Program
October 12 - 16, 2026: Main Conference (Lecture Hall & University Union) Tentative Schedule -- Times are in the US EDT (UTC - 4) time zone.
Special Sessions on Wednesday October 14, 6:00-7:00pm
Tips and Tricks for Getting Published as an Early Career Researchers (Lecture Hall 1)
By Joseph Pold (Editor, Public Library of Science)
Bringing 10 years of experience from across the publishing industry, Joe will discuss some of the common pain points and hiccups early career researchers run into as they look to build a publication record. This session will cover the importance and components of a good cover letter, how to encourage reviewers to look at your paper in an increasingly crowded environment, and other practical advice for authors. Joe will also share insights into the scholarly communications landscape, such as setting expectations for peer review turnaround times, and will welcome questions from the audience as he seeks to shed light on a historically opaque relationship between scientists and publishers.
Discussion: Current Issues at the Intersection of US Science and Human Rights (Lecture Hall 2)
Moderated by Andrea Liu (Hepburn Professor of Physics, University of Pennsylvania)
Andrea Liu will moderate a discussion on “Current issues at the intersection of US science and human rights.” She is the vice-chair of the Committee for Human Rights of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, so she has a strong interest in these topics, but will be moderating this in her personal capacity. Everyone attending the conference is invited to attend and participate. Many of us are concerned about human rights issues but don’t feel qualified to talk about it since we are not experts the way we are experts in our scientific fields. However, we are all human and issues at the intersection of science and human rights are affecting us and our research more and more. This is an opportunity to meet as a community to discuss such issues.
Accepted Satellites
Two-day satellites:
Wednesday, October 14th & Thursday, October 15th:
 | Twelfth International Conference on Guided Self-Organization (Lecture Hall 1; Organizers: Amahury Jafet Lopez Diaz, Georgi Georgiev) |
 | Commemorative Symposium Honoring Professor Erik Bollt's Contributions to Complex Systems Science (Lecture Hall 2; Organizers: Charles Liang, Jeremie Fish) |
 | Evolutionary Development of Universal Complexity (EDU) (Lecture Hall 8; Organizers: John Smart, Clement Vidal, Bobby Azarian, Julian Gough, Georgi Georgiev) |
 | SUNY Symposium on Complex Systems Research and Education (Lecture Hall 11; Organizers: Hiroki Sayama, Sarah Muldoon, Anca Radulescu, Sean Maley) |
One-day satellites:
Wednesday, October 14th
 | Complexity and Sports (Lecture Hall 7; Organizers: Maddalena Torricelli, Brennan Klein, Jonah Spector) |
| Creative Methodologies And Innovations In Researching Complex Social Systems: Qualitative, Interacting And “Mixing” Methods Approaches (Lecture Hall 9; Organizers: Ana Teixeira de Melo, Robin Purshouse, Emma Uprichard, Leo Caves, Letícia Renault) |
 | Thriving in the Chaos: Intelligent Agents in Turbulent Systems (Lecture Hall 7; Organizer: Kenric P. Nelson) |
| Computational Social Science (Lecture Hall 10; Organizer: Gerardo Iñiguez) |
 | Complex Systems and Contemplative Studies (Lecture Hall 13; Organizers: Pavel Chvykov, Robert Marsland, Matthieu Barbier, Matthew McCarthy) |
 | Celebrating Howard H. Pattee’s Centennial (Lecture Hall 14; Organizers: Dennis Waters, Luis M. Rocha, Amahury J. López-Díaz, George Musser) |
Half-day satellites:
Wednesday Morning, October 14th
 | Complexity Research in Animal Behaviour (CRAB) (Lecture Hall 10; Organizers: Josefine Bohr Brask, Eduardo Colombo, Luis Gómez-Nava, Iacopo Iacopini, Rafael Menezes, Sara Neven, Matthew J. Silk) |
 | How Complex Order Is Constituted (Lecture Hall 14; Organizers: Michaela Emch, Daniel Ari Friedman, Shereen Amos) |
| Edge Cases (Lecture Hall 10; Organizer: Phileas Dazeley-Gaist) |
| Complexity, Asian Medicine, and the Intelligence of Healing Systems (Lecture Hall 14; Organizer: Lisa Conboy) |
| Insights into the Economic and Financial System (Lecture Hall 9; Organizer: Tanuja Prasad) |
| WOMPLEXITY meets Northeast (Lecture Hall 9; Organizer: Irene Ferri) |