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Physicists get social

The community of statistical physicists meets every three years on a different continent at the series of STATPHYS conferences to define the state-of-the-art in the field and to outline its possible evolution.

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Pietronero, L. Physicists get social. Nature Phys 6, 641–642 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1769

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