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Registration is now open for SBP14, the 2014 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction. SBP14 will be held at the UCDC Center, downtown Washington DC, USA April 1 – 4, 2014. Link to the main conference pages, http://sbp-conference.org/ Link directly to registration page, http://sbp-conference.org/registration/ *** Note: Early-bird registration deadline is March 15, 2014. *** DIVERSITY TRAVEL FELLOWSHIPS NOW AVAILABLE Travel Support to Promote Diversity at SBP14 (for students and non-students) We have limited funding to provide travel support (registration, travel, hotel) to a few participants for the purpose of increasing diversity at SBP 2014. Support will be available to participants from underrepresented groups (racial minority, females, or participants from the social sciences, economic or managerial sciences, or biomedical research fields) to help them attend the conference and contribute to the disciplinary diversity. These awards will cover registration costs for local conference participants. For non-local participants, the award will cover up to about $700 for registration, travel, and lodging expenses. These awards are available to students, post-docs, and non-students who belong to one or more of the underrepresented groups indicated. To apply for consideration, please send an email to Don Adjeroh (d...@csee.wvu.edu). The email must include the following: 1. Confirmation that you are planning to attend SBP14 2. Confirmation that you wish to apply for the travel support 3. An indication of the under-represented category/categories to which you belong. Diversity categories include Gender (i.e., females are underrepresented at this conference), and racial or ethnic group (underrepresented groups include African Americans, American Indians, and those of Hispanic origin). Diversity categories also include area of study. Diverse areas of study are those outside of the traditional STEM disciplines, and include behavioral and social sciences, economic or managerial sciences, and biomedical research fields. 4. (For student applicants and post-docs only) A simple letter of support by a faculty member who knows you, confirming that you belong to the minority category that you specified. 5. A short paragraph outlining your need for the travel support. The awards will be allocated on the basis of individual's need and available funding. Early-bird deadline: March 15, 2014 Final Deadline: March 31, 2014 STUDENT TRAVEL FELLOWSHIPS AVAILABLE The SBP Conference will provide a limited number of student registration/travel awards to assist students to attend the conference. The awards will cover conference registration via reimbursement for local students. For non-local students, the award will cover reimbursement of up to $1000 for registration, travel, and lodging expenses. To apply for the award, students must: 1) Submit your request online using the Travel Scholarship Application Form available at http://sbp-conference.org/awards/ 2) Ask a university faculty member to submit a simple letter of support confirming the applicant's student status to sbp14...@gmail.com Incomplete application will not be processed. The awards will be allocated on the basis of student qualifications, need, and available funding. Please note that students do not have to be an author of a paper or a winner of the challenge program of SBP 2014 in order to apply. Early Bird Deadline: March 15, 2014 Regular Deadline: March 31, 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOME EXCITING ITEMS ON THE PROGRAM! SBP 2014 CHALLENGE – see: http://sbp-conference.org/challenge/ The SBP Challenge aims to demonstrate the real-world and interdisciplinary impact of social computing. The challenge will engage the social computing research community in solving a relevant, interesting, and challenging research problem that will advance the theory, methodology, and/or application of social computing. TUTORIALS – see: http://sbp-conference.org/tutorial/ Morning and afternoon tutorials are offered on Tuesday, April 1 (included with registration fee): Morning Session (1) Modeling a Mobile World Presenters: Wendy J. Nilsen, PhD, Health Scientist Administrator, Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research/NIH Stephen Intille, PhD, Associate Professor, College of Computer and Information Science & Dept. of Health Sciences, Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University Donna Spruijt-Metz, MFA, Ph.D, Director, Mobile and Connected Health Program, Center for Economic and Social Research, Associate Professor, Departments of Preventive Medicine and Psychology, University of Southern California Misha Pavel, PhD, College of Computer and Information Science, Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University (2) Introduction to social data analysis combining R and Python Presenter: Dr. Jose Manuel MAGALLANES, Center for Social Complexity, George Mason University, and Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Afternoon Session (1) Multiscale Strategic Interaction with vmStrat Models Presenter: Dr. David Sallach, Associate Director, Center for Complex Adaptive Agent Systems Simulation (CAS), Argonne National Laboratory; Senior Fellow, Computation Institute, The University of Chicago (2) Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Creating Maps and Measures with NodeXL Presenter: Dr. Marc A. Smith, Chief Social Scientist, Connected Action Consulting Group For a full description of tutorials, see: http://sbp-conference.org/tutorial/ SBP14 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Dr. Jacquelyn Ford Morie Founder and Chief Scientist All These Worlds, LLC Dr. David Lightfoot, Georgetown University Professor of Linguistics; Director, Communication, Culture & Technology; Director, Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Georgetown University Former Head of the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences at NSF Dr. Patricia Mabry Senior Science Adviser and Director Systems Sciences Program, NIH For more information on the keynote speakers, see: http://sbp-conference.org/keynote.shtml Please visit the conference website for further information about the conference: http://sbp-conference.org/index.shtml
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