Ecogrids Program/Schedule

Jacobs University, June 18 - 22, 2012

Program (pdf)


Sunday, June17, 2012

17:00 - 22:00     REGISTRATION and BARBECUE


Monday, June 18, 2012

09:00 - 09:45     W. Kröger
                        Characteristic of large-scale technical networks and challenges to analysis methods

09:45 - 10:30     A. Motter
                        Synchronization in oscillator and power-grid networks

10:30 - 11:00     COFFEE BREAK

11:00 - 11:45     J. Pitt
                        Axiomatisation of economic principles for common pool resource allocation

11:45 - 12:30     A. Melbinger
                        Cooperation in structured populations

12:30 - 14:30     LUNCH BREAK

14:30 - 15:15     H. J. Jensen
                        Introduction to the Tangled Nature model: ecology and economics

15:15 - 16:00     N. Martinez
                        Maximizing stability and function of complex ecological networks

16:00 - 16:30     COFFEE BREAK

16:30 - 17:15     U. Feudel

                        Generalized models as a tool to study the dynamics of food webs

17:15 - 18:00     Orestis Terzidis
                       
Energy transformation – challenges for a scientific framework

19:00 - 20:00     DINNER

20:00 - 23:00     GET TOGETHER in the ROOMS of the FACULTY CLUB


Tuesday, June 19, 2012

09:00 - 09:45     A. Melbinger
                        The evolution of cooperation in bacterial populations

09:45 - 10:30     N. Martinez
                        Sustaining economic exploitation of coupled human-natural networks

10:30 - 11:00     COFFEE BREAK

11:00 - 11:45     W. Kröger
                        Dealing with complexity and interdependencies: advance modeling/simulation approaches

11:45 - 12:30     A. Motter
                        Realistic control of network dynamics

12:30 - 14:30     LUNCH BREAK

14:30 - 15:15     H. Jensen
                        How interaction between co-evolving agents shape the structure of the evolving
                        interaction network

15:15 - 16:00    J. Schaumeier
                       Experiments in resource allocation with self‐organising electronic systems

16:00 - 16:30     COFFEE BREAK

16:30 - 17:15     M. Magnasco
                        The architecture and plasticity of vascular systems, from plant leaves to vertebrates.
                        (Part I)

17:15 - 17:45     B. Kramer
                        Remarks on networks from the perspective of an outsider

17:45 - 18:30     POSTER SESSION

19:00 - 20:00     DINNER


20:00 - 23:00     GET TOGETHER in the ROOMS of the FACULTY CLUB


Wednesday, June 20, 2012

09:00 - 09:45     M. Pleimling
                        Stochastic models for predator-prey competition

09:45 - 10:30     T. Vicsek
                        Universal patterns and transitions in collective motion

10:30 - 11:00     COFFEE BREAK

11:00 - 11:45     M. Magnasco
                        The architecture and plasticity of vascular systems, from plant leaves to vertebrates.
                        (Part II)

11:45 - 12:30     M. Timme
                        Challenges in network dynamics: synchronization and Braess' paradox in modern
                        power grids

12:30 - 14:00     LUNCH BREAK

14:00 - 22:00     EXCURSION and WORKSHOP DINNER  in Bremerhaven


Thursday, June 21, 2012

09:00 - 09:45     T. Vicsek
                        Hierarchy and/versus controllability of complex networks

09:45 - 10:30     M. Pleimling
                        Cyclically competing species: deterministic trajectories and stochastic evolution

10:30 - 11:00     COFFEE BREAK

11:00 - 11:45     C. Brandstätt
                        The DESERTEC project and the challenges to international
                        electricity transmission

11:45 - 12:30     S. Kettemann
                        How does renewable energy affect the stability of our energy grids

12:30 - 14:30     LUNCH BREAK


14:30 - 15:15     B. Blasius

                        Marine bioinvasion in the network of global shipping connections

15:15 - 16:00     N. Goldenfeld
                        How networks drove the rapid evolution of early life: clues from the canonical genetic code

16:00 - 16:30     COFFEE BREAK

16:30 - 17:15     DISCUSSIONS


17:15 - 18:15     POSTER SESSION

19:00 - 20:00     DINNER

20:00 - 23:00     GET TOGETHER in the ROOMS of the FACULTY CLUB


Friday, June 22, 2012

09:00 - 09:45     N. Goldenfeld
                        The statistical mechanics of hallucinations and the evolution of the visual cortex

09:45 - 10:30     K. Jahn

                        Energy networks of the future - examples from applied research

10:30 - 11:00     COFFEE BREAK

11:00 - 11:45     A. Hartmann
                        Large deviation properties of complex systems

11:45 - 12:30     DISCUSSIONS

12:30                  LUNCH and DEPARTURE