INSTITUTIONAL SEMINAR
Sociophysics takes center stage at a new IMIT Institutional Seminar
Last Wednesday, April 29, the Institute of Modeling and Technological Innovation (IMIT) successfully held another edition of its institutional seminars. This time, the seminar was held virtually and included the participation of students, professors, and researchers from the National University of the Northeast (UNNE), as well as from various academic communities at other universities across the country.
The lecture, titled "From the Early Aspirations of a Social Science to Current Computational Models: A Historical and Methodological Journey Through Sociophysics," was given by Dr. Jorge Alberto Revelli, Independent Researcher at CONICET and Associate Professor at FaMAF-UNC.
During the event, Dr. Revelli offered a fascinating historical overview that linked 19th-century "social physics" with contemporary sociophysics. He explored how fundamental tools of statistical physics—such as the Ising model, complex networks, and agent-based simulations—allow us today to mathematically describe complex social phenomena, such as polarization and consensus formation.
As the speaker aptly emphasized during his talk, "Understanding the laws that govern our collective behavior is the first step toward building a more integrated society, one that is more aware of its own dynamics." At IMIT, we celebrate this space for interdisciplinary exchange, which continues to strengthen the ties between the exact sciences and the analysis of social reality.