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Each year, ICTP organizes more than 60 international conferences, workshops, and numerous seminars and colloquia.

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Europe/Rome In nature, collective behaviour is a widespread phenomenon that spans many systems at different length- and timescales. Cells forming complex tissues, social insects such as ants creating dynamical structures using their own bodies, fish schools and bird flocks with their synchronous and coordinated motion are prototypical examples of the emergent self-organization which arises from local interactions among a large number of individuals. Unravelling the underlying principles and mechanisms through which such a macroscopic complexity is achieved is a fundamental challenge in biological sciences. Collective behaviour has become a unifying concept in a range of disciplines—from the spontaneous ordering of spins in ferromagnetic systems in physics, to the emergence of herding behaviour in economy, to the consensus dynamics in social sciences. Furthermore, enormous potential lies in the field of robotics in which, drawing inspiration from natural swarms, artificial collectives can be created with the abilities of the natural ones. A range of techniques have developed over recent years which allow unprecedented acquisition of quantitative empirical data, together with an enormous influx of theoretical concepts and models of collective behaviour. This upsurge enabled scientists from biology, physics, and robotics to start tackling intensively many of the open issues in this field: How is information transferred through a group? What is the structure of the underlying interaction and communication network? What is the role of the inter-individual differences (physiological, social, etc.) in a group decision-making? What is the relationship between organisms and their habitat? However, except on very rare occasions, different disciplines continue to address these problems along separate lines. Recent rapid progress in the collective behaviour field presents a well-timed opportunity to initiate a fruitful interdisciplinary discussion. The goal of this conference is to bring together experts from different scientific fields—biology, physics and engineering—to help identify new cross-disciplinary challenges, to boost the development of new ideas, and to foster the birth of an interdisciplinary community working in this field. Invited Speakers include: Lucy Aplin (University of Oxford) Nicolas Bredeche (UPMC) Andrea Cavagna (CNR, Rome) Hugues Chaté (CEA) Gonzalo De Polavieja (Champalimaud Foundation) Audrey Dussutour (Université Toulouse III) Ofer Feinerman (Weizmann Institute of Science) Francesco Ginelli (University of Aberdeen) Deborah M. Gordon (Stanford University) Roderich Gross (University of Sheffield) Takashi Ikegami (University of Tokyo) M. Cristina Marchetti (Syracuse University) Patrizio Mariani (Technical University of Denmark) James Marshall (University of Sheffield) Thierry Mora (ENS) Melanie E. Moses (University of New Mexico) Thomas Schmickl (University of Graz) Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin (Max Planck Institute for Ornithology) Guy Theraulaz (Université Toulouse III) Shashi Thutupalli (SCSLM, NCBS, ICTS) Colin Torney (University of Glasgow) Tamás Vicsek (Eötvös University Budapest) Aleksandra Walczak (ENS) Justin Werfel (Harvard University) ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

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7 May 2018 - 11 May 2018

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Quantitative Life Sciences

Conference on Collective Behavior | (smr 3201)

Address: Via Beirut, 2 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Auditorium, SISSA Building

Secretary: Erica Sarnataro

Organizer(s): Iain Couzin (Max Planck Institute for Ornithology), Dario Floreano (EPFL), Irene Giardina (Università di Roma), Asja Jelic (ICTP), Local Organiser: Antonio Celani

Cosponsor(s): Institute for Complex Adaptive Mattericam

Europe/Rome Statistical mechanics and thermodynamics provide nowadays a comprehensive picture of the properties of equilibrium and near-equilibrium systems. Yet most phenomena occur out of equilibrium – for example nonequilibrium is essential for sustaining life or fluid motions – and our understanding of nonequilibrium systems is comparatively poorer and limited. At the same time, the revolution in information technologies has provided a wealth of quantitative data on complex systems whose fundamental laws are yet unknown to us. These two related domains are one of the great frontiers of contemporary science, both from the theoretical standpoint and for a multitude of practical applications. This research area has a strong interdisciplinary flavor and has special relevance for physics, geosciences, and life sciences. The understanding of complex, high-dimensional and non-equilibrium systems raises many challenges: · How does a complex system respond to perturbations? · How to construct and evaluate models across a hierarchical ladder of complexity? · How to deal with multiple scales in space and in time? · How to test theories and models against limited and often noisy observational data? · How to merge effectively models and data? · How to describe and predict large fluctuations and extreme events? · How do patterns emerge in the self-organization of complex systems? · How to study fluctuations in reversible and irreversible systems? The workshop aims to approach these problems taking advantage of results, tools, and ideas coming from a diverse range of scientific disciplines, with the goal of advancing our knowledge and foster cross fertilization. Speakers include: M. Baiesi, Italy L. Biferale, Italy G. Biroli, France A. Celani, Italy S. Ciliberto, France S. Cocco, France L. Cugliandolo, France L. De Cruz, Belgium E. Domany, U.S.A. E. Frey, Germany K. Gawedsky, France A. Gritsun, Russian Federation R. Harries, U.K. A. Jelic, Italy F. Kucharski, Italy T. Kuna, U.K. J. Kurchan, France A. Laio, Italy B. Machta, U.S.A. C. Maes, Belgium C. Mejia-Monasterio, Spain I. Nemenmann, U.S.A. A. Politi, U.K. D. Ruelle, France S. Sarkar, U.S.A. D. Schwab, U.S.A. U. Seifert, Germany T. Sharpee, U.S.A. S. Suweis, Italy M. Transtrum, U.S.A. E. Vanden-Eijnde, U.S.A. S. Vannitsem, Belgium A. Vulpiani, Italy J. Yorke, U.S.A. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

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14 May 2018 - 25 May 2018

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Quantitative Life Sciences

Advanced Workshop on Nonequilibrium Systems in Physics, Geosciences, and Life Sciences | (smr 3203)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Giambiagi Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Federica Delconte

Organizer(s): Freddy Bouchet (ENS-Lyon), Giovanni Gallavotti (Uni La Sapienza Rome), Andrea Gambassi (SISSA), Valerio Lucarini (Uni Reading/Uni Hamburg), Stefano Ruffo (SISSA), Local Organiser: Matteo Marsili

Cosponsor(s): University of Readinguniv_reading, SISSAsissa

Support E-Mail: smr3203@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 31/03/2018**

Europe/Rome DEADLINE for requesting participation: 5 MARCH 2018 ORGANIZERS: G. Kaminski Schierle, Cambridge University, U.K. A. Painelli, University of Parma, Italy LOCAL ORGANIZERS: L. Grisanti, SISSA/ICTP, Trieste Italy A. Hassanali, ICTP, Trieste, Italy A Conference for experimentalists and theoreticians investigating the photophysics and photochemistry behind the interaction of light with the organic material that make up living systems. This Conference will be a venue for scientists from all over the world working in biochemistry, physical chemistry and physics to discuss interactions between light and biological matter or its molecularbuilding blocks. Synergy among experimentalists and theoreticians is crucial to understand the diversity of phenomena and the fundamental processes that govern the complex interaction of light with living matter. The programme will include oral keynote invited presentations on the most recent developments, given both by high-profile senior scientists and junior researchers as well as contributed short talks and poster presentations. CALL FOR CONTRIBUTED ABSTRACTS: In the application form, all applicants are invited to submit an Abstract for a poster presentation. A limited number of contributed Abstracts will be selected by the Organizing Committee for a short oral presentation. TOPICS: • Theoretical advances inmodelling electronic excited states in biologically-relevant systems, including charge and energy transfer processes; • Photophysics and photochemistry of soft matter through time-dependent spectroscopic techniques; • State-of-the-artdevelopments andapplications of linear and nonlinear optical techniques for the imaging of biological systems in cells and tissues. • Emerging fluorescence and luminescence phenomena in proteins and biological systems. SPEAKERS INCLUDE: M. Barbatti, Marseille, France K. Belfield, New Jersey, U.S.A. S. Boxer, Stanford, U.S.A. I. Daidone, L'Aquila, Italy J. Dasgupta, Mumbai, India M. Di Donato, Florence, Italy W. Domcke, Garching, Germany N. Doslic, Zagreb, Croatia M. Garavelli, Bologna, Italy E. Gazit, Tel-Aviv, Israel M. Hariharan, Kerala, India R. Improta, CNR/IBB, Naples, Italy A.H. Marcus, Oregon, U.S.A. B. Mennucci, Pisa, Italy H. Okur, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland N. Rega, Naples, Italy B. Rossi, ELETTRA Trieste, Italy F. Santoro, ICCOM-CNR Pisa, Italy Y, Taghipour Azar, Tehran, Iran I. Tavernelli, IBM Zurich, Switzerland E. Vauthey, Geneva, Switzerland R. Venkatramani, Mumbai, India N. Ventosa, ICMAB Barcelona, Spain ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

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21 May 2018 - 25 May 2018

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Quantitative Life Sciences

Conference on the Complex Interactions of Light and Biological Matter: Experiments meet Theory | (smr 3120)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Doreen Sauleek

Organizer(s): Luca Grisanti (ICTP), Gabi Kaminski (Cambridge University), Anna Painelli (University of Parma), Local Organiser: Ali Hassanali

Europe/Rome Aim of the workshop The workshop on the emerging field of biological operations research – the application of operations research methodologies in systems and molecular cell biology – is designed to bring together participants and lecturers versed in either of the two disciplines that are eager to further uncover the deep connections between the two fields and find new avenues for research and collaboration while gaining new insight on biological functions from an operational and system perspective. The long-term goal of the workshop is to boost research and collaboration in this field, by acquainting researchers with the existing long-standing problems in system biology, molecular cell biology and bacterial physiology. We will explore the deep connections between these problems and those that arise in operations research, e.g. the question of regulation of mass production in an uncertain market, dynamic resource allocation, scheduling problems and the impact of different queuing disciplines of speed and efficiency of a complex production facility. Researchers will have a chance to exchange ideas and compare different methodologies and modes of thinking about operational parameters such as throughput, efficiency, resource allocation, reliability, redundancy, and cost in a novel biological context. Topics Scheduling and queuing disciplines – from circadian rhythms to pipelining of self-replication Allocation of resources to self-replication vs. maintenance Transcription and translation regulation, role of external and internal information Controlling WIP (work-in-progress) – Kanban, TOC, and CONWIP vs. product feedback inhibition Anticipatory systems and their reverse engineering Metabolic networks and queuing theory Bullwhip effect and the role of inventory control, forecasting and information Modern queuing theory Self-regulating and resource dependent branching processes ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

9 Jul 2018 - 14 Jul 2018

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Quantitative Life Sciences

Workshop on Operations Research of Biological Systems | (smr 3223)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Euler Lecture Hall (LB)

Secretary: Erica Sarnataro

Organizer(s): Suckjoon Jun (UC San Diego, USA), Rami Pugatch (ICTP), Local Organiser: Matteo Marsili

Activity

12 Nov 2018 - 23 Nov 2018

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Quantitative Life Sciences

Winter School on Quantitative Systems Biology: Learning and Artificial Intelligence | (smr 3246)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)

Secretary: Erica Sarnataro

Organizer(s): Chris Mathys (SISSA), Davide Zoccolan (SISSA), Local Organiser: Antonio Celani

Cosponsor(s): International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS)icts

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