CSS/Italy

Italian Chapter of Complex Systems Society

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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

 

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Spring School “Complex networks: theory, methods, and applications (4th edition)”

Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy, 14-18 May 2018

ntmd.lakecomoschool.org

Many real systems can be modeled as networks, where the elements of the system are nodes and interactions between elements are edges. An even larger set of systems can be modeled using dynamical processes on networks, which are in turn affected by the dynamics. Networks thus represent the backbone of many complex systems, and their theoretical and computational analysis makes it possible to gain insights into numerous applications. Networks permeate almost every conceivable discipline —including sociology, transportation, economics and finance, biology, and myriad others — and the study of “network science” has thus become a crucial component of modern scientific education.

The school “Complex Networks: Theory, Methods, and Applications” offers a succinct education in network science. It is open to all aspiring scholars in any area of science or engineering who wish to study networks of any kind (whether theoretical or applied), and it is especially addressed to doctoral students and young postdoctoral scholars. The aim of the school is to deepen into both theoretical developments and applications in targeted fields.

Lecturers:

  • Albert-László Barabási
  • Stefano Battiston
  • Ulrik Brandes
  • Vittoria Colizza
  • Puck Rombach
  • Alessandro Vespignani