Category: Conferences

ICTP – SAIFR » School on Water: From the Anomalies to the Biological and Technological Applications

School on Water: From the Anomalies to the Biological and Technological Applications
Date: September 2 – 7, 2024
Venue: IFT-UNESP, São Paulo, Brazil
We can all agree that a liquid that occupies 70 percent of Earth’s surface and two-thirds of our body is very important. Do we already know everything about water? Water has more than 70 thermodynamic, dynamic and structural anomalies and also shows new strange behavior upon analysis of the biological or material nanostructures. For instance, at nanoconfinement, water violates the hydrodynamic equations. Since water is present everywhere, understanding how the anomalies affect different systems is relevant. In this school, we explore the water anomalies starting from the basic ideas of phase transitions and critical phenomena, and show how they can be measured from scattering experiments and simulations of the nanoscale results.

There is no registration fee and limited funds are available for travel and local expenses.

Lecturers:
  • Gustavo Appignanesi (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina): Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Surfaces and Interfaces
  • Marcia Barbosa (UFRGS, Brazil): Nanoconfined Water
  • Paola Gallo (Roma Tre University, Italy): Dynamics and Supercooled Water
  • Enrique Lomba (CSIC, Spain): Scattering and Structural Factor
Application deadline: June 22, 2024

Meeting on Complex Systems & Stochastic Processes, July 1-5, 2024, University of Guadalajara, México.

We are organizing an international Conference on Complex Systems and Stochastic Processes to be held from the 1st to the 5th of July 2024, hosted by the Universidad de Guadalajara at the University Center for Exact and Engineering Sciences (CUCEI) in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. The scope of the Meeting is to discuss recent exciting developments in critical dynamics, quantum thermodynamics, classical and quantum walks, sociophysics and opinion dynamics, search and optimization, econophysics, networks, fractals, among others.

See: https://sites.google.com/view/meetingcomplexsystems 

Workshop: Demystifying machine learning for population researchers. November 5-6, Rostock, Germany

Advances in computational power and statistical algorithms, in conjunction with the increasing availability of large datasets, have led to a Cambrian explosion of machine learning (ML) methods. For population researchers, these methods are useful not only for predicting population dynamics but also as tools to improve causal inference tasks. However, the rapid evolution of this literature, coupled with terminological disparities from conventional approaches, renders these methods enigmatic and arduous for many population researchers to grasp.

This workshop on November 5 to 6, 2024 at the Max Planck Intsitute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock, Germany, clarifies the goals, techniques, and applications of machine learning methods for population research. The workshop covers

  • an introduction to ML methods for population researchers,
  • showcases of ML applications to answer causal questions,
  • discussions of the current developments of ML for population health, fertility and family dynamics, and
  • fosters critical discussions about the shortfalls of these techniques.

The main focus of this workshop is on ML techniques using quantitative population data and research questions, not on ML language models. The workshop consists of keynotes, contributed sessions, and a tutorial.

More at: www.demogr.mpg.de

NERCCS 2025: Eighth Northeast Regional Conference on Complex Systems.  April 9-11, 2025. Binghamton, NY, USA & Online

NERCCS 2025: The Eighth Northeast Regional Conference on Complex Systems will follow the success of the previous NERCCS conferences to promote the emerging venue of interdisciplinary scholarly exchange for complex systems researchers in the Northeast U.S. region (and beyond) to share their research outcomes through presentations and online publications, network with their peers, and promote interdisciplinary collaboration and the growth of the research community.

NERCCS will particularly focus on facilitating the professional growth of early career faculty, postdocs, and students in the region who will likely play a leading role in the field of complex systems science and engineering in the coming years.

The 2025 conference will be held primarily in person in the Innovative Technologies Complex at Binghamton University, with an online participation option via Zoom.

More at: nerccs2025.github.io

Traffic & Granular Flow 2024

The 15th edition of Traffic and Granular Flow (TGF) will be held in Lyon, France, from December 2nd to December 5th 2024. In-person participation will be favoured.

The international conference on TGF has been held biennially in different parts of the world since 1995. The conference is especially designed for an interdisciplinary audience working in the area of physics, computer sciences, engineering, granular, vehicular and pedestrian flow.

It focuses on giving a global perspective on the latest developments and new ideas in traffic and granular flows broadly speaking which encompasses the fields of granular flow, pedestrian dynamics, collective animal behaviour, and  urban mobility.

Read the full article at: tgf2024.sciencesconf.org