Conference on Complex Systems

The detailed program for #CCS2026 is officially here! 🍂 🗓️ Join us Oct 9-16 in Binghamton, NY & online to explore the state of the art in #ComplexSystems science. Scan the QR code on the flyer or click the link below to view our full schedule. 👇 🔗 easychair.org/smart-progra...

A big thank you to @hirokisayama.bsky.social and @cgershen.bsky.social and all the other organizers of #CCS2026 for a great conference, especially for having a Zoom option!

And here is our final lightning talk session at #CCS2026!

Our panel on Women in Complex Systems happening now at #CCS2026

By unpacking biological plasticity, pleiotropy, and epistasis, Brandon Ogbunu delivered a magnificent keynote lecture on how living organization is far more complex than our descriptions of it, synthesizing numerous relevant findings from modern evolutionary biology. #CCS2026

Our final keynote speaker is Andrea Liu, who presented her work on tunable matter, essentially defined as the ability to intervene in a collective system to understand its functioning mechanically, with applications ranging from material science to neuroscience. #CCS2026

Today at #CCS2026: Womplexity Meets Northeast, 14:45 ET in Lecture Hall 9 and online. @sarahmuldoon.bsky.social on brain networks, @anastasiabzv.bsky.social on belief cascades, 3 contributed talks, and a panel. Open to all CCS participants. css-usne.github.io/womplexity-m...

Don't forget to attend any of our special sessions! 1. Tips and Tricks for Getting Published as an Early Career Researchers (LH 1). 2. Current Issues at the Intersection of US Science and Human Rights (LH 2). #CCS2026

To wrap up the first day of #GSO2026, Mikhail Prokopenko outlines his research on characterizing the thermodynamic efficiency of self-organizing phenomena. #CCS2026 @css-conference.bsky.social

Now, at #GSO2026, Hao Ke presents his project on computational neoplasms, which essentially deals with how pathological self-maintenance can emerge within AI-agent repositories. #CCS2026 @css-conference.bsky.social

To start our second session of contributed talks at #GSO2026, Earnest Kota Carr presents his work on the use of information theory to characterize the dual dynamics of information flow optimization. #CCS2026 @css-conference.bsky.social

Now, at #GSO2026, Michael Levin presents his empirical program on collective intelligence, showcasing numerous examples in which bioelectricity acts as a glue enabling the regeneration of multicellular structures. #CCS2026 @css-conference.bsky.social

As a keynote speaker at #CCS2026, Mercedes Pascual provides an overview of how the dimensionality of trait space evolves in multi-trait consumer-resource systems, placing great emphasis on the importance of eco-evolutionary processes.

Finishing the morning session of #GSO2026, Georgi Georgiev shows us his general framework to reformulate the principle of least action in systems that are thermodynamically open. #CCS2026 @css-conference.bsky.social

Prof. Naoki Masuda is talking about forecasting tipping points in complex systems #CCS2026

#CCS2026 begins!

arxiv.org/abs/2510.06011 Sounds interesting. #CCS2026

Keep going with #GSO2026, Ivan Samoylenko discusses how guiding self-organization can be implemented in #LLM multi-agent systems via Kantian equilibrium. #CCS2026 @css-conference.bsky.social

Now Daniel Polani presents his research on how to formalize agency using informational incentives for swarming. #GSO2026 #CCS2026 @css-conference.bsky.social

Do you want to keep talking after #CCS2026 or couldn't make it? Submit to CompleNet 2027 at U. Rochester! A 1-2 page extended abstract is enough. Work in progress or already published work welcome! Deadline: Oct 17 (AoE) @complenet.bsky.social @css-conference.bsky.social

Kicking off #GSO2026, Mikhail Prokopenko gives us an introduction to what guided self-organization is about. #CCS2026 @css-conference.bsky.social

Our first keynote speaker at #GSO2026 is Andrea Liu, who gave us a lot of insights regarding how we can tune the components of collective dynamics to guide decentralized tasks, vanishing the idea that reservoirs should be black boxes. #CCS2026 @css-conference.bsky.social

Now, Michael Levin offers us a wonderful keynote lecture on how living organisms solve problems at different scales and across various dynamic landscapes (ranging from the transcriptional to the behavioral level) through collective intelligence. #CCS2026

Using a simple model as an example, Réka Albert delivered a magnificent keynote lecture on how our representations of complex biological systems need to recapitulate real biological observations found in the scientific literature. #CCS2026

Whether you are a physicist, computer scientist, biologist, economist, or sociologist, we are sure you will find something interesting in our fourth parallel session at #CCS2026. Don't miss it!

Imagine knowing your project so well that you can present it in only three minutes... ⏲️ That's what lightning talks are all about, and below you'll find some snapshots from our second session at #CCS2026!

Now, John Krakauer is giving a plenary lecture on how #ComplexSystems tools and thinking is fundamental to detecting, studying, and treating neurological disorders. #CCS2026

We kick off Day 2 of #CCS2026 with a brief historical overview by Professor Luis Rocha on how the science of complex systems has developed at @binghamtonu.bsky.social since the last century!

From network science and dynamical systems to autopoiesis and criticality—don't miss the many interesting talks we're offering in our second block of parallel sessions at #CCS2026!

Is it possible to transform a nightmare team into an ideal one? Noshir Contractor explores various ways to develop strategies based on complexity science to improve teamwork dynamics. #CCS2026

Our second speaker of the day is Claudi Bockting, who presented her research, in which she explores how #ComplexSystems science can shed light on how environmental factors, (such as pollution and #AI) influence social relationships within human societies. #CCS2026

Don't forget to stop by our first poster session at #CCS2026! Here are some photos of how things are going. 😉

What do you want to learn today? From cultural evolution to biolgical dynamics, join any of our parallel sessions at #CCS2026! Check out our dynamic program so you don't miss anything that interests you. 👇 easychair.org/smart-progra...

Our first keynote speaker at #CCS2026 is Vittorio Loreto, who addresses the limitations of state-space-based approaches in predicting the unpredictable and presents recent advances to overcome these challenges. Can we genuinely simulate open-ended evolution inside a computer?

To kick off #CCS2026, our conference chairs, along with the presidents of @binghamtonu.bsky.social and BU Watson College dean, open the event by sharing their remarks and perspectives on the importance of complex systems in a world that changes too fast.

🎉 Thrilled to announce the 2026 CSS Senior Award winner: Prof. Mark Newman (University of Michigan)! 🏆 Pioneering contributions to statistical physics & network science. He'll deliver a Plenary Lecture at #CCS2026. 📍 Binghamton, NY & Online | Oct 9–16 👉 ccs26.cssociety.org

Welcome to the 2026 Conference on Complex Systems! Register, grab some coffee, then come Lecture Hall 1! A very intensive week full of interesting conversations await, so make sure to use our hashtags across any social media you choose to share your experience! #CCS2026

A great 1st day of #CCS2026 Warm-Up!! See you tomorrow for Day 2

#CCS2026 Warm-Up Day 2: Sarah Muldoon describes her very unique academic trajectory @css-conference.bsky.social @yrcss.bsky.social

Now Laurent Hebert-Dufresne discusses how to do good scientific communications #CCS2026 @css-conference.bsky.social @yrcss.bsky.social