QLS seminar by Marcelo Kuperman - 9 May 2023 at 16:00 CET

[Quantitative Life Sciences]

Dear All,

On Tuesday, 9 May 2023 at 16:00 CET, Marcelo Kuperman (Centro Atomico 
Bariloche-Instituto Balseiro, S.C. de Bariloche, Argentina) will give a 
seminar titled:
*
Analyzing Football as a Complex System*

Abstract:

In this talk, we present a study on the dynamics of marking in football 
matches. To do this, we survey and analyze a database containing the 
trajectories of players from both teams on the field of play during 
three professional
games. We describe the dynamics through the construction of temporal 
bipartite networks of proximity. Based on the introduced concept of 
proximity, the nodes are the players, and the links are defined between 
opponents that
are close enough to each other at a given moment. By studying the 
evolution of the heterogeneity parameter of the networks during the 
game, we characterize a scaling law for the average shape of the 
fluctuations, unveiling
the emergence of complexity in the system. Moreover, we propose a simple 
model to simulate the players’ motion in the field from where we 
obtained the evolution of a synthetic proximity network. We show that the
model captures with a remarkable agreement the complexity of the 
empirical case, hence it proves to be helpful to elucidate the 
underlying mechanisms responsible for the observed phenomena.
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__The seminar will take place in the L. Stasi seminar room, first floor, 
Leonardo building__

_Indico webpage: https://indico.ictp.it/event/10354/

You are all most welcome to attend!

Best regards,
Erica

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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
www.ictp.it/research/qls.aspx
e-mail:qls at ictp.it