Author: cxdig

Complexity Global School | Santa Fe Institute

Application for the second Complexity Global School – to be hosted simultaneously at Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, and Santa Fe Institute, USA from July 21 to August 3 – is now open. Applicants based in Latin America and the Caribbean are eligible for the Colombia location, and applicants based in USA, Canada, and western Europe are eligible for the USA location. Supported by the Omidyar Network, the school is free for all admitted students, inclusive of tuition, room, board, and travel stipend.

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APS/ICTP-SAIFR Satellite March Meeting, Session on Complex Systems

To extend the reach and diversity of its annual meetings, the American Physical Society has developed a pilot program of APS Satellite Meetings with the participation of ICTP-SAIFR in Latin America. As part of the APS March Meeting from March 3-8, 2024, ICTP-SAIFR is organizing on March 5 (Tuesday) a 2-hour Satellite Session on Complex Systems that will be broadcast live to all participants of the APS March Meeting, as well as a session on Complex Systems for student/postdoc presentations.

Graduate students and postdocs can apply until February 10, 2024 to give oral presentations or posters at the student-postdoc session on complex systems.

More at: www.ictp-saifr.org

Faster is Slower effect for evacuation processes: a granular standpoint

F. Al Reda, S. Faure, B. Maury, E. Pinsard

Journal of Computational Physics

• Numerical investigation of the Faster is Slower effect based on a parameter free model.

• Integration of an inhibition tendency of polite pedestrians.

• Numerical evidence of the fluidizing role of an obstacle upstream the exit during evacuation.

• Numerical recovering of an experimental power law for time lapses.

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Call for organization: Conference Complex Systems (CCS 2025)

The Complex Systems Society (CSS) organizes every year a main conference (CCS) – the most important annual meeting for the complex systems research community.

The Complex Systems Society invites bids to host the edition for 2025.

The conference is generally held in September/October of each year.

Interested potential organizers should send a short document (6 pages max.) detailing the proposal to the Society account css@cssociety.org (please add jfmendes@ua.pt and jramasco@ifisc.uib-csic.es in cc).

The last edition was in Salvador, Brasil (CCS2023). The next one will be in Exeter/London, UK (CCS2024).

The CCS series in recent years alternates between Europe, Asia and the Americas. In the edition 2025, preference will be given to bids from outside Europe in this edition even though bids from other locations will be also considered.

The deadline for proposals submission is April 30, 2024. 

More at: cssociety.org

Self-organization as a mechanism of resilience in dryland ecosystems

Sonia Kéfi, Alexandre Génin, Angeles Garcia-Mayor, Emilio Guirado, Juliano S. Cabral, Miguel Berdugo, Josquin Guerber, Ricard Solé, and Fernando T. Maestre

The spatial structure of vegetation in dryland ecosystems has long fascinated scientists due to its striking appearance. Through a combination of global field surveys, mathematical models, and remote sensing, we show that the mechanisms responsible for these patterns enable healthy dryland ecosystems to adapt to changing environmental conditions, including water shortages, by adjusting their spatial structure. Conversely, degraded ecosystems do not have this ability. Our findings underscore the critical role of spatial pattern formation in promoting resilience in dryland ecosystems. Moreover, these spatial patterns could serve as valuable indicators of ecosystem health under a changing climate, opening important perspectives for future research in this field.

Read the full article at: www.pnas.org