Aims and scope
Recent developments emphasize collective dynamical properties emerging
out of the interaction of simple units. The emergent complexity cannot
be easily deduced from the individual behavior of the parts, such as in
phase transitions observed in condensed matter, neurons in the brain or
individuals in a society.
The usefulness of statistical physics approaches to the study of these
problems in the life sciences is already documented by extensive work
on a bewildering variety of fields covering from neuro-imaging to
multiple neuron recordings to plant neurobiology. The workshop is
dedicated to continue discussing novel approaches, both theoretical and
experimental, for taming the rich repertoire of complex dynamics in
these systems, in which cross fertilization and (heated) discussions
are needed and welcome.
This workshop continues a successful series dedicated to these topics,
alternating between the US and Europe:
Malibu (2014), Capri (2013) and Bethesda, (2012).
Topics:
Emergent phenomena
Scale invariance in life sciences.
Self-organized criticality in nature
Collective dynamics in biological systems
Sensory systems
Complex critical brain dynamics
Correlations and fluctuations in swarms, flocks and crowds
