CSSSA 2025 Annual Conference SIGs & Special Session
Dear Members and Friends of CSSSA community,
This year's CSSSA conference will be held in person at The Drury Plaza Hotel in Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 6 – 9, 2025, near the historic central plaza in downtown Santa Fe. Please visit our website for more information.
This year, the CSSSA hosts three SIGs on Thursday, November 6. As a reminder, remote participation in the SIGs is a perk available to all – even if you can’t attend the conference, as well as the Special Session: Modeling Resilience of Human Societies to Climate Risk: Agent-Based Modeling to Longitudinal Social Pathways Nov 8th.
Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
This year, the CSSSA hosts three SIGs on Thursday, November 6. As a reminder, remote participation in the SIGs is a perk available to all – even if you can’t attend the conference.
1:00-3:00 (Mountain time), Meem Room: CSSSA Presents Click to Join Remotely
We’re excited to invite you to participate in the inaugural CSSSA SIG designed to support early-career and first-time presenters. This session offers a unique opportunity to present your accepted paper in a smaller, friendly, and supportive setting ahead of the main conference. You’ll receive constructive feedback focused on presentation skills, with time to refine your talk before presenting to the full CSSSA audience. This year’s SIG will feature special guest Dr. Rebecca Freihaut, an expert in technical communication, who will offer helpful suggestions to enhance your presentation delivery. If you’re interested in participating, please express your interest via this form. We welcome both presenters and attendees, including senior members, to join and help foster a collaborative and encouraging environment.
1:00-3:00 (Mountain time), Riviera A Room: MESA 3.2 SIG Click to Join Remotely
The SIG will cover basic Mesa functionality to include new features of Mesa 3.2, which includes updates to Mesa Space and the addition of Meta-Agents (agents that are composed of numerous other agents). We will also include an overview of features added through this year’s Google Summer of Code which includes – updates to the Mesa visualization, integration of LLMs into agent behavior, and Mesa frames, a vectorized version of Mesa to allow for rapid speed up of Mesa models.
3:30-5:30 (Mountain time), Riviera A Room: Epistemix SIG Click to Join Remotely
Epistemix would like to lead a SIG session on synthetic populations to introduce Populus, a new web application for exploring, managing, and enriching synthetic populations – including the newly generated Epistemix 2025 Synthetic Population of the United States. The workshop will demonstrate how to leverage Populus by generating a new subpopulation and using it in simulations with FRED (a proprietary modeling language from Epistemix) and Mesa.
Special Session
This year, the CSSSA hosts a Special Session on Saturday November 8th.
9am-11pm (Mountain time), Modeling Resilience of Human Societies to Climate Risk: Agent-Based Modeling to Longitudinal Social Pathways Click to Join Remotely
We look forward to seeing you there,
The CSSSA Conference Organizing Committee