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Job openings

Santa Fe Institute - Postdoctoral Research Fellowship: Network Thermodynamics of Distributed Computation

The Santa Fe Institute — a private, not-for-profit research and education organization — has an opening for a two-year full-time postdoctoral fellowship. They are seeking a highly motivated scholar with expertise in physics (or in special cases in computer science), who has a desire to apply their expertise to understand the thermodynamic cost of distributed computation, from digital circuits and neural networks to human brains.

This position is based in-person in Santa Fe, NM. The desired start date is no later than June 1, 2027. Interested people should check the job posting at the Santa Fe Institute's webpage

Autotelic Interaction Research group - Postdoc (2 years) to work on Autotelic Creative AI (ACAI)

Deadline: Fri 11th Sep 2026

The Autotelic Interaction Research (AIR) group at the Department of Computer Science, Aalto University, Finland is looking for 1 Postdoc (2 years) to work on Autotelic Creative AI (ACAI), a project funded by the Research Council of Finland.

The postdoc’s role is twofold. On the one hand, they will complement the project through theoretical research on the foundations of creativity in AI and living beings, including e.g. agency, motivation/teleology and value grounding. On the other hand, they will be given time and opportunity to work on their own ideas, which should nonetheless tie in with the wider interests of the group (see below).

Within this project, the postdoc will be working in close interaction with a media artist, the PI and the wider AIR group. They will moreover also be invited to work with and travel to the group's collaborators Tom Froese (OIST), Takashi Ikegami (University of Tokyo), and Jon McCormack (Monash University).

Interested parties should check more details at the job post at Aalto University's webpage.

NEW CFP and Deadlines

evo* (EvoStar) 2027.

EvoStar is a joint event of several European Conferences on topics related to Evolutionary Computation. This year, a new sub-conference has been added: evoLearn - The 1st International Conference on Evolutionary Computation and Learning (evoLearn 2027)

Still active CFP and Deadlines

EMO 2027 Submission (September 28th)

Conference on Complex Systems (CCS 2026)

CCS 2026 Warm-Up

October 9-10th, 2026

A two-day informal event for PhD students and early-stage scientists. You will have the opportunity to attend talks by prominent researchers, learn about the scientific and life experience of young and senior colleagues, and – last but not least – have fun and socialise!

Twelfth International Conference on Guided Self-Organization (GSO-2026)

October 14-15 (during CCS 2026)

GSO "aims to regulate self-organization for specific purposes, so that a dynamical system may reach specific attractors or outcomes. The regulation constrains a self-organizing process within a complex system by restricting local interactions between the system components, rather than following an explicit control mechanism or a global design blueprint."

AROB 20027 Submission (October 28th):

IEEE CEC 2027 (Feb 28th)

ESANN 2027 (Nov 18th)

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