Biocenter
Zülpicher Straße 47b
50674 Cologne
25-27 September
2017
Speakers:
Jörg Breitung / Macroeconomic Policy Institute,
University of Cologne, Germany
David Gross / Institute of Theoretical Physics,
University of Cologne, Germany
Philip Holmes / Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton, USA
Ankit Khambhati / Department of Bioengineering,
University of Pennsylvania, USA
Michael Lechner / Swiss Institute for Empirical Economic Research,
University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Laura Marzetti / Department of Neuroscience,
Università degli Studi "G. d'Annunzio", Italy
Arkady Pikovsky / Institute of Physics and Astronomy,
University Potsdam, Germany
Michael Rosenblum / Institute of Physics and Astronomy,
University Potsdam, Germany
Jakob Runge / The Grantham Institute for Climate Change,
Imperial College London, UK
Coupling and Causality in Complex Systems
Complex systems such as the human brain, Earth’s climate and economy are
characterized by a multitude of coupled processes on different spatial
and temporal scales. In order to better understand the dynamics of the
system at hand each scientific area has developed specific tools to
identify, model and quantify these processes. The conference Coupling and Causality in Complex Systems (C3S) will present a collection of these approaches with the aim to provide scientists with new analysis strategies for their field.
The conference focuses on how to characterize a complex system and on the methods for estimating and modeling of statistical coupling (e.g.
network coherence, creation and modulation of small networks and local
or long-range synchronization by cross frequency phase-phase and
phase-amplitude coupling) and causality (e.g. Granger causality,
transfer entropy). Therefore, data analysts from different study fields
including neuroscience, mathematics, physics, biology, and economy will
present their approaches with a particular focus on the methods they
use. The aim of this conference is to foster discussions and the
transdisciplinary exchange of advanced techniques, methods, and
algorithms, thereby stimulating potential future collaborations.
Organization
The interdisciplinary conference Coupling and Causality in Complex
Systems (C3S) is hosted by the Competence Area 3: Quantitative Modeling
of Complex Systems of the University of Cologne (UoC), Germany. It is
organized by the Institute of Geophysics & Meteorology, UoC, the
Institute of Clinical Neuroscience and Psychology, Heinrich-Heine
University Düsseldorf and the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience at
the Research Center Juelich.
Scientific Organizing Committee
Silvia Daun | Institute of Zoology, University of Cologne, Germany; Department of Cognitive Neuroscience,
Research Center Jülich, Germany
Esther Florin | Institute of Clinical Neuroscience and Psychology, Düssseldorf, Germany
Joachim Gross | Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Glasgow, UK
Michael von Papen | Institute of Geophysics & Meteorology, Cologne, Germany
Program
We will have different sessions with differing topics and each session will be opened by one of the
invited speakers. Here is a preliminary version of our program:
Session 9
Granger causality II
Esther Florin
Session 10
Causal complex network measures
Jakob Runge
Session 1
Synchronization I
Arkady Pikovsky
Session 2
Synchronization II
Silvia Daun
Session 3
Coupled oscillators I
Phil Holmes
Session 4
Coupled oscillators II
Michael Rosenblum
Further topics of interest for the conference include, amongst others, research and methods development on: effective and functional connectivity, (partial directed) coherence, network topology, correlation in recurrent networks, (directed) graph-theoretic measures, nonlinear dynamics of complex systems, complex spatio-temporal systems, mutual information and transfer entropy.
Session 5
Phase coupling
Laura Marzetti
Session 6
Network structures
Ankit Khambati
Session 7
Bayesian networks
David Gross
Session 8
Granger causality I
Jörg Breitung
Contact
For questions regarding the conference feel free to contact us via c3s-conference@uni-koeln.de.