Both the program and the workshop have had a number of additions (in the former case Chin-Kun Hu, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan and Mesoon Ha, KAIST). We would like to welcome all.
The program and the workshop are now soliciting participants.
Notice that we offer Grants and they are partly reserved for Nordic and partly for all possible participants. The deadlines are on the actual webpages with details.
I wish everyone a happy 2008!
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Some more exciting people to the workshop
The program of the program workshop is developing. At least three new names will be added shortly, Florent Krzakala (ESPCI, Paris), Jeremy Stripling (MIT), and Riccardo Zecchina (ICTP, Torino Polytechnic) are namely coming to Stockholm.
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Progam, first steps
This is the blog that will account of the experiences, mostly scientific, of the Nordita (Nordic Insititute for Theoretical Physics, Stockholm, Sweden, www.nordita.org) scientific program "Statistical Mechanics of Distributed Information Systems".
This program will be attended by a mixed crowd of theoretical physicists and computer, network, and communication scientists. In other words, it is cross-disciplinary. Recall that Sweden and the neighboring Finland are the host countries for the two big mobile/cell phone firms Ericsson and Nokia, and that Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, is a Finn... (and Skype is from Sweden, and IRC from Finland for that matter). The use of physics to describe collective and self-organized phenomena is extending over the boundaries of scientific disciplines, as you maybe can see.
The program will last four weeks, and consists of informal interactions of scientists convened in Stockholm plus a workshop with more participants around the 14th to 16th of May. It follows on the steps of a similar initiative at the Kavli Insitute for Theoretical Physics, China in Beijing in March-April of 2008.
I am eagerly waiting for this occasion, together with my co-convenor Erik Aurell (KTH, Stockholm) and we would like to acknowledge the support of Nordita at this early stage.
Mikko Alava (HUT, Helsinki, Finland)
This program will be attended by a mixed crowd of theoretical physicists and computer, network, and communication scientists. In other words, it is cross-disciplinary. Recall that Sweden and the neighboring Finland are the host countries for the two big mobile/cell phone firms Ericsson and Nokia, and that Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, is a Finn... (and Skype is from Sweden, and IRC from Finland for that matter). The use of physics to describe collective and self-organized phenomena is extending over the boundaries of scientific disciplines, as you maybe can see.
The program will last four weeks, and consists of informal interactions of scientists convened in Stockholm plus a workshop with more participants around the 14th to 16th of May. It follows on the steps of a similar initiative at the Kavli Insitute for Theoretical Physics, China in Beijing in March-April of 2008.
I am eagerly waiting for this occasion, together with my co-convenor Erik Aurell (KTH, Stockholm) and we would like to acknowledge the support of Nordita at this early stage.
Mikko Alava (HUT, Helsinki, Finland)
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