3rd European Symposium on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science (#eurocss) This year's focus: Polarization and Radicalization Venue: ETH Zurich, Switzerland Dates: September 2-4, 2019 Website: http://symposium.computationalsocialscience.euhttp://symposium.computationalsocialscience.eu/

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Andreas Flache (University of Groningen) Philip Leifeld (University of Essex) Helen Margetts (Oxford Internet Institute & The Alan Turing Institute) Alice E. Marwick (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

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PhD candidates from all disciplines that work on topics related to computational social science are welcome to apply for participation. The doctoral consortium is non-public and will only be open to participants that have been selected based on their applications. During the doctoral consortium, participants will receive individual feedback on their work from two experts of different areas in CSS who will join as mentors during the event. Participants will also have the opportunity to connect with other PhD candidates in the field.

Submission deadline: extended to May 20, 2019 Acceptance notification: June 10, 2019 Submit via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eurocsssymposium2019 The full call can be found here: http://symposium.computationalsocialscience.eu/2019/

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The second Dataset Challenge of the European Symposium on Societal Challenges in CSS invites researchers and to approach a common topic through a selection of datasets. The aim of this challenge is to encourage creative engagement with data from pluralistic perspectives in order to foster dialogue across disciplines. The datasets for this year’s challenge all relate to machine behavior when interacting with humans and can be found on the symposium website.

Submit your abstracts based on the suggested dataset(s) now! Submission deadline: extended to May 20, 2019 Acceptance notification: June 10, 2019 Submit via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eurocsssymposium2019 The full call can be found here: http://symposium.computationalsocialscience.eu/2019/

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Due to the generous funding by Volkswagen Foundation we are able to offer a limited number of travel grants to researchers whose submissions are accepted for the symposium (workshop/tutorial organizers, authors of posters & presentations, dataset challenge entry, doctoral consortium participants).

Submission deadline: extended to May 20, 2019 Submit via email: css.eurosymposium@gmail.commailto:css.eurosymposium@gmail.com

More information can be found here: http://symposium.computationalsocialscience.eu/2019/

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A Science Slam is an epic scientific event where scientists compete with short talks on their research. Slammers are completely free to do whatever they want on stage, everything is allowed including slides, games, the more creative, the better! Do you want to present at the science slam? Send an email with the title and a short description of what you want to do to garcia@csh.ac.atmailto:garcia@csh.ac.at the latest by August 10, 2019.

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September 2, 2019: Workshops and Tutorials (full- or half-day) Doctoral Consortium Dataset Challenge Science Slam September 3, 2019: Symposium day 1 September 4, 2019: Symposium day 2

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SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS David Garcia (Complexity Science Hub Vienna and Medical University of Vienna) Frank Schweitzer (ETH Zurich)

DATASET CHALLENGE CHAIRS Aniko Hannak (Complexity Science Hub & Vienna University of Economics and Business) Simon Schweighofer (Complexity Science Hub Vienna & Medical University of Vienna)

SCIENCE SLAM David Garcia (Complexity Science Hub Vienna and Medical University of Vienna)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Katrin Weller (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) Markus Strohmaier (RWTH Aachen University & GESIS) Luca Maria Aiello (NOKIA Bell Labs) Frank Schweitzer (ETH Zurich) David Garcia (Complexity Science Hub Vienna and Medical University of Vienna)

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Questions? Feel free to contact us under: css.eurosymposium@gmail.commailto:css.eurosymposium@gmail.com