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