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25 years of  Granada Seminar

Physics Meets the Social Sciences:

Emergent cooperative phenomena, from bacterial to human group behaviour

The aim of this multidisciplinary meeting is to bring together social scientists, system biologists, applied mathematicians, physicists and other scientists to debate on advances and challenges concerning the emergence from cooperation between living things, whether they be bacteria, bees, fishes, wolves, humans, companies, countries...  (On June 17th we’ll celebrate Joaquín Marro’s 70th Birthday)

Main speakers:

• Luis A.N. Amaral, "Title TBA", Northwestern University

• Alex Arenas, "Multilayer interconnected complex networks", Universidad Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona

• Richard Blythe, "Stochastic Dynamics of Lexicon Learning in an Uncertain and Nonuniform World"; Edinbourgh

• Andrea Baronchelli, "The Emergence of Social Conventions: An Experimental Study"; City University London

• Rosa M. Benito, "Efficiency of human activity on information spreading on Twitter", Technical University of Madrid

• Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, "Anomalous price impact and critical market dynamics" (abstract pending), Capital Fund Management, Paris

• Claudio Castellano, "Thresholds, localization and centrality in epidemic spreading on networks" (abstract pending), "Sapienza" Universita' di Roma

• Hugues Chaté, "Reinforced random walks and emergence of communication networks: Trail formation at the single-ant level", SPHYNX, CEA, CNRS, France

• Dante R. Chialvo, "Learning from swarming to think about thinking", CONICET and University of California, Los Angeles

• Kim Christensen, "Simple model for identifying critical regions in atrial fibrillation", Imperial College London

• Jose A. Cuesta, "Spreading of intolerance under economic stress", Universidad Carlos III, Madrid 

• Albert Diaz-Guilera, "Statistical physics of human mobility", Universitat de Barcelona

• Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes, The role of socio-economic status in urban mobility, BIFI, University of Zaragoza

• Hans Herrmann, "Abrupt spreading transitions in populations and infrastructures", ETH Zurich

• Joseph Indekeu, "Critical Behavior on Biased Networks", KU Leuven

• Henrik J. Jensen, "Indicators and precursors of transitions in complex systems", Imperial College, London

• Mogens H. Jensen, "Vorticity Patterns in Tissues induced by Cell Divisions", Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen

• Kunihiko Kaneko, "Robustness, Plasticity and Evolvability of a Hierarchical Biological System: Consequence of Multilevel Consistency", Complex Systems Biology, University of Tokyo

• János Kertész, "Kinetics of social contagion", Central European University, Budapest

• Tom Lenaerts, "The evolutionary viability of individual and group commitments in social dilemmas" (abstract pending), Université Libre de Bruxelles

• Simon A. Levin, "Cooperation in the Global Commons" (abstract pending), Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University

• Michael W. Macy, "The Uncertainty Paradox", Department of Sociology, Cornell University

• Yamir Moreno, “The Physics of Human Behaviour” (abstract pending), Institute for Bio-computation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), Zaragoza

• Miguel A. Muñoz, "Information fitness and the emergence of criticality in communities of living systems", Institute Carlos I, University of Granada

• Geza Odor, "Generic bursty and slow dynamics in network models", Research Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science, Budapest

• Maxi San Miguel, "Is the Voter Model a model for voters?", IFISC, CSIC - Universitat Illes Balears

• Angel Sanchez, "Small data: social experiments as tools for modelling", GISC, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid

• Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron, "Person-situation debate — from psychology to sociology and back", Wroclaw University of Technology

• Boleslaw Szymanski, "Dynamics of Opinion Spread in Social Networks", Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY

• Raul Toral, "Stochastic effects in the dynamics of opinion formation", IFISC (CSIC-UIB), Palma de Mallorca

• Matthew S. Turner, "Connecting the physics of swarming animals and active matter", Warwick University

• ... (this is an early list; the full list of oral and poster presentations is available by clicking, left corner above under Sections, at "Presentations").ons" on the top left)

Notes: Several conference talks will be invited from submitted abstracts — The best posters prepared by PhD students and presented in this event will be granted a prize — These pages contain the best available and constantly updated information; please visit them from time to time.

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