7th Granada Seminar
Computational and Statistical Physics

2-7 September 2002

Organised by the Statistical Physics Group of the Institute "Carlos I" for Theoretical and Computational Physics, University of Granada. Sponsored by the European Commission - DG XII (TMR Programme), INCO, and the Ministerio de Ciencia of Spain.

• Proceedings:
  

  MODELING OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS: Seventh Granada Lectures, AIP Conference Proceedings, volume 661, American Institute of Physics, New York 2003

• Programme (main lecturers and oral contributors):

• E. Abad and G. Nicolis, Universit� Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
  DYNAMICS OF NONLINEAR REACTIVE SYSTEMS
• Himanshu Agrawal, Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
  DEGREE DISTRIBUTION IN NETWORKS CONSTRUCTED FROM GENE EXPRESSION DATA
• Ezequiel V.Albano, Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoqu�micas Te�ricas, INIFTA, La Plata, Argentina
  NONEQUILIBRIUM CRITICAL BEHAVIOR
• Ramon Alonso-Sanz, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Espa�a
  CELLULAR AUTOMATA WITH MEMORY
• Alex Arenas, Escola Tecnica Superior d'Enginyeria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona
  OPTIMAL COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
• Albert-L�szl� Barab�si, Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
  EMERGENCE OF SCALING IN COMPLEX NETWORKS
  Systems as diverse as the www or the cell are described by networks with complex topology. Recent studies indicate that such complex networks are the result of self-organization processes governed by simple but generic laws, resulting in topologies strikingly different from those predicted by random networks. In these lectures I will discusss the implications of these findings on the error and attack tolerance of the Internet, the robustness of the cells, and other properties of complex evolving networks.
• Pierpaolo Bruscolini, Politecnico di Torino,  Italy
  EXACT SOLUTION OF THE MU\~NOZ-EATON MODEL FOR PROTEIN FOLDING
• Guido Caldarelli, Physics, Universit� di Roma 1,  Italy
  TOPOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF WWW
• Ignacio Cirac, Max-Planck-Institut f�r Quantenoptik, Garching, Germany
  QUANTUM INFORMATION
  In the last few years it has been widely recognized that with the help of some fundamental principles of Quantum Mechanics, certain communication and computation tasks can be more effectively carried out. The field of quantum information studies how Quantum Mechanics can help in these and other contexts. In these lectures I will review the basic concepts of quantum information, and will describe its main applications.
• Ian Clancy, University of Limerick, Castletroy, Ireland
  PATTERN FORMATION AND CRITICAL NATURE OF A BURRIDGE-KNOPOFF MODEL DYNAMIC TRANSITION
• Federico Corberi, Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, Universita di Salerno, Italy
  OFF-EQUILIBRIUM FLUCTUATION-DISSIPATION THEOREM IN COARSENING SYSTEMS
• Paolo De Los Rios, Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland
  EXPLORATION BIAS OF NETWORK STRUCTURES
• Julio F. Fernandez, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Aragon, CSIC, Spain
  SIMULATIONS OF TUNNELING INTERACTING SPINS
• Andrea Gabrielli, Universit� di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
  THE GLASS-LIKE UNIVERSE
• Francisco Guinea, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
  MATHEMATICAL MODELS AND NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS IN POPULATION DYNAMICS
• Yasuaki Hiwatari, Department of Computational Physics, Kanazawa University, Japan
  MOLECULAR DYNAMICS STUDY OF PROTEIN FOLDING - POTENTIALS AND MECHANISMS
• Pablo I. Hurtado, Institute "Carlos I" for Theoretical and Computational Physics, Granada
  IMPURE FERROMAGNETIC PARTICLES: ON THE 1/F NOISE DURING DECAY FROM METASTABLE STATES
• Plamen Ch. Ivanov, Harvard Medical School, USA
  DETECTION OF HIERARCHIES AND COMPLEX NETWORKS IN CEREBRAL SYNCHRONIZATION
• S. Jain, Information Engineering/NCRG, Aston University, Birmingham,UK
  DATA FLOW AND PHASE TRANSITIONS IN COMPUTER NETWORK TRAFFIC
• Janos Kertesz, Institute of Physics, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary
  CELLULAR AUTOMATA IN STATISTICAL PHYSICS
  After the definition we briefly review the taxonomy of cellular automata (CA) and their relationship to other models of statistical physics. Three main points will be elaborated -with an emphasis onto computational aspects: (i) CA as simple models of driven systems; (ii) traffic models; (iii) CA as tools to present an alternative microscopic dynamics to fluid flow including granular media.
• Vitorio Loreto, Mathematics and Physics, Universit� di Roma 1, Italy
  A DATA COMPRESSION APPROACH TO INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
• Enrique Louis, Universidad de Alicante, Spain
  STRATEGIC BEHAVIOR AND INFORMATION TRANSMISSION IN GUESSING GAMES
• Miguel �ngel Mu�oz, Institute Carlos I, University of Granada, Spain
  SLAVE MODES IN SYSTEMS WITH MANY ABSORBING STATES
• Akihiro Nakayama, Gifu Keizai University, Ohgaki, Japan
  2-D OPTIMAL VELOCITY MODEL FOR PEDESTRIANS AND BIOLOGICAL MOTION
• Geza Odor, Institute for Materials Science, Budapest, Hungary
  CRITICAL BEHAVIOR OF REACTION-DIFFUSION SYSTEMS
• Shingo Ohya, Nagoya Bunri University, Inazawa, Aichi, Japan
  CRITICAL BEHAVIOR OF THE SIMPLE CUBIC LAYER POTTS MODEL
• Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, Universidad Polit�cnica de Barcelona, Spain
  EPIDEMIC DYNAMICS IN COMPLEX NETWORKS
• Gerald Paul and H. Eugene Stanley, Center for Polymer Studies, Boston University, USA
  BEYOND BLOBS IN PERCOLATION STRUCTURE
• A. Petri, Instituto "O.M. Corbino", CNR, Roma,  Italy
  EMERGENCE OF GLASSY STATES IN LATTICE MODELS  WITH NO A PRIORI DISORDER
• Francisco de los Santos, Center for Polymer Studies, Boston, USA
  DEPINNING AND WETTING IN NONEQUILIBRIUM SYSTEMS
• Bosiljka Tadic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  EXPLORING COMPLEX GRAPHS BY RANDOM WALKS
• J. M. Tavares, Centro de Fisica da Materia Condensada, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
  PROPERTIES OF THE QUASI 2-D DIPOLAR FLUID AT LOW DENSITIES
• Joaquin Torres, Institure "Carlos I", University of Granada, Spain
  ON THE ROLE OF SYNAPTIC DEPRESSION IN THE PERFORMANCE OF ATTRACTOR NEURAL NETWORKS
• Alessandro Vespignani, ICTP, Trieste, Italy
  STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF INTERNET?
• Eugenio Vogel, Universidad de La Frntera, Chile
  ALGORITHM TO REACH AND CLASSIFY ALL GROUND STATES OF �J ISING LATTICES
• Victor M. Yakovenko, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
  STATISTICAL MECHANICS OF MONEY, INCOME, AND  WEALTH
• George Zaslavsky, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, USA
  PHYSICAL MODELS OF THE NONERGODIC CHAOS AND THEIR SIMULATIONS
  

• Posters
  
  
• Some of the meeting pictures
  
  
• Original schedule