XIII GEFENOL-DIFENSC Summer School on Statistical Physics of Complex Systems
Sign into October 10, 2025
Venues: CRM & UAB
Rooms: A1 (CRM) & C5/032 (UAB)
Notice that this school takes place one week after the CS3 Summer School. The schools are coordinated and participants are encouraged to attend both of them. Registration is independent.
EVENT SUMMARY
POSTERS
CONTRIBUTED TALKS
Introduction
Statistical physics allows for the understanding of macroscopic collective phenomena in physical systems. But the tools and concepts developed by statistical physics are of key importance in the understanding of complex systems, which are also characterized by emergent and collective phenomena arising from many interacting parts.
While the basic body of knowledge of statistical physics is well described in textbooks, the applications to open problems in complex systems are beyond the scope of those textbooks. Aiming at bridging this gap, the GEFENOL (now DIFENSC) promoted in 2011 its Summer School on Statistical Physics of Complex Systems.
GEFENOL was the Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics of the Royal Spanish Physical Society (RSEF), which has recently transformed into the Division on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Complex Systems (DIFENSC) of the RSEF.
The school is open to predoctoral and postdoctoral researchers, as well as to any academic interested in new research topics. It consists of four main courses, complemented by hands-on sessions, seminars, presentations by the attendants, and social activities, following the spirit and format of precedent successful editions (Palma de Mallorca, Benasque, Barcelona, Pamplona, Santander, and Madrid; 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024).
The language of all activities will be English.
invited courses
Cancer as an ecological process
Tomás Alarcón
ICREA – Centre de Recerca Matemàtica
Abstract
Functional renormalisation group for nonequilibrium systems
Léonie Canet
Université Grenoble Alpes
Abstract
Stochastic thermodynamics: theory and experiments
Fèlix Ritort
Universitat de Barcelona
Abstract
Collective behaviour of active Systems
Chantal Valeriani
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Abstract
invited tutorials
Tutorial on Information Theory
Juan Manuel López
Instituto de Física de Cantabria
Abstract
Visit to F. Ritort’s Lab at University of Barcelona
Isabel Pastor
Universitat de Barcelona
Abstract
invited talks
Transport phenomena beyond local equilibrium
Albert Beardo
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Abstract
Stem cell dynamics across mammalian species reveal scaling laws governing the speed of aging
Eric Latorre-Crespo
CRG – CRM
Abstract
From Spins to Flocks and Swarms: Statistical Physics of Collective Motion
Javier Cristín
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Abstract
Statistical Mechanics of Hyperbolic Random Graphs
M. Ángeles Serrano
ICREA and University of Barcelona
Abstract
closing invited talk
Artificial intelligence in a sports club
Jordi Mompart
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
scientific committee
local organizers
SCHEDULE
Room | Monday October 6th | Tuesday October 7th | Wednesday October 8th | Thursday October 9th | Friday October 10th | |
9:00 9:20 | A1 (CRM) | Registration | ||||
9:20 9:30 | Welcome | |||||
9:30 10:30 | Fèlix Ritort Universitat de Barcelona | Tomás Alarcón ICREA – Centre de Recerca Matemàtica | Tomás Alarcón ICREA – Centre de Recerca Matemàtica | Tomás Alarcón ICREA – Centre de Recerca Matemàtica | Chantal Valeriani Universidad Complutense de Madrid | |
10:30 11:30 | Léonie Canet Université Grenoble Alpes | Léonie Canet Université Grenoble Alpes | Javier Cristín Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | |||
11:30 12:00 | Coffee Break | Group Picture + Coffee Break | Coffee Break | |||
12:00 13:00 | Tomás Alarcón ICREA – Centre de Recerca Matemàtica | Léonie Canet Université Grenoble Alpes | Léonie Canet Université Grenoble Alpes | Léonie Canet Université Grenoble Alpes | Fèlix Ritort Universitat de Barcelona | |
13:00 14:00 | Stem cell dynamics across mammalian species reveal scaling laws governing the speed of aging Eric Latorre-Crespo CRG - CRM | M. Ángeles Serrano ICREA and University of Barcelona | Transport phenomena beyond local equilibrium Albert Beardo Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | |||
14:00 15:30 | Lunch Break | |||||
15:30 16:30 | C5/032 (UAB) | Tutorial on Information Theory Juan Manuel López Instituto de Física de Cantabria | Tutorial on Information Theory Juan Manuel López Instituto de Física de Cantabria | 17:00 18:30 | Chantal Valeriani Universidad Complutense de Madrid | Closing invited talk Jordi Mompart Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
16:30 17:30 | Poster Session + Reception | |||||
20:00 | Social Dinner |
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
Name | Institution |
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Alvaro Corral | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona – Centre de Recerca Matemàtica |
Léonie Canet | University Grenoble Alpes |
Maciej Chudak | Institute of Molecular Physics Polish Academy of Sciences |
María Li López Bautista | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) |
Juan López | Instituto de Física de Cantabria (CSIC-UC) |
M. Ángeles Serrano Moral | ICREA and University of Barcelona |
Eric Latorre-Crespo | CRG – CRM |
Gabriele Poidomani | IMT Alti Studi Lucca |
Arnau Codina | Universitat de Barcelona |
Juan Pablo Carrillo-Mora | Universitat de Barcelona |
Fèlix Ritort | Universitat de Barcelona |
Adrià Garcés Ortiz | Universitat de Barcelona |
Ot Garcés-Ortiz | Universitat de Barcelona |
Víctor Navas Portella | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
Teodoro Mayayo | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
Jordi Mompart | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
Albert Beardo | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
Javier Cristín | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
Elena García de Lamo | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya |
Oscar Ricardo Mejia | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya |
Juan Gancio | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya |
Lluís Torres-Hugas | Universitat Rovira i Virgili |
Arnau Vivet | Universitat Rovira i Virgili |
Lucas Trigal | Universitat de Les Illes Balears |
David Ortiz del Campo | Universitat de Les Illes Balears |
Adrián Roig Oliver | Universidad de Granada |
Marco Mendívil Carboni | Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
Chantal Valeriani | Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
Tomás de Navascués | Universidad de Navarra |
Adrián Gutiérrez Arroyo | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid |
Marie Sellier-Prono | École normale supérieure - Paris |
Dario Buonomo | Roma Tre University |
Alexandra-Anamaria Sorinca | King's College London |
Tomas Alarcon | Centre de Recerca Matemàtica |
Juan Arellano Tintó | Centre de Recerca Matemàtica |
Amaia Vielba | Centre de Recerca Matemàtica |
Núria Velasco Falguera | Centre de Recerca Matemàtica |
Marcos Martinez Jimenez | CSIC |
Poster and contributed talks
Participants are encouraged to present their research results or open problems in a short talk or a poster format. The poster boards are A0 format (vertical orientation).
- Deadline for abstract submission: September 14, 2025
- Resolutions: September 17, 2025
POSTERS
CONTRIBUTED TALKS
registration
Registration deadline 26 / 09 / 2025
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REGISTER
Registration fee 210 € includes attendance to all the courses, seminars, and activities of the school, gala dinner, coffee breaks and lunch.
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Dario Buonomo | Roma Tre University | The role of motility gradients in proliferating active matter: the case of sibling inhibition in Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria |
Maciej Chudak | Institute of Molecular Physics Polish Academy of Sciences | Effect of kinetics on non-equilibrium phases of a driven Potts model |
Elena Garcia de Lamo | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya | Stochastic dynamics ofschooling fish |
Adrián Gutiérrez Arroyo | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Chaotic effects in microbial population dynamics |
María Li López Bautista | École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) | Non-equilibrium stabilization of proteins by chaperones |
Marcos Martinez Jimenez | CSIC | |
Adrián Roig Oliver | Universidad de Granada | |
David Ortiz | IFISC | |
Marie Sellier-Prono | École normale supérieure – Paris |
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Alexandra-Anamaria Sorinca | King’s College London | |
Lucas Trigal | Universitat de Les Illes Balears | |
Lluís Torres | Universitat Rovira i Virgili | Indirect Influence on Network Diffusion |