Mission and Topics
Mission
This hybrid meeting on Complex Systems has been organized in order to bring together advanced students, postdocs and scientists of international standing with the aim of stimulating the participants intellectually, foster discussions among colleagues, disseminate cutting edge scientific knowledge and enhancing the potential for collaborations between scientists working on Complex Systems - that where nonlinearity, scaling and multi-agent properties are dynamically relevant. In systems, for example, with partial disorder the interplay between diffusion and the reduced density of states of a periodic system can lead to fascinating transport phenomena, like anomalous diffusion. Another interesting example, are the fingering patterns in miscible displacement flows in porous media. As the flow evolves into the nonlinear regime, the strenght and location of the stable region changes, which adds to the complexity and richness of finger propagation, as shown by the choosed image used as the icon of this meeting. Thus the workshop is open for scientific results coming from phenomenological investigation of complex regimes (intermittency, chaos, self-organized criticality, anomalous diffusion, turbulence, etc) in non-linear dissipative systems observed in nature or from numerical experiments.
The subject of this workshop will be physics and mathematics, with strong computational approach, of complex systems - emphasis will be given to the interdisciplinary nature of the subject, and the many different fields into which this subject branches will be represented in the workshop. Thus, our aim in this meeting is to allow bright young students and researchers to witness first hand how scientists of international stature involved in multidisciplinary fields of science operate: how they learn to communicate with each other, how they modify their own tools for the requirements of other disciplines, and they approach the problems of those disciplines from different directions.
Our hope is also that the talks (all are invited), who are outstanding authorities in their respective fields, might derive benefit from having to explain the basic ideas of their fields to bright fresh minds, while they have a unique opportunity to interact among themselves in a multidisciplinar environment. Bringing together scholars and students from a variety of areas (mainly, physics, mathematics, computing, engineering, biology, chemistry, environmental sciences and economy) will obviously help in the innovation and globalization of the intellectual enterprise, and will lead, we hope, to open new lines of research and closer collaborations between them.
Topics
Nonlinear dynamics, Pattern Formation, Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics, Networks and Synchronization, Computational Complexity, Quantitative Analysis and Modeling of Ecosystems, Climate, Space Weather, Physiological systems, Economy and Finance