SICSS-Lake Como

June 29 to July 12, 2025 | Como, Italy

Schedule & Materials

Sunday June 29, 2025 - Participants arrive

Monday June 30, 2025 - Introduction to SICSS

9:00am
Participants gather and housekeeping announcements
9:30am
Introduction to SICSS-Lake Como
10:00am
Flashtalks by participants
1:00pm
Lunch
2:30pm
Unconference I
4:00pm
Coffee break
4:30pm
Round table: 10 years of Computational Social Science teaching and research

Tuesday July 1, 2025 - Simulating entire societies

9:00am
Participants gather and housekeeping announcements
9:30am
Replicating experiments with large language models
11:00am
Coffee Break
11:30am
Using AI to generate digital twins
1:00pm
Lunch
2:00pm
Hands-on exercise
4:00pm
Coffee break
4:30pm
Solutions to group exercise and discussion
5:30pm
Keynote

Wednesday July 2, 2025 - Machine learning for causal analysis

9:00am
Participants gather and housekeeping announcements
9:30am
Causal machine learning
11:00am
Coffee Break
11:30am
Building better theories through prediction and explanation
1:00pm
Lunch
2:00pm
Hands-on exercise
4:00pm
Coffee break
4:30pm
Solutions to group exercise and discussion
6:00pm
Keynote by Chris A. Bail- AI & Democracy

Thursday July 3, 2025 - Social media research

9:00am
Participants gather and housekeeping announcements
9:30am
Using API to collect social media data
11:00am
Coffee Break
11:30am
Large and continuous data collection of social media data
1:00pm
Lunch
2:00pm
Hands-on exercise
4:00pm
Coffee break
4:30pm
Solutions to group exercise and discussion
5:30pm
Panel- Europe and the DSA

Friday July 4, 2025 - Polarization research

9:00am
Participants gather and housekeeping announcements
9:30am
European Polarization Observatory Workshop
11:00am
Coffee Break
11:30am
European Polarization Observatory Workshop
1:00pm
Lunch
2:00pm
Hands-on exercise on EPO data
4:00pm
Coffee break
4:30pm
Solutions to group exercise and discussion
5:30pm
Keynote
8:00pm
Social dinner

Monday July 7, 2025 - Online Experiments

9:00am
Participants gather and housekeeping announcements
9:30am
Online experiments workshop
11:00am
Coffee Break
11:30am
Online experiments exercise
1:00pm
Lunch
2:00pm
Unconference II and groups form
3:30pm
Coffee break
4:00pm
Group research work
5:30pm
Keynote
8:00pm
Social dinner

Tuesday July 8, 2025 - Networks

9:00am
Participants gather and housekeeping announcements
9:30am
Network analysis workshop
11:00am
Coffee Break
11:30am
Network analysis exercise
1:00pm
Lunch
2:00pm
Group research work
5:30pm
Keynote

Wednesday July 9, 2025 - Text and video as data

9:00am
Participants gather and housekeeping announcements
9:30am
Text as data I
11:00am
Coffee Break
11:30am
Text as data II
1:00pm
Lunch
2:00pm
Group research work
5:30pm
Keynote

Thursday July 10, 2025 - Sports analytics with Como FC (TBC)

9:00am
Participants gather and housekeeping announcements
9:30am
Como FC Sports Analytics Team Presentation
11:00am
Coffee Break
11:30am
Como FC Sports Analytics Team- Examples and data
1:00pm
Lunch
2:00pm
Group research work / Hackaton
5:30pm
Keynote

Friday July 11, 2025 - Research group presentations

9:00am
Participants gather and housekeeping announcements
9:30am
Group research work - Finalize
11:00am
Coffee Break
11:30am
Group research work - Finalize
1:00pm
Lunch
2:00pm
Group presentations and discussion
6:00pm
Closing aperitivo/dinner

Saturday July 12, 2025 - Participants leave

Host a Location

You can host a partner location of the Summer Institutes of Computational Social Science (SICSS) at your university, company, NGO, or government agency.