The lectures will be held on:

March 16 ONLINE via zoom here

March 21 & 23, 10:00 to 12:00, BLR

March 28, 15:00 to 17:00, BLR

All lectures will be broadcasted ONLINE via zoom here

Abstract

Complex networks of interactions permeate reality and have important implications. Examples are all around us---the Internet, food webs, international trade, online and offline social networks... ---, and inside us –biochemical interactions in our cells, the brain connectome... Surprisingly, all these networks, regardless of their origin, talk a common language and are imprinted with universal features and behaviors. They are small-worlds, strongly hierarchical, modular, robust yet fragile, adaptable, evolvable, and may exhibit unexpected responses like cascades, crises, and other critical and extreme events. Networks are critical to understand human nature -from genome to society- and our environment, and are changing the way in which we model and predict complex systems in many different disciplines. The benefits of elucidating their mysteries not only refer to illuminating basic principles of nature. The network approach is crucial to propose judicious actions concerning some of the greatest open problems we are facing nowadays, like the development of new scalable Internet protocols, efficient treatments against complex diseases, the prediction and control of economic crises, and climate change.

Lecturer

1. Ángeles Serrano is an ICREA Research Professor at the Dept. of Condensed Matter Physics of the University of Barcelona, where she directs the Mapping Complexity Lab. She also holds an appointment as an External Faculty at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna CSH. A native of Barcelona, M. Ángeles received a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from UB, and a year later a master in mathematics for finance from the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica CRM. She spent several years in the private sector and returned to academia to work in complexity science. She conducted postdoctoral research at Indiana University (USA), the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) and IFISC Institute (Spain), and was awarded a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship.
   M. Ángeles obtained the Outstanding Referee Award of the American Physical Society (APS) and the James McDonnell Foundation Scholar Award for the Study of Complex Systems. She is a member of the Board of the Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Division of the European Physical Society and belongs to the Editorial Board of the APS journal Physical Review Research. She is a founding member of Complexitat, the Catalan network for the study of complex systems, and a promoter and scientific board member of UBICS, the Universitat de Barcelona Institute of Complex Systems.

Participation is open to all ICFOnians.

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