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Europe/Rome 2022-02-01 15:00:00 2022-02-01 16:00:00 QLS Seminar - Data-driven Modeling of Animal Behavior Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/475819702 Meeting ID: 475-819-702 If you haven't registered for previous QLS webinars, please contact qls@ictp.it to obtain the PASSWORD for this zoom meeting. In this talk, I will describe recent work on analyzing behavioral dynamics using the theory of nonlinear dynamics. I will first describe ways to convert time-series observations into a phase-space, which is a maximally predictive geometric representation of the data. The phase-space, once properly reconstructed, contains all dynamically relevant information available in the measurements. Next, I will describe methods to extract meaningful information from the phase space by analyzing its local geometry and topology. Applications include separating continuous behaviors into discrete motifs, identifying salient events, extracting long time-scale structure, quantifying behavioral variability and studying coupling between sub-systems.     References:   1. Ahamed, Tosif, Antonio C. Costa, and Greg J. Stephens. "Capturing the continuous complexity of behaviour in Caenorhabditis elegans." Nature Physics 17.2 (2021): 275-283. 2. Costa, Antonio Carlos, et al. "Maximally predictive ensemble dynamics from data." arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.12811 (2021).   Zoom Meeting ICTP pio@ictp.it 1 Feb 2022

Europe/Rome 2022-02-21 07:00:00 2022-03-18 21:00:00 Spring College in the Physics of Complex Systems | (smr 3690) ICTP and SISSA, in collaboration with the partner institutions of the International Master Course in Physics of Complex Systems, are organizing the Spring College on the Physics of Complex Systems from 21 February to 18 March 2022. Many complex systems in physics, biology, engineering and economics are characterized by a large number of interacting degrees of freedom, giving rise to a non-trivial collective behavior. The theoretical and computational tools for a quantitative analysis of complex systems are often rooted in modern theoretical physics. The Spring College on the Physics of Complex Systems aims to expose students to a selection of topics at the forefront of research during an intensive, 4-week programme. It consists of 5 courses. The Spring College is part of the Master programme in the Physics of Complex Systems. The 2022 Spring College will be held online, with limited in person participation by invitation, and it is open to qualified Master and PhD students. Lecturers and Courses:  J.S. WEITZ, Georgia Tech, USA “Quantitative viral dynamics” D. WOLPERT, Santa Fe Institute, USA “Stochastic thermodynamics and Computation”  T. SHARPEE, Salk Institute, USA “Hyperbolic geometry and information maximization in biological circuits” S. RUFFO, SISSA, Italy “Statistical mechanics of long-range interacting systems” F. CECCONI & A. VULPIANI, La Sapienza, Italy “Chaos: From Simple Models to Complex Systems” Registration: there is no registration fee. Online - ICTP pio@ictp.it 21 Feb 2022 - 18 Mar 2022

Europe/Rome 2022-05-16 08:00:00 2022-05-20 22:00:00 Random matrices, random graphs and statistical physics for machine learning and inference | (smr 3703) ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it 16 May 2022 - 20 May 2022

Europe/Rome 2022-06-06 08:00:00 2022-06-24 22:00:00 Eco-evolutionary dynamics of microbial communities across scales | (smr 3714) ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it 6 Jun 2022 - 24 Jun 2022

Europe/Rome 2022-06-27 08:00:00 2022-07-01 22:00:00 Youth in High-Dimensions: Machine Learning, High-dimensional Statistics and Inference for the New Generation | (smr 3719) ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it 27 Jun 2022 - 1 Jul 2022