4th Annual French Complex Systems Summer School

4th Annual French
Complex Systems Summer School
Paris, August 2nd to 20th, 2010

website: http://iscpif.fr/CSSS2010

This new series of international Complex Systems Summer School (CSSS2010)
set in France is co-organized by the two French Institutes: Complex
Systems Institute Paris Île-de-France (ISC-PIF) & Complex Systems
Institute Rhône-Alpes (IXXI), in coordination with the overarching
National Network of Complex Systems (RNSC) and with the support of the
european coordination action ASSYST.

This year, the summer school will take place in Paris at the ISC-PIF:
57-59 rue Lhomond, 75005, Paris,France.

The aim of the school is to provide in-depth reference courses to a
multi-disciplinary audience of researchers and students. The level of
lectures will range from introductory to advanced, as attendees are not
expected to be familiar with all the fields covered. Lecture topics will
address specific objects from various disciplines pertaining to complex
systems (physics, biology, sociology, etc.), or interdisciplinary tools
and methods (mathematical, computational), or both.

Invited Lecturers

* Hugues Bersini (IRIDIA,Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
o Software Technologies for Complex Systems
* Guillaume Beslon (IXXI, Université de Lyon, INSA-Lyon, LIRIS, France)
o Digital genetics: A view on the origin of biological complexity
* Andrew Crooks (Computational Social Science, Georges Mason
University, USA)
o T.B.A
* Ronald Dickman (Universidade Federal de Minais Gerais, Belo
Horizonte, Brazil)
o Nonequilibrium phase transitions and self-organized
criticality: Paradigms for complex systems
* Marco Dorigo (IRIDIA,Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
o Swarm Intelligence
* François Graner (Institut Curie, France)
o Cellular patterns: simple problems, complex solutions
* Alexander Mikhailov (Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck
Society, Berlin, Germany)
o From Swarms to Societies: Origins of Social Organization
* Lael Parrott (Département de géographie, Université de Montréal,
Canada)
o T.B.A
* Céline Rozenblat (Institut de Géographie, Faculté des Géosciences,
Université de Lausanne, Switzerland)
o Cities and Dynamics of networks
* Alessandro Torcini (Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi CNR, Florence,
Italy)
o Collective Dynamics in -Not Too- Complex Networks

Applying to the Summer School
Early application tuition rate (if applying by May 30) is €300 for the
whole school. Regular tuition rate (if applying after May 30) is €400.
Tuition rate includes:

* attendance to all courses
* housing in Paris (if applying by June 15)
* lunches and coffee breaks

Housing can be guaranteed only if the application was received by June 15
(and accepted). After June 15, housing will be assigned only if there is
still vacancies.

The number of participants is limited to 30.