Spring College on the Physics of Complex Systems | (smr 2584) (26 May 2014

Administration

Description

The Abdus Salam ICTP and SISSA, in collaboration with the partner institutions of  the Master in the Physics of Complex Systems (http://www.polito.it/pcs) will  organize the Spring College on the Physics of Complex Systems from 26 May to  20 June 2014. 

Many complex systems in physics, biology, engineering and economics are  characterized by a large number of interacting degrees of freedom giving rise to a  non-trivial collective behavior. The theoretical and computational tools for a  quantitative analysis of complex systems are often rooted in modern (statistical,  quantum) physics. The Spring College on the Physics of Complex Systems aims 
to give students the opportunity to get in touch with a selection of topics at the forefront of research, during an intensive 4-week program. It consists of 5  courses of 9 lectures each, followed by final written tests.

Material

Announcement Exercises for Participants (Statistical Biological Physics) Exercises for Participants (Stochastic Processes and Applications) Final List of Participants Group Photo at Farewell Party Photo Reading Material for Participants Elements of Statistical Biological Physics Reading Material for Participants Theoretical Neuroscience

Spring College on the Physics of Complex Systems | (smr 2584)

Go to day

Monday, 26 May 2014

08:30 - 16:30

08:30 Registration 1h15' ( Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1) )

All Participants and Lecturers are kindly requested to complete online registration formalities at the Adriatico Guest House. Extra shuttle services will be running to take those who need to go to the Operations Office up to the E. Fermi Building.

10:30 Introduction and welcome 30' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Speaker: Professor F. Quevedo (Director, ICTP)

11:00 Stochastic processes and applications 1 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Speaker:	Andrea Gambassi (SISSA)
Material:	lecture notes

13:00 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

14:30 Elements of statistical biological physics 1 (Modeling DNA Motifs) (Statistical modeling of biological sequences) 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Speaker:	Martin Weigt (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris)
Material:	lecture notes

Tuesday, 27 May 2014

11:15 - 20:30

11:15 Stochastic processes and applications 2 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Speaker: Andrea Gambassi (SISSA)

14:30 Elements of statistical biological physics 2 (Sequence Alignments) 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Speaker:	Martin Weigt (Université Pierre e Marie Curie, Paris)
Material:	lecture notes

19:00 Welcome get-together drink 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House (Terrace) )

All Participants are warmly invited to this informal get-together to be held on the terrace of the Adriatico Guest House (weather permitting)

Wednesday, 28 May 2014

09:00 - 15:30

09:00 Stochastic processes and applications 3 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Speaker: Andrea Gambassi (SISSA)

11:00 Elements of statistical biological physics 3 (RNA-Secondary Structure Prediction) 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Speaker:	Martin Weigt (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris)
Material:	lecture notes

13:00 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

14:30 Seminar 1 "Multiscale modeling of biomolectules: from small RNAs to chromosomes" 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Speaker:	Marco Di Stefano and Sandro Bottaro (SISSA)
Material:	abstract

Thursday, 29 May 2014

09:00 - 13:00

09:00 Elements of statistical biological physics 4 (Direct Coupling Analysis of residue coevolution in proteins) 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Speaker:	Martin Weigt (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris)
Material:	lecture notes

11:00 Stochastic processes and applications 4 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Speaker:	Andrea Gambassi (SISSA)
Material:	lecture notes

Friday, 30 May 2014

09:00 - 16:30

09:00 Stochastic processes and applications 5 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Speaker: Andrea Gambassi (SISSA)

11:00 Elements of statistical biological physics 5 (Including Phylogeny) 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Speaker:	Martin Weigt (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris)
Material:	lecture notes

13:00 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

14:30 Stochastic processes and applications 6 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Speaker:	Andrea Gambassi (SISSA)
Material:	lecture notes

Monday, 2 June 2014

09:00 - 16:30

09:00 Stochastic processes and applications 7 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Speaker: Andrea Gambassi (SISSA)

11:00 Advanced methods in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics 1 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Speaker:	Leticia Cugliandolo (Université Paris VI)
Material:	lecture notes

13:00 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

14:30 Elements of statistical biological physics 6 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Speaker:	Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris)
Material:	lecture notes

Tuesday, 3 June 2014

09:00 - 19:45

09:00 Advanced methods in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics 2 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Speaker: Leticia Cugliandolo (Université Paris VI)

11:00 Elements of statistical biological physics 7 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Speaker:	Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris)
Material:	lecture notes

13:00 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

14:30 Elements of statistical biological physics 8 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Speaker:	Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris)
Material:	lecture notes

19:00 Get-together drink 45' ( Adriatico Guest House (Terrace) )

All participants are warmly invited to the get-together drink on the AGH Terrace (weather-permitting)

Wednesday, 4 June 2014

09:00 - 16:30

09:00 Stochastic processes and applications 8 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Speaker:	Andrea Gambassi (SISSA)
Material:	lecture notes

11:00 Advanced methods in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics 3 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Speaker: Leticia Cugliandolo (Université Paris VI)
13:00 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

14:30 Elements of statistical biological physics 9 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Speaker:	Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris)
Material:	lecture notes

Thursday, 5 June 2014

09:00 - 16:30

09:00 Advanced methods in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics 4 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Speaker: Leticia Cugliandolo (Université Paris VI)
11:00 Welcome speech 10' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Speaker: Professor Guido Martinelli (Director, SISSA)
11:10 Stochastic processes and applications 9 1h50' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Speaker: Andrea Gambassi (SISSA)
13:00 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

14:30 Elements of statistical biological physics 10 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Speaker:	Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris)
Material:	lecture notes

Friday, 6 June 2014

09:00 - 13:00

09:00 Stochastic processes and applications - EXAM 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Material:

Exam

Exam Solutions

11:00 Advanced methods in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics 5 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Speaker: Leticia Cugliandolo (Université Paris VI)

Monday, 9 June 2014

09:00 - 16:30

09:00 Advanced methods in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics 6 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Speaker: Leticia Cugliandolo (Université Paris VI)

11:30 Seminar 2 - "How Euclidean is your brain? Neural mechanisms for representing geometry of space." 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Speaker:	Federico Stella (SISSA)
Material:	abstract

12:30 Lunch Break 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
14:30 Advanced methods in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics 7 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Speaker: Leticia Cugliandolo (Université Paris VI)

Tuesday, 10 June 2014
- 09:00 - 17:30
  - 09:00 Advanced methods in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics 8 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
    
    Speaker: Leticia Cugliandolo (Université Paris VI)
  - 11:00 Poster Session 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1) )
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Participants wishing to present a poster should display their work on the poster boards in the area near the Giambiagi Lecture Hall.
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  - 13:00 Lunch 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
  - 14:30 Trip to SISSA 3h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
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A bus will take Participants to SISSA. Arrangements to be announced.
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Wednesday, 11 June 2014

09:00 - 16:30

09:00 Advanced methods in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics 9 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Speaker: Leticia Cugliandolo (Université Paris VI)

11:00 Theoretical neuroscience 1 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Speaker:	Sara A. Solla (Northwestern University, USA)
Material:	lecture notes

13:00 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
14:30 Theoretical neuroscience 2 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Speaker: Sara A. Solla (Northwestern University, USA)

Thursday, 12 June 2014

09:00 - 16:30

09:00 Theoretical neuroscience 3 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Speaker: Sara A. Solla (Northwestern University, USA)

11:30 Seminar 3 - "Statistics of observables and dynamical phase transitions in many-body quantum systems out of equilibrium" 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Speaker:	Pietro Smacchia (SISSA)
Material:	abstract

12:30 Lunch Break 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
14:30 Theoretical neuroscience 4 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Speaker: Sara A. Solla (Northwestern University, USA)

Friday, 13 June 2014

09:00 - 16:30

09:00 Advanced methods in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics - EXAM 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Material: Exam

11:00 A practical guide to scientific computing 1 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab. )

Speaker:	Stefano Allesina (University of Chicago, USA)
Material:	Manual

13:00 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
14:30 A practical guide to scientific computing 2 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab. )

Speaker: Stefano Allesina (University of Chicago, USA)

Monday, 16 June 2014
- 09:00 - 16:30
  - 09:00 A practical guide to scientific computing 3 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab. )
    
    Speaker: Stefano Allesina (University of Chicago, USA)
  - 11:00 Theoretical neuroscience 5 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
    
    Speaker: Sara A. Solla (Northwestern University, USA)
  - 13:00 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
  - 14:30 A practical guide to scientific computing 4 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab. )
    
    Speaker: Stefano Allesina (University of Chicago, USA)
Tuesday, 17 June 2014
- 09:00 - 16:30
  - 09:00 Theoretical neuroscience 6 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
    
    Speaker: Sara A. Solla (Northwestern University, USA)
  - 11:00 A practical guide to scientific computing 5 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab. )
    
    Speaker: Stefano Allesina (University of Chicago, USA)
  - 13:00 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
  - 14:30 Theoretical neuroscience 7 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
    
    Speaker: Sara A. Solla (Northwestern University, USA)
Wednesday, 18 June 2014
- 09:00 - 16:30
  - 09:00 A practical guide to scientific computing 6 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab. )
    
    Speaker: Stefano Allesina (University of Chicago, USA)
  - 11:00 Theoretical neuroscience 8 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
    
    Speaker: Sara A. Solla (Northwestern University, USA)
  - 13:00 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
  - 14:30 A practical guide to scientific computing 7 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab. )
    
    Speaker: Stefano Allesina (University of Chicago, USA)

Thursday, 19 June 2014

09:00 - 16:30

09:00 Theoretical neuroscience 9 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Speaker:	Sara A. Solla (Northwestern University, USA)
Material:	lecture notes

11:00 A practical guide to scientific computing 8 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab. )

Speaker: Stefano Allesina (University of Chicago, USA)
13:00 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )
14:30 A practical guide to scientific computing 9 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab. )

Speaker: Stefano Allesina (University of Chicago, USA)

Friday, 20 June 2014

09:00 - 21:30

09:00 A practical guide to scientific computing - EXAM 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Material:

Exam

Exam with Key materials

Exam codes

11:00 Theoretical neuroscience - EXAM 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall )

Material: Exam
20:00 Farewell get-together drink 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House (Terrace) )