American Political Science Association 2010

Things were busy this summer for the authors of this blog (Miguel Garces and Brandon Alcorn), but we hope that some people have found our previous posts introducing PS-I useful or at least interesting. In this post, I'd like to talk about our attendance at the American Political Science Association in the beginning of September.  We learned plenty from the conference, some of which we plan to talk about in the future, including topics such as methodology, other agent-based modeling techniques, ethnic and religious conflict, insurgency, political networks, evolution, and identity.

Professor Ian Lustick, along with Brandon Alcorn, Alicia Ruvinsky, and Miguel Garces, presented a paper at a theme panel entitled "Modeling Techniques For Macro-Political Events."  Our paper, "From Theory to Simulation: The Dynamic Political Hierarchy in Country Virtualization Models" can be found at www.lustickconsulting.com.  The panel was insightful and the audience asked challenging and pertinent questions.  I would also like to mention a number of other panels, short courses, and authors we found interesting.