Symmetry Festival 2016
Symmetry Festival 2016 Arts & Science Programs. General Relativity 100! 18th – 22nd July 2016 The Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science is pleased to be this year’s cooperation partner of the World’s largest multidisciplinary Conference & Art Festival in Symmetry Studies organized by the Symmetrion, under the…
John Collier visiting scholar in Vienna to work on theory of self-organization
John Collier, Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Associate, Philosophy, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, is visiting Vienna again. He is invited by TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology) to work with Wolfgang Hofkirchner on the emergence of function in the course of evolution of self-organizing systems. Collier, Fellow of the BCSSS, member…
Starting the ISSS 2015 conference in Berlin with Systems Philosophy and its Relevance for Systems Engineering
On Sunday 2nd August 2015 the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) Systems Science Working Group presented the one day pre-conference workshop on Systems Philosophy and its relevance to Systems Engineering in Berlin, led by Gary Smith (INCOSE). The workshop has been the second in a succesful series. The first…
Invitation to join the Webinar on “Systems Philosophy and its Relevance to Systems Engineering”
The BCSSS is pleased to announce this unique opportunity which originates from our collaboration with the International Council on Systems Engineering and invites you to join the INCOSE Webinar 76 – Systems Philosophy and its Relevance to SE on Wednesday 6 May 2015, 11:00am EDT, USA / 5:00pm CEST, Austria…
PhD Scholar from China to visit the BCSSS, 2014 till 2016
Another PhD scholar will join our team from autumn onwards. Her name is Lin Bi. She works on a dissertation thesis about the interplay of Information Technology and Information Society. Her supervisor is philosopher of information, Kun Wu. Wu is professor at the Xi’an Jiaotong University. He heads the International Center for…
Understanding Matter
The Italian Centro Internazionale per la Ricerca Filosofica held its first international conference in Palermo from April 10 to 13, 2014. About 100 speakers discussed philosophical problems of understanding matter. The Bertalanffy Center was represented with talks by José María Díaz Nafría, Wolfgang Hofkirchner and Rainer Zimmermann. They took part…
Ludwig von Bertalanffy PhD Scholarship awarded
The Ludwig von Bertalanffy PhD Scholarship was awarded to Asimina Koukou from Greece for a period of three years. She convinced the Scholarship Committee set up by the Bertalanffy Center in a competitive interview with four candidates after scrutinising the applications. Her Phd research supervised by Prof. Katharine Sarikakis at…
Invitation to the Bertalanffy Symposium 2013
We heartly invite you to the upcoming 2nd Bertalanffy Symposium Emergence: Systems – Evolution – Information jointly organised by the BCSSS and the Working Group Information Studies at the Austrian Computer Society. The current worldview of complexity aims at understanding emergent phenomena. Austrian and international experts from different disciplines –…
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