XXXVI Reunión Bienal de la Real Sociedad Española de Física

Collective Social Phenomena: simple models and/or Big Data

20 jul. 2017 9:00

50m

Aula Magna (Santiago de Compostela, Facultade de Química)

Plenary Plenary IV-A Plenary IV-A

Descripción

I will give a short overview of problems of collective social phenomena being considered from a physicist perspective and I will discuss the contribution of this perspective to the new Computational Social Sciences. I will address the question of what can be learnt from simple models in the middle of the data deluge and illustrate the answer to this question in two contexts: i) Voter model and consensus, stochastic effects, electoral processes, fragmentation transitions in complex networks and community structure in on-line games. ii) Spatial segregation phenomena: Schelling´s model, ghettos and land use.