Systems Institute core faculty @juniperlov.bsky.social 🐙 www.linkedin.com/posts/uvm-vc...
- What do cascade dynamics teach us about why things go viral? New research from VCSI faculty and @sfiscience.bsky.social considers the fact that things don’t just spread — they change as they spread, and those changes strengthen or weaken their impact. Read more here: www.uvm.edu/cems/cs/news...
- Why do stock markets behave the way they do? New work from our partnership with MITRE upends traditional understanding of stylized facts in markets. Read more here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Vermont Complex Systems InstituteAll the keynote recordings are available now, enjoy! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
