Gothenburg Lise Meitner Award 2024 Symposium

Programme

Chair: Tünde Fülöp

09:00-09:10
Martin Nilsson-Jacobi (Chalmers)

09:10-10:00
Albert-László Barabási (Center for Complex Network Research, Northeastern University)
“Tangible ties: the impact of physicality on networks”

10:05-10:35
Mogens Jensen (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen) 
“Oscillations, DNA repair and chaos in cell dynamics”

10:35-11:00
Coffee break
 
11:00-11:30
Alex Vespignani (Northeastern University, College of Science)
"Layer by Layer: Unpacking Networks to Build Actionable Epidemic Models"

11:30-12:00
Fredrik Höök (Chalmers)
"Probing cell-membrane dynamics: how representative are our simplistic experimental models?"

Lunch break (1.5h)
 
13:30-14:00 
Bernhard Mehlig (University of Gothenburg):
“How do deep neural nets learn? A dynamical-systems approach”

14:05-14:35
Ginestra Bianconi (Queen Mary University of London):
“Topology shapes dynamics on higher-order networks”
 
14:35-15:00
Coffee break

15:00-15:30
Giovanni Volpe (University of Gothenburg)
"What is a physicist to do in the age of AI?"

15:35-16:05
Petter Holme (Aalto University)
“Dreams of universality: Physicists in complexity science and beyond”

16:05-16:50
Panel discussion with Ulf Danielsson (Uppsala University), Albert-László Barabási and others