Curitiba Summer School on Computational Methods and Agent Based Modelling

The Summer School consists in a week-long full-time intensive course to teach PhD and young scholars how to implement and best exploit agent-based simulation models in Economics for research purposes. It will provide students with both the technical and methodological skills required to successfully develop and analyze simulation models in a research project, which may be related to their PhD thesis or just to a topic of interest.

The course will alternate lectures and exercises carried out by the students under the supervision of the teaching staff. The course provides guidance on all the steps a researcher needs to follow to design and use an agent-based simulation model. Students will be encouraged to work on their own research project and develop parts of an original simulation model. Participants will learn how to build economic models using the simulation platform Laboratory for Simulation and Development – LSD www.labsimdev.org and https://github.com/marcov64/Lsd

The summer school is addressed to highly motivated young scholars (Graduate students, PhD candidates, Postdocs) and early career researchers from all regions of the world (both developed or developing countries) working on innovation, complexity economics, economic development, finance and sustainability topics related to the energy sector. Students interested in regulation are particularly encouraged to participate.

Teaching staff:

Prof. Marco Valente (University of L’Aquila)
Dr. Tommaso Ciarli (University of Sussex)
Prof. João Basilio Pereima (UFPR)
Prof. Marcelo Pereira (UNICAMP)
Dr. Francisco Gabardo (UFPR)
Mr. Danilo Spinola (UNU-MERIT)

Application deadline is 30- October 2019.

Candidates should upload PDF files in English contenting the following parts:
 CV,
 Motivation letter (max 2 pages)
 Where available, a short project describing the
model they would be interested in developing
(max 2 page),
 Motivation letter for funding, where needed.
Applicants should fill the on-line form and upload relevant material at the following link: https://goo.gl/forms/TeMy6ZMQ1G8ZzlLw2
Selection process will be disclosed until 01-November.

The summer school on Computational Methods and Agent Based Modelling in Economics is free of charge. The number of participants is restricted to 20.

We offer partial travel assistance to selected students.

Assistance is limited and interested students should apply for it when filling in the above form. Local expenses All students are responsible for local expenses, such as lunches, dinners and accomodations.

Contact Coordination of the Summer school:

Course Coordinator: Prof. Dr. João Basilio Pereima
Phone +55(041)3360-4397. E-mail: joaobasilio@ufpr.br

PPGDE Secretariat Aurea Koch or Andréa Silva
Phone: +55(041)3360-4400, +55(041)3360-4405. E-mail:ppgde@ufpr.br

Any questions on YSI’s participation please contact complexity@youngscholarsinitiative.net or fs@youngscholarsinitiative.net