When: June 11-15, 2018 Where: The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), Annapolis, Maryland.
Application Deadline: April 2, 2018, 5pm EST This 5-day short course will serve as an introduction to the theory and practice of spatially-explicit agent-based modeling (ABM). You will learn the essential theoretical background and technical expertise needed to conceptualize, build, and analyze your first ABM. You will learn the essential theoretical background and technical expertise needed to conceptualize, build, and analyze your first ABM. This course will guide you through the basic phases of the ABM research process: formulating a research question, specifying a model, creating a simulation and interpreting the output. The course combines lectures with hands-on model-building sessions where you will build a model using NetLogo to acquire basic and intermediate programming skills. More advanced students are welcome to build a model in a programming language of their choice. This will be an intensive, week-long immersion in ABM concepts and methods with reading and short writing assignments each day, and a ‘final project’ consisting of a simple model and standardized documentation to be published in the OpenABM (www.openabm.org) repository. Registration fees are $100 for graduate students and postdocs and $250 for faculty and all others*. Financial assistance for the registration fee and/or flights and hotel costs for non-local participants is available in accordance with our travel policies, but requires a formal application demonstrating a clear need for assistance. Applicants from developing countries or smaller academic institutions will be prioritized for assistance. Additional eligible travel expenses (e.g., meals and ground transportation) will be reimbursed for all attendees by SESYNC upon the completion and publishing of model code and description on OpenABM. Visit sesync.us/sabm2018 to learn more and apply.
