Nowadays, the greatest challenges faced by our society occur in areas such as energy and materials, economy, sociology, biomedicine, climate, or information processing. A common characteristic of these problems is their complexity, originated because of the existence of multiple components or units that influence each other in a nontrivial way. In Catalonia, a series of research groups that can be labeled with the common denomination of complex systems have emerged almost spontaneously. The goal of this thematic network is to play the role of a nucleation center for these groups in order to foster the mutual knowledge, the transversality of approaches and techniques, and the cross-fertilization of ideas. The first step is the organization of a cycle of seminars on complex systems, which will bring to Catalonia important leaders in this discipline to give a general vision of the field and to explain fundamental ideas at a non-specialist level.

Next complexitat.CAT seminar (May 24, 2012)

complexitat.CAT

II Jornada complexitat.CAT

More upcoming complexicat.CAT seminars

May 24, 2012 -

Spatio-temporal organization of emergent activity in the cerebral cortex

(M.V. Sánchez-Vives)

May 31, 2012 -

Complexitat en evolució humana

(Eudald Carbonell)

Other complexity seminars

May 24, 2012 - How to Understand Mechanisms of Biological Development (Anatoly B. Kolomeisky)

May 24, 2012 - Research at the interface between physical and life sciences: epidemics and environment (F.J. Pérez-Reche)

Calendar

May 2012

June 2012

Participating Institutions