ICTP-SAIFR Workshop on Complex Systems
Start time: October 22, 2014.
Ends on: October 23, 2014
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Venue: IFT-UNESP
Organizers:
Marcus A. M. de Aguiar (IFGW-UNICAMP), Nathan Berkovits (IFT-UNESP/ICTP-SAIFR), Roberto Kraenkel (IFT-UNESP)
Confirmed speakers:
- Guillermo Abramson (Instituto Balseiro, Argentina)
- Eduardo Altmann (MPI for the Physics of Complex Systems, Germany)
- Jose Soares Andrade Jr. (Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil)
- Flora Bacelar (Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil)
- Edgardo Brigatti (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
- Yaneer Bar-Yam (New England Complex Systems Institute, USA)
- Nestor Caticha (IF-USP, Brazil)
- Hilda Cerdeira (IFT-UNESP, Brazil)
- Ronald Dickman (UFMG, Brazil)
- Miguel Fuentes (Santa Fé Institute, USA)
- Marcos Gomes Eleutério da Luz (IF – UFPR, Brazil)
- Renio dos S. Mendes (Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Brazil)
- Jorge Pacheco (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
- Francisco Rodrigues (USP São Carlos, Brazil)
- Renato Vicente (IME-USP, Brazil)
Description:
This two-day workshop on complex systems will discuss applications of nonlinear dynamics to interdisciplinary research areas involving biology, ecology,
economics, linguistics and physics.
Announcement
There will be no application form for this activity and everyone is welcome to participate. For more information, send an E-mail to secretary@ictp-saifr.org
List of Participants: PDF file
Programme: pdf programme_updated on October 15
| Wednesday, October 22 | ||
| Start | End | ROOM 3 |
| 9:20 | 9:30 | OPENING |
| 9:30 | 10:15 | Yanner Bar-Yam: Complex systems science and global crises |
| 10:15 | 10:45 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 10:45 | 11:30 | José Soares de Andrade: Robustness, transport and synchronization in complex networks |
| 11:30 | 12:15 | Hilda Cerdeira: Can we predict an epileptic seizure? |
| 12:15 | 14:00 | LUNCH |
| AUDITORIUM | ||
| 14:00 | 15:15 | IFT/ICTP-SAIFR COLLOQUIUM – Eduardo Altman: A complex-systems view on language dynamics |
| 15:15 | 15:45 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 15:45 | 16:30 | Renato Vicente: Evolution of altruism in group-structured populations |
| 16:30 | 17:15 | Miguel Fuentes: Stochastic Path Perturbation Approach Applied to Non–Local Non-Linear Equations in Population Dynamics |
| 17:15 | 17:40 | SHORT BREAK |
| 17:40 | 18:10 | Flora Bacelar: Life history and mating systems select for male biased parasitism mediated through natural selection and ecological feedbacks |
| 18:10 | 18:40 | Francisco Rodrigues: Centrality and dynamical processes on complex networks |
| Thursday, October 23 | ||
| ROOM 3 | ||
| 9:30 | 10:15 | Jorge Pacheco: Linking individual to collective behavior on complex networks |
| 10:15 | 10:45 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 10:45 | 11:30 | Nestor Caticha: Cognitive limits, social interactions and the breakdown of the egalitarian society: an information theory approach |
| 11:30 | 12:15 | Marcos Luz: The Levy foraging theory and fragmented landscapes |
| 12:15 | 14:15 | LUNCH |
| AUDITORIUM | ||
| 14:15 | 14:45 | Edgardo Brigatti: The Role of Neighbours Selection on Cohesion and Order of Swarms |
| 14:45 | 15:30 | Ronald Dickman: Failure of Steady-State Thermodynamics |
| 15:30 | 16:00 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 16:00 | 16:45 | Gullermo Abramson: Space use by foragers consuming renewable resources |
| 16:45 | 17:30 | Renio Mendes: Violent conflicts and crime |
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