V Summer School on Statitstical Physics of Complex and Small Systems
Sign into July 17, 2015
Presentation
Statistical Physics, which was born as an attempt to explain thermodynamic properties of systems from its atomic and molecular components, has evolved into a solid body of knowledge that allows for the understanding of macroscopic collective phenomena. One of the largest successes of Statistical Physics has been the development of paradigms, stylized simplified models that capture the essential ingredients, for a wide variety of phenomena. These paradigms have allowed not only the understanding of the systems by themselves but also that many apparently different behaviors are just different manifestations of the same collective phenomena. The tools developed by the Statistical Physics together with the Theory of Dynamical Systems are of key importance in the understanding of Complex Systems which are characterized by the emergent and collective phenomena of many interacting units. In particular the understanding of small systems, in which fluctuations are typically large, benefits from Statistical Physics body of knowledge. In addition, small systems fuel the development of new techniques and provide the ground to test predictions at a very deep level.
While the traditional basic body of knowledge of Statistical Physics is well described in textbooks and typically at an undergraduate or master level, the applications to Complex and Small Systems are well beyond the scope of those textbooks. The Summer School on Statistical Physics of Complex and Small Systems series, open to master and PhD students and young postdocs world-wide, aims at bridging this gap.
Following the same spirit and concept of the precedent succesful editions (Palma de Mallorca 2011, 2013, 2014 and Benasque 2012) the 5th edition will take place from July 6 to 17, 2015 in Barcelona. During these two weeks there will be a total of six courses (three courses per week):
- First week
- COURSE 1: Biological membranes and biofluids at the microscale. Aurora Hernández-Machado, Universitat de Barcelona
- COURSE 2: Coarse grained dynamics and mesoscopic computational methods. Ignacio Pagonabarraga, Universitat de Barcelona
- COURSE 3: Information theory for complex systems. Stefan Thurner, Medical University of Vienna
- Second week
- COURSE 4: Dynamics on and of complex networks. Albert Diaz-Guilera, Universitat de Barcelona
- COURSE 5: Statistical physics of tailored random graphs: entropies, processes, and generation, Ton Coolen, King’s College London
- COURSE 6: Field theory of reaction diffusion processes. Gunnar Pruessner, Imperial College London
Courses will include lectures and hands-on sessions. Lectures will be taught in English. Students are welcomed, and encouraged, to present their research, both as short talks and posters.
In addition, this year the school features several keynote talks, which will give a broader view on some of the topics of the school.
KEYNOTE 1: Entropy, temperature and second law of thermodynamics beyond local equilibrium. David Jou, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
KEYNOTE 2: Kinetic Theory for Neuronal Networks. Alex Roxin, Centre de Recerca Matemàtica.
KEYNOTE 3: Challenges and opportunities using Statistical Mechanics modeling in the industrial world, Lourdes F. Vega, FBBVA-RSEF.
Organizing Committee
- Álvaro Corral, CRM, Barcelona
- Tomás Alarcón, CRM, Barcelona
- Francesc Font Clos, CRM, Barcelon
Scientific Committee
- Pere Colet, IFISC (CSIC-UIB)
- Álvaro Corral, CRM, Barcelona
- Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes, BIFI, Universidad de Zaragoza
- Juan Manuel López, IFCA (CSIC-U. Cantabria)
- Diego Maza, Universidad de Navarra
- Raúl Toral, IFISC (CSIC-UIB
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
| Tomás | Alarcón | Centre de Recerca Matemàtica | ||||||
| Saoirse | Amarteifio | |||||||
| Shahaf | Asban | University of Haifa | ||||||
| Francesco | Avanzini | Università degli studi di Padova | ||||||
| Seddik | Belkoura | The Innaxis Foundation & Research Institute | ||||||
| Elisa | Beltrán | Centre de Recerca Matemàtica | ||||||
| Ignacio | Bordeu | Universidad de Chile | ||||||
| Diandian | Chen | Georgia Institute of Technology | ||||||
| Jan | Choloniewski | Warsaw University of Technology | ||||||
| Maurizio | Coden | Università degli studi di Padova | ||||||
| Anthonius | Coolen | Institute for Mathematical and Molecular Biomedici | ||||||
| Alvaro | Corral | Centre de Recerca Matemàtica | ||||||
| Enric | Costa | Centre de Recerca Matemàtica | ||||||
| Roberto de la | Cruz | Centre de Recerca Matemàtica | ||||||
| Daniel | Czegel | Budapest University of Technology and Economics | ||||||
| Albert | Diaz-Guilera | Universitat de Barcelona | ||||||
| Stefano | Duca | ETH Zürich | ||||||
| Nuria | Folguera | The Francis Crick Institute | ||||||
| Francesc | Font | Centre de Recerca Matemàtica | ||||||
| Ivan | Gonzalez | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid | ||||||
| Federico | Guerra | Freie Universität Berlin | ||||||
| Aurora | Hernandez-Machado | Universitat de Barcelona | ||||||
| Joseph | Hickey | University of Calgary | ||||||
| Peter | Hufton | University of Manchester | ||||||
| Maciej | Jedynak | Universitat Pompeu Fabra | ||||||
| Manuel | Jimenez | UNED | ||||||
| David | Jou | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | ||||||
| Julian | Kappler | Freie Universität Berlin | ||||||
| Sarah | Klein | Universität des Saarlandes | ||||||
| Daniel | Maria | Università degli studi di Padova | ||||||
| Gergely | Máthé | Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem | ||||||
| Cornelia | Metzig | Imperial College London | ||||||
| Christopher | Mielack | Freie Universität Berlin | ||||||
| Daniel | Molina | Basque Center for Applied Mathematics | ||||||
| Isabel | Moreno | Centre de Recerca Matemàtica | ||||||
| Enrico | Nale | Università degli studi di Padova | ||||||
| Ángel M. | Núñez | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid | ||||||
| Sergi | Ortiz | New York University | ||||||
| Daniel | Østergaard | Aarhus University | ||||||
| Aaron | Ostrander | University of Maryland | ||||||
| Ignacio | Pagonabarraga | Universitat de Barcelona | ||||||
| Robert | Paluch | Warsaw University of Technology | ||||||
| César | Parra | University of Manchester | ||||||
| Gunnar | Pruessner | Imperial College London | ||||||
| Jesus Jairo | Rodriguez | Universidad de Sonora | ||||||
| Daniel | Ruiz | IFISC (CSIC-UIB) | ||||||
| Oleguer | Sagarra | Universitat de Barcelona | ||||||
| Linus | Schumacher | University of Oxford | ||||||
| Isabel | Serra | Centre de Recerca Matemàtica | ||||||
| Alessandro | Sozza | Università degli Studi di Torino | ||||||
| Stefan | Thurner | Universität Wien | ||||||
| Bálint Jenó | Tóth | Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem | ||||||
| Chengyi | Tu | Università degli studi di Padova | ||||||
| Adams | Vallejos | Universidad de Concepcion | ||||||
| Joan | Vazquez | Kadir Has University | ||||||
| Lourdes | Vega | MATGAS | ||||||
| Nanxin | Wei | Imperial College London |
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