4th EUROPEAN PhD SUMMER SCHOOL AND

WORKSHOP ON

“MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS”

14 – 25 JULY, 2014

LECTURE PROGRAMME Scientific Organizing Committee:

Prof. Jeff Johnson (British Open University, Past President of European Complex Systems

Society), Prof. Dirk Helbing (Chair of Sociology, Modeling and Simulation, ETH, Zürich), Prof.

Giulio Casati (University of Insubria, Como), Prof. Manuel G. Velarde (Complutense

University of Madrid), Assoc. Prof. Angela de Sanctis (University of Chieti – Pescara, Italy),

Prof. Tuğrul Hakioğlu (Bilkent University, Ankara), Prof. Ugur Tirnakli (Egee University,

Izmir), Dr. Astero Provata (NCSR Demokritos, Athens), Prof. Giorgos Tsironis (Chairman,

University of Crete and FORTH), Prof. Tassos Bountis (University of Patras), Prof. A.

Bezerianos (National University of Singapore/University of Patras).

Local organizing committee:

Dr. Astero Provata (NCSR Demokritos, Athens), Prof. Giorgos Tsironis (University of Crete

and FORTH, Heraklion), Prof. Tassos Bountis (University of Patras), Dr. Joanne Hitzanidis

(NCSR Demokritos, Athens), Evelyn Panagakou (NCSR Demokritos, Athens) and Nefeli

Tsigkri (NCSR Demokritos, Athens).

Sunday 13 July

19:00 – 21:00 Arrival of participating students

Monday 14 July

Chairman : G. Tsironis

9:30 – 14:00 Morning session

9:00 - 10:00 Registration

10:30 - 11:30 “ Nonlinear Dynamics and Complexity “

David Campbell (Boston University)

11:30 - 12:00

Coffee break

12:00 – 14:00

“Growth Dynamics of Complex Business Firm Network “

Hideki Takayasu (Sony CSL Laboratories)

14:00 – 15:30 Lunch Break

15:30 -17:30 Afternoon session

15:30 – 17:30 “Statistical Physics of Financial Markets “

Misako Takayasu (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

17:30 – 18:30 Computer Labs - David Campbell

Tuesday 15 July

Chairman : T. Bountis

9:30 – 14:00 Morning session

9:30 - 11:30 “Nonlinear Dynamics and Complexity “

David Campbell (Boston University)

11:30– 12:00 Coffee break

12:00 – 14:00 “Classical and Quantum Chaos I: Localization”

G. Casati ( University of Insubria, Como)

14:00 – 15:30 Lunch break

15:00 – 18:30 Afternoon session

15:00 – 17:00 “The complexity of the restricted three body problem of Celestial Dynamics”

Rudolph Dvorak (University of Vienna)

17:00 – 18:30 “Hypernetworks and Multilevel Systems” Jeff Johnson (British Open University)

Wednesday 16 July

Chairman : D. Campbell

9:30 – 14:00 Morning session

9:30 – 11.30 “The complexity of the restricted three body problem of Celestial Dynamics”

Rudolph Dvorak (University of Vienna)

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break

12:00 – 14:00 “Classical and Quantum Chaos II: Localization”

G. Casati (University of Insubria, Como)

14:00 – 15:30 Lunch break - Poster Set up

15:00 – 21:00 Afternoon session

15:00 – 17:00

“Prospects and Challenges of Neurophysics for a New Generation of

Interdisciplinary Scientists”

Theo Geisel (Max Planck Institute, Goettingen)

17:00 – 19:00 “Condensed Matter Physics with “a little imagination and thinking””

Lefteris Economou (University of Crete & Forth)

Parallel Event: 4th International Workshop on “Statistical Mechanics

and Dynamical Systems”

co-organised by Greece and Turkey

(see http://grtr.physics.uoc.gr/2014/ )

18:00 – 19:00 seminar on “ Conservation Laws, Symmetry Breaking and

Thermodynamic Efficiency”, Giulio Casati (University of Insubria, Como)

20:30 PhD School & Conference Dinner at Benaki Museum

Thursday17 July

Parallel Event: 4th International Workshop on “Statistical Mechanics

and Dynamical Systems”

co-organized by Greece and Turkey

(see http://grtr.physics.uoc.gr/2014/ )

18:00 – 19:00 “A Bohr-type model of a composite particle using gravity as the attractive force” Costas Vayenas (University of Patras)

Chairman : Haris Skokos

9:30 – 14:00 Morning session

9:30 - 11:30 “ Dynamics in Complex Networks I“

Panos Argyrakis (University of Thessaloniki)

11:30 - 12:00

Coffee break

12:00 – 14:00

“ Dynamics in Complex Networks I“

Panos Argyrakis (University of Thessaloniki)

14:00 – 15:30 Lunch Break

15:30 -17:30 Afternoon free

Sunday 20 July

FREE DAY

Friday 18 July

Saturday 19 July

Monday 21 July

Chairperson : A. Provata

9:30 – 14:00 Morning session

9:30 – 11:30 “Statistical Mechanics for Complex Systems “

Constantino Tsallis (CBPF, Rio de Janeiro)

11:30- 12:00 Coffee break

12:00 – 14:00

“From the high resolution EEG concepts to the Industrial Neuroscience

applications I”

Fabio Babiloni (University of Rome Sapienza)

14:00 – 15:30 Lunch break - Poster Session

15:30 – 18:30 Afternoon session

15:30 – 17:30 “Electrodynamics of Complex Materials and Structures" Nather Engeta (University of Pennsylvania)

17:30 – 19:00 “How Symmetry Results in Chaos”

Mike Tribelsky ( Moscow State University)

Tuesday 22 July

Chairman : J. Johnson

9:30 – 14:00 Morning session

9:30 – 11:30

“Complexity and Systems Medicine: From Intracellular Networks to Brain

Networks I “

Tassos Bezerianos (University of Patras)

11:30– 12:00 Coffee break

12:00 – 14:00

“From the high resolution EEG concepts to the Industrial Neuroscience

applications II”

Fabio Babiloni (University of Rome Sapienza)

14:00 – 15:30 Lunch Break - Poster Session

15:30 – 19:00 Afternoon session

15:30 – 17:30 “ Arithmetic Chaos and Quantum Information“

Manolis Floratos (University of Athens)

17:30 – 19:00 “How Symmetry Results in Chaos “

Mike Tribelsky (Moscow State University)

Wednesday 23 July

Chairman : C.Tsallis

9:30 – 14:00 Morning session

9:30 – 11:30

“Complexity and Systems Medicine: From Intracellular Networks to Brain

Networks II”

Tassos Bezerianos (University of Patras)

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break

12:00– 14:00 “Mathematical Modeling of Complex Systems I”

Tassos Bountis (University of Patras)

14:00 – 16:00 Lunch Break - Poster Session

16:00 – 18:00 Afternoon session

16:00 – 18:00 “ Hypernetworks in Global Systems Science “

Jeff Johnson (British Open University)

18:00 – 19:00 Poster Session

Thursday 24 July

Chairman : A. de Sanctis

9:30 – 14:00 Morning session

9:30 – 11:30 “Mathematical Modeling of Complex Systems II”

Tassos Bountis (University of Patras)

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break

12:00 – 14:00 “Complex Dynamics and Self-Organization of Granular Matter I“

Ko van der Weele (University of Patras)

14:00 – 15:30 Lunch break

15:30 – 17:30 Afternoon session

15:30 – 17:30 “Complex Dynamics and Self-Organization of Granular Matter II“

Ko van der Weele (University of Patras)

Chairman : T. Bountis

9:30 – 14:00 Morning session

9:30 – 10:30

10:30-11:30

“Dynamical systems approach to extreme events”

Catherine Nicolis and Gregoire Nicolis (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)

“Spatio-temporal brain dynamics in epilepsy”

Leon Iasemidis, (Louisiana Tech University)

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break

12:00 – 14:00

“ Information Geometry and Applications“

Dimitris Ghikas (University of Patras) and Angela de Sanctis (University of

Chieti-Pescara)

14:00 – 15:30 Lunch Break

Friday 25 July

15:30 – 18:30 Afternoon session

15:30 – 17:30

“Complexity in Granular Acoustic Metamaterials: From Nonlinear Waves

and Breathers to Acoustic Filtering and Passive Wave Redirection “

Alex Vakakis (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign)

17:30 – 18:30 School/Workshop Closing

Award of School Certificates

Administrative Team

Froso Kasotaki & Eva Makaki

The event is supported by the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7-REGPOT-2012-2013-1) under grant agreement n° 316165, the FP7 FET-Open GSDP, ETOILE and TOPDRIM projects of the European Commission and also by the Thales project MACOMSYS, co-financed by

the European Union (European Social Fund – ESF) and Greek national funds through the Operational Program "Education and Lifelong Learning" of the National Strategic Reference

Framework (NSRF) - Research Funding Program: Thales. Investing in knowledge society through the European Social Fund.