Resources

Conferences

• CCS is the flagship conference for the complex systems research community. It is organized yearly by the Complex Systems Society, alternating the venue between within and outside Europe. The conference also holds Satellite sessions before the main conference. These are specialized, smaller-scale events focusing on specific topics within complex systems.
• CompleNet brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines working on areas related to complex networks. As a particularity, it is usually a single-track conference (without parallel sessions).
• IC2S2 is the International Conference on Computational Social Science. It lies at the intersection of social and computational science, attracting researchers from fields like: sociology, economics, political science, psychology, cognitive science, management, computer science, and statistics.
• LoG is an annual research conference that covers areas broadly related to machine learning on graphs and geometry. It offers the possibility of following it online (for free).
• NetSci is the flagship conference on network science, organized by the Network Science Society. The conference also holds Satellite sessions before the main conference. These are specialized, smaller-scale events focusing on specific topics within network science.
• NetSciX extends the popular NetSci conference to provide an additional forum for a growing community of researchers and practitioners working in the emergent areas of network science. It usually holds in winter.
• Dynamic Days are international conferences on theory and applications of nonlinear dynamics.

Seminars

• NetPlace Seminars are online seminars held every two weeks, where organizers, speakers and the audience are all students and early-career researchers in network science and complexity. They are followed up by a brief discussion about difficulties that can be encountered during the academic path. To be the next presenter you just need to apply through their website.
• WiNS Seminars are online interdisciplinary seminars with the aim to promote and showcase research by women and nonbinary researchers in network science. Contact the organizers directly if you are interested in participating.

Diamond open access journals

• Peer Community In PCI is a non-profit organization of researchers offering peer review, recommendation, and publication of scientific articles in open access for free. Among others, they have a thematic journal on Network Science, i.e., PCI Network Science.
• OA Diamond Journals Inventory From June 2020 to February 2021, a consortium of 10 organizations undertook a large-scale study on open-access journals across the world that are free for readers and authors.
• The Northeast Journal of Complex Systems (NEJCS) is a peer-reviewed, online open-access journal on complex systems. NEJCS strives to publish original research on complex systems in a timely, open-access manner, free of charge for everyone (i.e., the journal does not charge fees for publishing an article).

Science Communication

• The Pint of Science festival aims to deliver interesting and relevant talks on the latest science research in an accessible format to the public – mainly across bars, pubs, cafes and other public spaces. It is carried out in 27 countries worldwide.
• European Researcher’s Night is an initiative promoted by the European Commission since 2005 that involves thousands of researchers and institutions in all European countries every year. The goal is to create opportunities for meetings between the world of research and the public to spread scientific culture in an informal and stimulating context. If you want to participate, we encourage you to ask your University directly.

• Our Discord server is the perfect platform to meet other researchers in the community. You are only one click away from starting new scientific collaborations.

Workshops

• Winter Workshop on Complex Systems is a one-week workshop where young researchers worldwide come together to work on interdisciplinary projects around complex systems.
• Complexity72h is an interdisciplinary workshop for young researchers in complex systems, where you team up with other early-career researchers to develop a project and submit the results on arXiv in just 72 hours, guided by the tutors.
• Complex Networks Winter Workshop is a bi-yearly workshop on network science and complex systems centered around collaborative problem-solving.
• The International Workshop on Complex Systems is organised every three years and it aims at being an instrumental meeting point for the broad community working in this field. Since its first edition, the workshop emphasizes new results obtained by experimentalists, theoreticians, and computational scientists.

• Our Discord server has a specific subchannel dedicated to new job opportunities. Join the Discord to always be updated, or contact us by email if you have a job opportunity you want to share.
• CSS job page regularly publishes job opportunities related to complex systems.
• NetSci job page regularly publishes job opportunities related to network science.

• AccelNet-MultiNet fellowships exchanged program between the United States and Europe to foster multilayer network science.
• yrCSS grants are provided by the association of young researchers of the Complex Systems Society. They provide financial support for young researchers to attend conferences, workshops, schools, symposiums or other scientific events related to complex systems. The yrCSS also has specific travel grants to look for new scientific collaborations (yrCSS Bridge Grants).

Schools

• Lipari School (J.T. Schwartz School for Scientific Research) offers different summer schools on topics relevant to complex systems and network science.
• Lake Como School of Advanced Studies offers summer schools with focus on different complex systems topics.
• Mediterranean School of Complex Networks is a week-long school that focuses on theory and applications of network science.
• NETHIKE a summer school focused on basics and advanced topics of network science in the context of sociological theory and research.
• Complexity Science Hub Vienna Winter School a winter school focused on how complex systems research can inform solutions to big societal problems.
• Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School is a one-month program that allows you to learn about about fundamental questions in complex systems and collaborate with your peers on a research project.

Podcasts

• Complexity Thoughts Podcast: Real systems, from cells to societies, are inherently complex. They are characterized by simple units which, once interconnected with each other, generate unexpected patterns that lead to complex and fascinating phenomena. This is the AI-generated podcast of Complexity Thoughts!
• Simplifying Complexity: Simplifying Complexity is a podcast about the underlying principles of complex systems. On the show, we explore the key concepts of complexity science with expert minds from around the world. Each episode focuses on an interview where we break down a specific concept in detail.
• Sean Carroll’s Mindscape: Ever wanted to know how music affects your brain, what quantum mechanics really is, or how black holes work? Do you wonder why you get emotional each time you see a certain movie, or how on earth video games are designed? Then you’ve come to the right place. Each week, Sean Carroll will host conversations with some of the most interesting thinkers in the world. From neuroscientists and engineers to authors and television producers, Sean and his guest talk about the biggest ideas in science, philosophy, culture and much more.
• Quanta Podcast: Susan Valot narrates in-depth news episodes based on Quanta Magazine’s articles about mathematics, physics, biology and computer science.
• COMPLEXITY Podcast: The official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute.

• Our Discord server is the perfect platform to meet other researchers in the community. Here you can get all kinds of updates related to our community, and ask any kind of question to fellow researchers.
• NetSci Outreach page contains an extensive set of resources useful for any scientist starting in network science (e.g. books, seminars, software, research centers…).
• NetSci Colloquium regular online seminars organized by the Network Science Society. Mostly focused on network science research.
• Santa Fe Institute Educational Programs list of resources for researchers at all levels interested in following all the complex systems’ programs organized by the Santa Fe Institute.
• BeyondTheEdge Seminar Series online seminar series organized by the doctoral network BeyondTheEdge. They are focused on hypergraphs and higher-order networks.
• NetPlace Seminars are online seminars held every two weeks, where organizers, speakers and the audience are all students and early-career researchers in network science and complexity. They are followed up by a brief discussion about difficulties that can be encountered during the academic path.
• WiNS Seminars are online interdisciplinary seminars with the aim to promote and showcase research by women and nonbinary researchers in network science.
• CSH Vienna Educational Programs list of resources for researchers at all levels interested in following all the complex systems’ programs shared by Complexity Science Hub.
• Neural Modeling Community Discord Channel computational neuroscience community.

United States of America

• The US Northeast Chapter of the CSS provides researchers and students working on complex systems in the US Northeast region with a professional venue where they can share their work, network with peers and potential collaborators, and achieve further professional development. Every year they organise the Northeast Regional Conference on Complex Systems (NERCCS).

Spain

• FisEs Joven, i.e., the “Reunión de Física Estadística Joven”, is a congress specifically targetting young researchers working in the fields of statistical physics and other multidisciplinary applications. It has been organized both as an in-person and online event.
• BIFI Conference, i.e., the National/International conference BIFI, is an annual conference organized by the Institute for Bio-computation and Physics of Complex Systems of the University of Zaragoza. It provides an opportunity for participants to share their latest findings across the Institute’s diverse research fields: from Physics and Computation to Bio-Physics, Bio-Chemistry, and Cell and Molecular Biology.
• The Spanish Chapter of the CSS gathers researchers in complex systems and other areas of potential interaction in an annual meeting celebrated somewhere in Spain.

France

• The French Chapter of the CSS gathers researchers in complex systems and other areas of potential interaction in an annual meeting celebrated somewhere in France.

Italy

• The Italian Chapter of the CSS aims at coordinating regional efforts to foster new scientific collaborations and participation to Italian, EU and international projects. CSS/Italy shares and promotes initiatives such as workshops, schools and seminars focused on complex systems in the Italian territory, in synergy with local existing initiatives and entities from other disciplines.

Netherlands

• NetSciNL is an official chapter of the International Network Science Society (NetSci). They organize two annual meetings around the country.