Here at KITPC, Beijing, the companion program has gone into (soon) the sixth week.
The first two weeks of the six centered around a ICTP-financed school on related topics, which gathered a considerable crowd of students (60 or so) in particular from China and eastern Asia.
Since then the main idea has been a daily lecture or two, and lots of work. It will remain to be seen how productive the KITPC program will prove to be - one never can predict these things with any accuracy. However, a word must be said for the Chinese cuisine, and the culinary (and scientific) leadership shown by the local main organizer, Haijun Zhou.
The daily scientific life has also included two discussion sessions so far, one on K-SAT problems and such (Eliza Maneva, Roberto Mulet and Mikko Alava convened) and another on biology and global optimization (Henri Orland and Jooyoung Lee). Some lively discussion ensued.
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Sunday, April 6, 2008
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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