VI JORNADA COMPLEXITAT.CAT:

INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH ON COMPLEXITY

|| 24 Maig 2017 || IN3-UOC ||

Program

Book of Abstracts
9:30 - 10:00
Registration
10:00 - 11:00 Plenary Talk: Mariano Marzo, Full Professor of Stratigraphy and Professor of Energy Resources and Petroleum Geology at the Faculty of Geology, Universitat de Barcelona. Reflections on the complexity of the energy transition.
11:00 - 12:00 Coffee break & Poster Session
12:00 - 12:30 Research in Companies
  • Ignasi Vilajosana, CEO of Worldsensing. Operational Intelligence: A new approach to making City Mobility Management more responsive.
  • Pascal Weinberger, from Telefonica Alpha Research. Telefonica Alpha Research lines and goals.
12:30 - 13:30 Thematic Research Talks
  • Albert Solé-Ribalta, Complex Systems research group at IN3, Univeristat Oberta de Catalunya. Congestion phenomena in urban transportation networks.
  • Pietro Tierno, Departament d'Estructura i Constituents de la Matèria, Facultat de Física de la Universitat de Barcelona. Emergent Hydrodynamic Bound States Between Magnetically Powered Active Micropropellers.
  • Laurent Brodeau, Barcelona Supercomputing Center. Scientific & Computing challenges in Climate Modeling.
13:30 - 15:00 Lunch
15:00 - 16:00 Assemblea Complexitat.cat
16:00 - 16:45 Thematic work teams and matchmaking
  • Albert Solé-Ribalta, Complex Systems research group at IN3, Univeristat Oberta de Catalunya
  • Pietro Tierno, Departament d'Estructura i Constituents de la Matèria, Facultat de Física de la Universitat de Barcelona
  • Laurent Brodeau, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
16:50 - 18:00 Short Talks:
  • Gorka Zamora-López, UPF, The relation between structure and function in complex networks: trivial answers for an old problem?
  • Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, UPC, The origins of Zipf’s meaning-frequency law
  • Joaquim Clara, UOC, Undercooled and arrested dynamics in currency exchange markets
  • Michele Starnini, UB, Equivalence between non-Markovian and Markovian dynamics in epidemic spreading processes
  • Laura Calvet, UOC, Hybrid Optimization Methodologies for Stochastic and Dynamic Systems
  • Jordi Tiana-Alsina, UPC, Optimal entrainment of the spikes emitted by a semiconductor laser with feedback
  • Tiago Simas, Telefonica Alpha Research, Food-pairing, Food-bridging: a new perspective on the principles of cooking
18:00 - 19:00 Social Event

Registration

The registration is now open at the following address:

REGISTRATION

The registration fees (which include one-year Complexitat.cat membership) are:

  • Master and undergraduate students: Free
  • Predoctoral researchers: 25€
  • Doctors: 35€
  • Live video streaming ("row 0") participants: 15€

Please send your inquiries and questions to Javier Borge-Holthoefer.

Free registration does not include the Complexitat.cat membership. This modality is limited to space limitations and/or scientific committee approval.

DEADLINES:

  • April 1st: Abstract Submission.
  • April 21st: Early Registration.

Location & Bus Info

The conference will take place at:

Sala d'Actes (planta -1)
Internet Interdisciplinary Institute, IN3-UOC
Avinguda Carl Friedrich Gauss, s/n
08860 Castelldefels

Initial pick-up location: Hard Rock Café in Plaça Catalunya (Barcelona)

Second stop: Av. Diagonal - Palau Reial (Barcelona)