Workshop TSOCS-2004
A workshop on
"Transport and Self-Organization in Complex Systems" was
held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, from August 8 to 12, 2004. It was organized
by the Consortium of
the Americas for Interdisciplinary Science (CAIS) of the University
of New Mexico (UNM), USA, in collaboration with two Brazilian institutes:
the Instituto de Fisica
of the Universidade de Brasilia (IF-UNB) and the Instituto de Fisica
of the Universidade
Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (IF-UFRGS). The site of the workshop
was the Hotel Novotel in Porto Alegre where the participants were also lodged.
This was one of the many workshops organized and/or supported by the CAIS which is a Center of the University of New Mexico with a mission, recognized and supported by the National Science Foundation and other institutions, to foster international collaborations in interdisciplinary science between Latin American scientists and scientists in the USA.
This workshop was additionally supported by Brazilian agencies
like CNPq and CAPES. The goal of the workshop was to organize a gathering of a small group of interdisciplinary
researchers. The workshop comprised a few invited speakers, and contributed
talks and poster sessions. Contributions were encouraged in the application of
physics to phenomena on the cellular level, of statistical mechanics to epidemiology
and ecology, of mathematical methods to financial and other data involving human
interactions, and of network theory to various transport problems that arise
in complex systems. Generally the workshop addressed the physics of biological
systems including mathematical ecology, the interface between physics and social
sciences including econophysics, and anomalous transport and transport on complex
networks. Reports on experimental work which poses real challenges to the theorists,
and theoretical work directed at available or observable data in the variety
of disciplines mentioned above, were particularly welcome in this workshop.
Subjects
Physics of biological
systems
Mathematical ecology
Physics and social sciences
Econophysics
Anomalous transport
Transport on complex lattices
Location
The workshop was held in Hotel Novotel in Porto Alegre, capital of the state
of Rio Grande do Sul. There are direct flights to the International Airport
of Porto Alegre from some South American capitals like Buenos Aires and Santiago
de Chile. Participants from other countries find frequent and direct connecting
flights to Porto Alegre from São Paulo or Rio de Janeiro.
Invited Speakers
G.
Abramson (S.C. de Bariloche, Argentina)
R. de Almeida (Porto Alegre, Brazil)
I. Aronson (Chicago, USA)
A. Bishop (Los Alamos, USA)
M. Cammarota (Porto Alegre, Brazil)
P. Cordero (Santiago, Chile)
S. Coutinho (Recife, Brazil)
R. Donángelo (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
R. Duncan(Albuquerque, USA)
A. Figueiredo (Brasília, Brazil)
J. Glazier (Bloomington, USA)
A. Hansen (Trondheim, Noruega)
V. M. Kenkre (Albuquerque, USA)
M. Kuperman (S.C. de Bariloche, Argentina)
H. Lee (Athens, USA)
O. Nassif de Mesquita (Belo Horizonte, Brazil)
G. Mindlin (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
O. Miramontes (México DF, México)
P. Molho (Grenoble, France)
F. A. Oliveira (Brasília, Brazil)
P.E. Parris (Rolla, USA)
C. Prado (São Paulo, Brazil)
J. M. Rubi Capaceti (Barcelona, Spain)
S. Sen (Buffalo, USA)
K.Sneppen(Nordita, Denmark)
H. E. Stanley (Boston, USA)
L. Tsimring (San Diego, USA)
J. L. Vega (Madrid, Spain)
Hotel Information
The workshop
was held in the Hotel Novotel, Rua Soledade 575, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
Tel.: +55(51)3327-9292, e-mail: novotelpoa@accor.com.br
The hotel has 70 non-smoking apartments and 50 smoking apartments, with the
normal features plus Internet access, heating and air-conditioning.
An opening ceremony took place on Sunday evening (8:00 PM) at the Hotel.
Deadlines
June 7, 2004
Abstracts invited speakers, abstracts contributed speakers and registration
of the participants
June 30, 2004 Final confirmation of participation
Organizing Committee
Rita de Almeida
(UFRGS) rita@if.ufrgs.br
Leonardo Brunet (UFRGS) leon@if.ufrgs.br
José Roberto Iglesias (UFRGS) iglesias@if.ufrgs.br
V.M. (Nitant) Kenkre (CAIS-UNM) kenkre@unm.edu
Fernando Albuquerque Oliveira (UNB) fao@fis.unb.br
Tarcísio Marciano da Rocha Filho (UNB) marciano@fis.unb.br
See http://fisica.ufrgs.br/tsocs2004/ for the site webpage.