Complex Systems workshop 2024

This workshop of the Centre for Complex Systems of The University of Sydney will explore how physics-inspired models and critical behaviour appear in different types of complex systems. The goal is to provide an opportunity for researchers to share, discuss, and plan their research. The event webpage is https://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/ega/complex24/

Program

• Wednesday November 13: (focus on models)
• 09:00-09:50 Prof. Maxi San Miguel (IFISC, Spain) "Modeling mechanisms behind collective social phenomena from a Complex Systems Perspective"
• 09:50-10:25 A/Prof. Tristram Alexander (Physics)
• Coffee break
• 10:45-11:20 Dr. Sheryl Chang (Computer Science) "Modelling COVID-19 transmission and control: behaviour-induced criticality and pandemic inequality."
• 11:20-11:55 Dr. Oscar Fajardo (Mathematics)


• Thursday November 14: (focus on criticality)
• 09:00-9:50 Prof. Maxi San Miguel (IFISC, Spain) "Transitions and Critical Phenomena in models of collective social phenomena"
• 9:50-10:25 Prof. Mikhail Prokopenko (Computer Science) "Criticality and the principle of super-efficiency"
• Coffee break
• 10:45-11:20 Prof. Zdenka Kuncic (Physics) "Criticality, edge-of-chaos and symmetry breaking in physics-aware neural networks"
• 11:20-11:55 Dr. Ben Fulcher (Phyics) "Tracking the Distance to Criticality in Systems with Unknown Noise”
• 11:55-12:30 A/Prof. Pulin Gong (Physics)"Fractional neural sampling: a common computational mechanism of biological and artificial intelligence?"

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