SAVE THE DATEAMCOS – Analysis and Modeling of Complex Oscillatory SystemsMarch 19-23, 2018Barcelona, SpainThe AMCOS conference aims at bringing together renowned experts and young researchers who work on the modeling of complex systems and the emergence of collective phenomena, as well as on the analysis of complex data sets in order to infer structure and functionality of networks. Accompanying tutorials by leading experts will interactively introduce the different conference themes.Do you want to present your work? Registration and abstract submission opens October 15, 2017.More info at amcosconference.com.Date and VenueTutorials: March 19, 2018Conference: March 20 - 23, 2018PRBB, Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de BarcelonaList of speakers (*TBC)- Peter Ashwin,- Ernest Barreto,- Ginestra Bianconi*,- Raffaella Burioni,- Dante R. Chialvo,- Gustavo Deco,- Alain Destexhe*,- Albert Díaz-Guilera,- Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo,- Wulfram Gerstner*,- Leon Glass,- Sonja Grün,- Cristina Masoller,- Yamir Moreno,- Florian Mormann,- Hiroya Nakao*,- Diego Pazó,- Juan G. Restrepo,
- Alex Roxin,
- Tilo Schwalger*,- Damián H. Zanette.Topics coveredsynchronization and nonlinear dynamics - dynamics on networks - connectivity and network inference - data analysis in neuroscience - critical phenomena - neural field models - computational neuroscience - complex oscillatory behaviour in physiologyTutorialsLeading experts in the field will introduce the different conference themes interactively in tutorials on the first day of the conference week. The speakers are:- Ralph G. Andrzejak,- Arkady Pikovsky,- Michael Rosenblum,- Aneta Stefanovska.A (tentative) list of topics comprises basic theory of synchronization, synchronization approach to data analysis, basic concepts of nonlinear time series analysis, and time series analysis of non-autonomous dynamics.The participants are required to bring laptops installed with MATLAB/Octave if they want to take part in the practical activities.OrganizersPlease forward to anyone interested.