OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
If staff have any questions about the Oxford Events launch, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
The Synthetic Social Science Workshop is a new interdisciplinary workshop at Oxford that explores the frontiers of computational modeling and generative AI for the social sciences. We meet weekly during term-time and welcome researchers from across the university who are interested in large language models (LLMs) for social science, agent-based models (ABMs), generative social science, human-computer interaction, and the construction of artificial societies. Each session will feature a mix of invited speakers, work-in-progress presentations from group members, and discussions of key texts and methods in this emerging field. The group brings together perspectives from political science, sociology, computer science, philosophy, and beyond, with the goal of building a space for exploring the theoretical and empirical challenges posed by synthetic agents and computational simulations of society.
Attendance is open to graduate students, researchers, and academic staff. If you are interested in joining, please contact Emma Madden (emma.madden@politics.ox.ac.uk) to be added to the mailing list and receive the term card.
