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Last opportunity for the Varenna 2018 School
Last opportunity to participate to the Enrico Fermi 2018 International School on “Computational Social Science and Complex Systems”. The deadline for applications has been extended to Sunday May 6th. This will be the last date to apply for participation.
Details about the application can be found at the web pages
https://sites.google.com/view/varennacs2018/
From jamming to collective cell migration through a boundary induced transition-Soft Matter
International School on Informatics and Dynamics in Complex Networks
The International School on Informatics and Dynamics in Complex Networks is organized at the University of Catania, Italy, by the Department of Electrical Electronics and Computer Science and the Cometa Consortium. It will be held from 15 to 19 October 2018 at the “Cittadella” campus where most of the technical faculties are hosted and consist of a series of lectures given by leading scientists in the field, aiming at providing a comprehensive treatment from background material to advanced results . The school is specially directed to PhD students and young researchers interested to the diverse aspects of the theory and applications of complex networks in science and engineering. Slots for presentations by the participants are also scheduled with an award to the best presentation. The school aims at encouraging cross-disciplinary discussions between participants and speakers and start new joint researches.
Topics: structure of networks, multilayer networks, brain networks, dynamics of networks, financial networks, applications.
Speakers:
Mauricio Barahona, Imperial College London
Mario Chavez, CNRS Paris
Manlio De Domenico, FBK Trento
Ernesto Estrada, Univ. of Strathclyde Glasgow
Vito Latora, Queen Mary University of London
Rosario N. Mantegna, Univ. of Palermo
Additional information at: http://isidcn.dieei.unict.it
Lipari school on computational complex and social systems
From swarm intelligence to digital democracy: new tools for a complex society
july 19-25 2018
This summer school will provide opportunities to collect experience with modern data analysis, in particular big data analytics. this includes subjects to mine data in the internet of things. our main and special guest speakers, who are recognized authorities in this field, will address such a scope focusing on algorithms, computational models and practical results.
Speakers
- Guido Caldarelli Economy Models for Social Welfare IMT Lucca, Italy
- Tiziana Di Matteo [Abstract Available]
- Network Filtering for Big Data King’s College London, UK Abstract
- Tomaso Aste [Abstract Available] Why Artificial Intelligence is not effective for real complex systems and how can we fix it?University College London, UK Abstract
- Francesca Chiaromonte Statistical Methods for High-Dimensional Complex Data Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy
- Bruno Goncalves OSoMe: the IUNI observatory on social media Immigrant community integration in world cities New York University, USA
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Special seminar
- Vito Latora Complex networks with many layers Queens Mary University, London & University of Catania, Italy
Closing lecture and panel
- Claudio Cioffi-Revilla George Mason University, USA
- Dirk Helbing ETH, Zurich
Varenna School 2018
Only two more days to send your application for the Varenna School 2018 of the Italian Physical Society on “Computational Social Science and Complex Systems”. The School will be held next July from 15th to 21st.
Lecturers are:
– Albert-László Barabási
– Alain Barrat
– Vittoria Colizza
– Rama Cont
– Shlomo Havlin
– Fabrizio Lillo
– Markus Strohmaier
– Stefan Thurner
The lectures will cover some of the following topics:
– Human behavior from ICT data
– Disease spreading, countermeasures, and large scale ABMs
– Science of success
– Reality mining
– Price formation, market microstructure
– Systemic risk, including cascading failures
– Networks in economics and finance
– Agent based models in economics and finance
The School is organized by Rosario Mantegna (co-director), János Kertész (co-director), and Salvatore Miccichè (Scientific secretary)
Additional information and instructions for applications can be found at the web pages:
https://sites.google.com/view/varennacs2018/general-information
https://www.sif.it/corsi/scuola_fermi/mmxviii#203
Explorability and the origin of network sparsity in living systems
Daniel M Busiello, Samir Suweis, Jorge Hidalgo, Amos Maritan
Scientific Reports 7: 12323(2017)
doi:10.1038/s41598-017-12521-1
Sparsity of interactions in living systems. From Busiello et al., Scientific Report 2017
Post-doc positions @LIPh group, Physics Dept., University of Padova
Deadline: 30/04/2018
We seek for candidates with an established expertise and proven portfolio of research within one or more of the following research fields:
– Statistical Physics modeling of Ecological systems
– Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
– Neural Networks, Data mining and Advanced Statistics
– Biological inspired Complex Systems and Networks
For more information visit:
http://www.pd.infn.it/~maritan/opp/opp.html
Upscaling species richness and abundances in tropical forests
Anna Tovo, Samir Suweis, Marco Formentin, Marco Favretti, Igor Volkov, Jayanth R Banavar, Sandro Azaele, Amos Maritan
Science Advances. Vol. 3, no. 10, e1701438 (2017)
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1701438
The challenge of estimating global tropical species richness. A map depicting the 15 forests in our data set in which the coordinates of each subplot (squares) are known. Our goal is to deduce the species richness and abundances of each entire forest on the basis of the very limited knowledge in the marked dots (see Table 1 and section S6 for a more detailed description of the data set). From Tovo et al., Science Advance 2017
Warnings and caveats in brain controllability
Chengyi Tu, Rodrigo P. Rocha, Maurizio Corbetta, Sandro Zampieri, Marco Zorzi & Samir Suweis
NeuroImage, 12 April 2018 (In Press, Accepted Manuscript)
DOI 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.04.010
From Gu et. al, Nat. Communication 2015 (DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9414)