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Centre for Complexity Science

Programme


All events take place in the Zeeman Building, see here for location info including a map of the building.

MS0.x are lecture rooms, D1.07/CCR is the Complexity Seminar and Common Room.


Monday 29.4.
10:30 - 11:00 D1.07/CCR COFFEE & REGISTRATION
11:00 - 12:00 MS.03

Galla 1 - Introduction to non-equilibrium statistical mechanics 1
equilibrium and non-equilibrium systems, stochastic processes, Markov chains, master equation, birth-death processes
12:00 - 13:00 D1.07/CCR LUNCH
13:00 - 14:00 MS.03 Antal 1 - Basic properties of branching processes
Forward and backward Kolmogorov equations, Generating functions, Birth-death processes
14:00 - 15:00 MS.03 Lecomte 1 - Theoretical background on large deviation functions (notes)
15:00 - 16:00 D1.07/CCR TEA
16:00 - 17:00 MS.04 Bianconi 1 - Network structure (slides, small version)
from 18:00 D1.07/CCR WELCOME DRINKS AND DINNER


Tuesday 30.4.
9:30 - 10:30 MS.04

Galla 2 - Introduction to non-equilibrium statistical mechanics 2
population dynamics, Moran process, fixation and first-passage times, Langevin and Fokker-Planck equations
10:30 - 11:00 D1.07/CCR COFFEE
11:00 - 12:00 MS.04

Galla 3 - Introduction to game theory
definition and examples, Nash equilibria and replicator dynamics, stochastic evolution in finite populations
12:00 - 13:00 D1.07/CCR LUNCH
13:00 - 14:00 MS.04 Lecomte 2 - Construction of population algorithms (notes)
allowing to simulate rare events and evaluate LDFs
14:00 - 15:00 MS.04 Bianconi 2 - Network models (slides)
15:00 - 16:00 D1.07/CCR TEA
16:00 - 17:00 MS.04 Antal 2 - Multitype processes, limit properties
Multitype processes, Bacteria growth and mutations, Large time limit behaviour
17:00 - 18:00 D1.07/CCR CLASS / COMPUTER LAB (network problems, be.c, aging2.c; branching problems)


Wednesday 1.5.
9:30 - 10:30 MS.04 Galla 4 - Specific problems in game theory

fixation times and extinction, effects of intrinsic noise, game dynamical learning and chaos, implications for models of financial markets
10:30 - 11:00 D1.07/CCR COFFEE
11:00 - 12:00 MS.04 Lecomte 3 - Application to dynamical phase transitions
Applications to systems presenting a dynamical phase transition (such as exclusion processes and glass models such as Kinetically Constrained Models) (notes)
12:00 - 13:00 D1.07/CCR LUNCH
13:00 - 14:00 MS.01 Bianconi 3 - Multilayers and interacting networks (slides)
14:00 - 15:00 MS.01 Antal 3 - Applications to cancer models
Basics of cancer biology, Mean time till first mutant cell, Probability of resistance to treatment
15:00 - 16:00 D1.07/CCR TEA
16:00 - 17:00 D1.07/CCR CLASS / COMPUTER LAB
17:00 - 18:00 D1.07/CCR CLASS / COMPUTER LAB


current room bookings:

Mon 29 April – MS.03 11-4
Mon 29 April – MS.04 4-5

Tue 30 April – MS.04 9-5

Wed 1 May – MS.04 9-12 and MS.01 1-6

and D1.07 9-6 Mon – Wed