Scientific Program

NATO Advanced Research Workshop

New Challenges in Complex System Physics:

Disaster Forecasting, Crisis Modeling and Sustainable Development
May 20 - 24, 2013, Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Day 1, May 20
9:00-10:00 Registration and coffee
10:00-10:25 Opening Ceremony
Morning Session

Chair:		 Modeling of crises, conflicts and critical events.
Complex networks and their applications.
Geoff Rodgers
10:25-11:00

 Eugene Stanley

 Economic Fluctuations & Statistical Physics: Quantifying Rare Events “What Can We Do Before the Next Economic Crisis?”
11:00-11:35

 Gregorio D’Agostino

 The Synchronization of Interdependent Networks Undercomes a Phase Transition.
11:35-12:10 Hyunggyu Park Synchronization on Complex Networks.
12:10-12:45 Choy Heng Lai Spectral Analysis on Explosive Percolation and Spreading Efficiency
Lunch break (13:00-14:30)

 
Afternoon Session

Chair:		 Modeling of crises, conflicts and critical events.
Complex networks and their applications.
Serge Galam
14:30-15:05

 Geoff Rodgers

 Large-N Solution of a Network Growth Model with Static Intrinsic Vertex Fitness
15:05-15:40 Theo Geisel I Got Rhythm...
Coffee Break (15:40-16:10)
16:10-16:45 Huijuan Wang Effect of the Interconnected Network Structure on the Epidemic Threshold.
16:45-17:20 Claudio Castellano Recent Results on Epidemic Thresholds in Networks.
17:20-17:55

 Andrea Gabrielli

 Bootstrapping Topological Properties and Systemic Risk of Complex Networks Using the Fitness Model.
17:55 -18:30

 Hasan Guclu

 Legal Network Analysis of Public Health System for Emergency Preparedness and Response.
Dinner (19:00-21:00)  
Day 2, May 21
Morning Session
Chair:		 Complexity in the earthquake dynamics.
Eugene Stanley
9:00-9:35

 Hiraku Kawamura

 Statistical Physical Models of Earthquakes: Critical Versus Characteristic Properties.
9:35-10:10 Shigeru Shinomoto Characterizing Temporal Patterns of Neuronal Discharges and Earthquakes.
10:10-10:45

 Angelo De Santis

 Geosystemics and Entropy of Earthquakes: A Vision of Our Planet and a Key of Access.
Coffee Break (10:45-11:15)
11:15-11:50

 Yoji Aizawa

 Universality in Seismicity Statistics and Iinterim Report on 3. 11 Earthquake (2011) in Fukushima-Miyagi Area.
11:50-12:25 Nicholas Sarlis Natural Time Analysis of Complex Time Series.
12:25-13:00

 Bakhtier Nurtaev

 Earthquakes Triggered by Hydrocarbon Production as Evidence of Nonlinear Dynamics.
Lunch break (13:00-14:30)

 
Afternoon Session
Chair:		 Complex networks and their applications.
Choy Heng Lai
14:30-15:05 Antonio Scala Power Grids, Smart Grids and Complex Networks.
15:05-15:40

 Rafaella Burioni

 Diffusion and Efficiency of Information Spreading on Dynamic Contact Networks
15:40-16:15 Anna Carbone The Sensor Web: Challenges at the Nanoscales
Coffee Break (16:15-16:45)
16:45-17:20 Dominique Chu Noise, Speed and Cost in Complex Biological Networks.
17:20-18:05 Ufuk Gündüz Characterization of Melodies Using their Scattering Diagrams
Dinner (18:30-20:00)  
Day 3, May 22
Morning Session
Chair:		 Sociophysics, Econophysics.
Theo Geisel
9:00-9:35

 Serge Galam

 Is it Necessary to Lie to Win a Controversial Public Debate? An Answer From Sociophysics.
9:35-10:10

 Gungor Gündüz

 Viscoelastic Behavior of Network Systems, and Work and Heat-like Terms Characterizing Time Series Systems.
10:10-10:45 Gerard Weisbuch Sustainable Development and Spatial Inhomogeneities.
Coffee Break (10:45-11:15)
11:15-11:45 Tobias Preis Quantifying the Complex World We Inhabit Using Big Data.
11:45-12:20 Suzy Moat Can Online Data Anticipate Economic Behaviour?
12:20-12:55 Christophe Schinckus Towards a Trans-Disciplinary Econophysics?
Lunch break (13:00-14:30)

 

Tour in Samarkand city (14:30-18:30)
Dinner (18:30-20:00)  
Day 4, May 23
Morning Session
Chair:		 Quantum networks.
Katsuhiro Nakamura
9:00-9:35 Robert Schrader Physics on Graphs.
9:35-10:10 Pavel Exner Resonances in Quantum Networks.
10:10-10:45 Taksu Cheon Quantum Graphs and Spectral Filtering.
Coffee Break (10:45-11:15)
11:15-11:50 Alexander Blumen From Continuous-Time Random Walks to Continuous-Time Quantum Walks.
11:50-12:25 Davron Matrasulov Heat Tranport in Quantum Networks.
12:25-12:50 Jambul Yusupov Quantum Dynamics in Breathing Graphs.
12:50-13:15 Valijon Eshniyozov Kicked Particle Dynamics on Quantum Graphs.
Lunch break (13:15-14:30)

 
Afternoon Session

Chair:		 Nonequilibrium quantum dynamics.
Nonlinear evolution equations, solitons and BEC.
Alexander Blumen
14:30-15:05 Farhan Saif Nondispersive Accelerated Matter Waves.
15:05-15:40 Michael Thorwart Nonequilibrium Quantum Dynamics of Biomolecular Excitons.
15:40-16:15 Riccardo Adami Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation on Graphs: Results and Problems.
Coffee Break (16:15-16:35)
16:35-17:10 Zarif Sobirov Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Solitons on Graphs.
17:10-17:45

 Dieter Schuch

 Complex Nonlinear Riccati Equations as a Unifying Link in Fundamental Physics.
17:45-18:00 Karim Sabirov General Solution of Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation on Graph.
18:00-18:15

 Doniyor Babajanov

 Vortex Dynamics in Bose-Einstein Condensates Beyond Thomas-Fermi Regime.

Banquet (19:00-21:00)
Day 5, May 24
Morning Session
Chair:		 Complex phenomena in low-dimensional nanoscale systems.
Hyunggyu Park
9:00-9:35 Almas Sadreev Symmetry Breaking in Open Nonlinear Quantum Systems.
9:35-10:10

 Katsuhiro Nakamura

 Confined Quantum Gas with a Moving Piston: Equation of States towards Nano-Scale Heat Engine.
10:10-10:45

 Hirohisa Uchida

 Effect of Nano Structuring Treatment of the FeTi Hydrogen Storage Alloy on Hydrogen Absorption properties.
Coffee Break (10:45-11:05)
11:05-11:40

 Elena Tresso

 Nanostructures in Third Generation Photovoltaics: Quasi Solid Electrolytes and Metal Oxide Photoanodes for Efficient Dye Sensitized Solar Cells.
11:40-12:15 Yasuhiko Hayashi Organic Photovoltaic Cells for Future Energy Conversion.
12:15-12:50 Hartmut Froeb Metal-Organic Microcavities.
12:50-13:05 Oksana Ismailova Charge Separation in Organic Solar Cells.
Lunch break (13:05-14:00)

 
Afternoon Session
Chair:		 Complex phenomena in energy storage and conversion.
Hirohisa Uchida
14:00-14:35 Ullrich Scherf Materials for Organic Photovoltaics.
14:35-15:10 Boris Oksengendler Some Theoretical Problems for MEG Based Hybrid Solar Cells.
15:10-15:45 Edip Niver Complex Antenna Optimization.
15:45-16:00 Concluding Remarks