Program


The detailed program will be available in May 2015.



LECTURERS FOR THE SCHOOL (with tentative titles)

1. Dynamical systems and multi-scale methods:

  • Ferdinand Verhulst, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
    Perturbation and averaging methods
  • Christian Kühn,Vienna University of Technology, Austria
    Geometric theory of stochastic multiscale systems


    2. Information theory and complexity:
  • Shun-ichi Amari, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan
    Information geometry
  • Kristian Lindgren, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
    Information theory and complexity measures
  • David Wolpert, Santa Fe Institute, USA
    tba


    3. Statistical physics of multi-level systems - Applications:
  • Bruno Cessac, INRIA, France
    Mean field methods in neuroscience
  • Hugues Chaté, CEA Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
    Lyapunov analysis of collective chaos
  • Holger Kantz, MPIPKS, Dresden, Germany
    Modeling fast degrees of freedom by stochastic processes and application to the atmosphere as a multi-level system
  • Leo van Hemmen, TU München, Germany
    Multimodal integration ensuing from perception



    INVITED SPEAKERS FOR THE WORKSHOP (with tentative titles)

  • Shun-ichi Amari, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan
    tba
  • Nihat Ay, MPI-MiS, Leipzig, Germany
    On level hierarchies of dynamical systems
  • Philippe Blanchard, Universität Bielefeld, Germany
    tba
  • Olivier Faugeras, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France
    Toward a multi-level statistical neuroscience
  • Mauro Gallegati, Universitˆ Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
    Learning social atoms and aggregate fluctuations
  • Peter Gärdenfors, Lund University, Sweden
    Three levels of representations in the cognitive sciences
  • Shlomo Havlin, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
    From single networks to networks of networks
  • Leo van Hemmen, TU München, Germany
    tba
  • Jürgen Jost, MPI-MiS, Leipzig, Germany
    Complexity measures and multi-level systems
  • Martin Nilsson Jacobi, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
    Hierarchies in dynamical systems: aggregation of variables and dimensional reduction
  • Holger Kantz, MPIPKS, Dresden, Germany
    Macro- versus microlevel: conversion of information into work
  • Christian Kühn, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
    Warning signs for saddle-escape transitions in complex networks
  • Ferdinand Verhulst, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
    Canard periodic solutions in a predator-prey system
  • Tamas Vicsek, Eötvös Lor‡nd University, Hungary
    tba
  • Massimo Warglien, Ca'Foscari University, Venice, Italy
    Learning processes for common languages
  • David Wolpert, Santa Fe Institute, USA
    Emergence of levels, growth of complexity, and biological systems