Dear Colleague,

We are pleased to announce the Joint CRM-Imperial College School and
Workshop in Complex Systems, which will take place from 
April 8 to 11, 2013 (school)
April 12 to 13, 2013 (workshop)
at the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, Bellaterra, Barcelona 
and in the Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Barcelona.
 
The structure of this school + workshop will be:

1) School Courses: 6 courses will be offered at the expense of
leading experts. These courses will treat topics of great current
importance and interest for young researchers, who will have the
opportunity to penetrate into these topics and to raise his doubts
to the experts. The courses are:

- Dynamics of Complex Systems (intermittency, stability, etc.).
  Henrik J. Jensen, Imperial College London.
- Critical Phenomena and Percolation Theory.
  Kim Christensen, Imperial College London.
- Percolation in Complex Networks.
  Marián Boguñá, Universitat de Barcelona
- Non-Equilibrium Phase Transitions, Field Theory and Self-Organised Criticality.
  Gunnar Pruessner, Imperial College London,
- Complex Networks and Hidden Metric Spaces: Internet, Metabolic Networks…
  M. Ángeles Serrano, Universitat de Barcelona.
- Multifractal Formalism: from models for turbulent flows to applications in ocean remote sensing.
  Antonio Turiel, Institut de Ciències del Mar, Barcelona.
 
2) Problem-solving classes: directly related to the contents of the courses.
3) Plenary lecture, by Stefan Thurner, Medical University of Vienna
4) Contributed Talks
5) Posters

Important deadlines:
 
January 27, 2013 (lodging and registration grant application)
March 8, 2013 (contributed talks and posters)
March 18, 2013 (registration and payment)

If you wish to submit a talk or a poster, please send the required information to
Ms Núria Hernandez ([log in para visualizar])

It is possible to attend the school or the workshop separately

A website for this activity can be accessed through the following link:
http://www.crm.cat/2013/ComplexSystems

Administration
Centre de Recerca Matemàtica
Campus de Bellaterra, Edifici C
08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona)
Spain
Tel.: + 34 93 581 10 81
Fax: + 34 93 581 22 02
http://www.crm.cat