Società Italiana Caos e Complessità

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, To be confirmed)

- 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)

For information and applications, visit the school's website:

http://www.dees.unict.it/mfrasca/PhDSchool2012.html

Institut d’Etudes Scientifiques de Cargèse - Corsica (France)

May 28 – June 3, 2012

The main goal of this second International Workshop is to develop the mutual interaction between specialists from biology, nonlinear dynamics, physics and mathematics.

More and more works show that biological systems have non linear dynamics, so they may have also chaotic behavior and strange attractors. In neural systems new observations show that chaos appears both on the level of one neuron and on the level of large networks. In population dynamics, chaos has been observed in experimental cultures and seems to be important in the diffusion of transmitted diseases in social networks. It becomes obvious that there is a challenging demand for studying and modeling complex dynamics of biological systems in order to describe various modes and activities. In particular, there is a need to understand the interplay between non linearity and stochasticity of biological processes.

The workshop will gather specialists from several horizons lecturing and discussing on the achievements and perspectives both fundamental and applied, not excluding junior scientists and PhD students.

List of topics: Neurodynamics; Population dynamics and Epidemiology; Genetic networks; Biological rhythmes.

Registration can be carried out through the web page:

http://ecologie.snv.jussieu.fr/chaosbionetwork/

Pescara, Italy, 16 - 28 July, 2012

In the framework of the European research and training activities in Complexity Science we announce the continuation of a series of annual Ph.D. Schools on "Mathematical Modeling of Complex Systems". The first event took place in Patras, Greece, in the summer of 2011 (see http://www.math.upatras.gr/~phdsch11) and the second one is announced as follows:

Time: 16 - 28 July, 2012
Location: International Center for Nonlinear Dynamics and Complex Systems, University of Chieti Pescara (http://www.nodycosy.unich.it/).

June 12-15, 2012, Capitolo-Monopoli, Bari, Italy

Co-organized by SICC - Italian Society for Chaos and Complexity

The workshop will take place at Hotel Villaggio Porto Giardino in Capitolo, Monopoli, Bari, Italy.

The main aim of this workshop is to put together researchers of different areas, in particular Mathematicians and Engineers, to give them the opportunity to discuss recent developments in computational and theoretical methods for:

Numerical methods for ODEs;
Non-smooth and piecewise dynamical systems;
Dynamical systems with variable structure;
Discontinuous ODEs;
Sliding motion and Control;
Genetic and Medical Applications.

For information and application visit the website:
http://www.dm.uniba.it/~delbuono/sds12.html