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D. Helbing and P. Mukerji (2012) Crowd disasters as systemic failures: Analysis of the Love Parade Disaster. EPJ Data Science. See also preprint.

Links to complementary videos can be found here.

Note that the paper does not make any statements on legal responsibilities of individuals or institutions. For further Questions and Answers regarding the paper, the Love Parade disaster and related issues see this blog.

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Dirk Helbing will hold a presentation on the worlds first "society simulator".
 Jun. 11, 2013
Dirk Helbing spricht auf der Konferenz der Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Berlin: "Der Wandel der Sicherheitskultur als Herausforderung für die Politik", am 14. Mai 2013 in Berlin zum Thema: "Verantwortung und Haftung bei komplexen Sicherheitsgefährdungen". May 14, 2013
Dirk Helbing will give a talk as special guest at the "Innovation Playground 20by20 Presentations Show (Part II)" within the Innovations Forum.
 May 9, 2013
Dirk Helbing will give a lecture on pedestrian flows at the UZH course “Urban Psychologie” in Zurich.  Mar. 3, 2013
Prof. Helbing is invited speaker at the annual meeting of the AAAS in Boston. He will speak about the topic: Towards Simulating the Foundations of Society.  Feb. 16, 2013
An upcoming lecture related to the Physics Colloquium of the University of Ulm: "Rethinking Macroeconomics Based on Complexity Theory", given by Prof. Helbing.
Feb. 04, 2013
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Dirk Helbing has been awarded the prestigious ERC Advanced Investigator Grant, among 12 ETH professors.
For more information see ETH Life.
Jan. 30, 2013
 Dirk Helbing is giving a talk on "FuturICT - Global Participatory Computing for Our Complex World" at Nanyang University Singapore January 18th 2013. For more information see here.  Jan. 18, 2013
Prof. Helbing presents the topic "The FuturICT knowledge accelerator: Participatory computing to understand and manage our complex world in a more sustainable and resilient way" at the workshop on "Risk and Uncertainty in Changing society", organised by the UCSIA. Nov. 23, 2012
Prof. Helbing präsentiert einen Vortrag über "Kollektive Entscheidungen - Modelle und Experimente mit Überraschungen" zum Studium Generale der Universität Mainz.
 Nov. 7, 2012
What physics can contribute to social sciences is one of the topics Prof. Helbing touches in his talk about "Physics in the science of social systems".
 Oct. 31, 2012
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The Chair of Sociology, in particular of modeling and simulation, is looking for two highly motivated postdocs. The full job offer can be found here.  Sep. 05, 2012
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FuturICT - Participatory Computing for Our Complex World
«Videos Online»
Mar. 21, 2012
The wisdom of crowds

The strange but extremely valuable science of how pedestrians behave

Dec. 17, 2011
News mining might have predicted Arab Spring

Signs of impending social and political change may lie hidden in a sea of news reports.

Sep. 13, 2011
Wenn die Masse zur Bedrohung wird (in German, Automatic English Translation)

Nicht erst seit dem Unglück bei der Loveparade in Duisburg erforschen Wissenschaftler das Risikopotenzial großer Menschenmassen. Neue Simulationen sollen den gefürchteten Crowd Quake jetzt realistischer simulieren.

Aug. 16, 2011
Es braucht ein neues Finanzsystem (in German, Automatic English Translation)
Zwei ETH-Wissenschaftler erklären, warum die Weltwirtschaft krank ist, Adam Smith unrecht hatte – und wir ganz anders über Geld nachdenken müssen.
Aug. 15, 2011
Science 2.0: Beschleunigung der Innovation (in German, Automatic English Translation) Jul. 20, 2011
Wenn Gier die Gesellschaft zerstört (in German, Automatic English Translation)

Ein bisschen Eigennutz tut allen gut, doch zu viel davon lässt das System einstürzen: Zwei Forscher der ETH zeigen am Computer, wie Gier eine Gesellschaft zerstört.

Jul. 12, 2011
Rechenmodelle sollen Katastrophen vorhersagen (in German, English translation) Jun. 23, 2011
When We're Cowed by the Crowd

A new study by Swiss scientists suggests that the interconnectedness of modern life might be making it even harder to benefit from our collective intelligence.

May 28, 2011
What Causes Deadly 'Crowd-Quakes'?

Apr. 22, 2011
Predicting crowd behaviour Apr. 21, 2011
A More Human Virtual Crowd

A new vision-based approach could help prevent crowd disasters.

Apr. 20, 2011
Wisdom about Crowds

To model the behaviour of humans en masse, treat them as people, not molecules

Apr. 20, 2011
How crowds move: because people want to be free Apr. 19, 2011
Earth project aims to 'simulate everything' Dec. 28, 2010
Physik der Finanzmärkte

(in German, English translation).

Dec. 22, 2010
Draußen eigene Wege gehen (in German, English translation). Aug. 2010
Panikforschung: Selbst Mekka ist beherrschbar (in German, English translation). Jul. 26, 2010
Nutzt die Möglichkeiten des Computers! (in German, English translation).

Wie entstehen Massenpaniken? Und noch wichtiger: Wie lassen sich Tragödien wie in Duisburg verhindern?

Jul. 26, 2010
Current Driving Conditions Michigan Jul. 16, 2010
Who should pay for the police? Jul. 14, 2010
Im Wunderland – wir haben eine kognitive Grenze überschritten (in German, English translation) Jun. 23, 2010
»Publication of "The future of social experimenting" in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (PNAS): click here for more detailed discussion. Mar. 15, 2010
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»new semester, fall term:

click here for SOMS courses

Sep. 15, 2009
»Towards a socio-economic knowledge accelerator Aug. 5, 2009
»about the Workshop on "Coping with Crises in Complex Socio-Economic Systems" Jul. 25, 2009
»CCSS Conference pictures and videos online Jul. 12, 2009
»Microscopic Modeling of Human and Automated Driving: Towards Traffic-Adaptive Cruise Control by Arne Kesting wins "Best Dissertation Award 2009" of ITSS Society!


Jul. 21, 2009
»TV appearance of Dresden team members:
August 12th, 2009 - ZDF Abenteuer Wissen
»more
November 16th, 2009 - 3sat Hitec
(Topics: Traffic Science)
Jul. 20, 2009
»Naissance Newsletter: Lost Robustness Apr. 22, 2009
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»new D-GESS Professor:
Prof. Ryan O. Murphy
"Assistant professor of decision theory and behavioral game theory"
new location: UNO B 13, Universitätstrasse 41
Apr. 22, 2009
»Article in WIRED Science and YouTube video on the Outbreak of Cooperation Feb. 23, 2009
»Publication of "The outbreak of cooperation among success-driven individuals under noisy conditions" in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (PNAS) Feb. 23, 2009
»Agenda of DPG annual meeting released (March 22nd - 27th 2009) Jan. 12, 2009
»Prof. Dirk Helbing has been elected to be a member of the German Academy of Sciences "Leopoldina" Dec. 05, 2008
»Crowd-Vision by Anders Johansson wins "Crowded Places Idea" Award 2008! Nov. 12, 2008
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  • »We are looking for students interested on developing their master thesis within our Living Science project (www.livingscience.ethz.ch). A tentative list of possible topics follows (more details will be provided directly to candidates):
  • User management functionalities for Living Science website.
  • Representation of large amounts of data on Google Maps API.
  • Name disambiguation.
  • Geocoding of contact data.
  • Other aspects of the project such as database management and text parsing.
Announcement
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»International Workshop on Coping with Crises in Complex Socio-Economic Systems 2009

ETH Zurich (Switzerland), June 8-13, 2009

Announcement
»Officical openning of the Competence Center: "Coping with Crises in Complex Socio-Economic Systems" Sep. 23, 2008
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»Workshop Summary:
International Workshop on Challenges and Visions in the Social Sciences
ETH Zurich (Switzerland), August 18-23, 2008
Aug. 28, 2008
  »Video recording of Dirk Helbing's Inaugural Lecture Apr. 10, 2008
  »Note: Due to the new obligations and huge amount of work related with his change of universities and fields, Prof. Helbing was not involved in crowd management and control projects in 2007 and 2008. Announcement
 

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