The programme at a glance is outlined below. Scroll down or click the session title inside the table for a detailed programme of each session.
| time | room | session |
|---|---|---|
| 9:30-9:45 | H144 | Welcome |
| 9:45-11:15 | H144 | Session 1: Networks & Basic Formalism |
| 11:15-11:45 | H144 | Coffee & tea break |
| 11:45-13:00 | H144 | Session 2: Medical applications |
| 13:00-14:00 | TBA | Lunch break |
| 14:00-15:45 | H144 | Session 3: Society, Economics & Biological Systems |
| 15:15-16:15 | H144 | Coffee & tea break |
| 16:15-18:30 | H144 + C&G300 | Session 4: Neuroscience & Music |
| 19:00-21:30 | B801 | Birthday Reception |
H144: Huxley building, room 144.
C&G300: City & Guilds building, room 300.
B801: Blackett building, 8th floor Physics common room
DETAILED PROGRAMME
Session 1. Networks & Basic Formalism
Chaired by Dr Tim Evans
| time | room | title | speaker | affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:45 | H144 | Group Entropies in Statistical Mechanics and Complexity Science | Prof Pergiolio Tempesta | Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas |
| 10:00 | H144 | Some open questions in self-organised criticality | Dr Gunnar Pruessner | Imperial College London |
| 10:15 | H144 | Bound by semanticity: Universal laws governing the generalization-identification tradeoff | Prof Geovanni Petri | North Western University |
| 10:30 | H144 | A short walk on networks | Prof Renaud Lambiotte | Oxford University |
| 10:45 | H144 | TBA | Dr Juan Lopes | Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria |
| 11:00 | H144 | XY and related models in two and three dimensions | Dr Hans Weber | Luleå University |
Session 2. Medical Applications
Chaired by Prof Kim Christensen
| time | room | title | speaker | affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11:45 | H144 | The glorious and terrifying complexity of MRI | Dr Matt Hall | National Physics Laboratories |
| 12:00 | H144 | Epigenetic tipping points induced by competition for chromatin-modifying enzymes | Prof Tomas Alarcon | Centre de Recerca Matematica |
| 12:15 | H144 | Phase transitions in the nucleus of cells | Prof Mario Nicodemi | University of Naples |
| 12:30 | H144 | Cancer as an evolutionary process | Dr Stefano Lise | UCL |
| 12:45 | H144 | TBA | Prof Andrew Brass | University of Manchester |
Session 3: Society, Economics & Biological systems
Chaired by Dr Eduardo Viegas
| time | room | title | speaker | affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14:00 | H144 | An introduction to socio-finance | Dr Jørgen Vitting Andersen | Centre D’Economie de la Sorbonne |
| 14:15 | H144 | Complexity literacy: A foundation for 21st-century leadership and democracy | Dr Katharina Brink | Egon Zehnder, Munich |
| 14:30 | H144 | Patterns through flows in cities | Prof Elsa Arcuede | UCL |
| 14:45 | H144 | Agency in complex social systems | Dr Paul Expert | UCL |
| 15:00 | H144 | The whole is more than the sum of its parts | Dr Duccio Piovani | UN World Food Programme |
| 15:15 | H144 | TBA | Dr Hayato Goto | Toyota research |
| 15:30 | H144 | Self-organisation of societal collapse – advice for powerful leaders | Prof Daniel Lawson | Bristol University |
Session 4: Neuroscience & Music
Chaired by Prof Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen
| time | room | title | speaker | affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16:15 | H144 | Allometric scaling of brain activity explained by avalanche criticality | Prof Lucilla de Arcangelis | Universita della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” |
| 16:45 | H144 | Synergy as a common denominator of music and the brain | Dr Fernando Rosas | University of Sussex |
| 16:57 | H144 | TBA | Dr Pedro Mediano | Imperial College London |
| 17:10 | H144 | Information, individuality and evolution | Dr Hardik Rapal | Imperial College London |
| 17:22 | H144 | TBA | Dr Madalina Sas | Imperial College London |
| 17:35 | H144 | Neural markers of shared conscious experiences in classical music improvisation | Alberto Liardi | Imperial College London |
| 18:00 | C&G300 | Between structuring improvisation and improvising musical structure | Prof David Dolan | Guildhall School of Music |
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