2 QLS GUEST SEMINARS - Wednesday, 27 July

[Quantitative Life Sciences]

QUANTITATIVE LIFE SCIENCES GUEST SEMINARS


Wednesday12 July at 14:00

ICTP, Central Area, 2nd floor, old SISSA building

Speaker: Mina Zarei - Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences 
(IASBS), Zanjan, Iran

Title: "Structure-Dynamics Interplay in Directed Complex Networks"

Abstract:
Synchronization in large populations of interacting elements has been 
observed in different disciplines such as system biology, neuroscience, 
computer science, and engineering. During the past decades, many efforts 
have been devoted to understand the synchronization phenomena from the 
complex networks point of view. Generally, the problem of optimizing 
synchronization is challenging due to the fact that macroscopic dynamics 
depend both on the topology of the interaction network and dynamics of 
the individual systems. In this talk  we study the effects of 
directionality on network synchronization by assigning directions to the 
links of an undirected network. We show that, the way we assign 
directions to the links to enhance the synchronization depends on both 
the undirected topology of the graph and intrinsic frequencies of the nodes.

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Wednesday12 July at 15:00

ICTP, Central Area, 2nd floor, old SISSA building

Speaker: Mohammad Reza Ejtehadi - Sharif University of Technology, 
Tehran, Iran

Title: "Approximation solutions for collective behaviour of self 
propelled particles"

Abstract:
It is well known that macroscopic behaviour of the microscopic 
interacting particles obeys hydrodynamics equations. However, it is a 
recent interest to find collective behaviour of active matters, 
specially to describe hydrodynamics of the matter composed of  self 
propelled particles. Obtaining  hydrodynamics equations from microscopic 
interaction rules in active matter requires approximation. We are going 
to compare some  approaches.

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Erica Sarnataro
Group Secretary
Quantitative Life Sciences
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
Trieste,  Italy
Tel. +39-040-2240623
e-mail: qls at ictp.it