"Dynamics of Multi-Level systems"

     School: 01-12.06.2015      Workshop: 15-19.06.2015

      LOCATION: Max Planck Institute for the Physics of

           Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany

      Applications for participation at

      http://www.pks.mpg.de/~dymult15/

      until FEBRUARY 28, 2015.

The emergence of levels is a key feature in a variety of complex systems. Experts from different disciplines will discuss current trends in the theoretical understanding of multi-level and multi-scale systems and present applications from physics and chemistry, sociology and economics, ecology and neuroscience.

Workshop topics include

• multiscale methods

• hierarchies in dynamical systems

• physics of information

• self-organization and level identification

• multilevel networks

• coarse graining

• aggregation methods

The school will provide the opportunity to learn key techniques and theories from mathematics and physics for dealing with multiscale and multilevel systems.

School topics include

• Dynamical Systems with multiple time scales

• Averaging and singular perturbation theory

• Projection methods

• Collective chaos

• Information geometry

• Information theoretic approaches to complex systems

Lecturers

Shun-ichi Amari, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan

Bruno Cessac, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France

Hugues Chaté, CEA Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Leo van Hemmen, TU München, Germany

Holger Kantz, MPIPKS, Dresden, Germany

Christian Kuehn,Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Kristian Lindgren, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

David Wolpert, Santa Fe Institute, USA

Ferdinand Verhulst, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

Additional invited speakers for the workshop

Nihat Ay, MPI-MiS, Leipzig, Germany

Philippe Blanchard, Universität Bielefeld, Germany

Olivier Faugeras, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France

Mauro Gallegati, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy

Björn Peter Gärdenfors, Lund University, Sweden

Shlomo Havlin, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Martin Nilsson Jacobi, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

Jürgen Jost, MPI-MiS, Leipzig, Germany

Tamas Vicsek, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary

Massimo Warglien, Ca'Foscari University, Venice, Italy

Applications for the school and/or workshop have to be submitted via

the school & workshop webpage http://www.pks.mpg.de/~dymult15/ until

February 28, 2015.

For successful applications, accommodation and subsistence will be

covered by MPIPKS. The registration fee is 120 Euro and should be paid

by all participants. For school participants additional travel funds are available on request.

Scientific Coordinators:

Fatihcan Atay (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany)

Eckehard Olbrich (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany)

Kristian Lindgren (Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden)

Organization:

Claudia Domaschke (MPIPKS Dresden, Germany)

For further information see http://www.pks.mpg.de/~dymult15/ or e-mail

-- 
Dr. Eckehard Olbrich
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
Inselstrasse 22
D-04103 Leipzig
Germany

Tel.: +49 341 9959 568
Fax:  +49 341 9959 658
E-mail: olbrich@mis.mpg.de