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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif">The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) is currently inviting applicants for a short course on Spatial Agent-Based Modeling held in Annapolis, Maryland from June 5<sup>th</sup>
through the 9<sup>th</sup>. <b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif">See below for details and please share with colleagues and students!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif"><a href="http://www.sesync.org/opportunities/short-courses/introduction-to-spatial-agent-based-modeling-june-2017">http://www.sesync.org/opportunities/short-courses/introduction-to-spatial-agent-based-modeling-june-2017</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif">Course Summary</span></b><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif">: This 5-day short course will serve as an introduction to the theory and practice of spatially-explicit agent-based
modeling (ABM). You will learn the essential theoretical background and technical expertise needed to conceptualize, build, and analyze your first ABM. This course will guide you through the basic phases of the ABM research process: formulating a research
question, specifying a model, creating a simulation and interpreting the output. The course combines lectures with hands-on model-building sessions where you will build a model using NetLogo to acquire basic and intermediate programming skills. More advanced
students are welcome to build a model in a programming language of their choice. This will be an intensive, week-long immersion in ABM concepts and methods with reading and short writing assignments each day, and a ‘final project’ consisting of a simple model
and standardized documentation to be published in the OpenABM (<a href="www.openabm.org">www.openabm.org</a>) repository.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif">Students, researchers, and faculty are all welcome to apply! Applications due March 24<sup>th</sup>.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif">Thank you!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Emily S. Cassidy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Science Communications Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Email:
<a href="mailto:ecassidy@sesync.org">ecassidy@sesync.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Phone: 410-919-4990<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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