Complexity Science Seminar

Time and location will vary.

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An exhaustive list of past External Seminars can be found here.

• Andre Longtin (University of Ottawa): The physical limits of sensory detection, focus and control 
  March 16, 2018, 4pm, SB148

• Mark Robbins (John Hopkins University): A “Rough” View of Friction and Adhesion 
  Dec. 1, 2017, 4pm, SB142

• Rashid Williams-Garcia (University of Pittsburgh): Unveiling causal activity of complex networks 
  July 11, 2017, 3pm, SB512A

• Bruce Shaw (Columbia University): Shake and Break: Earthquake Physics & Fault Geometry 
  April 10, 2017, 11:15am, SB146

• Karin Dahmen (University of Illinois): Universal slip statistics: from nanocrystals to earthquakes? 
  March 10, 2017, 4pm, SB144

• March 16, 2016, 2pm, SA245 
  Talk by Javier Orlandi (University of Barcelona). 
  Title: Noise focusing and the emergence of coherent activity in neuronal cultures

• Nov. 20, 2015, 4pm, SB142 
  Talk by John Beggs (University of Barcelona). 
  Title: The pattern of information flow in networks of cortical neurons

• Thursday, May 9th 2013 (11am, SB105) 
  Talk by Ehud Meron (Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research & Physics Department, Ben-Gurion University). 
  Title: Pattern formation - a missing link in the study of ecosystem response to climate change

• Friday, April 13th 2012 (2-3pm, ST126) 
  Talk by Rainer Klages (Queen Mary University London) 
  Title:  "Statistical Physics of Biological Motion: Crawling Cells and Foraging Bumblebees"

• Tuesday, April 10th 2012 (4-5pm, SB142)
  Talk by Anita Mehta (S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Science, Calcutta, India) 
  Title: "Competing Synapses with Two Timescales: A Basis for Learning and Forgetting"

• Tuesday, January 24th 2012 (4pm SB501) 
  Talk by Maksim Kitsak (San Diego Supercomputer Center) 
  "Hyperbolic Geometry of Complex Networks"

• Wednesday, August 17th 2011(4pm SB148) 
  Talk by Dr. Clinton McCracken and Dr. Zelma Kiss (University of Calgary) 
  "Therapeutic Brain Stimulation: Applications and Mechanisms" 
  and Introduction to Concepts, Problems, and Data of Deep Brain Stimulation for Treating Movement Disorders

• Monday, April 11 & 18, 2011 (3:15pm, SB501) 
  Talk by Mark Naylor (University of Edinburgh) 
  "Exploring the limits of earthquake forecasting"

• Thursday, March 10, 2011 (11am, SB501) and Friday, March 11, 2011 (4pm, SB142) 
  Talk by Stefan Böttcher (Emory University, Atlanta) 
  "Large Fluctuations and Optimization using Extremal Dynamics"

• Monday, September 20, 2010 (11:00 am, SA 121) 
  Talk by Kenneth Showalter (C. Eugene Bennett Chair of Chemistry, West Virginia University) 
  "Dynamical Quorum Sensing, Synchronization and Clusters in Populations of Excitable and Oscillatory Catalytic Particles"

• Thursday, March 25, 2010 (12:00 pm, SA121) 
  Talk by Prof. Sherrington (Oxford University)   
  "Martensitic shape-memory alloys: novel pseud-spin glasses?"

• Friday, February 5, 2010 (3pm, SB 146) 
  Talk by Flavio Fenton (Cornell University) 
  "Spiral waves and the heart" 
  Department of Physics & Astronomy Colloquium jointly sponsored by the Complexity Science Group, MITACS and the Center for BioEngineering Research & Education

• Friday, November 20, 2009 (3pm, SB 501) 
  Talk by Matteo Marsili (ICTP Trieste, Italy) 
  "Assessing the relevance of structural features in networks"