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.

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)
• Lunch (not provided, we'll walk to a nearby restaurant)


• 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?"
• Lunch (not provided, we'll walk to a nearby restaurant)

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