4th Annual French Complex Systems Summer School

4th Annual French Complex Systems Summer School Paris, August 2nd to 20th, 2010
website: http://iscpif.fr/CSSS2010
This new series of international Complex Systems Summer School (CSSS2010) set in France is co-organized by the two French Institutes: Complex Systems Institute Paris Île-de-France (ISC-PIF) & Complex Systems Institute Rhône-Alpes (IXXI), in coordination with the overarching National Network of Complex Systems (RNSC) and with the support of the european coordination action ASSYST. This year, the summer school will take place in Paris at the ISC-PIF: 57-59 rue Lhomond, 75005, Paris, France.
The aim of the school is to provide in-depth reference courses to a multi-disciplinary audience of researchers and students. The level of lectures will range from introductory to advanced, as attendees are not expected to be familiar with all the fields covered. Lecture topics will address specific objects from various disciplines pertaining to complex systems (physics, biology, sociology, etc.), or interdisciplinary tools and methods (mathematical, computational), or both.

Invited Lecturers * Hugues Bersini (IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) o Software Technologies for Complex Systems * Guillaume Beslon (IXXI, Université de Lyon, INSA-Lyon, LIRIS, France) o Digital genetics: A view on the origin of biological complexity * Andrew Crooks (Computational Social Science, Georges Mason University, USA) o T.B.A * Ronald Dickman (Universidade Federal de Minais Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) o Nonequilibrium phase transitions and self-organized criticality: Paradigms for complex systems * Marco Dorigo (IRIDIA,Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) o Swarm Intelligence * François Graner (Institut Curie, France) o Cellular patterns: simple problems, complex solutions * Alexander Mikhailov (Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin, Germany) o From Swarms to Societies: Origins of Social Organization * Lael Parrott (Département de géographie, Université de Montréal, Canada) o T.B.A * Céline Rozenblat (Institut de Géographie, Faculté des Géosciences, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland) o Cities and Dynamics of networks * Alessandro Torcini (Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi CNR, Florence, Italy) o Collective Dynamics in -Not Too- Complex Networks Applying to the Summer School Early application tuition rate (if applying by May 30) is €300 for the whole school. Regular tuition rate (if applying after May 30) is €400.

Tuition rate includes: * attendance to all courses * housing in Paris (if applying by June 15) * lunches and coffee breaks Housing can be guaranteed only if the application was received by June 15 (and accepted). After June 15, housing will be assigned only if there is still vacancies.

The number of participants is limited to 30.