Si intitola COMPLEX NETWORKS IN ACTION la settima SICC International School “Topics in nonlinear dynamics” che si tiene all’Università di Catania dal 26 al 28 September 2012
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AIM OF THE COURSE
Complex networks constitute a paradigm pervading many natural or man-made complex systems. Complex networks attract a wide and interdisciplinary audience coming from various fields: from theoretical scientists, to physicists, to engineers, to biologists. Recently, the topic paved the way to new perspectives in different advanced research fields such as brain dynamics (where complex networks have been demonstrated to provide new tools for functional activity characterization), climatology (where they provide a powerful framework to statistically investigate the topology of local and non-local statistical interrelationships), synchronization (where synchronization emerges as a complex interplay between network structure and properties and node dynamics), electronics (where the recent efforts directed towards large-area applications require to deal with complex patterns of interconnectivity), sensor networks (where the structural and evolutionary properties of models of complex networks are explored to design alternative network control methods and effective and robust techniques) and other examples. The idea underlying the School is to focus on such fields where the application of paradigms, concepts and methods from complex network theory revealed to be of great interest both from a theoretical point of view and from an application point of view. The School will thus focus on fields in which complex networks can be seen “in action”.
LOCATION
University of Catania, Italy
DATES
26-28 September, 2012
ORGANIZERS
DIEEI (Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering), University of Catania and SICC (Italian Society for Chaos and Complexity, http://www.sicc-it.org)
TOPICS
This Ph.D. School is intended for postgraduate/PhD students from all over Europe and will deal with complex networks and their applications to the following areas: brain dynamics; climatology; epidemics; game theory; synchronization; sensor networks; control; slime mould computers.
SPEAKERS
– Juergen Kurths (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany)
– Mario Chavez (Cognitive Neuroscience and Functional Brain Mapping, UPR 640-LENA, France)
– Andrew Adamatzky (Dept of Computer Science UWE, Bristol, United Kingdom)
– Yamir Moreno (Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems BIFI, Spain)
– Jesus Gomez-Gardenes (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
– Stefano Boccaletti (Univ. Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)
– Mario Di Bernardo (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy)
– Carlo Piccardi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
– Alessandro Rizzo (Politecnico di Bari, Italy)
– Luigi Fortuna (Università degli Studi di Catania, Italy)
– Andrea Rapisarda (Università degli Studi di Catania, Italy)
– Mattia Frasca (Università degli Studi di Catania, Italy)
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
26 September 2012
8.30 – 9.00 Registration
9.00 – 9.30 Welcome and introduction to the School
9.30 – 11.00 Carlo Piccardi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) – Introduction to complex networks
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 -13.00 Juergen Kurths (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany) – Network of networks and recurrence networks – New paradigms for data analysis
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch
14.30 – 16.00 Andrew Adamatzky (Dept of Computer Science UWE, Bristol, United Kingdom) – Slime mould computers in computational geometry, logics and road planning
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee Break
16.30 – 18.00 Alessandro Rizzo (Politecnico di Bari, Italy) – Consensus-Based Distributed Target Tracking in Heterogeneous Sensor Networks
18.00 – 19.00 Poster Session
27 September 2012
9.30 – 11.00 Luigi Fortuna (University of Catania, Italy) – Nonlinearity, circuits and complexity
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 -13.00 Jesus Gomez-Gardenes (University of Zaragoza, Spain) – Evolutionary Game Dynamics in Complex Networks
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch
14.30 – 16.00 Mario Di Bernardo (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy) – Evolving Dynamical Networks: Synchronization, Control and Coordination
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee Break
16.30 – 18.00 Mario Chavez (Cognitive Neuroscience and Functional Brain Mapping, UPR 640-LENA, France) – Complex networks in brain dynamics
18.00 – 19.00 Poster Session
28 September 2012
9.30 – 11.00 Yamir Moreno (Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems BIFI, Spain) – Modeling the spreading of diseases in social and technological systems
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 -13.00 Andrea Rapisarda (Università degli Studi di Catania, Italy) – Criticality, Noise and Synchronization in coupled systems
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch
14.30 – 16.00 Stefano Boccaletti (Univ. Politecnica de Madrid, Spain), Emerging meso- and macro- scale from the synchronization of adaptive networks
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee Break
16.30 – 18.00 Mattia Frasca (University of Catania) – Synchronization and spatial pinning control of mobile agents