Conveners
Complex/Biological Systems
- Marco Baiesi (DFA UNIPD)
Many interesting physical processes occur on timescales that are very long compared to the shortest significant timescale involved. For example, timescales for folding the smallest of proteins are in the range of microseconds to milliseconds, while small-amplitude motions of amino acid side chains occur within 1 fs.
This large difference of timescales can present serious computational...
One of the fundamental open problems in knot theory is their classification, which aims to discriminate whether two given closed curves are topologically equivalent or not. The
problem might be tackled with knot invariants, such as the Alexander polynomial, quantities that are the same for equivalent knots. Nevertheless, algorithms implementing
knot recognition through invariants might take...
The visual cortex is the sensory area of the brain responsible for the information processing that underlies our visual perceptions. The first part of the cortex that receives input from visual stimuli is called primary visual cortex, or V1. It is the most studied area of the visual cortex, and probably the most studied sensory area of the brain in general.
Since the Nobel prize works of...
I will present a data-driven approach to identify from physical proximity data features of human contact patterns that determine crucial properties of epidemic outbreaks. From the physical proximity data, we construct for each individual
a point-process-like representation of their contacts, from which we estimate the distribution of potential secondary infections for different disease...
