NICO was excited to host the 2nd Annual Complex Challenges for a Complex Future Conference on Wednesday, August 28, 2024, co-sponsored with Northwestern's Office for Research, Office of the President, Office of the Provost, the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, and the Paula M. Trienens Institute for Sustainability and Energy. The primary goals of the conference are to bring Northwestern faculty together to discus research challenges of significance, make connections across disciplines, and apply for seed funding with new collaborators.

For more information, please read these articles highlighting the 2024 Conference and the 2023 Conference.

The Metropolitan Chicago Data-science Corps (MCDC) Annual Conference took place on June 26, 2024 at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.  The conference brought together data scientists, community organizations, and corporate entites in the Chicagoland area, to learn and share how to best integrate data-science into their mission and engage experts and organizations with discussions, lectures, and activities.

NICO was excited to host the Complex Challenges for a Complex Future Conference on August 30, 2023, co-sponsored with Northwestern's Office for Research, the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, and the Paula M. Trienens Institute for Sustainability and Energy. This event convened faculty from across the University for a half-day conference with the goal of generating new interdisciplinary scientific research collaborations.

The Metropolitan Chicago Data-science Corps (MCDC) Annual Conference took place on May 19, 2023 at Depaul University. Please visit the MCDC web site for further information.

Northwestern University sponsored the 4th Annual Summer Institute in Computational Social Science Chicago, held virtually. The purpose of the Summer Institute is to bring together graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and beginning faculty interested in computational social science. The Summer Institute is for both social scientists (broadly conceived) and data scientists (broadly conceived).

The Summer Institute in Computational Social Science sponsored a partner site in Chicago. The purpose of SICSS-Chicago is to bring together Chicagoland graduate students and early career researchers in both social science and data science to learn and collaborate. Topics covered include text analysis, digital data collection, experimental design, non-probability sampling, agent based modeling, and ethics.

NICO was thrilled to sponsor this partner event in both 2018 and 2019. Please visit the event web site for archived speaker videos.

The Chicago Area SIAM Student Conference (CASSC), an event organized by the Illinois Institute of Technology, Northwestern University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago SIAM Chapters, is aimed at promoting applied mathematics among the youngest research community. CASSC is a conference that highlights the application of mathematics across diverse disciplines, including engineering, computer science, biology, chemistry, social sciences, and physics.

NICO is a sponsor of this annual conference.

4th Annual International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) seeked to redefine business in the 21st century at the intersection of computer science and social science. For four days, IC2S2 was the epicenter of computational social science. Convening over four hundred attendees from more than 20 countries at the Kellogg School of Management, the impact of IC2S2 is influential, innovative and global.

NICO was an institutional partner and co-organizer of this conference.

This 2nd Annual International Conference on Computational Social Science is an interdisciplinary event designed to engage a broad community of researchers – academics, industry experts, open data activists, government agency workers, and think tank analysts – dedicated to advancing social science knowledge through computational methods.

NICO was an institutional partner and co-organizer of this conference.

The 2015 Computational Social Science Summit was designed to create a broad community of social science researchers dedicated to advancing sociological knowledge through computational methods.

NICO was a co-organizer of this event.

Although teams have been an integral part of how society has organized for centuries, the digital revolution is dramatically changing the nature of how teams assemble and interact. Indeed, teams are considered critical in addressing the grandest societal challenges of our day. There is an increasing awareness that network science has the potential for offering important theoretical and methodological insights in understanding and enabling 21st century team performance. This workshop sought to catalyze a dialog among a community of thought leaders on teams and multi-team systems, network theory, and computational science.

NICO was a co-organizer of this event.

The Annual International Science of Team Science (SciTS) Conference is a forum to enhance our understanding of how best to engage in Team Science to meet society’s needs. The SciTS Conference serves as a point of convergence for investigators studying science teams and Team Science leaders/practitioners, to engage funding agencies to provide guidance on developing and managing Team Science initiatives, and to afford data providers and analytics developers insight into collaboration tracking and analysis needs.

NICO was a co-organizer of this conference.