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Prof. Erik Aurell (KTH), Mikko Alava (HUT, Espoo, Finland)05/05/2008, 13:00
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Prof. Luca Peliti (Naples)06/05/2008, 13:00While most of the genetic information is coded in the DNA sequence, the selection process acts on phenotypic traits. It may well be the case that, while mutations affect independently these traits, the selective effect (fitness) is a nonlinear function of the traits themselves. I shall recall a general approach to the description of this two-layered evolution process, and I shall discuss...Go to contribution page
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Dr Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi (University of Helsinki)07/05/2008, 10:00We inquire the scaling properties of the 2d Navier-Stokes equation sustained by a forcing field with Gaussian statistics, white-noise in time and with power-law correlation in momentum space of degree 2-2*epsilon. This is at variance with the setting usually assumed to derive Kraichan's classical theory. We contrast accurate numerical experiments with the different...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Olav Tirkkonen (TKK)07/05/2008, 13:00In wireless networks it is beneficial for the nodes to share a notion of time, at least in a periodic (clock) sense. In existing cellular networks, nodes may get their timing from a centralized server. In networks without centralized control, however, such as ad hoc and sensor networks, time synchrony has to be generated in a self-organized manner. Each node decides its preferred timing...Go to contribution page
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Dr Joakim Enwall (Uppsala University)08/05/2008, 13:00The paper is focused on the part of the Silk Road in the Tarim Basin and adjacent areas. Today this region is located mostly within the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China, but in historical times it has been contested by many states and power structures and has served as a melting pot for many peoples, cultures and languages. The relatively modern concept...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Luca Peliti (Naples)08/05/2008, 15:15Influenza exhibits two apparently contradictory features: on the one hand, any given individual can get infected with the disease over and over again, since the virus mutates fast enough to escape acquired immunity; on the other hand, on any given epidemic season, the viral strain is sufficiently well-defined, so that an effective vaccine can be identified. It represents a problem in...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Satya Majumdar (Directeur de Recherche, CNRS, Universite Paris-Sud (ORSAY), FRANCE.)09/05/2008, 13:00The statistical properties of the largest eigenvalue of a random matrix are of interest in diverse fields ranging from disordered systems to statistical data analysis and even to string theory. In this talk I'll discuss some recent developements on the theory of extremely rare fluctuations of the largest eigenvalue and its various applications.Go to contribution page
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09/05/2008, 15:00
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Prof. Massimo Vergassola (Institut Pasteur)12/05/2008, 15:00I shall discuss the challenges faced by living organisms trying to locate and move towards a source of nutrients, odors, pheromones, etc., i.e. substances emitted by the source and randomly transported by the environmental medium. Microorganisms, such as bacteria performing chemotaxis, can rely on local concentration gradients to guide them towards the source, yet they have to cope...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Joachim Krug (U Cologne)13/05/2008, 10:00Abstract: Experimental evolution is an emerging field of evolutionary biology in which populations of microbes (bacteria, viruses, fungi) are propagated in the lab for thousands of generations and adaptive events are monitored in phenotypic and genotypic detail. In this talk I will review recent efforts at modeling such experiments, based on the classic Wright-Fisher model of...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Heiko Rieger (Saarbrucken)13/05/2008, 13:00During tumor growth the regular arterio-venous blood vessel network in normal tissue is transformed into a highly inhomogeneous tumor specific vasculature, involving a multitude of dynamical processes like cell proliferation, angiogenesis, vessel regression and cell death. A general characteristics is the compartmentalization of the tumor into several regions differing in vessel density,...Go to contribution page
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Dr György Dan (KTH)14/05/2008, 10:00Peer-assisted content distribution systems can be characterized by two important properties: first, content is distributed to the consumers using the resources of other consumers; second, participation in the system and contribution to the system's resources is voluntary. Peer-assisted content distribution is best known due to the popularity of peer-to-peer file-sharing systems, but it...Go to contribution page
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14/05/2008, 13:00Licentiate presentation, J. Ardelius, KTH and SICSGo to contribution page
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Prof. Chin-Kun Hu (Academica Sinica)19/05/2008, 13:00In this talk, I briefly review some recent developments in computing structures and properties of proteins in parallel computers. The topics under discussion include:
- developments of algorithms and computer packages for all-atom simulations of proteins in parallel computers,
- parallel tempering simulations of HP-36
- development of algorithm to compute...
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Prof. Bing-Hong Wang (University of Science and Technology of China)20/05/2008, 13:00Since the spatial structure is introduced into the evolutionary games by Nowak and May, there has been a continuous effort on exploring effects of spatial structures on the cooperation. It has been found that the spatial structure promotes evolution of cooperation in the prisoner's dilemma game (PDG), while in contrast often inhibits cooperative behavior in the snowdrift game (SG)....Go to contribution page
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Prof. Matteo Palassini (Barcelona)21/05/2008, 13:00Due to the small number of molecules involved in intracellular processes, stochastic fluctuations play an important role in gene regulation, and possible constructive effects of noise have received considerable attention. Another important, but often neglected, aspect of gene regulation are the long delays involved in the complex biochemical processes of transcription and...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Satya Majumdar (Directeur de Recherche, CNRS, Universite Paris-Sud (ORSAY), FRANCE.)22/05/2008, 13:00
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Sang Hoon Lee (Complex Systems and Statistical Physics Lab, KAIST)23/05/2008, 13:00Recently, massive digital records have made it possible to analyze a huge amount of data in social sciences such as social network theory. We investigate social networks between people by extracting information on the World Wide Web. Using famous search engines such as Google, we quantify relatedness between two people as the number of Web pages including both of their names and...Go to contribution page
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Dr Matteo Marsili (Abdus Salam ICTP)26/05/2008, 13:00
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Prof. Meesoon Ha (KAIST, Korea)28/05/2008, 13:00
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Sumedha Sumedha (ISI, Torino, Italy)29/05/2008, 13:00
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Dr György Dan (KTH, EE), Dr Supriya Krishnamurthy (SICS)30/05/2008, 10:30
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Mr John Ardelius (Swedish Institute of Computer Science)The Licentiate thesis is in the Swedish academic system a mid-degree, halfways to the PhD.
John Ardelius will present his work on heuristics to solve large constrain satisfaction problems, which is within the scope of PhysDIS.
External examiner: Prof Bart Selman, Cornell Go to contribution page -
Prof. Mads Dam (KTH)
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