Lecture Programme
4th EUROPEAN PhD SUMMER SCHOOL AND WORKSHOP ON
“MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS”
14 – 25 JULY, 2014
LECTURE PROGRAMME
Scientific Organizing Committee:
Prof. Jeff Johnson (British Open University, Past President of European Complex Systems Society), Prof. Dirk Helbing (Chair of Sociology, Modeling and Simulation, ETH, Zürich), Prof. Giulio Casati (University of Insubria, Como), Prof. Manuel G. Velarde (Complutense University of Madrid), Assoc. Prof. Angela de Sanctis (University of Chieti – Pescara, Italy), Prof. Tuğrul Hakioğlu (Bilkent University, Ankara), Prof. Ugur Tirnakli (Egee University, Izmir), Dr. Astero Provata (NCSR Demokritos, Athens), Prof. Giorgos Tsironis (Chairman, University of Crete and FORTH), Prof. Tassos Bountis (University of Patras), Prof. A. Bezerianos (National University of Singapore/University of Patras).
Local organizing committee:
Dr. Astero Provata (NCSR Demokritos, Athens), Prof. Giorgos Tsironis (University of Crete and FORTH, Heraklion), Prof. Tassos Bountis (University of Patras), Dr. Joanne Hitzanidis (NCSR Demokritos, Athens), Evelyn Panagakou (NCSR Demokritos, Athens) and Nefeli Tsigkri (NCSR Demokritos, Athens)
Supported by the FP7 FET-Open GSDP, ETOILE and TOPDRIM projects of the European Commission and also by the Thales project MACOMSYS co-financed by the European Union and Greek national funds.
Administrative Team
Froso Kasotaki & Eva Makaki
The event is supported by the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7-REGPOT-2012-2013-1) under grant agreement n° 316165, the FP7 FET-Open GSDP, ETOILE and TOPDRIM projects of the European Commission and also by the Thales project MACOMSYS, co-financed by the European Union (European Social Fund – ESF) and Greek national funds through the Operational Program "Education and Lifelong Learning" of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) - Research Funding Program: Thales. Investing in knowledge society through the European Social Fund.
19:00 – 21:00 Arrival of participating students
Chairman : G. Tsironis
9:30 – 14:00 |
Morning session |
9:00 - 10:00 |
Registration |
10:30 - 11:30 |
“Nonlinear Dynamics and Complexity “ David Campbell (Boston University) |
11:30 - 12:00 |
Coffee break |
12:00 – 14:00 |
“Growth Dynamics of Complex Business Firm Network “ Hideki Takayasu (Sony CSL Laboratories) |
14:00 – 15:30 |
Lunch Break |
15:30 -17:30 |
Afternoon session |
15:30 – 17:30 |
“Statistical Physics of Financial Markets “ Misako Takayasu (Tokyo Institute of Technology) |
17:30 – 18:30 |
Computer Labs - David Campbell |
Chairman : T. Bountis
9:30 – 14:00 |
Morning session |
9:30 - 11:30 |
“Nonlinear Dynamics and Complexity “ David Campbell (Boston University) |
11:30– 12:00 |
Coffee break |
12:00 – 14:00 |
“Classical and Quantum Chaos I: Localization” G. Casati ( University of Insubria, Como) |
14:00 – 15:00 |
Lunch break |
15:00 – 18:30 |
Afternoon session |
15:00 – 17:00 |
“The complexity of the restricted three body problem of Celestial Dynamics” Rudolph Dvorak (University of Vienna) |
17:00 – 18:30 |
“Hypernetworks and Multilevel Systems” Jeff Johnson (British Open University) |
Chairman : D. Campbell
9:30 – 14:00 |
Morning session |
9:30 – 11.30 |
“The complexity of the restricted three body problem of Celestial Dynamics” Rudolph Dvorak (University of Vienna) |
11:30 – 12:00 |
Coffee break |
12:00 – 14:00 |
“Classical and Quantum Chaos II: Localization” G. Casati (University of Insubria, Como) |
14:00 – 15:00 |
Lunch break - Poster Set up |
15:00 – 21:00 |
Afternoon session |
15:00 – 17:00 |
“Prospects and Challenges of Neurophysics for a New Generation of Interdisciplinary Scientists” Theo Geisel (Max Planck Institute, Göttingen) |
17:00 – 19:00 |
“CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS with “a little imagination and thinking”” Lefteris Economou (University of Crete & Forth) |
18:00 – 19:00 |
Parallel Event: 4th International Workshop on “Statistical Mechanics
and Dynamical Systems” co-organized by Greece and Turkey (see http://grtr.physics.uoc.gr/2014/ ) Seminar on “ Conservation Laws, Symmetry Breaking and Thermodynamic Efficiency”, Giulio Casati (University of Insubria, Como) |
20:30 | PhD School & Conference Dinner at Benaki Museum |
Parallel Event: 4th International Workshop on “Statistical Mechanics
and Dynamical Systems”
co-organized by Greece and Turkey
(see http://grtr.physics.uoc.gr/2014/ )
18:00 – 19:00 |
“A Bohr-type model of a composite particle using gravity as the attractive force” Costas Vayenas (University of Patras) |
Chairman : Haris Skokos
9:30 – 14:00 |
Morning session |
9:30 - 11:30 |
"Dynamics in Complex Networks II" Panos Argyrakis (University of Thessaloniki) |
11:30 - 12:00 |
Coffee break |
12:00 – 14:00 |
“Dynamics in Complex Networks I“ Panos Argyrakis (University of Thessaloniki) |
14:00 – 15:30 |
Lunch Break |
15:30 -17:30 |
Afternoon free |
FREE DAY
Chairperson : A. Provata
9:30 – 14:00 |
Morning session |
9:30 – 11:30 |
“Statistical Mechanics for Complex Systems “ Constantino Tsallis (CBPF, Rio de Janeiro) |
11:30- 12:00 |
Coffee break |
12:00 – 14:00 |
“From the high resolution EEG concepts to the Industrial Neuroscience applications I” Fabio Babiloni (University of Rome, Sapienza) |
14:00 – 15:30 |
Lunch break - Poster Session |
15:30 – 18:30 |
Afternoon session |
15:30 – 17:30 |
"Electrodynamics of Complex Materials and Structures" Nader Engheta (University of Pennsylvania) |
17:30 – 19:00 |
“How Symmetry Results in Chaos” Mike Tribelsky ( Moscow State University) |
Chairman : J. Johnson
9:30 – 14:00 |
Morning session |
9:30 – 11:30 |
“Complexity and Systems Medicine: From Intracellular Networks to Brain Networks I “ Tassos Bezerianos (University of Patras) |
11:30– 12:00 |
Coffee break |
12:00 – 14:00 |
“From the high resolution EEG concepts to the Industrial Neuroscience applications II” Fabio Babiloni (University of Rome, Sapienza) |
14:00 – 15:30 |
Lunch Break - Poster Session |
15:30 – 19:00 |
Afternoon session |
15:30 – 17:30 |
“ Arithmetic Chaos and Quantum Information“ Manolis Floratos (University of Athens) |
17:30 – 19:00 |
“How Symmetry Results in Chaos” Mike Tribelsky ( Moscow State University) |
Chairman : C. Tsallis
9:30 – 14:00 |
Morning session |
9:30 – 11:30 |
“Complexity and Systems Medicine: From Intracellular Networks to Brain Networks II” Tassos Bezerianos (University of Patras) |
11:30 – 12:00 |
Coffee break |
12:00– 14:00 |
“Mathematical Modeling of Complex Systems I” Tassos Bountis (University of Patras) |
14:00 – 16:00 |
Lunch Break - Poster Session |
16:00 – 18:00 |
Afternoon session |
16:00 – 18:00 |
“Hypernetworks in Global Systems Science “ Jeff Johnson (British Open University) |
18:00 – 19:00 |
Poster Session |
Chairperson: A. de Sanctis
9:30 – 14:00 |
Morning session |
9:30 – 11:30 |
“Mathematical Modeling of Complex Systems II” Tassos Bountis (University of Patras) |
11:30 – 12:00 |
Coffee break |
12:00 – 14:00 |
“Complex Dynamics and Self-Organization of Granular Matter I“ Ko van der Weele (University of Patras) |
14:00 – 15:30 |
Lunch break |
15:30 – 17:30 |
Afternoon session |
15:30 – 17:30 |
“Complex Dynamics and Self-Organization of Granular Matter II“ Ko van der Weele (University of Patras) |
Chairman : T. Bountis
9:30 – 14:00 |
Morning session |
9:30 – 10:30 |
“Dynamical systems approach to extreme events” Catherine Nicolis and Gregoire Nicolis (Universite Libre de Bruxelles) |
10:30-11:30 |
“Spatio-temporal brain dynamics in epilepsy” Leon Iasemidis, (Louisiana Tech University) |
11:30 – 12:00 |
Coffee break |
12:00 – 14:00 |
“Information Geometry and Applications“ Dimitris Ghikas (University of Patras) and Angela de Sanctis (University of Chieti-Pescara) |
14:00 – 15:30 |
Lunch Break |
15:30 – 18:30 |
Afternoon session |
15:30 – 17:30 |
“Complexity in Granular Acoustic Metamaterials: From Nonlinear Waves and Breathers to Acoustic Filtering and Passive Wave Redirection“ Alex Vakakis (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign) |
17:30 – 18:30 |
School/Workshop Closing Award of School Certificates |