Ludwig von Bertalanffy PhD Scholarship awarded
The Ludwig von Bertalanffy PhD Scholarship was awarded to Asimina Koukou from Greece for a period of three years. She convinced the Scholarship Committee set up by the Bertalanffy Center in a competitive interview with four candidates after scrutinising the applications. Her Phd research supervised by Prof. Katharine Sarikakis at…
León 2014 | Workshop | Understanding Complexity
From 27 – 30 January, 2014 , a workshop for students was held under the title “Understanding complexity: systems, emergence and evolution“. It was organised and introduced by BCSSS Fellow José María Díaz Nafría. In addition, the Center was represented by Rainer Zimmermann who gave a lecture course on the foundations…
Mechanisms as causes for societal development
Social scientists are inclined to talk of social “mechanisms” to designate that which brings about effects in the course of development. “Mechanisms” are the causes for the reproduction of society and its transformation as well. However, “mechanisms” are not strictly deterministic as mechanical causations might be. They depend on the…
Invitation to the Bertalanffy Symposium 2013
We heartly invite you to the upcoming 2nd Bertalanffy Symposium Emergence: Systems – Evolution – Information jointly organised by the BCSSS and the Working Group Information Studies at the Austrian Computer Society. The current worldview of complexity aims at understanding emergent phenomena. Austrian and international experts from different disciplines –…
Systems Sciences meet Systems Engineering
A small group of international experts from both systems sciences and systems engineering met in the beginning of November for a six days conversation in a research retreat near Cómpeta (Malaga, Spain). Janet Singer, an independent researcher, member of the ISSS, convoked that group “to test the premise that more robust, coherent and effective…
León 2013 | Workshop | Social Networks
September 13-15, 2013, the University of León, León, Spain, held a workshop for students on “Social networks: from communication to solidarity (an interdisciplinary approach)”. It was organised by BCSSS Fellow José María Díaz Nafría. Two Board Members were invited to give talks. Wolfgang Hofkirchner introduced the notion of the Global…
Systems Sciences and the global challenges
These bubbles are the symbol for the EMCSR facilitated by the Bertalanffy Center: a self-organised meeting on sciences and technologies for the self-organisation of our future (photo: Scott Camazine) The next European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research is scheduled for 22-25 April 2014. As always, it will take place…
Governor of Hai Phong visited Vienna and the IFSR
Gary Metcalf, Stefan Blachfellner and Gerhard Chroust, International Federation for Systems Research officers (IFSR), established strong relations with Dr. Nguyen van Thanh, Governor of Hai Phong City of Vietnam at the 57th ISSS Congress in Hai Phong, July 2013. As a consequence Dr. Thanh and a delegation of 9 high-ranking…
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