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Self-Organization, Emergence and Nonlinearity in Physical, Natural and Social Systems

Date:               21^st- 23^rd October 2011

Where:            NUI Galway and Glenlo Abbey Hotel

Organisers:     • Complex Systems Research Centre (CORE), NUI Galway

                       • Mathematics Applications Consortium for Science and Industry  (MACSI), University of Limerick

                       • COST Action Physics of Competition and Conflict

                       • Institute of Business, Social Sciences and Public Policy, NUI Galway

Programme

 Friday 21^st October (Room UC102 in Aras Ui Chathail, NUI Galway)

 10.00-11.00        Registration and coffee (Orbsen building)

 11.00-12.00        Welcome and Introduction: Dr Petri Piiroinen
                          (Room UC102 in Aras Ui Chathail, NUI Galway)

                          Inauguration: Dr James J. Browne, Uachtarán - President  
                                                Dr Terry Smith, Vice-president for Research

 12.00-13.00        Panel discussion

                          Multidisciplinarity & Complexity: Challenges for the future

                          Panel:  Eric Smith, Sorin Solomon, Peter Richmond, Chris Curtin

 13.00-14.30        Lunch

 14.30-18.00        Session I: Networks and Complex Dynamics

 14.30-15.15        Sorin Solomon, Hebrew University, Israel 

                           Autocatalytic Feedback Loops Amplify Microscopic Random Events to Systemic Complex Changes

 15.15-16.00        James Gleeson, University of Limerick, Ireland

                          Stochastic dynamics on complex networks

 16.00-16.30        Coffee  

 16.30-17.15        Jim Duggan, NUI Galway, Ireland

                          A Multi-Method Equation-Based Approach for Modelling Complex Systems

 17.15-18.00        Conor Hayes, NUI Galway, Ireland

                          Online Community Dynamics

 Saturday 22^nd October (Room UC102 in Aras Ui Chathail , NUI Galway )

 9.00-10.30          Session II: Biological Networks

 9.00-9.45            Sheref Mansy, University of Trento, Italy

                           Piecing together cell-like systems   

 9.45-10.30          Maciej Dobrzynski, University College Dublin, Ireland

                           Stochastic effects in mammalian signaling networks aid cellular decision-making

 10.30-11.00        Coffee

 11.00-12.30        Session III: Emergence of Social Consensus

 11.00-11.45        Maxi San Miguel, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain

                           Modelling problems of social consensus

 11.45-12.30        Ashley Piggins, NUI Galway, Ireland

                          Mathematics of Voting

 12.30-14.00        Lunch

 14.00-15.30        Session IV: Urbanization and Economic Development

 14.00-14.45        Renaud Lambiotte, University of Namur, Belgium 

                          A tale of many cities: universal patterns in human urban mobility

 14.45-15.30        Natasa Golo, Hebrew University, Israel

                          Network analysis of economic development

 15.30-16.00        Coffee

 16.00-18.15        Session V: Social Contagion and Networks

 16.00-16.45        Sergey Melnik, University of Oxford, UK

                           A multi-stage model of social contagion on complex networks

 16.45-17.30        Diane Payne & Mathew Senga, University College, Dublin, Ireland

                          Self-Organizing Communities and Collaboration in Management of Natural Resources:

                          Some Steps and Preliminary Results of a Dynamic Network Model

 17.30-18.15        JB McCarthy, University College Cork, Ireland

                           FuturICT FET Flagship – Ireland Update 

 Sunday 23^rd October (Glenlo Abbey Hotel)

 9.00-11.00          Session VI: Complex dynamics of Financial Markets                           

 9.00-9.45            Laurentiu Vasiliu, NUI Galway

                           Making decisions in financial investments:  the growing gap between economical theories

                          and the realities on the ground

 9.45-10.30          Eric Smith, Santa Fe Institute, USA

                          Incomplete markets, unhedgeable shocks, and statistical economic equilibrium

 10.30-11.00        Kitty Moloney, NUI Galway, Ireland

                          Transition dynamics of Dow Jones Index using Recurrence Quantification Analysis

 11.00-11.30        Coffee

 11.30-14.45        Session VII: Complex Systems: Theory, Applications and Policy    

 11.30-12.15        Peter Richmond, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

                          House prices in London and Dublin: an update

 12.15-13.00        Frank Conaty, NUI Galway, Ireland

                          The performance management challenges of complex non-profit/public sector hybrid organisations

 13.00-13.30         General discussion on future course of action  

 13.30                 Close of workshop

 13.30-14.30        Lunch

 

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