Please note that this Programme finished in May 2009. All presentations and documents relating to its activities are available in the Document depository for this programme by registering with our website and joining the Complex Network group.
The Complex Networks programme will run from January 2009 until May 2009. The programme will bring together academics, industrialists, business professionals, practitioners, politicians and others. Networks arise naturally in many contexts, for example
in the cell : connecting proteins,- in the brain : connecting neural regions,
- in epidemiology : connecting individuals who come into contact,
- in the immune response : connecting T and dendritic cells to activate body defenses,
- in energy : connecting power suppliers and users,
- in telecommunications : connecting mobile phone users,
- in transport : connecting train stations, airports or ports,
- in the World Wide Web : connecting web pages,
- in the Internet Movie Database : connecting co-starring actors,
- in government : connecting like-voting politicians,
- in retail trade : connecting sales of different products to the same customer.
Improvements in computing power have made it possible to gather, store and analyze large data sets across many disciplines, and it is apparent that universal features and challenges exist across seemingly disparate application areas. Along with the intellectually satisfying goal of finding commonality among very different areas of application, a second, practical aim of this programme is to advance one area by injecting ideas and techniques from another.
Participants in the workshop will be encouraged to review recent developments of relevance to complex networks in their area of expertise, discuss open problems and, where possible, indicate how the field is likely to develop over the next few years.
Events for the first two weeks of this programme can be found by following the links below:
Week 1 Jan 19th - Jan 23rd, 2009: Tutorials, seminars and open lectures
Sat Jan 24th: interactive talks by Prof Chris Budd at the Glasgow Science Cetnre
Week 2 Jan 27th - Jan 30th, 2009: Interdisciplinary international workshop
Photos from the workshop
The list of participants is available.
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The second part of this programme was an international conference:
Mar 30th - Apr 3rd, 2009: Dynamic Properties of Complex Networks
Speakers: include Brian Williams (MIT), George Coghill (Aberdeen), Cees Witteveen (Delft), Youssef Hamadi (Microsoft), Jane Hillston (Edinburgh), Greg Michaelson (Heriot‐Watt), Holger Hoos (University of British Columbia), Derek Long (University of Strathclyde), Des Higham (University of Strathclyde), Jorg Hoffmann (SAP), Eiko Yoneki (Cambridge), Alessandro Moura (Aberdeen) and Anne Smith (St Andrews).
Programme: further details, including presentation files, can be found here.
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The third part of this programme was an international conference:
May 25th - May 29th, 2009: Applications of Complex Networks
Invited speakers: in alphabetical order include Marc Barthelemy (CEA, France) "Dynamical Evolution of Networks”, Ernesto Estrada (Strathclyde, UK) “Information Mobility in Complex Networks”, Alessandro Flammini (Indiana, USA) “The Web‐graph: from Complex Topology to Complex Traffic Patterns”, Leon Glass (McGill, Canada) “Dynamics in Genetic Networks: Evolution and the Inverse Problem”, Peter Grassberger (Calgary, Canada) “Inference of Gene Interaction Networks by Conditional Mutual Information”, Des Higham (Strathclyde, UK) “Matrix Computation and Complex Networks”, Henrik Jensen (Imperial College, UK) “Evolution and Dynamics of and on Networks and its Relation to Network Structure”, Holger Kantz (Dresden, Germany / Aberdeen, UK) “Extreme Events in Complex Systems: Origin and Prediction”, Antonio Politi (Florence, Italy) “Collective Dynamics in Networks of Oscillators”.
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