CSS/Italy

Italian Chapter of Complex Systems Society

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IX Mediterranean School of Complex Networks

CALL FOR PARTECIPATION

30 June – 5 July 2024, Grado, Italy

Web: https://mediterraneanschoolcomplex.net/
Watch this short video of a past edition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR1apC8-HZY

Since 2014, the school has trained nearly 350 young researchers in network science, with a highly interdisciplinary flavor. The goal of the school is to provide a theoretical background to students (Master, PhD) and young researchers in the field, with particular attention to current trends in Network Science; and to promote philosophical and scientific exchange between all participants, i.e., lecturers and attendants (including talks, debates, scientific group activities).

We will host lectures and focused seminars about the most recent advances on:

  • Structure and dynamics of complex networks
  • Robustness and resilience, from empirical biological systems to human-made systems
  • Ecological systems, from micro to macro scales
  • Biological systems, from interactomes to connectomes
  • Network epidemiology
  • Network science and machine learning
  • Network inference

Lecturers

  • Baruch Barzel  (Bar-Ilan University)
  • Manlio De Domenico (University of Padua)
  • Miguel Angel Muñoz (University of Granada)

Focused Seminars

  • Sandro Azaele (University of Padua)
  • Valeria d’Andrea (University of Padua)
  • Clara Granell (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
  • Marco Grassia (University of Catania)
  • Tiago Peixoto (Central European University)

Cocktail Night Talk

  • Jacopo Grilli (ICTP)

Application and Registration are mandatory for participants. 

Visit the official webpage for details: https://mediterraneanschoolcomplex.net/ 

Participation is in-person and limited to 50 attendants. Early applications will be appreciated.

IMPORTANT DATES

  • Application deadline: 11 February 2024
  • Notification of Acceptance: 18 February 2024
  • Registration deadline (payment): 3 March 2024
  • Help with accommodation reserved: 10 March 2024
  • School: 30 June – 5 July 2024

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4-YEAR PHD PROGRAM IN MODELING AND ENGINEERING RISK AND COMPLEXITY AT THE SCUOLA SUPERIORE MERIDIONALE, NAPLES, ITALY


We are looking for  bright and ambitious students from any area of Mathematics, Physics, Science and Engineering to join this exciting new program.

8 fully funded 4-year scholarships are available this year

Each scholarship includes a stipend of EUR 19,000 per year which is increased by 50% when the student is spending time abroad.
Students are expected to spend at least 12 months abroad during their PhD.
Each Scholarship also includes approx EUR 3,000 for research costs/travel per year.
Students can choose their projects and supervisor from a vast range of options during their first year. Examples of past and ongoing research projects are available on the website of the MERC PhD program at

https://bit.ly/merc-PhD

Applicants must submit a brief scientific report (description of their MSc thesis work, CV, personal statement and reference letters) following the instructions provided at the website above by no later than 25th August 2023. Applications must be submitted using the online platform available at:

https://pica.cineca.it/ssm/dottorato39-ssm/domande

Successful candidates will be announced by the end of September 2022 with the course officially starting on 1st November 2023.

For any further information check out the PhD website at https://bit.ly/merc-PhD or contact the PhD Coordinator, Prof Mario di Bernardo, via e-mail at merc@ssmeridionale.it, or any of the PhD Board members listed in the PhD website above.

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CCS/Italy 2023

Napoli, Italy – October 9–11, 2023

MAIN THEMES OF CCS/ITALY 2023 CONFERENCE: Complexity and Risk

VENUE

October 9–10: University of Naples Federico II, Complesso dei SS. Marcellino e Festo, Largo S. Marcellino 10

October 11:     Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Palazzo Serra di Cassano, Via Monte di Dio 14 

SUPPORTING INSTITUTIONS

  • University of Naples Federico II, Department of Structures for Engineering and Architecture (through programme “Dipartimenti di Eccellenza 2023-2027” funded by Italian Ministry for University and Research)
  • Scuola Superiore Meridionale
  • Istituto italiano per gli Studi Filosofici
  • Italian Society for Chaos and Complexity

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline:  June 30, 2023 postponed to August 15, 2023
Notification to authors:  July 15, 2023 postponed to August 31, 2023
Registration deadline:  August 31, 2023 postponed to September 15, 2023
Conference:  October 9-11, 2023

CONFERENCE FORMAT

The conference will consist of keynote lectures delivered by experts in several scientific areas, contributed talks and public lectures on the main conference themes. Conference participants who will give talks on their study will not be asked to send any paper.

SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS

Conference participants who would like to give a talk are kindly asked to send an abstract to ccsitaly.2023@gmail.com, using the subject [Abstract submission] and attaching an MS Word file. Abstracts can be prepared without any specific template, but they should not exceed a single MS Word page including the title, authors with their affiliation and email, and 3 to 5 keywords.

REGISTRATION FEES AND PROCEDURE

Undergraduate students:  € 50 + VAT
PhD students and junior postdocs (up to 2nd year): € 100 + VAT
Senior postdocs, lecturers and professors€ 150 + VAT
Non-academic attendees:€ 200 + VAT

The registration fee covers coffee breaks and lunches at San Marcellino venue. VAT is set to 22% as per current Italian law.

Each conference participant should make his/her registration by paying the corresponding fee through bank transfer as follows:

  • Beneficiary Name: Dipartimento di Strutture per l’Ingegneria e l’Architettura (VAT No. IT00876220633)
  • IBAN: IT77C0306903497100000046044
  • BIC/SWIFT code: BCITITMM
  • Beneficiary Account Name: Dipartimento di Strutture per l’Ingegneria e l’Architettura, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
  • Beneficiary Address: Via Claudio 21, 80125 Napoli
  • Bank Name: INTESA SAN PAOLO SPA
  • Reference: LAST NAME_NAME Registration to CCS/Italy 2023 Conference – DIST UniNA
  • Currency: Euro

After payment, each participant should send an email to Dr. Immacolata Diez (immacolata.diez@unina.it) and Valeria Peluso (valeria.peluso@unina.it), cc’ing Prof. Fulvio Parisi (fulvio.parisi@unina.it) as conference chair, informing them about the payment with attached notification of the bank transfer.

Organizers

Conference Chairs:  Fulvio Parisi (University of Naples Federico II), Antonio Scala (CNR)
Program Chairs:  Mario di Bernardo, Mario Nicodemi (University of Naples Federico II)
Local Organizing Committee:  Simona Bianco, Valentina Buonocunto, Andrea Maria Chiariello, Ludovico Alberico Grieco, Daniele Losanno, Vincenzo Manfredi, Gianmarco Pondrano Altavilla, Martina Scalvenzi, Stefania Zimbalatti
Administrative SecretariatImmacolata Diez, Valeria Peluso (University of Naples Federico II)

Scientific Committee

Fulvio Parisi (University of Napoli “Federico II”)
Antonio Scala (CNR)
Domenico Asprone (University of Napoli “Federico II”)
Raffaella Burioni (University of Parma)
Gian Michele Calvi (IUSS Pavia )
Paolo Castaldo (Politecnico di Torino )
Ciro Cattuto (ISI Foundation Turin)
Bernardino Chiaia (Politecnico di Torino )
Edoardo Cosenza (University of Napoli “Federico II”)
Gregorio D’Agostino (ENEA)
Manlio De Domenico (University of Padova)
Mario di Bernardo (University of Napoli “Federico II”)
Armando Di Nardo (University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli)
Marco di Prisco (Politecnico di Milano )
Mauro Dolce (University of Napoli “Federico II”)
Angelo Facchini (IMT Lucca)
Paolo Franchin (Sapienza University of Rome)
Andrea Gabrielli (Roma Tre University)
Massimiliano Giorgio (University of Napoli “Federico II”)
Caterina La Porta (University of Milan)
Vito Latora (University of Catania)
Eugenio Lippiello (University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli)
Angelo Masi (University of Basilicata )
Ricardo Monteiro (IUSS Pavia)
Mario Mureddu (University of Cagliari)
Mario Nicodemi (University of Napoli “Federico II”)
Gabriele Oliva (Campus Bio-Medico University Hospital Foundation)
Rui Pinho (University of Pavia )
Daniel Remondini (University of Bologna)
Sebastiano Stramaglia (University of Bari)
Samir Suweis (University of Padova)
Giulio Zuccaro (University of Napoli “Federico II”)

TOPICS

1. Foundations of Complex Systems

Complex networks, self-organization, nonlinear dynamics, statistical physics, mathematical modeling and simulation

2. Infrastructure, Planning and Environment

Critical infrastructures, urban planning, mobility, transport and energy, smart cities

3. Disaster Risk

Single-hazard and multi-hazard risk assessment, disaster risk mitigation, risk perception

4. Data-Driven Complexity Science

Data science, artificial intelligence, statistical methods for complex systems

5. Information and Communication Technologies

Internet, WWW, search, semantic web, blockchain

6. Economics and Finance

Social networks, game theory, stock market and crises

7. Biological and (Bio)Medical Complexity

Biological networks, systems biology, evolution, natural science, medicine and physiology

8. Socio-Ecological Systems

Global environmental change, green growth, sustainability and resilience

9. Language, Linguistics, Cognition and Social Systems

Evolution of language, social consensus, artificial intelligence, cognitive processes

PROGRAMME TIMING

Keynote lectures: 25+5 min
Contributed talk:12+3 min
Public lectures:45 min

PROGRAMME AT A GLANCE

October 9, 2023

8:30-9:30Registration
9:30-10:00Opening Ceremony
Fulvio Parisi and Antonio Scala, Conference Chairs
Mario di Bernardo and Mario Nicodemi, Program Chairs
Matteo Lorito, Rector of University of Naples Federico II*
Arturo De Vivo, Institutional Committee Member of Scuola Superiore Meridionale*
Andrea Prota, Head of Department of Structures for Engineering and Architecture
Gennaro Miele, Head of Department of Physics*
Fabio Villone, Head of Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies*

Morning Session (Chair: Fulvio Parisi)

10.00-10.30Keynote lecture
10.30-11.00Keynote lecture
11.00-11.30Coffee break
11.30-13.00Contributed talks
13.00-13.30Keynote lecture
13.30-15.00Lunch break

Afternoon Session (Chair: Mario Nicodemi)

15.00-15.30Keynote lecture
15.30-17.00Contributed talks
17.00-17.30Coffee break
17.30-18.00Keynote lecture
18.00-19.00Contributed talks

* To be confirmed

October 10, 2023

Morning Session (Chair: Mario di Bernardo)

9.00 – 9.30Keynote lecture
9.30 – 10.00Keynote lecture
10.00 – 10.30Coffee break
10.30 – 11.00Keynote lecture
11.00 – 13.00Contributed talks
13.00 – 14.30Lunch break

Afternoon Session (Chair: Antonio Scala)

14.30 – 15.00Keynote lecture
15.00 – 15.30Keynote lecture
15.30 – 17.00Contributed talks
17.00 – 17.30Coffee break
17.30 – 18.00Keynote lecture
18.00 – 18.30Keynote lecture
18.30 – 19.00Closing Ceremony
Fulvio Parisi and Antonio Scala, Conference Chairs
Mario di Bernardo and Mario Nicodemi, Program Chairs
Manlio De Domenico, Coordinator of CSS/Italy Chapter

October 11, 2023 (Public/dissemination event)

10.00 – 10.45Public lecture: Guido Caldarelli (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
10.45 – 11.30Public lecture: Andrea Prota (University of Naples Federico II)
11.30 – 12.30Round Table
12.30 – 13.00Closing Remarks

Keynote speakers

Ginestra Bianconi (Queen Mary University of London)
Almerinda Di Benedetto (University of Naples Federico II)
Tiziana Di Matteo (King’s College London)
Duccio Fanelli (University of Florence)
Mattia Frasca (University of Catania)
Juergen Kurths (Humboldt Universitaet))
Iunio Iervolino (University of Naples Federico II)
Andrea Pagnani (Politecnico di Torino)
Alessandro Rizzo (Politecnico di Torimo)
Constantinos Siettos (University of Naples Federico II)
Stefano Zapperi (University of Milan)
Enrico Zio (Politecnico di Milano)

Conference booklet

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Understanding Complexity through Italian scientist talks

The event will be held online on May 25th at 9:00-13:00
To register, please send an email to luca.gallo@phd.unict.it with the subject: “participation in the workshop understanding complexity”

9:00-9:15 Opening
09:15-10:05 prof. Roberto Benzi, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, “The Physics of Noise”
10:05-10:25 dr. Prajwal Padmanabha, Università di Padova,  Biological and Ecological Complex systems: Linear Response Theory in the presence of Absorbing Boundary
10:25-10:45 dr. Nicolò Pedrani, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova e Università di Milano-Bicocca,  OxDNA to study species interactions
10:45-11:05 dr. Marco Zanchi, Università degli studi di Milano, Complexity in materials: the case of 2D silica glass
11:05-11:20 break
11:20-12:10 Francesca Colaiori, ISC-CNR Roma e Università La Sapienza di Roma, Co-occurring epidemics
12:10-12:30 dr. Alessandra Corso, Università di Catania, Inferring line failures in complex networks
12:30-12:50 dr. Giulia Bertagnolli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Functional rich-clus in complex networks
12:50-13:10 dr. Anna Mancini, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Self-induced consensus formation among Reddit users on the GameStop short squeeze

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PhD Program in Modeling and Engineering Risk and Complexity @ School for Advanced Studies of University of Naples Federico II

NEW 4-YEAR PHD PROGRAM IN MODELING AND ENGINEERING RISK AND COMPLEXITY AT THE
NEW SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II

From climate change and sustainability to seismic engineering and Industry 4.0, all the crucial challenges facing mankind today require the ability to understand and engineer ever growing reliable interdependent, complex and interconnected systems and infrastructures.

The Call for Applications for the new 4 year PhD Program in Modeling and Engineering Risk and Complexity of the Scuola Superiore Meridionale (a brand new School for Advanced Studies in Naples) is now out and available at

http://www.ssm.unina.it/en/calls-and-news/ [1]

We are looking for bright and ambitious students from any area of Mathematics, Science and Engineering to join this exciting new program.

6 FULLY FUNDED 4-YEAR SCHOLARSHIPS ARE AVAILABLE THIS YEAR

Each scholarship includes a stipend of EUR 19,000 per year which is increased by 50% when the student is spending time abroad

Students expected to spend at least 9-12 months abroad during their PhD.

Each Scholarship also includes approx EUR 4,000 for research costs/travel per year

Applicants must submit a brief scientific report (description of their MSc thesis work, CV, personal statement and reference letters) following the instructions provided at the website above BY NO LATER THAN 30TH JUNE 2020.

Successful candidates will be announced the end of July 2020 with course officially starting on 2nd November 2020.

For any further information contact the PhD Coordinator, Prof Mario di Bernardo, at merc@unina.it or check out the PhD website at
http://www.ssm.unina.it/en/modeling-and-engineering-risk-eng-and-complexity-merc-eng/ [2]



Links:
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[1] http://www.ssm.unina.it/en/calls-and-news/
[2] http://www.ssm.unina.it/en/modeling-and-engineering-risk-eng-and-complexity-merc-eng/

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1st Toffee Workshop on disinformation

TOFFEe – https://toffee.imtlucca.it/ – is an interdisciplinary research project funded by IMT School For Advanced Studies Lucca. The project ambition is to overcome some of the limitations of existing social platforms, which often dedicate little attention to trustworthy interactions among peers and to reliability of information. The aim of the project is to increase people’s confidence on the data they get and who they follow, while minimising the risk of exposure to fake information and malicious actions.

As part of the dissemination activities of the project, on October 24th and 25th, 2019, we organise an International Workshop where different approaches for fighting fakes will be discussed. You can find all infos at https://toffee.imtlucca.it/ We are glad to invite you to the 1st TOFFEe workshop and contribute with your latest results on methodologies for fighting disinformation.We would be delighted if you could join us. The registration to the workshop is free, just fill the form following the link
https://toffee.imtlucca.it/. We kindly ask you to register before the 9th of October. The registration comprehends two coffee breaks and one lunch.

Analogously, we would be delighted if you could contribute to the workshop with your latest results. The slot for the contributions last nearly 15 minutes, plus some time for questions. You can send us a 2 pages abstract at the present email address. The deadline for sending the abstract is on the 25th of September. We will return our decision on the 2nd of October.

Looking forward to meeting you in Lucca in October, we send you our

best regards,

Rocco De Nicola (project coordinator)
Guido Caldarelli
Irene Crimaldi
Marinella Petrocchi
Fabio Saracco

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13th SICC Workshop – Complexity and the City – Turin, Italy, October 29-30 2018

The workshop is the 13th of a series of tutorial workshops annually organized to explore the emergence of new research fields in which modeling, analysis and control of nonlinear and complex systems play a role of growing importance. These workshops have been traditionally devoted to an interdisciplinary audience with particular attention to PhD students and young researchers. The theme of this year is “Complexity and The City” with a unique focus on interactions, mobility, epidemics, information and misinformation spreading, and many other complex phenomena occurring in urban environments.

The workshop will gather scholars, students, and practitioners for two days of presentations and debates around complex systems science and its interplay with urban environments. A series of plenary lectures from renowned scholars is planned, while PhD students and young researchers will have dedicated sessions to present their research activity in an effective and appealing way. Social events will foster interaction and creation of collaboration opportunities. 

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CCS2018 Satellite. ReACT#3: Robustness, Adaptability and Critical Transitions in Living Systems.

After the success of the Satellite at ECCS 2014 and CCS 2016, we would like to propose a follow-up Satellite always focusing on Robustness, Adaptability and Critical Transitions in Living Systems

Living systems are characterized by the recurrent emergence of patterns: power-laws distributions, long-range correlations and structured self-organization in living matter are the norm, rather than the exception. All these features are also typical of thermo-dynamical systems poised near a critical point. The great lesson from physics is that criticality can emerge as a collective behaviour in a many-body system with simple (e.g. pairwise) interactions and its characteristics depend only on few details like the dimensionality or symmetries.

In a statistical-mechanics approach, it is fundamental to determine the order parameter, which characterizes the different system phases. This is a crucial step to obtain the key ingredients needed to formulate a modeling framework, so as to obtain a better understanding of the system’s macroscopic behaviour. However, the understating of biological/social systems needs more than a mere generalization of the standard statistical mechanics approach.

One of the most striking feature of living systems is that they are structured as evolving systems were interactions can turn-on or off, as well as strengthening and weakening, reconfiguring the system connectivity. Thus, by rearranging both the structural and functional topology, living interacting systems may demonstrate unique evolvability, scalability and adaptability properties.

It is of crucial importance to make further steps in the understanding of the main properties that simultaneously confer to these systems high level of both adaptability and robustness. If we can “learn” from evolution, then we would be able to both better manage/supervise these systems and also design more optimal and sustainable new systems.

Relevance to the conference main tracks

1. Foundations of Complex Systems* (Complex networks, self-organization, nonlinear dynamics, statistical physics, mathematical modeling, simulation)

2. Biological Complexity* (Biological networks, system biology, evolution, natural science, medicine and physiology)

 

DEADLINE: June 27, 2018

https://easychair.org/cfp/ReACT3

 

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XXIII Conference on Statistical Physics and Complex Systems – Parma

The XXIII National Conference on Statistical Physics and Complex Systems will be held from June 20th to June 22nd 2018 at the Conference Center – Aule delle Scienze Building in the University Campus of Parma.

This year the Conference will be organized in collaboration with Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca and  with the French Embassy in Italy (Bando Cassini 2017).

More information on http://www.fis.unipr.it/stat/PARMA2018/welcome_E.php

 

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Compeng 2018

The 2018 IEEE Workshop on Complexity in Engineering (COMPENG) will take place on October 10-12, 2018 in Florence - Italy. Website: http://compeng2018.ieeesezioneitalia.it/

COMPENG 2018 will focus on the latest developments in complexity science and their application in an engineering perspective.
Authors are encouraged to submit abstract or papers on their research
considering, but not being limited to, the following topics:

-   Agent-based systems
-   Big Data and data-driven systems
-   Bio-physics, stochastic processes and noise
-   Complex Networks
-   Critical Infrastructures, transportation systems, realtime management
-   Dynamics in Memristor circuits
-   Machine Learning
-   Laser dynamics and optoelectronic systems
-   Plasma control and nuclear fusion
-   Control in sensor and actuator networks
-   Smart grids





Keynote Speakers:

Giovanni DE NINNO (University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia)
Nadia DOMINICI (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Philippe GHENDRIH (CEA, IRFM, France)
Antonio POLITI (University of Aberdeen, UK)

Important dates:

Deadline for Abstract/Paper Submissions
May 31 2018
Notification of Acceptance
June 30 2018

Duccio Fanelli (co-organizer) on behalf of the Organizing Committee of COMPENG 2018