The Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science (SICSS)
July, 2023.- The Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science (SICSS) is an international event that seeks to broaden knowledge in computational social science, promoting interdisciplinary participation between computer science and social science. This year SICSS will have a location in Chile for the first time, at the San Joaquín Campus of the P. Universidad Católica de Chile, between July 17 and 27.
The event is organized in Chile by a group of academics from different faculties and universities in Chile, led by Hernán Sarmiento, IMFD researcher and Ph.D(c) DCC Universidad de Chile, who highlights that “SICSS aims, at a global level, to accelerate the growth of the field and ensure that practices are developed that are of long-term interest to science and society. Many institutions worldwide apply to host this institute, so having our location selected is of great relevance for those of us who work in this area locally“.
SICSS is an initiative of the Social Science Research Council, created to provide training to a new generation of researchers working at the intersection of social science and data science, with the goal of incubating cutting-edge research. In the sessions, participants have the opportunity to attend talks by leading academics in the field on a variety of topics, from automated text analysis to experiments on social media platforms; take part in group training exercises; and present interdisciplinary research projects. “The second week of SICSS in Chile will be devoted to group project work among attendees,” Hernán Sarmiento anticipates.
More than 60 people applied for SICSS in Chile, of whom 20 were selected based on gender parity criteria. Nine disciplines will be present in the activities, including sociology, statistics, data science, philosophy, among others. As for the institutions represented, there are twelve, including the Universidad de Chile, the P. Universidad Católica de Chile, the Universidad de Santiago de Chile, the Universidad del Desarrollo, the Universidad Alberto Hurtado; international universities such as Columbia University (USA), Lingnan University (Hong Kong), Monash University (Australia); research and study centers such as the Centro de Estudios de Conflicto y Cohesión Social (COES), Elige Educar and the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD).
Over the two weeks of activities, participants will take part in talks, conferences, and presentations bringing together the various disciplines in the field. The Keynotes will feature:
Online experiments – Mauricio Bucca (PUC)
For more information, the program is available at: https://sicss.io/2023/chile/schedule