A 3-day meeting exploring how physicists can contribute to the biological, economic and social sciences, aimed principally at graduate students and established physicists who are interested in learning about these novel applications.
Each day will have a different theme: epidemics, social systems and networks. In the morning of each day there will be three lectures discussing different approaches to the topic of that day, one might be by a physicist, another by a researcher `native' to the field, and the third would perhaps represent yet another point of view, maybe another modeller or perhaps a data-analyst or experimentalist. After lunch the audience will break up into three groups, each one discussing the relative merits of one of the approaches. Later in the afternoon, the groups will come together again to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the different modelling traditions.
The talks will be 50 minutes plus 10 minutes of questions.
Venue:
All talks will be held in Niels Bohr Common Room in the Schuster Building, University of Manchester, UK
A map can be downloaded here.
On the campus map Manchester Piccadilly station is at the top left, Oxford Road station on the extreme left half way down and the Schuster Building is number 54.
The Niels Bohr Common Room is on the 6th floor.
Organizers:
Tobias Galla
Day 1: Monday June 21st - Epidemics
Lecture 1 (9:30-10:30):
Frank Ball (Nottingham - Mathematics)
Coffee (10:30-11:00)
Lecture 2 (11:00-12:00):
Marc Barthelemy (CEA Saclay - Physics)
Lecture 3 (12:00-13:00):
Alun Lloyd (North Carolina State University - Mathematics)
Lunch (13:00-14:30)
Group discussions (14:30-16:00):
Coffee (16:00-16:30)
Presentations by groups and discussion (16:30-17:30)
Academic speed dating (17:30-18:30)
Day 2: Tuesday June 22nd - Social Systems
Lecture 1 (9:30-10:30):
Andreas Flache (Groningen - Social Scienes)
Coffee (10:30-11:00)
Lecture 2 (11:00-12:00):
Duccio Fanelli (Firenze - Physics)
Lecture 3 (12:00-13:00):
Nigel Gilbert (Surrey - Social Sciences)
Lunch (13:00-14:30)
Group discussions (14:30-16:00):
Coffee (16:00-16:30)
Presentations by groups and discussion (16:30-17:30)
Day 3: Wednesday June 23rd - Networks
Lecture 1 (9:30-10:30):
Sergei Maslov (Brookhaven - Physics)
Coffee (10:30-11:00)
Lecture 2 (11:00-12:00):
Tim Evans (Imperial College - Theoretical Physics)
Lecture 3 (12:00-13:00):
Martin Everett (Manchester - Social Sciences)
Lunch (13:00-14:30)
Group discussions (14:30-16:00):
Coffee (16:00-16:30)
Presentations by groups and discussion (16:30-17:30)