QUANTITATIVE LIFE SCIENCES GUEST SEMINAR - Friday 14 June 14h00

[Quantitative Life Sciences]

QUANTITATIVE LIFE SCIENCES GUEST SEMINAR

Friday, 14 June at 14:00
ICTP, Meeting room 201, 2nd floor, SISSA Building, via Beirut 2


Speaker: Ginestra Bianconi - School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary 
University, London


Title: Emergent Hyperbolic Network Geometry and Dynamics

Abstract:

Simplicial complexes naturally describe discrete topological spaces. 
When their links are assigned a length they describe discrete 
geometries. As such simplicial complexes have been widely used in 
quantum gravity approaches that involve a discretization of spacetime. 
Recently they are becoming increasingly popular to describe complex 
interacting systems such a brain networks or social networks. In this 
talk we present non-equilibrium statistical mechanics approaches to 
model large simplicial complexes. We propose the simplicial complex 
model of Network Geometry with Flavor (NGF), we explore the hyperbolic 
nature of its emergent geometry and their relation with quantum 
statistics. Finally we reveal the rich interplay between Network 
Geometry with Flavor and dynamics. We investigate the percolation 
properties of NGF using the renormalization group finding BKT and 
discontinuous phase transitions depending on the dimensionality simplex. 
We also comment on the synchronization properties of NGF and the 
emergence of frustrated synchronization.


Everyone interested is most welcome to attend!

Indico web page: http://indico.ictp.it/event/8960/

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Erica Sarnataro
Group Secretary
Quantitative Life Sciences
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
Trieste,  Italy
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