IMSc Complex Systems School

IMSc-Chennai, Jan 2-27, 2006


Schedule
Venue for Lectures: Ramanujan Auditorium
Venue for Project work: First floor lounge, Guest House


1st week (Jan 2-6)

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
9-9:30
Welcome Project Group meetings
Project Group meetings
Project Group meetings Project Group meetings
9:30-11
Sanjay Jain
Sanjay Jain Sanjay Jain Sanjay Jain Sanjay Jain
11-11:30
TEA/COFFEE
TEA/COFFEE TEA/COFFEE TEA/COFFEE TEA/COFFEE
11:30-1
V Balakrishnan V Balakrishnan V Balakrishnan V Balakrishnan V Balakrishnan
1-2
LUNCH
LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH
2-3:30
Jose Lobo
Jose Lobo Jose Lobo Jose Lobo Jose Lobo
3:30-4
TEA/COFFEE TEA/COFFEE TEA/COFFEE TEA/COFFEE TEA/COFFEE
4-5:30
Gautam Menon Gautam Menon Gautam Menon Gautam Menon Gautam Menon
5:30-7
Project
Project
Project
Project
Project
Courses:
Sanjay Jain - Networks in complex systems: structure, dynamics and evolution
V Balakrishnan - Introduction to Nonlinear Dynamics
Jose Lobo - Cities: Economic Growth, Innovation and Scaling
Gautam Menon - Statistical Mechanics and Applications


2nd week (Jan 9-13)

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
9-9:30
Project Group meetings Project Group meetings
Project Group meetings
Project Group meetings Project Group meetings
9:30-11
Eric Smith
Eric Smith
Eric Smith
Eric Smith
Lauren Buckley
11-11:30
TEA/COFFEE
TEA/COFFEE TEA/COFFEE TEA/COFFEE TEA/COFFEE
11:30-1
Suresh Naidu
Somdatta Sinha
Somdatta Sinha
Somdatta Sinha
Somdatta Sinha
1-2
LUNCH
LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH
2-3:30
K VS Rao
KVS Rao
KVS Rao
V Balakrishnan
D Chowdhury
3:30-4
TEA/COFFEE TEA/COFFEE TEA/COFFEE TEA/COFFEE TEA/COFFEE
4-5:30
R Ramaswamy
R Ramaswamy
R Siddharthan
R Siddharthan
R Siddharthan
5:30-7
Project
Project
Project
Project
Project
Courses:
Eric Smith - Understanding the origin and order of biochemistry
Suresh Naidu - Evolutionary Dynamics of Institutions
Somdatta Sinha - Pattern Formation in Biological Systems
Kanury V S Rao - The Immune System
Debashish Chowdhury - Traffic on networks: From molecules to vehicles
Ram Ramaswamy - Introduction to Computational Biology and Genome Organization

Rahul Siddharthan - Introduction to Regulatory Genomics
Lauren Buckley - Spatial Ecology
3rd week (Jan 16-20)

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
9-9:30
Project Group meetings Project Group meetings
Project Group meetings
Project Group meetings Project Group meetings
9:30-11
J-P Onnela
J-P Onnela J-P Onnela J-P Onnela J-P Onnela
11-11:30
TEA/COFFEE
TEA/COFFEE TEA/COFFEE TEA/COFFEE TEA/COFFEE
11:30-1
B K Chakrabarti
R Ramanujam
R Ramanujam
R Ramanujam
S Subramanian
1-2
LUNCH
LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH
2-3:30
Sitabhra Sinha
B K Chakrabarti Sitabhra Sinha S Subramanian Sitabhra Sinha
3:30-4
TEA/COFFEE TEA/COFFEE TEA/COFFEE TEA/COFFEE TEA/COFFEE
4-5:30
Sudeshna Sinha
Sudeshna Sinha
Sudeshna Sinha
Project
Project
5:30-7
Project
Project
Project
Project
Project
Courses:
Jukka-Pekka Onnela - Financial and Social Networks
Bikas K Chakrabarti - Statistical physics of fracture and earthquakes: Model studies
Bikas K Chakrabarti - Econophysics of wealth distributions in societies
R Ramanujam - An Invitation to Game Theory
Sitabhra Sinha - Introduction to Econophysics
Sudeshna Sinha - Models of Spatiotemporal Chaos



4th week (Jan 23-27)

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
9-9:30
Project Group meetings Project Group meetings
Project Group meetings


9:30-11
Sitabhra Sinha
C Dasgupta
C Dasgupta
G West
Project presentations
11-11:30
TEA/COFFEE
TEA/COFFEE TEA/COFFEE TEA/COFFEE TEA/COFFEE
11:30-1
C Dasgupta
Project Group Meetings
G West
Project presentations Project presentations
1-2
LUNCH
LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH
2-3:30
Gautam Menon Van Savage Van Savage Project presentations Project presentations
3:30-4
TEA/COFFEE TEA/COFFEE TEA/COFFEE TEA/COFFEE TEA/COFFEE
4-5:30
Project G West Project Project presentations Concluding session
5:30-7
Project
Project
Project


Courses:
Chandan Dasgupta - Complex behaviour of "glassy" systems
Geoffrey West - Biological Scaling