Biomat 2014:
Complexity and Emergence in Social and Biological Systems

Lectures       (Book of Abstracts )

Tomás ALARCÓN
(CRM, Barcelona, Spain)
Stochastic multiscale models of competition between cellular populations
Nicola BELLOMO
(Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Crowd dynamics: What is a crowd for a mathematician?
1. From the Question "What is a Crowd?" to Mathematical Tools
2. Models, Mathematical Problems, and Evacuation Dynamics
Miroslaw LACHOWICZ
(University of Warsaw, Poland)
Hydrodynamic limits and self--organization
Philip MAINI
(Oxford University, United Kingdom)
Modelling collective cell motion in biology
Hans MEINHARDT
(Max Planck Institute, Germany)
1. Biological pattern formation: local self-enhancement and long range inhibition as the driving force
2. Models for regeneration: reconciling pattern formation and growth
3. If patters destabilize themselves: generation of highly dynamic patterns by self-quenching of newly generated patterns
Jorge PACHECO
(Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
Climate Change: Governance, Cooperation and Self-organization
Eitan TADMOR
(Maryland University, USA)
Flocking and consensus in collective dynamics
1. Agent-based models
2. Kinetic and hydrodynamic descriptions
Andrea TOSIN
(Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy)
Traffic flow on networks: A fully-discrete kinetic theory approach