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Recent events
We have co-organized the satellite meeting COMPILA2022 - Complexity in Language Variation and Change, a workshop on language dynamics, in collaboration with IFISC - Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems at the CCS2022 - the Conference of Complex Systems (October 17-21, 2022, Palma de Mallorca), the official conference of the Complex Systems Society, which represents the main and yearly meeting for researchers in complex systems. Follow the link to see the detailed program and the interesting contributions and stay tuned for the next updates!
In the News
Dr. Marco Patriarca was interviewed by the Sicomoro Association at the yearly official conference of the Complex Systems Society CCS2022.
Dr. Els Heinsalu has spoken on the Estonian national TV channel about Complex Systems and our research on econophysics and languages! The interview was hosted by the scientific program "Curiosity Excellence Center" ("Uudishimu tippkeskus") and is available online!
June 5th, 2022. Dr. Els Heinsalu's interview at the Estonian national radio (vikerradio.err.ee) on movement ecology, plant and animal dispersal, and complex systems! The interview is online!
Recent & Forthcoming Presentations
Talk: Marius E. Yamakou, Els Heinsalu, Marco Patriarca, and Stefano Scialla, Diversity-induced decoherence in a globally coupled neural network, CNS*2023 - 32nd Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting, Leipzig, Germany, July 15-19, 2023.
Talk: Marius E. Yamakou, Els Heinsalu, Marco Patriarca, and Stefano Scialla, Diversity-Induced Decoherence in a Slow-Fast Dynamical System, DS23 - SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Portland, Oregon, May 14 - 18, 2023.
Talk: Vivian Dornelas, Spatial Organization of single-species population, Chemical Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, May 8th, 2023.
Talk: Jens-Kristjan Liivand, Stefano Scialla, Marco Patriarca, Els Heinsalu. The effect of memory and heterogeneity in an agent-based language competition model. March 23, 2023, TalTech Seminars.
Talk: Marius E. Yamakou, Els Heinsalu, Marco Patriarca, and Stefano Scialla, Diversity-induced decoherence in globally coupled neural networks, DSABNS - 14th Conference on Dynamical Systems Applied to Biology and Natural Sciences, 2023, Bilbao, Spain, February 5-8, 2023.
Estonian Physics Days (Füüsikapäevad) 2023: Dr. Els Heinsalu has spoken about our research work in language dynamics in the talk "Languages through the Lens of Complex Systems Theory", October 28-29, 2022, LI Füüsikapäevad,Nelijärve Puhkekeskus.
CCS2022 - the Conference of Complex Systems, October 17-21, 2022, Palma de Mallorca:
Talk: Els Heinsalu and Marco Patriarca. Cultural and geographical barriers in language competition.
Talk: Jens-Kristjan Liivand, Stefano Scialla, Marco Patriarca, Els Heinsalu. The effect of memory and heterogeneity in an agent-based language competition model.
Talk: Stefano Scialla, Marco Patriarca, Els Heinsalu. Hubs, noise, and diversity in a FitzHugh-Nagumo oscillator network.
Poster: Clement Zankoc, Els Heinsalu, Marco Patriarca. Agent-based model of language formation, propagation and clusterization.
Poster: Marius Yamakou, Els Heinsalu, Marco Patriarca, Stefano Scialla. Diversity-induced damping in complex neural networks.
Poster: Jens-Kristjan Liivand, Stefano Scialla, Marco Patriarca, Els Heinsalu. The effect of memory and heterogeneity in an agent-based language competition model.
Recent publications
Diversity-induced decoherence
Marius E. Yamakou, Els Heinsalu, Marco Patriarca, and Stefano Scialla,
Phys. Rev. E 106, L032401 (2022)
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.106.L032401 https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.08064
Influence of invasion on natural selection in dispersal-structured populations,
David Navidad Maeso, Marco Patriarca, Els Heinsalu,
Physica A 547, 124427 (2022),
doi: 0.1016/j.physa.2022.127389 arxiv.org/abs/2204.11899
The interplay between diversity and noise in an excitable cell network model,
Stefano Scialla, Marco Patriarca, Els Heinsalu.
Europhysics Letters 137, 51001 (2022),
doi: 10.1209/0295-5075/ac5cdb arXiv:2203.12506