Symmetry Festival Vienna 2016
The BCSSS is co-operation partner of the International Symmetry Association (ISA) which is just preparing its next Symmetry Festival scheduled for summer 2016 in Vienna, hosted by the Vienna University of Technology. The ISA deals with fundamental physical and mathematical knowledge at the interface with arts. The festival will not…
The BCSSS Lecture Series in „Systems Science and Medicine“ continues with Evolutionary Medicine and Systemic Holistic Medicine
We cordially invite you to join the next event of the BCSSS lecture series „Systems Science and Medicine“: Prof. Dr. Detlev Ganten, Charité Berlin presents on Thursday, November 19th 2015, 6pm his findings on Evolutionäre Medizin und systemische ganzheitliche Medizin (lecture in German), Hörsaal Institut f. Hygiene, Medizinische Universität, Kinderspitalgasse…
Theoria cum praxi et bonum commune (Leibniz): System theory, informatics and a wise society for all
Rathaus Tiergarten, Berlin-Moabit (photo: Wikimedia Commons) The Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin e.V. (LS) invites the group “Emergent Systems, Information and Society” to present itself at a one-day colloquium of their two classes (Natur- und Technikwissenschaften; Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften). The group is a joint endeavour of the Arbeitskreis of the LS, the Research…
Ethics for computer scientists
Besides other commitments when being in Vienna, Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, member of the BCSSS “Emergent Systems, Information and Society” Research Group, gives for invited faculty on 14 October 2015 a seminar at the Institute for Design and Technology Assessment of the Vienna University of Technology. Its title is: Preparing Next Generation of Software…
The Turing machine model and “natural computation”
Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, member of our recently established Research Group on Emergent Systems, Information and Society, will visit Vienna and give a talk on A Taxonomy of Computation and Information Architecture. The question is how the turing model of computation relates to self-organisation of natural systems: Are they different or do they…
Relationality and information in Leibniz
Together with the Institut für Design Science München the Bertalanffy Center is represented with five papers for a panel at the X International Leibniz Congress, organised at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University Hanover, July 18-23, 2016. The papers will discuss issues of organisation, structure, relations and information with Leibniz and assess his ideas as…
Call for papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Consumer Policy on System Perspectives on Sustainable Consumption Policies
Guest Editors: André Martinuzzi, WU Vienna, Austria Lucia Reisch, Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark Submission of papers: September 30th, 2015 Planned publication: September 2016 (No. 3) Prospective contributors are invited to discuss their ideas informally with the special issue editors (contact: andre.martinuzzi@wu.ac.at). Research on sustainable consumption in general and on…
The BCSSS Lecture Series in Systems Science and Medicine continues with Managing Healthcare Systems
Since the beginning of this year we are organizing a lecture series at Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (BCSSS, 1040 Vienna, Paulanerg. 13) on the contribution of Systems Science to the understanding of disease in the sense of the emerging “Systems Medicine”. The talks are aimed at…
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