Program

The School will open on Monday, 2 September at 14:30h, to allow participants to arrive on the same morning, and will close on Friday, 13 September at 13:30h, so that participants can travel back in the afternoon. A detailed timetable is available here.

The 2019 School program includes six main courses:

First week:

• Statistical Mechanics of Topological Defects, by Carmen Miguel, Universitat de Barcelona.
• Critical transport dynamics in fusion plasmas, by Raúl Sánchez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
• Tipping points in dynamical systems and applications, by Ulrike Feudel, Universität Oldenburg.

Second week:

• Simulating percolation and granular media, by Hans J. Herrmann, ESPCI Paris.
• Complex Networks: Structure, Dynamics and their interrelation, by Ernesto Estrada, University of Strathclyde and University of Zaragoza.
• Synchronization in populations of oscillators, by Ernest Montbrió, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.

Each course will consist of a 1h lecture on Monday afternoon, a 1h15m lecture each morning from Tuesday to Friday and two 1h20m hands-on afternoon sessions.

Besides the main courses, the program also includes 1h seminars on current hot topics of research:

• Novel topological phases in ferroelectric nanostructures, by Javier Junquera, UC
• Information transmission through signaling pathways and regulatory networks, by Raúl Fernandez, IBBTEC
• Drift wave turbulence in magnetically confined fusion plasmas, by José A. Mier, UC
• Universality in spatio-temporal chaos, by Diego Pazó, IFCA,
• Predicting weather and climate, by José M. Gutierrez, IFCA
• Chirality and topology in ferroelectric superlattices, by Pablo García-Fernández, UC

Participants are encouraged to present their work as a poster (with a maximum width of 90 cm and a maximum length of 130 cm) and a 4 min talk summarizing the contents of the poster. Posters will be on display for the two weeks of the School to promote discussion.