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Wednesday, Sept. 10th - Feldman 1
9:00-9:30 Registration and opening words from Sorin Solomon
9:30-10:30 The Schelling model of urban segregation
Dietrich Stauffer
University of Cologne
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:00 Non-genetic variability in bacterial populations
Nathalie Questembert-Balaban
Hebrew University
12:00-13:00 Complexity and Complications in Climate Physics
Nir Shaviv
Hebrew University
13:00-14:30 Lunch break
14:30-15:40 Student lectures:

Facilitation, competition, and vegetation patchiness: From scale free distribution to patterns
Alon Manor
Bar Ilan University

Nowak-Vallacher's Mouse Paradigm - a tool for measuring the dynamics of thought
Karolina Lisiecka
University of Warsaw

Association between genetic polymorphisms for vasopressin and oxytocin receptors and pro-social behavior in economic decision tasks
Salomon Israel
Hebrew University
15:40-16:40 Fluctuation scaling in complex systems: Taylor's law and beyond
Janos Kertesz
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
16:40-17:10 Coffee break
17:10-18:10 Energy policy: complex?
David Bree
ISI Foundation

Thursday, Sept. 11th - Feldman 1
9:00-10:00 How to simulate reaction networks with fluctuations
Ofer Biham
Hebrew University
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-11:30 Stabilization of metapopulation cycles: Toward a classification scheme
Nadav Shnerb
Bar-Ilan University
11:30-12:30 Patterns in socio-economics
Gérard Weisbuch
Ecole Normale Supérieure
12:30-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-15:00 Linking pattern formation and biodiversity in Dryland Vegetation
Ehud Meron
Ben Gurion University
15:00-16:00 Principal Component Analysis and Clustering Reveal Human Maternal Ancestry from Complete Mitochondrial Sequences
Gyan Bhanot
Rutgers
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:50 Student lectures:

Noise enhanced persistence in regulatory networks with feedback control
Michael Assaf
Hebrew University

The Markovian Patch-Occupancy (MPO) framework in Community Ecology
Omri Allouche
Hebrew University

Global Features Of Species Network
Yosef Maruvka
Bar Ilan University

Dynamic networks at the edge of chaos
Santiago Gil
Fritz-Haber-Institut

Friday, Sept. 12th - Maison de France
9:00-10:00 Irreducibility and Correlations in Complex Systems
Imre Kondor
Collegium Budapest
10:00-11:00 The alphabet model for rare events in social dynamics
Andrzej Nowak
University of Warsaw
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30 Dynamical properties of evolving networks
Yoram Louzoun
Bar-Ilan University
12:30-13:30 The complexity of correlations between financial assets
Matteo Marsili
ICTP
13:30-14:30 Lunch break
14:30 Tour in the Old City of Jerusalem, concluded with a social dinner

Saturday, Sept. 13th - Belgium House
9:00-10:00 TBA
Christopher Barrett
Virginia Tech
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-11:30 Lévy-stable distribution in economics
Edoardo Gaffeo
University of Trento
11:30-12:30 Community structure in graphs
Santo Fortunato
ISI Foundation
12:30-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-15:00 Leibniz, Complexity and Incompleteness
Gregory John Chaitin
IBM Watson Research Center
15:00-16:00 The broken symmetries of financial markets
Damien Challet
ISI Foundation
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:50 Student lectures:

Information feedback mechanism and market dominance in a percolation model of eco-innovation diffusion
Simona Cantono
University of Torino

Common Welfare, Strong Currencies and the Globalization Process
Esteban Guevara
Universita degli Studi dell'Insubria and SION

The coupling of strain evolution and disease dynamics
Stefan Wieland
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia

Self-Organization of Sound Systems In the framework of Complex Networks
Animesh Mukherjee
IIT Kharagpur

Sunday, Sept. 14th - Special Think tank event (Wise Auditorium)

Think tank details can be found here:



Think Tanks and public events
"Complexity – the Science of the 21 Century”
Sept 14, 15, 17, 18, 19