Politecnico di Milano
September 28 - 30, 2010
 

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Last update: Sep 22, 2010

DEI - Department of Electronics and Information Politecnico di Milano

SICC - Italian Society for Chaos and Complexity

This course is part of the teaching activities organized by the PhD Program in Information Technology at DEI. 

It is not only addressed to PhD students, but to all researchers working in any areas of science and engineering and interested in the theory and applications of complex networks. The aim of the course is to illustrate the basic theoretical notions in an introductory but rigorous fashion, and to complement them with some applications taken from very diverse areas.
 
 

LECTURERS

Fabio Bertoni, Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano [webpage]
Renato Casagrandi, Department of Electronics and Information, Politecnico di Milano [webpage]
Alessandro Colombo, Department of Electronics and Information, Politecnico di Milano
Fabio Dercole, Department of Electronics and Information, Politecnico di Milano [webpage]
Mario Di Bernardo, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, University of Naples "Federico II" [webpage]
Martin Hasler, School of Computer and Communication Sciences, Ecole Politechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH [webpage]
Carlo Piccardi, Department of Electronics and Information, Politecnico di Milano [webpage]
Sergio Rinaldi, Department of Electronics and Information, Politecnico di Milano [webpage]
Giovanni Sansavini, Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano
Emanuele Strano, Urban Design Studies Unit, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, UK
Stefano Zanero, Department of Electronics and Information, Politecnico di Milano [webpage]
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PROGRAM

The language of the course (lectures and materials) is English.

Tuesday, September 28

	Part I: Structure
9:00 - 12:00  [Piccardi]	Networks and their topology. Distance, diameter, clustering coefficient, degree distribution, measures of centrality. Network models: random, small-world, scale-free networks. Community analysis
14:00 - 15:30  [Sansavini]	Vulnerability analysis of critical infrastructures. Cascade spreading of failures
15:30 - 17:00  [Strano]	Network analysis of urban structures: the role of centrality measures

Wednesday, September 29
 

9:00 - 10:30  [Bertoni]	Communities in Italian corporate networks
10:30 - 12:00  [Casagrandi]	Contact processes on networks: dynamics of epidemic diseases
12:00 - 13:00  [Zanero]	Modelling viruses in computer networks: open problems
	Part II: Dynamics
14:30 - 15:30  [Rinaldi]	Networks of dynamical systems and emergence of collective behaviours
15:30 - 16:30  [Colombo]	Master-slave synchronization
16:30 - 17:30  [Dercole]	Synchronization analysis: the Master Stability Function approach

Thursday, September 30
 

9:00 - 10:00  [Rinaldi]	Pattern formation and Turing instability
10:00 - 11:00 [Dercole]	Synchronization analysis: the Connection Graph Stability method
11:00 - 12:00  [Rinaldi]	Topological indicators of synchronization propensity
14:00 - 15:00  [Rinaldi]	Evolution of dispersal in ecology
15:00 - 16:30  [Hasler]	Synchronization in networks with blinking connections
16:30 - 18:00  [Di Bernardo]	Adaptive strategies for the synchronization of complex networks

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REGISTRATION

The participation is restricted to:

• people working at the Politecnico di Milano: PhD students, research associates ("assegnisti"), and professors of any Department;
• members of SICC - Italian Society for Chaos and Complexity [how to become a member].

• PhD students of DEI doctoral program must follow the usual online procedure for applicating to PhD courses;
• anyone else (including PhD students from other departments, and academics from inside and outside the Politecnico di Milano) must fill in and mail a registration form [click here for the form].

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VENUE

The course will be held at the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione (DEI), Politecnico di Milano, via Ponzio 34/5, 20133 Milano, in the "Sala Conferenze" (ground floor).

The Department building is located in the Bassini campus of the Politecnico di Milano. It is within walking distance of the stations Piola and Lambrate FS of the Metro (underground) line 2 ("green line"), of the tram lines 23 and 33, of the bus line 93, and of the train station Lambrate FS. For further information on how to reach, you can read these instructions.

The organisers of the course cannot take care of travel and accommodation of the participants. Many hotels are available near the campus [click here for a list].
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CONTACTS

For enquiries about the content of the course, please contact the organizers Carlo Piccardi (carlo.piccardi@polimi.it) or Sergio Rinaldi (rinaldi@elet.polimi.it).

PhD students of DEI doctoral program, please contact the PhD-DEI secretariat (dottoratoinginfo@elet.polimi.it) for any enquiry about the application procedure or any other administrative information. 

Current and prospective SICC members, please contact the SICC secretariat (info@sicc-it.org) for any information.
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