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Videos of the ASSYST Scientific Meeting on Social Networks and Social Media 2012
The videos from the ASSYST Scientific Meeting on Social Networks and Social Media, that was held in Cambridge, on the 18th and 19th of January 2012, and organised by Yasmin Merali and Pietro Lio, are available at the ASSYST/CSS Digital Library.
Videos include talks from Yasmin Merali, Bernardo Huberman, Sanjeev Goyal, Maxi San Miguel, Martin Everett, Ross Anderson, Cecilia Mascolo, Ricardo Baeza Yeates, Miranda Mowbray, Jonathan Nelson, Philip Seib, and Jonathan Wright.
'Creative practice, complexity and the creative economy' Research Symposium
The role of complexity in the creative economies: connecting people, ideas and practice: a research project In the past 12 months, the organizers have been involved the AHRC funded project. The role of complexity in the creative economies: connecting people, ideas and practice (AH/J5001413/1). The project aimed to explore how complexity theory and its methodological approaches can help in providing a better understanding of the creative economy as a field of research by connecting various distinctive theoretical and methodological perspectives. The aim was to outline a broader analytical framework to bridge the interrelation of ideas, people and practices in the creative economy within broader socio, cultural and economic contexts. A detailed project outline is available online: http://bit.ly/wjbZ48
Call for Papers
This research symposium constitutes the closing event of the AHRC funded project The role of complexity in the creative economies: connecting people, ideas and practice (AH/J5001413/1). During the symposium, there will be presentations and discussions on the findings emerging from the research project. However, the symposium also aims to be a platform for other academics or practitioners doing research on the interactions between complexity theory, creative practice and the creative economy and will provide an opportunity for knowledge sharing on the research. As such, the organizers are seeking contributions from academic and practitioners discussing their investigations and experiences of using complexity theory in their research on the creative economy or in their creative practice and the potential methodological challenges involved.
We aim to make presentations and relevant information available electronically at www.complexity-creative-economy.net and further outlets for publication and dissemination are also going to be suggested to take this debate forward.
Submitting an Abstract
All interested scholars and practitioners are invited to submit, by email, an abstract for their proposed contribution to the symposium of around 1,000 words by no later than 1st April 2012 to the organisers at: Abstracts must include full contact details. Decisions regarding contribution acceptance will be communicated within two weeks from the abstracts submission deadline.
Participation costs
Participation in the event is free. It will be possible to register online (www.complexity-creative-economy.net) to attend the event from the 1st of April 2012.
For information: or visit www.complexity-creative-economy.net.
The call can be downloaded from here.
source: http://www.complexity-creative-economy.net
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ASSYST Workshop on Mathematics for the Dynamics of Multilevel Systems
Following highly successful meetings on Mathematics in the Science of Complex Systems at ECLT in Venice and Warwick University in February and June 2011, we are holding the meeting Mathematics for the Dynamics of Multilevel Systems at the European Centre for Living Technology, Venice, 26th - 28th February 2012.
This meeting takes place in the context of the recent DYM-CS call from FET. That call closes in January 2012. Our meeting will give an opportunity for those who have participated in this call to share their ideas before the evaluations, and it aims to create a collaborative context for the projects which are selected for funding. There is no conference fee and accommodation, meals and some travel support will be provided. Attendance is strictly limited. Anyone wishing to attend this meeting should contact [email protected] saying briefly their interest in the meeting and why they should be allocated a place. Places will be allocated on the basis of engagement with the DYM-CS programme and/or individuals having a clear contribution to make to the DYM-CS community. We expect to be oversubscribed and apologise in advance that we cannot accept everyone on this occasion.
source: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/fet-proactive/dymcs_en.html
Reports from ECCS11 Bursary Winners
One of the work packages of ASSYST is to provide conference support and, in particular, to attempt to increase variety in the CS community by supporting female scientists and minority groups. This year we provided 32 bursaries to people to attend ECCS’11. The bursaries provided limited contributions towards the conference fee and/or travel expenses for female scientists, young researchers, and others who would otherwise be unable to attend ECCS'11. There were also a number of conditions for receiving the bursary, one of which was to provide feedback about how they had benefitted from attending the conference. You can read the full reports at below.
Erika Fille T. Legara
As envisioned, I had such a worthwhile time and experience at the 2011 European Conference on Complex Systems. Learning about the latest trends in my field of research was very enlightening and inspiring, especially that the lectures came from the prominent people in the field. In addition to the engaging research topics, I also enjoyed the conversations and discourse I had with my contemporaries, most especially with other YRN (Young Researcher Network in CSS) members who were present at the conference. The series of networking events was particularly beneficial to the young researchers. Finally, the conference was a very ideal environment for a fresh PhD graduate who is into complex systems research and who is currently in search for possible post-doctoral positions. I, myself, had the opportunity to discuss my interests, possible research directions and options with the professors present at the ECCS11. Altogether, I had a very productive stay at the conference.
Ali Sanayei
The 2011 European Conference on Complex Systems held at the Medical University of Vienna was a nice opportunity to meet many people who work on "complex systems" from different points of view. Although there is no a unique definition of a "complex system" so far, the various kinds of contributions and discussions confirmed that finding an appropriate definition of a "complex system" is still problematic.
The conference was organized very well and I really appreciate Stefan Thurner, his crew, Complex Systems Society, ASSYST, and all the sponsors for this success. The only comment that I want to point out is the lack of philosophical discussions in the meeting. It would be so nice if we had even one keynote speaker to talk about "complex systems" from a philosophical point of view. Although we saw "foundations of complex systems" as one of the main interest topics of the conference, it did not cover philosophical viewpoint at all. I hope that we have such discussions in the forthcoming conference which is so important and necessary to improve the "science of complex systems".
Junhuan Zhang
I acknowledge ASSYST for providing me a bursary to attend ECCS’11 from 12-16 September. I got a wonderful time in this conference. Firstly, my poster was reviewed and discussed by many professors and PhD students. And I can make a further improvement to my research based on these discussions. Moreover, I learnt many new developments in the application of complex system to finance after listening to other scholars’ presentation, especially for Complex Dynamics of Human Interactions to financial markets. Through the whole conference, I also attended the FuturICT / YRN Complex ECCS 2011 networking event. In this event, I made many good friends from different countries and further cooperation will be held in the similar interests between us.
Raffaello Morales
Attending ECCS’11 has been the most exciting and profitable experience since I’ve started my PhD. In just a week time I had the opportunity to meet basically all the relevant personalities of the field I work in and to share with them opinions and advices on the forefront topics. For me it was also very important as it has been the first opportunity to discuss my research with the scientific community. The network of contacts that I have established in this occasion will no doubt help me to develop new ideas and will foster collaborations and exchange of opinions which are fundamental for a healthy science.
Olesya Mryglod
The conference ECCS'11 was special for me mostly because of its interdisciplinarity. It was very useful to meet people from very different branches of science and to find common interests. In some presentations I was interested due to considered objects. New methods and approaches were described by the other speakers. It was great to find some information about fresh software to analyze, to compare and to visualize complex networks. I also liked the first FuturICT session with "brainstorm" - I think it's a good idea to bring together young researchers with very different scientific backgrounds. So, I can conclude that I spent a good time in a sense of communication and in a sense of inspiration to work.
Pavel Em
Attending to ECCS’11 in Vienna was really good time! It was significant because we were in the public lecture of Nobel Prize awarder, listened speeches of many scientists from over the world, made our presentations and met a lot of interesting people. Besides, Vienna with its cultural atmosphere was unforgettable. After ECCS’11 in Vienna I want to working more diligently. I presented results of my research on poster section and on one of satellites. I hope to present new results of my researches in ECCS’12 in Brussels.
Parongama Sen
The ECCS1'11 conference had the format of three days of lectures on general topics and two days of different satellite conferences. A number of topics of interest to me like complex networks, econophysics, sociophyics were covered in the conference by leading scientists working in these fields. The scope of the subject ``complex systems'' is very large and I am thankful for the opportunity to get the feeling of which of the issues are currently gaining attention and why. This is very important to survive as an active research worker. I also had the chance to discuss my own problems with several senior participants in the conference, like C. Castalleno, B. Tadic among others as well as the younger group. The poster session was quite well attended and discussions during the poster session were especially helpful. Overall, the conference had a number of very good talks (unfortunately because of the parallel sessions, it was not possible to attend all) and posters with a broad spectrum of topics.
Alessio Cardillo
My Experience about the 2011 European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS) in Wien (Austria) can be summarised as amazing. During the conference days I had the opportunity to talk and share ideas with many people with many different scientific backgrounds to mine. This, combined with the great feedback I had about the poster I presented at the main conference, gave me the opportunity to develop new ideas and establish scientific relations with a lot of people also attending the conference. Also, given the general scope of the conference, I had the possibility to see the state of the art in the whole field of complexity science. These two facts alone are enough for me to consider the attendance to ECCS conference a success. The ASSYST bursary provided me the chance to achieve this important experience. Without the bursary, I would have not been able to go to the conference due to the small amount of funds at my disposal for travelling. Thanks to ASSYST, my research can boost towards better (hopefully) destinations in the upcoming times.
Oxana Chesnokova
I am really happy that I have visited ECCS’11. There I have learnt many interesting things, for instance, a lot about superstatistics and generalized entropy. It isn’t strictly related to my current work but is really interesting for me as a physicist by education. It was a good luck for me to make the acquaintance of students who work with Constantino Tsallis. It is really useful to know them and have an opportunity to discuss their work. We are still in touch and I hope it is just a beginning.
In addition to the above, I should mention about outstanding talks of M.Gell-Mann and R.Devaney. M.Gell-Mann is a living classic. So it was really inspiring to have opportunity to talk to him after his talk. It was pleasant to figure out that he knows Russian letters and some Russian words.
Mauricio Girardi
The European Conference on Complex Systems had a challenge to group the most relevant works in different branches of complexity. I think this task was fulfilled, letting people to contact with views and approaches to problems where physicist, economist, chemists, biologists, etc can strongly interact. The major benefits, certainly not only for me, in participating this conference were the open-minding, the exchange of experience and contacts for future cooperation. High level seminars (including Nobel prized celebrity), talks and poster presentations enriched my baggage. I would like to thank ASSYST for giving me the opportunity to participate this fantastic event.
Michele Tizzoni
Attending ECCS'11 has been for me a great opportunity to meet young and senior researchers in the field of complex systems. I enjoyed the talks presented by some outstanding keynote speakers, like Murray Gell-Mann and Geoffrey West among others, and several exceptional contributed talks in the parallel sessions. Moreover, I met many young Ph.D students engaged in the Young Researches Network in Complex Systems Science. Most of them are working on topics different from mine, therefore interacting with them I could discover new research areas and exchange ideas on different research fields. Eventually, I had the unique opportunity to present my work in a session of the main conference and receive useful feedbacks on my presentation! I have to say that thanks to the support of ASSYST I met a vibrant research community, which truly inspired me for my future research work.
Carlos G. Acevedo-Rocha
It is difficult to say how I benefited from the ECCS11 conference since it was full of very interesting people and exciting concepts emerging in the field of complexity science. Nevertheless, as I told many people: “You can follow a lecture either completely or very partially since most of the scientists use different languages and methods owed to the interdisciplinary nature of the conference”. Although I could not follow many lectures because of the mathematics, algorithms or whatsoever terminology, I was very happy to learn new things in areas not directly related to mine. However, in the following lines I want to exemplify how I benefited from the concepts explained in a particular lecture, which could be applied to my research field. In his keynote lecture, Peter Schuster explained methods developed to quantify fitness landscapes of RNA molecules, which I think, will be possible to apply likewise in proteins. In the field of protein engineering and evolution, the reconstruction of empirical fitness landscapes reveals paths accessible for evolution. The fitness landscape depends on the variable that is being looked for; consider, for example, an enzyme able to resolve one of two possible enantiomers (these are structurally similar molecules albeit with opposite chirality and thus properties). The efficiency of the kinetic resolution for one or the other enantiomer by an enzyme would depend on its mutations within the active site, among other factors. Beneficial mutations can be obtained by a method called Iterative Saturation Mutagenesis, whereby carefully selected residues close to the active site of an enzyme are randomized to a desire amino acid alphabet (e.g. 20 canonical amino acids) in an iterative manner. After several rounds of the trio variation-selection-amplification followed by screening, one or more variants with a desired fitness can be obtained, from which the evolutionary pathway can be established by reconstructing evolutionary intermediate proteins with different degrees of fitness. The analysis of evolutionary pathways allows understanding not only how bio-molecules such as proteins are constrained by evolution, but also to explore how different beneficial mutations arise and thus shed a light on the efficacy of the directed evolution methods being used. For instance, is it possible to optimize a protein by selecting in the next round of mutagenesis positive or negative fitness variants? Can the same or better fitness be achieved by exploring different evolutionary pathways? I aim to answer these questions during my postdoc, so I am very happy that I was able to learn methods and ways of thinking of other scientists working with nonlinear systems.
Jing Qin
When I start to write this paragraph, it has been a while since I attended ECCS’11. However, the memory during this particular period of time is still so fresh to me. Every talk I attended in the conference, every technique I learned there, and every wonderful moment I shared with my new friends whom I met there, just like happened yesterday. I truly enjoyed each day, each hour and each second I spent during ECCS’11 in Vienna.
I enjoyed the conference for the following reasons. First, it indeed represents the most advanced level of the research in complex system. As a junior postdoc, I truly cherished this opportunity by which I can learn from the best scientists in order to have a touch with the newest topic of the field. Secondly, it is also helpful and considerable for junior researchers to understand the benefits and challenges of a network approach. For instance, a short and general course on complex networks theory, provided by one of the satellites named XNet. Last but not the least, not only through the conference, but also some chances offered by the young person’s network at CSS, I have met some new friends who work in the similar field with me, we have a lot of common topic to talk with each other.
At the end of this letter, I really want to thank the European ASSYST project and the Complex Systems Society for offering me this great opportunity to attend the conference. It is really a great and wonderful conference.
Andrzej Jarynowski
ECCS'11 was for me a highly-dense learning & teaching platform. I've never learnt as much during only one week! Possibility of listening to people, who I've known from books or papers, interacting with other young research and sharing experience, confirmed that my hard work in science can be profitable. I've appreciated very much also a feedback given after my presentation, which has already improved my models. Summarizing, I'd like to thank for supporting my participation at ECCS'11, because without that, I probably couldn't attend and lost all profits I've gained.
S. M. Bouguima
I could not have attended this project without the support of Assyst. I recognize, and I am grateful for the financial support of the Open University. During the conference, I had many conversations about my research. I was able to meet important people in the field and get acquainted with much material and learn some technical issues related to my work. I succeed to make some problems into perspective. More precisely, in our model, I presented a prey-predator system; it will be interesting to consider the effect of fragmentation of the environment. This will lead us to a patchy model which can be studied by the material presented in this conference. I had heard of new thing, namely application of game, network and statistical mechanics in more concrete problems like population dynamics, sociability, and policy. Last but not least, I would to express my sincere thanks for Jane Bromley.
Dr. Agata Fronczak
I have mixed feelings after the conference. Below I outline a few observations.
First, there are no strong leaders in the community, I mean scientific leaders. Why do I think so? Most of invited and keynote speakers did not present interesting results. Here, another problem arises, what is the acceptance procedure for talks? I am not lonely in the feeling that the key ingredient is: “he is my colleague”, or “she is a colleague of my colleague”. The argument behind the statement is that a short abstract, instead of a long paper (as it was on the previous ECCS events) is enough to decide whether to accept the talk or not. With this the organizers say: we do not need to know what have you done, tell us who are you, do you have grants, who is you boss, should I know you? On the other hand, maybe, the weakness of the talks is due to crises of the science of complex systems, and the science as a whole. Professors presenting nondescript results of their PhD students – it is not the way for doing serious research. The famous relation between the Master and his Student, where is it? 99% of PhD students claim that they meet their supervisors a few times a year…
Second, the CS community dramatically needs to educate its own students. The science of complex systems must be more critical. Pure physicist is not able to create reliable economic models. Pure biologist happens ridiculous in describing natural processes by means of nonlinear equations with complexity exceeding his/her comprehension.
Now a few positive remarks:
The lecture by Prof. West was very interesting. Prof. West is a great scientist, the best showcase for the science of complex systems. I will also remember the lecture of Prof. Tsallis. Although, I think that the idea of non-extensive entropy would gain much more attention if Prof Tsallis was not so attached to his own formulation of the concept.
Funda Atun
I have encountered European Conference on Complex Systems while working on complexity theory to find some insights for understanding the nature of dynamic city systems. Since the very beginning I was very excited about being involved in the conference and I would say that the conference answered to all my expectations by high quality of the talks and the perfect organization. During the conference I have had the opportunity to share the results of my ongoing research and to improve them by discussing with other scholars and by gaining experiences from high quality and various talks. ECCS’11 conference was very valuable experience for me in terms of improving my knowledge on complexity science, knowing about recent studies and interacting with other researchers. I would like to thank ASSYST for providing me this great opportunity.
Angel Akio Tateishi
An international conference is always a great experience: all kinds of English pronunciation, ALL KINDS! We know others cultures, foods, people and especially for ECCS'11 I've had to learn to enjoy sparkling water and apple juice (with bubble water). However, in despite of the cultural differences two thing are the same: the passion and dedication of the conference participants to science, and meet people like that make us want to study more and more.
Fernando Jose Antonio
European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS'11) was a huge event gathering physicists from many countries. The talks were very interesting. Additionally, the poster sections were very impressive.
Participating of ECCS'11 was a great opportunity to engage with people from different universities, providing an initial connection to interact with them.
Barbora Trubenova
I am a PhD student at the University of Manchester. This year, owing to the bursary I received, I had a pleasure to participate in the European Conference on Complex Systems 2011. As this was my first conference ever, I did not know what to expect, however, I am very satisfied with the experience. This conference allowed me to learn more about research methods used in complex systems and to get some new ideas for my future research. I received very helpful comments on my presentation and a feedback on my own work, which will undoubtedly help me with my further studies.
I was pleased to meet other researchers working on similar problems, but I also appreciated the opportunity to learn about completely different areas of research. I enjoyed the conference very much and I hope to attend the European Conference on Complex Systems next year as well.
Christian Beck
The ECCS in Vienna was a nice experience and probably one of the largest meetings so far, with around 700 participants. My invited talk went well and I benefited from lots of discussions with friends and colleagues. A particularly nice experience was to have dinner with Nobel-prize winner Murray Gell-Mann and to discuss with him on superstatistics (a generalized statistical mechanics method for complex systems). Some of the talks at ECCS were excellent and inspired me to think about future research projects in complexity science.
K.P.Hari
Many Thanks for ASSYST for awarding a bursary to attend the European conference for complex systems (ECCS11). This conference has benefited me immensely in terms of sharing my artistic perspective of “complexity” to a diverse global audience. Each day of my art making I would find people from different domains interacting with my work in manifold ways. Their questions and feedback were profound which in turn has acted as a feeder to my thought process. This conference has also helped me find new friends who have shared valuable resources and contacts to add value to my future work. Apart from personal benefits, I had a wonderful opportunity to listen to many speakers and presentations at the conference. I found them very illuminating. My understanding of complex systems has now shaped further.
Giovanni Petri
ECCS 2011 was a splendid conference by all accounts and it was the ASSYST bursary that allowed me to profit from all this. On the scientific level, the quality of the keynote and, generally, the speakers was very high and managed to convey the breadth of complex systems science. On the personal level, it was a great opportunity to meet old friends and colleagues, to put a face on that name you saw so often on papers and, personally, to establish some contacts that might prove crucial for a future postdoc. In this sense, for me the ASSYST bursary’s and ECCS11's effects will (hopefully) be long-lasting.
Roseli S. Wedemann
The ECCS 2011 was very successful. The talks were very interesting in general, with interesting topics related to complex systems research, given by very good speakers. Also the poster sessions presented very interesting work. I also attended good talks in the Satellite Meeting on Complexity and Networks. Particularly useful to my work were the talks on complex networks, related to studies of the brain and mental processes. These provided me with new information on recent developments, which I can apply to my modelling efforts. The conference was very well organized and provided also an excellent opportunity to meet with colleagues living in many different countries, and exchange ideas and information to continue work. It also supported an interesting environment for inter-cultural exchange.
Paul Expert
The conference was a great success thanks to the excellent job done by the organising team in putting together a very high quality programme. Going to ECCS was a great and very beneficial experience as gave me the opportunity to present my work to a wide range of researchers outside my field, and being myself exposed to exciting new ideas and research themes. The social aspect was also very enjoyable. Vienna is a very agreeable human-sized city, loaded with history. The conference gave me the chance to catch up with people and friends I had not seen for a long time, as well as meet new interesting people.
Jan Engelhardt
Thanks to the ASSYST bursary I was able to visit the ECCS in Vienna this year. It was my first ECCS and I was very impressed by the large number of people interested in complex systems sciences. I really enjoyed the environment with a lot of social events especially the conference dinner. I was able to meet a lot of new people working on very different kinds of complex systems. I also got a better understanding of which topics are relevant in Europe e.g. there were much more physical problems than I expected. It was also very intriguing to discuss my research topics during the poster sessions and to listen to the large number of excellent keynote speakers.
Evangelia Panagakou
I am very satisfied from my participation to ECCS ’11. I would really like to thank ASSYST for giving me the chance to attend the conference! The topics of the lectures were very interesting. I learnt about different fields where complexity exists and this gave me some ideas for future work… I met with other young and senior researchers and professors and we talked about my work and their work and we exchanged ideas. Furthermore I had the opportunity to present a poster explaining my group’s work and getting valuable feedback on it. ECCS ’11 and the FuturICT events really helped me to further increase my motivation to continue studying and working on my PhD and on related topics. I look forward to attending ECCS ’12 in Brussels!!
Cigdem Yalcin
European Conference on Complex Systems organization is so well-designed conference which wherever it would be hold, one could feel the energy of the participants. It is very invaluable of the contributions of the European ASSYST project and the Complex Systems Society to young researchers, who would otherwise be unable and in particular female scientists to attend European Conference on Complex Systems. According to my experiences as a female in the science world, this bursary programme of European ASSYST project and the Complex Systems Society is not only a financial support, it also supports the genderlessness in the science. With this bursary programme I had been an opportunity to participate in ECCS’11, to follow the new trends and improving foundations of complex systems theory and to give a poster presentation.
International Meeting on Visualization in Complex Environments
The International Meeting on Visualization in Complex Environments took place at Politecnico di Torino, November 17-18, 2011. The programme covered the tracks Visualization and Decision Making in Spatial Environments, Visualization and Scientific Data Exploration and Visualization and Communication.
The dramatic progress in ICT and Internet-based applications has meant that individuals and organizations are exposed to an ever-increasing stream of data. In such an environment, the burden caused by information overload and processing is largely compensated for by the extraordinary potential which the availability of plentiful distributed data unleash for the management of complex environments. Information visualization tools provide a creative way to address the issues. They offer a means to deal with a large amount of data and make sense of the emerging information. They also yield new capabilities to amplify cognition. By making it easier to exchange and share information they are artifacts for social affordance, as they enhance in novel ways the environment’s properties permitting social action.
This meeting was an opportunity to get insights into the possibilities offered by visualization and into the benefits likely to be accrued to the various societal organizations as they use these new tools. Contributions are gathered around three main headings which exemplify some of the roles information visualization can play in this respect and notably: decision making in complex environments, exploration of large data-base and communication. The meeting was a joint event by ASSYST and FuturICT, in collaboration with IRES (Institute for Economic and Social Research of the Piedmont Region), ISI Foundation, CSI-Piemonte, DUPT (Department of Urban and Regional Planning of the University of Florence), Turin Polytechnic and Faber. The event was also sponsored by University of Warwick, Open University, Regione Piemonte, National Research Council of Italy and Global System Dynamics &Policies.
Sessions
A) Visualization and Decision Making in Spatial Environments
Thursday, November 17, Facoltà di Architettura, Castello del Valentino, 14.00-18.30
Visualization to monitor and supervise spatially distributed systems, such as metropolitan and regional areas. Attention is paid to how visualization can integrate and make explicit the cooccurrence of different spatially relevant phenomena, such as those concerned with urban security, environmental risks, energy and transport management, thus supporting decision making in complex environments.
14.00 Opening: PIERO FASSINO (Sindaco di Torino), FRANCESCO PROFUMO (President of the Italian National Research Council, Rector of Politecnico di Torino), Piedmont Regional Authorities, CRISTINA PRONELLO (Politecnico di Torino), JEFF JOHNSON (Open University), STEFANO PIPERNO (IRES Piemonte)
14.30 Chair: FERDINANDO SEMBOLONI (Università di Firenze)
CHRISTIANE WEBER, Laboratoire Image des Villes, Strasbourg, From Observation to Representation toward Decision Making process
MICHAEL BATTY (CASA), Visualising Cities Through Models, Maps & Machines
GIOVANNI RABINO (Politecnico di Milano), Urban Modeling and Visualisation: The Semantic Link
MARCO QUAGGIOTTO and WOUTER VAN DEN BROECK (ISI), Visualization and interfaces for complex systems research
16.45 Break and Student Poster Session
17.15 Round Table: JEFF JOHNSON (Open University, chair), MARCO CAVAGNOLI (CSI Piemonte), STEFANO DE FRANCISCI (ISTAT), MAURIZIO TREVISAN (Regione Toscana), DANIELA PAOLOTTI (ISI), SYLVIE OCCELLI (IRES Piemonte)
18.15 Close
18.30 A “walking visualization” of Turin historical district
JOINT ASSYST – FUTURICT MEETING Torino, 17-18 Novembre 2011
B) Visualization and Scientific Data Exploration
Friday, November 18, Facoltà di Architettura, Castello del Valentino, 9.00-13.30
Visualization as a means to look into large data-base and yield an interpretation about data that can expose complex patterns or correlations. This is the realm of visual analytics a new scientific field which is being established at the crossroads between design and computing.
9.00 Opening: ROBERTO MORIONDO (Regione Piemonte), MARCO AJMONE MARSAN (Politecnico di Torino), STEVEN BISHOP (UCL), ROSARIA CONTE (CNR), PAUL LUKOWICZ (Passau University), CLAUDIO LUBATTI (Comune di Torino)
9.30 Chair: FuturICT
DIRK HELBING (ETH Zurich), FuturICT and the Role of Visualization to Understand What Data Are Telling Us
ROLAND STRAUSS (Managing Director of the Knowledge4Innovation EU Platform)
SOULLA LOUCA (Chair of the ICT COST DOMAIN of the EU Commission)
PHILIPP SLUSALLEK (DFKI)
11.00 Coffee
ANNA CARBONE (Politecnico di Torino), Visualizing fully 3D fractal pattems
MIN CHEN (Oxford University)
12.00 Round Table: JEFF JOHNSON (Open University, chair), CLAUDIO INGUAGGIATO (CSP), GIOVANNI FERRERO (CSP), STEVEN BISHOP (UCL), CAMILLE ROTH (CNRS/EHESS), MASSIMO GIORDANI (TIME&MIND, IRES Piemonte), CLAUDIO LUBATTI (Comune di Torino)
14.30 From the Aosta Valley to the Mediterranean sea, Virtual Reality Theatre, Territorial Integrated Project @ Politecnico di Torino
CAMILLE ROTH (CAM/CNTRS), Reconstructing streams of media issues from large textual corpora
C) Visualization and Communication
Friday, November 18, Virtual Reality Multi Media Park, Corso Lombardia 190, 16.30-19.30
This session is hosted within the FABER event, organized by the Turin City Council
The focus will be on bringing together expert and lay knowledge and on the co-generation of information in locally based communities. The role of information visualization in providing contexts for general public information and thus adding value to it will be specifically addressed.
16.30 Welcome coffee
17.00 Opening: TOMMASO GAROSCI (IRES Piemonte), FRANCO CARCILLO (Comune di Torino, Servizio Telematico Pubblico), JEFF JOHNSON (Open University)
Chair: ASSYST
JORGE LOUÇÃ, ANTONIO FONSECA (Lisbon University Institute), Beyond data visualization in communication networks: perceiving collective intelligence ANNA DE LIDDO (Open University), Visualizing Deliberation to Enable Transparent Decision-Making in Participatory Urban Planning
18.15 Round table: JEFF JOHNSON (Open University, chair), RICCARDO STAGLIANÒ (Repubblica), ANNA MASERA (La Stampa), PAOLO CIUCCARELLI (Politecnico di Milano), MARIO PEROSINO (Regione Piemonte), GIULIANA BONELLO (CSI), FRANCO CARCILLO (Comune di Torino)
19.15 Close
source: http://areeweb.polito.it/ricerca/noiselab/FuturICT/Visualization.html
African RoadMap
The African RoadMap for Complex Systems Research is being developed following the "African Conference on the Science of Complex Systems" held on the 9th and 10th November 2011, in Dakar. The conference was an opportunity to discuss the African Roadmap and its Digital Campus - towards a UNESCO Unitwin Network.
This conference brought together local networks in Africa and link them with other networks through the International Digital Campus. In particular it focused on how this new infrastructure can enable individuals and groups to create new social and economic activities to create jobs. The emphasis was on youth unemployment and how the chronic lack of opportunities for young people can be rectified by individuals reconfiguring the resources available to them in the context of the technological advances of recent years.
The conference has drafted the first Complex Systems Roadmap of Africa and its Digital Campus (CSDC-Africa) in harmony with those designed by scientists in other countries and regions worldwide. This prepared for the UNESCO UNITWIN submission in 2012. Youth Employment in Africa was discussed both as a specific complex evolving systems challenge for modern societies and as a criterion for designing the CSDC-Africa. The Digital Campus will use the next technological revolution of cloud computing which can efficiently coordinate scientists with engineers and technicians, physicians and nurses, agricultural experts and farmers. Young people are clearly the most competent in the new technological revolution that will bring a mass of new web services and digital goods, of new jobs and of new knowledge of high added-value for science and society. There are deep reasons why the next Schumpeter’s cycle will be a revolution of web services and digital goods.
source: http://roadmap.csregistry.org/tiki-index.php?page=africa_roadmaps&bl=y
AC-CSS African Conference for Complex Systems Science
Les 9 et 10 novembre se tient à Dakar la conférence africaine AC-CSS. Les débats seront essentiellement francophones. Cette conférence a pour objectif de construire la feuille de route africaine des systèmes complexes et de concevoir le Campus numérique pour la réaliser. La conférence est retransmise en direct chaque jour de 9h30 à 19h30.
Elle s'inscrit dans le cadre plus large d'un UNITWIN UNESCO qui a les mêmes objectifs pour mutualiser, au niveau international, des ressources de tous ordres pour construire et utiliser des connaissances et modèles intégrés.
Comment assister et participer: chacun, partout dans le monde, peut suivre les débats selon l'un des quatre moyens ci-dessous, en direct chaque jour de 9h30 à 19h30.
* Vous pourrez poser directement vos questions par Skype en priorité pour les collègues africains (adresse Skype : ac-css1, ac-css2, ac-css3, ac-css4 et ac-css5).
* Utiliser le WEB COMPAGNON for streaming and chat - voir instructions en bas.
* Vous pourrez aussi contribuer, au cours même de la conférence, aux différents chapitres de la feuille de route, qui seront disponibles sous google doc.
En ce cas, un bulletin de participation à distance est à renvoyer à Ismalia Diouf ( [email protected] ), dès que possible pour que nous puissions bien prendre en compte les contraintes organisationnelles.
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La feuille de route est vivante et adaptative comme le Campus numérique pour la réaliser. La science des systèmes complexes nécessite des stratégies radicalement nouvelles de recherche et d'éducation. Il est important que vous soyez nombreux à participer à leur élaboration en écoutant les débats, en lisant les textes en cours de réalisation et en y apportant toutes les remarques utiles.
Chacun peut participer à la visioconférence sans être équipé de matériel de visioconférence par l'un des quatre moyens suivants :
- WEB COMPAGNON (streaming, document, chat, etc.) - option recommandée.
- STREAMING (avec RealPlayer ou QuickTime)
- le NUMERO de TELEPHONE
- le logiciel EVO
Option recommandée:
1) utiliser le WEB COMPAGNON (streaming, document, chat, etc.) ou installer realplayer ou quicktime:
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Autres options:
2) utiliser le STREAMING (avec RealPlayer, QuickTime ou VLC)
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3) utiliser le NUMERO de TELEPHONE : +33 4 26 68 73 04. On fournira l'identifiant numérique et le code pin de la visio.
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4) utiliser le logiciel EVO (koala). Il faut être équipé d'une caméra et d'un casque. Il faut suivre les instructions sur le site:
http://www.renater.fr/spip.php?rubrique328 .
Composer l'adresse IP 193.48.95.83
Fournir le code pin de la visioconférence :
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Comité d'organisation de la conférence
Laila Mesmoudi,
Ismalia Diouf,
Carla Taramasco,
Paul Bourgine
Draft Agenda
November 8
20:00 Dinner
November 9
08:00 Registration at UCAD – Campus IRD de Hann
09:00 Welcome – local organisers
09:15 Maurice Tchuente, former Education and Research Minister of Cameroon, General Secretary of the International Council for Science
09:30 Round table introduction, each person says who they are and why they have come
10:30 Brief overview of the Complex Systems Society, ASSYST and Etoile
10:45 Brief overview of the ASSYST proposal for UNESCO UNITWIN for South America, Africa and Europe
11:00 Tea/Coffe
11:30 Roadmap of Senegal
11:50 Roadmap of Tunisia : Slimane Ben Miled
12:10 Roadmap of Mauritania : Mohamed Abdallahi Ould Babah
12:30 Lunch & informal discussions
14:00 Roadmap of Mali : Abdou Ballo
14:20 Roadmap of Morocco : Hassan Hbid
15:00 Roadmap of Egypt : Hala Bayoumi
15:20 Roadmap of Burkina Faso : Blaise Somé
15:40 Coffee/Tea networking
16:00 Roadmap of Cameroon : Samuel Bowong
16:40 A scientific cloud computing in Africa now : Karim Chine (Tunisia)
17:00 The AIMS-Next Einstein program : Mamadou Sangharé (Director AIMS Senegal)
17:20 Discussion where are we – where do we want to go? – Defining the African topics for the UNESCO UNITWIN Network and of their rapporteurs
19:00 Refreshments
19:30 Free time
20:30 Dinner
November 10
09:30 Rapporteur’s summary of the African topics and their associated challenges
10:00 Discussion on the challenges and how to realize them : What Complex Systems Digital Campus ?
11:00 Tea/Coffee
11:30 Development roadmap : science and policy in Africa : Franklyn Lisk
12:00 Discussion
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Roadmaps : Engineering & UNESCO UNITWIN Network – working together
14:30 Roadmaps : Science & UNESCO UNITWIN Network – working together
15:00 Roadmaps : The African policy perspective –Franklyn Lisk
15:30 Tea/Coffee
16:00 Outcomes (1) Plans for the Complex Systems Roadmaps and Digital Campus
16:30 Outcomes (2) Plans for the UNESCO UNITWIN Network
17:00 Rapporteur’s summary
17:30 Hosts close the formal meeting
18:00 Refreshments
19:00 Free time
20:00 Farewell Diner
Complexity-NET and COSI-ICT ECCS 2011 Booklet
The booklet for the ECCS11 Satellite Meeting on Complexity-NET projects: Interdisciplinary Challenges for Complexity Science and the FET proactive 4: COSI-ICT project is available for download.
As one of the most important annual events in Complex Systems Science, the conference aims to provide a broad forum for the diverse communities engaged in Complex Systems research, ranging from the Life Sciences to Physics, from Computer Science to Social Science, from Mathematics to Origin of Life, and from Networks to Policy Implications.
The ECCS'11 will feature a fine selection of inspiring keynote speakers, satellite conferences, awards, and panel discussions on a wide variety of hot topics.
During the ComplexityNET session the research projects that were awarded funding through the Complexity-NET pilot call ‘Interdisciplinary Challenges for Complexity Science’ last year will present themselves.
Download programme.
source: http://www.nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/NWOP_8H5FYB_Eng
A Science of Cities
source: http://www.complexcity.info/
EU Prize for Women Innovators
The European Commission is launching a contest to reward three women innovators who have achieved outstanding innovations and brought them to the market. The deadline for application is September 20th.
source: http://ec.europa.eu/research/innovation-union/women-i-ol.html
Elsevier foundation New Scholars Program
The New Scholars Program supports projects to help early-to mid-career women scientists balance family responsibilities with demanding academic careers.
New Scholars seeks to actively address the attrition rate of talented women scientists caused by work-life balance issues. The Foundation provides one, two and three year grants to STEM institutions and organizations actively working towards a more equitable academia by:
Encouraging networking and collaborations among institutions and/or across STEM disciplines in ways that support the challenges of faculty and staff with family responsibilities.
Developing and implement strategies for advocacy and policy development to advance knowledge, awareness, and application of programs to retain, recruit and develop women in science.
Enabling scientists to attend conferences, meetings, workshops and symposia that are critical to the development of a career in science by helping them with childcare and other family responsibilities when attending scientific gatherings.
Application details can be found at the Elsevier foundation webpage. The deadline for applications is September 15th.
source: http://www.elsevierfoundation.org/new-scholars/how-to-apply/
ASSYST ECCS’11 Bursaries
Information for ASSYST ECCS’11 Bursary holders June 2011
- You need to pay for registration, travel and accommodation yourself. You will be reimbursed once the conference is over and you have fulfilled all the conditions including providing a written paragraph for the ASSYST newsletter saying how you have benefited from attending.
- You must arrange your own visa. If you need a letter of invitation please let Jane know ([email protected]).
- A form to use to obtain reimbursement is available from here. We will make payments directly to your bank accounts. Please add your details in the red parts, and details of your expenses (hotel, travel etc.) in the yellow highlighted ones. Then sign, date and post it to Jane Bromley along with the receipts for your expenses.
- We are checking how you will receive the free membership to the Complex Systems Society (please check here for updated information).
- Please send your biography (200 word max, preferably in word) and photo (jpg) by 30th June. In this please say why you want to attend the conference and what you hope to gain from it.
- Please send your recommendations for the change that would most improve CSS and ASSYST websites to the e-mails [email protected] , [email protected] and [email protected] by 30th June. ASSYST, CSS
- If you haven’t already done so, please contact Iain Kusel (who is one of the organisers of the young person’s network at CSS ([email protected]) in order to network with other students. There is also a PhD 'Research in Progress' Workshop (III): LAB to SOCIETY - Opportunities in Complexity organized by: D. Rodrigues, L. Mihoreanu, I. Kusel on 14th September where you will be able to meet other Young Researchers.
- Engaging with the étoile team at the Open University – keep checking this website for updates on how to do this.
Please look at this webpage for regularly updated information.
ASSYST Bursaries Recipients Biographies
The science of complex systems teaches that variety is necessary for systems to adapt to changing environments. In an attempt to increase variety in the CS community, ASSYST has again this year offered bursaries to support female scientists, minority groups and young researchers in attending ECCS'11. The following 32 people have been offered bursaries.
In return for this financial support they have been asked to fulfil various criteria including engaging with the Complex Systems Society, networking with other young researchers, helping with the improvement and usefulness of CSS webpages, and providing reports about the conference. Their short biographies are shown below:
I am Erika Fille T. Legara from the University of the Philippines Diliman where I recently obtained a PhD in Physics (April 2011). My dissertation was on the physics of complex systems, specifically focusing on the applications of ABM and complex networks on real systems: multilevel marketing companies, competing telecommunication companies, and news and media framing. As a fresh Ph.D. graduate, I am expected to start doing research on my own, formulating my own research problems. Given my research background and interests, I believe that attending the ECCS'11 would give me the opportunity to further widen my perspectives on complexity science and its possible applications to the study of real-?world issues, including social and policy implementation issues. More importantly, the conference will allow me to extend my knowledge of the current trends in complex systems research. It cannot be overemphasized that complex systems is a rich and stimulating field. The idea that there is still a lot to learn, discover, and develop to understand these complex systems always keeps me excited. Furthermore, I hope to share whatever knowledge I will gain from the conference to my colleagues here in the Philippines.
Erika Fille T. Legara
Ali Sanayei
Junhuan Zhang
Raffaello Morales
Olesya Mryglod
Pavel Em
Parongama Sen
Alessio Cardillo
Chesnokova Oxana Igorevna
Mauricio Girardi
Zineb Mimouni
Michele Tizzoni
Carlos G. Acevedo Rocha
Jing Qin
Andrzej Jarynowski
José García
Sidi Mohammed Bouguima
Yurij Holovatch
Agata Fronczak
Funda Atun
Angel Akio Tateishi
Fernando José Antonio
Christian Beck
K.P Hari
Oleh I. Shpotyuk
Giovanni Petri
Roseli Wedemann
Paul Expert
Jan Engelhardt
Barbora Trubenova
Evangelia Panagakou
Erika Fille T. Legara
Ali Sanayei was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1987. He earned his Mathematics and Physics diploma in Iran, in 2007. Then he started studying Electrical Engineering (Control) at Sahand University of Technology in Tabriz, Iran, and he is still an undergraduate student in that university. Moreover, he is a member of American Physical Society and IEEE.
His main research interests are beyond the Electrical Engineering and could be summarized in "Complex, Nonlinear, and Evolutionary Dynamical Systems" including complexity measurement, chaotic dynamics, controlling chaos, evolutionary dynamics, fuzzy logic, and philosophy of science. Ali has written more than ten scientific articles in journals and international conference proceedings and presented some of them orally in some universities and countries. In addition, in 2011 he was selected as one of the Outstanding Reviewers of International Journal of Engineering and Technology.
The 2011 Student Bursary Award from ASSYST and CSS is a great opportunity for me to attend in European Conference on Complex Systems in Vienna to meet outstanding scientists in complex systems to promote my thoughts, meet other young researchers to share my experiences with them, and present my recent achievements in complex systems to elevate my works. In this regard, I am so thankful to ASSYST and CSS.
E-mail: [email protected]
PhD student, Supervisor: Dr Tiziana Di Matteo
Financial Mathematics Group
Department of Mathematics, King's College London
Strand, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom.
Motivation
ECCS'11 - European Conference on Complex Systems is one of the most important annual events in Complex Systems Science. It aims to provide a broad forum for the diverse communities engaged in Complex Systems research. I am very interested in the topics of the conference, which are interacting populations and crisis. That's why I want to attend the conference. Furthermore, I want to present my research through this conference and hope that I can get some suggestions on it. Also, I hope that I can broaden my horizon in those topic and get some new idea from the conference. What's more, I am happy that I can make some new friends there.
Education
9/10-Present (Ph.D.) Financial Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, King's College London.
Research Interests
Econophysics
Multi-agent model
Statistical analysis of financial data
Publications
Junhuan Zhang and Jun Wang, Modeling and Simulation of the Market Fluctuations by the Finite Range Contact Systems, Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, Vol. 18, pp. 910-925, 2010.
Junhuan Zhang, Jun Wang and Jiguang Shao, Finite-Range Contact Process on the Market Return Intervals Distributions, Advances in Complex Systems, Vol. 13, Issue. 5, pp. 643-657, 2010.
Junhuan Zhang and Jun Wang, Fractal Detrended Fluctuation Analysis of Chinese Energy Markets, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, Vol. 20, Issue. 11, pp. 3769-3783, 2010.
Raffaello Morales did his undergraduate studies in Rome at the La Sapienza University where he graduate in 2009 with top marks. He then moved to London for doing his postgraduate studies in Theoretical Physics at Imperial College. Since January 2011 he is doing a PhD in Mathematical Finance at King's College London and his interests are Econophysics and the study of financial markets as complex networks. In this field he's been working in the past four months and he is very willing to get more inputs from all possible related topics. Along with his studies in Maths and Physics he's also carrying on his studies in Music. He's been awarded the final Diploma at the Italian Conservatory in 2009 and he is regularly doing upgrading courses and giving concerts in the UK, Austria and Italy.
The ECCS'11 conference is the perfect set for having the possibility to discuss the work done hitherto and to get in touch with people that might be interested in the same topics. I'm sure this will trigger further discussions and new ideas for developing the research. Being aware of the worldwide reputation of this conference I'm really looking forward to getting the most out of it.
My name is Olesya Mryglod. I am 29 and I am a junior researcher of the Laboratory for Statistical Physics of Complex Systems of the Institute for Condensed Matter Physics (Lviv, Ukraine). Since I graduated from the Polytechnic University and have Ph.D. degree in the "Information Systems" area, the circle of my scientific interests includes interdisciplinary topics such as: modeling and analysis of complex networks and systems, data analysis and knowledge discovering. In particular, I apply different approaches to study scientometrical objects. For example, editorial process in scientific journals was the main object of my Ph.D. research.
I am happy to have the opportunity to participate in the "European Conference on Complex Systems". This is the great chance not only to meet interesting people but also to share the results, learn much about new trends and tasks in the field of Complex Systems. The most intriguing thing for me is the possibility to gather the specialists with diverse scientific interests together in order to study complex systems of different nature.
My name is Pavel Em. I was born in 1987 in Partizansk town, Russia. I graduated high-school with silver medal in 2005 and Far Eastern National University (Vladivostok) with excellence, in 2010. My major is economic geography. I continue my education as post-graduate in Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences. My researches are focused on geographical studying processes of urbanization and development of urban settlement systems. The results of my researches were published in 17 scientific articles in different magazines and 1 monograph. I got Award of Russian President for talented young people in 2010.
I really want to attend ECCS’11 because this is place where researchers of systems from different sectors will come and announce results of their scientific researches. It is also good opportunity to me to represent result of my researches, compare level of it and get critique to it. Besides, ECCS’11 will help me to find colleagues around Europe and communicate with them in future.
TopAlessio CardilloMy name is Alessio Cardillo and I am a PhD student at University of Zaragoza (Spain). During the past five years (as an undergraduate student), I have worked on complex networks theory under the supervision of Prof. Vito Latora (University of Catania, Italy), focusing on the structural properties of complex networks. In particular, I have studied urban networks and the relation between centrality indexes and density of commercial activity. In 2011, I have started the PhD in physics under the supervision of Dr. Jesus Gomez-Gardenes (University of Zaragoza) focusing on evolutionary game theory on complex networks. In particular, my studies focus on the emergence of collective behaviour, such as cooperation. The European Conference on Complex Systems will give me not only the opportunity to present some results of my research but, more importantly, the possibility to meet, share ideas, and develop relationships with people that can improve it. Also, the variety of topics treated in the conference will be of great help to keep my view on complex systems as wide as possible and also to be updated about the state of the art in fields different than mine.
TopChesnokova Oxana Igorevna
I entered the faculty of physics and techniques of Ural State Technical University in 2003. I chose the speciality “Computer systems and technologies in technical physics” and graduated from the University in 2008 with grade point average 4,77 (from 5 maximum possible). The topic of my degree work was “The model of light energy conversion in chloroplasts”. Later on, as a result of this work, the article under the title “Analytical model of ion transport and conversion of light energy in chloroplasts” was published (Melkikh A. V., Seleznev V. D., Chesnokova O. I. Journal of Theoretical Biology 264 (2010) 702–710). Since 2008 I have been studying postgraduate program and researching the behavior and possible strategies of organisms, which are able to move and replicate at the early stages of life origin. My advisor is professor Melkikh A.V.
I want to attend ECCS’11 because its’ topics are extremely close to my current research work direction. It will be a great opportunity to learn more about other researches and researchers methods, discuss others and mine, get some new ideas and information. Finally, I’m sure that all above-listed advantages will inspire me for further work.
My name is Mauricio Girardi and I was born in south Brazil. I'm a physicist and have the Master and Doctor degrees in Statistical Mechanics. My current position is as adjoint professor in the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina where I teach classes in physics and mathematics. By employing computer simulations of simple models with Monte Carlo and event-driven methods I focused my research in four different fields: the anomalous static and dynamic properties of water, the aggregation of amphiphilic molecules in micelles, the triboelectrization of granular media, and the dynamics of competing populations. The last research topic is in the early stages, and some effort must be dedicated to it. In order to be in contact with the state-of-the-art of this field and with the main researchers, I intend to participate to the ECCS'11. There, I would like to share some results for a model of cyclic predator-prey model studied by a new simulational method. I expect that my research can contribute to the discussions about ecological systems, and that the collaborative ambient of the conference may bring some new ideas to my work.
Moroccan
Professor of Physics
Cadi Ayyad University –Marrakesh -Morocco
Formation
2007 Ph.D. thesis of Moroccan state, Colloidal Suspensions, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakesh
1990 Ph.D. thesis (France), Condensed matter, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis.
1987 DEA in Physics, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis.
1986 MA in Physics, Cadi Ayyad University
Education
1987-1988 Monitor lab, Faculty of Sciences, Nice-Sophia antipolis
1989-1990 A.T.E.R, Faculty of Sciences, Nice-Sophia antipolis
1990-1991 A.T.E.R, Faculty of Sciences, Nice-Sophia antipolis
Since September 1991, Professor of Physics, Marrakesh, FSTG
Since September 2009, coordinator of the Licence ST SPI, FSTG, Marrakesh
Publications
G. Bosssis, C. Mathis, Z. Mimouni and Paparoditis, Europhys. Lett.,11 (2) 133-137 (1990)
Z. Mimouni, C. Mathis and G. Bossis, Progr. Colloid. Polym. Sci., 82 (1990)
Z. Mimouni, C. Mathis and G. Bossis, Progr. Colloid. Polym. Sci., 84 (1991)
Z. Mimouni, C.R. Acad. Sci., Physique 8 (2007) 115-120
Z. Mimouni and Hassan Chehouani, Colloid Journal, Vol. 69. No. 6. (2007).
Z. MIimouni and R. Limage , ZAMP, vol 60, n°3 (2009)
Z. Mimouni and J.A.D Wattis, physica A, 388, pp 1067-1073 (2009)
About the participation to ECCS 2011I would like to attend the ECCS 2011, to be informed of progress in research on complex media, myself I am working on colloidal suspensions under an electric field. I'd like to meet researchers in mathematics of complex systems, to work together and make progress in my research.
TopMichele Tizzoni
I received a Master’s degree in Physics from the University of Torino, Italy, in 2007. Currently, I am a 4th year doctoral student, working at the Computational Epidemiology Laboratory of the ISI Foundation in Torino, Italy.
During my graduate studies I directed my research interests towards the field of complex systems and particularly to the application of complex networks theory to epidemiology. In detail, my research activity focuses on the study of human mobility networks and how human mobility at different geographic scales affects the spreading of infectious diseases.
Most of my work has been done within the EpiFor research project, an European Research Council funded project whose main goal is the development of a novel computational tool for the realistic modeling of infectious diseases spread at the global scale, the Global Epidemic and Mobility model.
Since ECCS is one of the most prominent events for the European complex systems research community, attending the conference will be a great opportunity for me to present my research work and interact with senior researchers of the field. I am sure that the ECCS will inspire new research ideas and will be the ideal setting to start new collaborations with other researchers.
TopJing Qin
My name is Jing Qin and I received my Ph.D. from Nankai University (China) in 2010, under the supervision of Prof. Christian M. Reidys. My thesis dealt with the mathematical models of RNA tertiary structures and RNA-RNA interactions. Now I am a female post-doc working with Prof. Peter F. Stadler in the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Leipzig, Germany. My recent research interest is focus on RNA energy landscape which is also can be interpreted as a complex system.
I would like to attend ECCS’11 since the main topic of this conference is highly related to my recent research subject. I am sure that the pioneered techniques going to be presented in the ECCS’11 will help me to make progress in my own research. Also I view the conference as a great opportunity for me to discuss my subject with the other researchers who are interested in the same topic and seek for opportunities to collaborate with them.
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Inselstrasse 22, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany E-mail address: [email protected]
From the very beginning of my education I have connected natural science with social science and biology (my background is socio- and econo-physics at University of Wroclaw and mathematics for economics and commerce at Technical University of Wroclaw). During my master programmes I attended scientific meetings of UNESCO: Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies (where topics like opinion formation, model of prison riots, prison dilemma, game theory as well as more biological ones: food webs, victim-predator models, population dynamics and so on were discussed). It made me interested in the field of complex systems. I've tried to use my interdisciplinary base to model such phenomena as corruption, calcium spiking, spread of MRSA and H1N1. I'm currently a first year PhD student in Department of Theory of Complex Systems at Jagiellonian University working in parallel on epidemiological modeling as well as social change project.
Attendance on ECCS' 2011 will give me an opportunity to present my current results and listen to feedback of complex system society. There will be also a possibility to network with other youth researchers from all Europe.
My name is José García, I was born in Venezuela in 1988. I graduated in physics in 2010 at Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV) and I'm currently enrolled in a PhD program at UCV.
My research activities are focused on complex systems, cellular automata and statistical mechanics. I did my undergraduate thesis in Synchronization of Cellular Automata and I'm currently working in nonlinear forecast of complex totally discrete systems I’m also a member of the complex system group and the nonlinear group at UCV.
The main reason I wanted to attend to the ECCS event is because it's a great opportunity to meet researchers from different fields of science from all over the world, and to gain some perspective about the different styles of working in other countries.
From the whole ECCS event I do expect to gain some insight of how different fields of knowledge converge to the study of complexity, what does complexity means interdisciplinary and what are the current researches in the complex system area. I also expect to establish contact with other researchers with common interest in order to share information about our currently research.
Differential and Integral calculus
Differential Equations and Boundary value problems
Functional Analysis and Nonlinear Analysis
Partial Differential Equations
My mathematical interests are mainly Applied Partial Differential Equations. I am interesting in developing and studying models in ecology, epidemiology, ecology, treatment of waste water and populations Dynamics.
In the period between 1999 and 2003, I was involved with Pau University (France) in the programme : Environment and Population Dynamics, and in the 2008, I was a member of the programme Treatment of Waste Water with IRD, France.
Some of my referred papers are
On a free boundary Problem, (with S .Bensid) Nonlinear Analysis TMA 68(2008) , 2328-2348
Spatial Structure in a juvenile-Adult Model (with S.Fkih and W.Hennaoui) in Nonlinear Analysis, Real World and Applications 9(2008), 1184-1201
Existence Result for Impulsive Third Order Periodic Boundary Value Problems (with Z. Benbouziane and A .Boucherif) Applied Mathematics and Computation (206) 2008, 728-737.
In 2004, I was awarded the Maurice Audin Prize from the French Mathematical Society. Away from the university, I enjoy listening music, reading history and travelling.
At the European Conference on Complex System which will be held at Vienna, I will:
Understand relevant research achievements given by experts in the field .
Update my knowledge in the area of Complex Systems.
Maintain cooperative networks and relationships with the research community.
Yurij Holovatch was born on 16 June, 1957 in Lviv, Ukraine. Doctor of physical and mathematical sciences (1998), Professor (2005), full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (2006). Graduated from Ivan Franko State University of Lviv (1979). Ph. D. thesis: Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics (Kyiv, 1984). After postgraduate studies he works in the Institute for Condensed Matter Physics of the National Academy of Scienses of Ukraine, in 2010 he founded a Laboratory for statistical physics of complex systems in this Institute. An invited professor at: Ivan
Franko National University of Lviv (Ukraine), Johannes Kepler Univerität (Linz, Austria), Université Henri Poincaré (Nancy, France), Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv, Ukraine). Scientific interests concern physics of macromolecules (topological properties of complex polymers), theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena (application of field theory methods to the studies of critical phenomena in condensed matter physics), exotic problems of statistical physics (application of methods of statistical physics to the analysis of many-particle systems of non-physical nature), history of science.
As usually, participation in the conference means for me learning about new results and presenting results of myself and my collaborators. My specific field of interest related to this particular conference is complex networks (critical behaviour in complex networks, complex networks resilience to attacks, transport networks) and scientometrics.
I am a theoretical physicist specializing in statistical physics, with a special emphasis on theories of phase transitions. My additional research interests focus on the application of statistical mechanics, discrete mathematics, and computer science toward the understanding of complex networks in social and economic systems. Since 2002, I have authored or co-authored about 30 scientific papers, which collected more than 300 citations (SCI). I am also an author of two books (in Polish): Thermodynamics and equilibrium statistical physics: a course with problems and solutions (2006) and World of complex networks – from physics to the internet (2008). My interdisciplinary interests have been developed in several European projects, where I collaborated with partners from other research fields such as economy, computer science and social sciences.
In private, together with dr Piotr Fronczak, we are married couple of physicists with two little boys. We desperately try to separate our professional and private life.
European Conferences on Complex Systems offer a unique possibility to present and also discuss different interdisciplinary results / projects. I will show interesting results about international trade during the forthcoming ECCS 2011. With my presentation I hope to interest economists and to evoke their critique.
Spatial Planning and Urban Development, Department of Architecture and Planning
Politecnico di Milano, Milan-ITALY
e-mail: [email protected]
I am going to attend to ECCS'11 as a PhD researcher at Spatial and Urban Planning department, at Politecnico di Milano. My PhD research is on improving London`s complex transportation network for flood risk. I am looking at ways in which the London`s complex transportation system may be improved or adopted in order to help to reduce the risk of tidal flooding to the network. I have encountered European Conference on Complex Systems while working on complexity theory to find some insights for understanding the nature of dynamic city systems. The reason why I am attending to ECCS'11 is that there are excellent prospects for further studies. The idea of attending to a conference on the issue of complexity where I can deepen my knowledge truly excites me. In this manner in the conference I could have the opportunity to share the results of my ongoing research and to improve them by discussing with other scholars and by gaining experiences from talks. For these reasons I am very much excited to take part in ECCS'11.
I'm Angel Akio Tateishi, a Brazilian born in 1986. I joined the undergraduate physics course in 2005 and concludes in 2008, during this period also concluded a technical course in music,both at the State University of Maringa. Yet at the same university, in the second half of 2010got a master's degree in physics studying anomalous diffusion (dissertation entitled:Development of the concept of diffusion: From Fourier to Comb-Model) and that same semesterI entered the doctoral course following the same previous research and I am also taking the first steps in studying complex systems, which is being extensively studied by the research group to which I belong.
Thus, the opportunity to participate in this conference is very important to know the recent research, as well as interact with other researchers.
E-mail: [email protected]
I got bachelor's degree in physics at Maringá University State (2007) and master's degree in liquid crystals (Physics Of The Condensed State Of Substance) at Maringá University State (2009). Since last year, I have been developing studies for obtaining the doctor degree in the group of complex systems at Maringá University State. For this reason, I think that participate on this conference represents a good way to meet people studying similar problems, increase my knowledge about the topic and its branches of applications.
e-mail: [email protected]
Christian BeckProf. Christian Beck is Professor of Applied Mathematics at Queen Mary, University of London. He obtained his MSc and PhD in Physics at the Technical University of Aachenand spent some time as a postdoc in Warwick, Copenhagen, Budapest and Maryland, before being appointed in London.
He has a broad research interest covering generalized statistical mechanics methods for complex systems, spatio-temporal chaos and stochastic processes, and is author of more than 100 publications. Together with Boltzmann-medalist Eddie Cohen (Rockefeller University, NY) he has introduced the superstatistics concept, a useful method to describe complex systems with time scale separation. Applications include turbulent flows, scattering processes in high energy physics, traffic delay statistics, mathematical finance, as well as medical and biological applications. Another research area of his are stochastically quantized field theories, in particular novel types of dark energy models based on chaotic scalar fields.
Christian Beck's early work deals with deriving Langevin equations from deterministic chaotic dynamics using functional Central Limit Theorems. He is also well-known for his book with Friedrich Schloegl `Thermodynamics of Chaotic Systems', which describes the basic ideas of the thermodynamic formalism of dynamical systems in an easy-going way. At ECCS'11 in Vienna he will present a talk on superstatistics in High Energy Physics.
Phone: +91-9886194535
Biography:
Seminal encounters
My journey began 18 years ago when I got an opportunity to attend a wonderful talk by on ‘ecology’ by a noted criminal lawyer. The talk was packed with concepts of natural capital, conservation, mobilization, sustainability and a broad-based ecological relationship. It struck a deep chord within me. A few days later, reading a cover story in Fortune magazine (January 1995) on Bill Gates and his new-found interest in understanding complex processes of organizations, the human brain, technology and biotechnology stoked my allure for complex systems.
Active search and inquiry
I immersed myself completely in texts (magazine articles, research papers, essays, books, interviews, biographies) mined from esoteric domains of cognitive sciences, artificial intelligence, philosophy of mind, neurosciences, ecology, technology, cybernetics, social sciences and architecture. The intense process of search, assimilation and reflection had begun to change the way I perceived these systems.
Visual complexity
In an abstract attempt to articulate my view, I began doodling on loose sheets of paper and in notebooks using ball point pen, thus becoming an integral part of my thinking process. As my idea of ‘complexity’ began to evolve, my sketches started assuming network-like forms. I continue to produce a new configuration almost on a daily basis.
How will I benefit from ECCS’11?
This conference will help me to network and develop collaborative relationships with other researchers on complex systems and share my visual perspective to a global audience
Oleh I. Shpotyuk was born in Ukraine, in 1958.
He received the M.Sc. degree on radiophysics and electronics and Ph.D. degree on solid state physics from the Physics Faculty of Lviv State University, Ukraine, in 1980 and 1986, respectively. In 1991, he received Dr.Sc. degree from Institute of Physics, Salaspils, Latvia for thesis on relaxation-degradation phenomena in amorphous solids. Since 1999, O. Shpotyuk is Professor titular on solid state physics announced at Lviv Polytechnic National University.
Since 1980, Oleh Shpotyuk joins Lviv Scientific Research Institute of Materials of SRC “Carat”, where he is currently on Research Director position. The most of his scientific career is devoted to fundamental and applied problems of modern materials science, structural disordering in solids, externally-induced phenomena in glasses and ceramics. He is the author of some methodological resolutions in nanoscale materials science, the concept of topological defect formation in covalent-bonded matter, computational cluster-modelling approach to unified atomic-void-species structure of solids. Your recent activities also deal with self-adaptability effects in complex network-forming systems, their phenomenological characterization and experimental testing.
Prof. O. Shpotyuk is a member of the European Physical Society (EPS). Since 2007, he is academician of the Academy of Technological Sciences of Ukraine.
I am a PhD student in Complexity and Networks Programme of Imperial College London. I studied theoretical physics, cosmology in particular, but currently my research focuses on dynamics on complex networks, especially regarding the interaction between information and flows in traffic networks. Recently, I also started working also on the features of human mobility, with special regard to the effects of boundaries and memory.
I am looking forward to take part to ECCS'11 because it's a unique occasion to meet personally and discuss face to face with the people behind some of the very interesting papers out there. Email's all good, but it still doesn't cut it when compared to direct interaction.
Secondly, I am confident ECCS'11 will sport a few excellent talks and I would not want to miss them.
I am a researcher at the State University of Rio de Janeiro and, in the past years, much of our recent work regards the search for neuronal network mechanisms, whose emergent states underlie behavioral aspects traditionally studied by psychiatry, psychoanalysis and neuroscience. Our motivations range from understanding psychopathologies, in the hope of contributing to the comprehension of methods of treatment, to investigations of basic mechanisms for the development of artificial intelligence and consciousness. The artificial neural networks we developed, to illustrate the functional models for the mental processes which we describe, have interesting properties that can be studied within the context of complex networks. We have used some concepts commonly used in the approach of complex networks, such as node degree distributions, clustering coefficients, and other statistical mechanical quantities and tried to relate network structure and topology with system dynamics. These themes are very much related to the topics of the ECCS´11 conference. The opportunity to attend the conference talks and discussions, with other colleagues also working on related issues, should be an opportunity to enrich our studies and to trigger the development of new ideas that can help to further enhance future developments of our models.
I am currently a PhD student in the Complexity & Networks Group at Imperial College London. My background is in Physics (statistical mechanics), I obtained a master in Physics from the University of Geneva and then went on to complement my education with a master in Statistics. My current research interests are mainly focused on networks, more specifically on the characterisation of their structure, both at the node and at the mesoscopic (community) levels, and the interplay between the structure and the dynamics taking place on it.
The ECCS conference being the main European event on complex system, it is a perfect place to meet researchers with a broad range of interests. It also has the advantage of not being focused on networks, thus giving a less biased view of the community's interests and opening interesting exchange opportunities and possibly new collaborations on unexpected topics.
Since 2006 I study computer science at the University of Leipzig. Early in my curriculum I joined the bioinformatics lab of Peter Stadler for my bachelor thesis on non-coding RNAs. Through his affiliation with the Santa Fe Institute for Complex Systems I got interested in complex sciences. I was even able to visit it twice during my master studies. I'm currently working on my master thesis about genomic imprinting in collaboration with Jon Wilkins. I also did an internship in Vienna during my study. I worked two month in the lab of Denise Barlow and one with Ivo Hofacker. I would like to profit from the unique environment of the ECCS with a large number of excellent speakers and experts in complex sciences. I hope that I can learn more about the cutting edge of complex sciences and molecular biology at the ECCS and get in touch with other people working in this field.
My name is Barbora Trubenova and I am a PhD student at the University of Manchester. I received a master degree in Biophysics at the Comenius University in Slovakia in 2009. However, I was always interested in biology, so I obtained a bachelor degree in Biology as well from the same university. Currently, I managed to fuse both of my interests and I am focusing on the problem of evolution of social behaviour, especially cooperation and altruism. Specifically, I am using mathematical modelling to investigate the role of genes of social partners on the phenotype of the focal individual and its consequences for the evolution of social traits.
I hope that the ECCS'11 conference will allow me to learn more about research methods used in complex systems and to get some new ideas for the future research. I am also looking forward to meet other researchers working on similar problems and I am hoping to receive some feedback on my own work, which would help me with my further studies.
My name is Evangelia (or Evelyn for simplicity) Panagakou. I am Greek. I studied Physics (B.S.) in the Physics Department of the University of Athens in Athens, Greece, and Applied Mathematics (M.S.) in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA, USA. Currently I am a first year PhD student in the Statistical Mechanics and Nonlinear Dynamics Laboratory, Institute of Physical Chemistry, at the National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, in Athens, Greece. My work is related to synchronization phenomena in nonlinear dynamical systems. My group's work focuses on non linear systems of multiple species, some acting as predators and others acting as preys. We study the behavior of these species and the system's stability, under different values of control parameters. Applications can be found in biology, chemistry, ecology, sociology and other aspects.
I would like to participate in the ECCS '11 for many reasons. First of all, I will learn about theory topics and applications of Complex Systems and this may help me produce new ideas towards the improvement of my work. Moreover, I will have the opportunity to discuss about my team's research and get useful feedback for the continuation of my PhD. Finally, I will meet people who work on the same or similar fields with me and in this way I could build a basis for future collaborations. In total I believe that the experience of attending this conference will offer me inspiration and extra motivation for my work!
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Videos of the 4th Annual French Complex Systems Summer School
The videos and presentations of the 4th Annual French Complex Systems Summer School held in Paris in August 2010 are available online at the ISC-PIF Open Multimedia Library.
The aim of the school was to provide in-depth reference courses to a multi-disciplinary audience of researchers and students. The level of lectures ranged from introductory to advanced, as attendees were not expected to be familiar with all the fields covered. Lecture topics addressed specific objects from various disciplines pertaining to complex systems (physics, biology, sociology, etc.), or interdisciplinary tools and methods (mathematical, computational), or both.
source: https://library.iscpif.fr/index.php?tag1=Event&value1=CSSS2010#2
Open Day at the Complexity Science DTC at Warwick
On June 22, the Complexity Science Doctoral Training Centre of the University of Warwick is organising an Open Day for all interested in pursuing studies in the field of Complex Systems.
source: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/comcom/dtcsite/applyingtothedtc/dates/
1st of May
In this 1st of May 2011, the ASSYST/CSS Newsletter presents three distinct initiatives, all concerned, each one in its own way, by the role of Science in building a better society for the future.
The first is the Assyst Meeting "ICT Based Policies for a Green Knowledge Society", that will be held in Florence on the 27th May. The meeting will address processes of creating, sharing, and using knowledge for socio-economic development. In this context, “green” means an interest for the involvement of environmental concern. The key issue of the meeting will be the exploration of the possibility of achieving a green knowledge society with the utilization of the ICT, as a means of enhancing interaction and a distributed intelligence on the overall society.
Another important event is "fet'11 - The European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition", to be held in Budapest already on the 4-6 May. fet'11 is a forum dedicated to frontier research in information and communication technologies, a unique conference on visionary, high-risk and long-term research in information science and technology. Featuring an exceptionally broad range of scientific fields, the event will seed new ideas across disciplines that will reshape the future.
Finally, the EPSRC and ASSYST workshop "Mathematics in the Science of Complex Systems", to be held at the University of Warwick on the 9th and 10th June, will challenge the status quo and suggest that there is an exciting universe of new mathematical structures waiting to be constructed - new kinds of spaces with new kinds of algebraic, topological, analytic and logical properties requiring new methods of investigation to make them tractable and comprehensible.
You will find all this, and much more, in this issue of your ASSYST/CSS newsletter.
Mathematics in the Science of Complex Systems
Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick Thursday 9th – Friday 10th June 2011
This EPSRC & ASSYST meeting follows a workshop held in February 2011 at the European Centre for Living Technology in Venice as part of the European ASSYST project. Like the Venice meeting, this workshop is organised around the questions:
- which areas of mathematics are used in complex systems science?
- what is the historical context? Have any outstanding problems been solved?
- have any new fields of mathematics or problems been generated ?
- how can statistical research contribute to complex systems science?
- how does mathematics interface to computation in CS science?
- what are the implications for applications in industry and for policy makers?
- are new logical frameworks necessary for the science of complex systems?
- what are the implications for education and training in CS science?
- are there completely new areas of mathematics waiting to be discovered?
- what are the ‘grand challenges’ for mathematics and mathematicians?
The meeting in Warwick is intended to widen the network of mathematicians participating in this initiative. Everyone will be given the opportunity to present their views. Attendance is free. We will provide overnight accommodation on Thursday 9th June (and Wednesday 8th June as needed) and refund travel expenses. If you would like to attend please contact us to book your place as soon as possible.
Please email [email protected] or call 01908-652627 or 077 966 966 21 to book your place.
Registration: see the source webpage.
The meeting is organised by Robert MacKay ([email protected]) on behalf of the Warwick Mathematics Institute and Jeff Johnson ([email protected]) on behalf on ASSYST.
source: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/research/events/2009_2010/symposium/mitsocs/
ICT Based Policies For a Green Knowledge Society
How can ICT help achieve a green knowledge society? How are different regional policies in Europe affecting this goal?
ASSYST and the Department of Urban and Regional Planning of the University of Florence are organizing a conference on the “possibility to achieve a green knowledge society with the utilisation of the ICT as a mean of enhancing interaction and a distributed intelligence on the overall society”. The conference will take place May 27th, 2011 in Florence at the University of Florence.
Representatives of four European regions: Greater London Authority, Region de l'Ile de France, Piedmont Region, and Tuscany Region, will present their experience. Experts in decision making and in the utilization of ICT will comment these experiences. A general final discussion will investigate how ICT could help strengthening regional policies to pursue the goal of a greener knowledge society.
source: http://fs.urba.arch.unifi.it/assyst/home.html
Facing the Future
In the April 2011 issue of your ASSYST/CSS Newsletter, where you will be able to find some interesting pointers to future science in Europe.
The Étoile project - "Enhanced Technology for Open Intelligent Learning Environments" started with an exciting debate about how to develop and deploy an open source, scalable and adaptive online system that will deliver learning resources for complex systems studies. A report of this discussion is available inside. Also, one of the most important annual conferences, fet'11 - "The European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition", is about to start and will include some remarkable talks, from robotics to market dynamics, from language modelling to new computational and mathematical models - please take a look to the abstracts. Finally, the reading snippets, conference calls and announcements will surely catch your attention.
