Past Events

March 2025

Thu 20 Mar 2025
13:00 - 14:00
Seminar: Dibyajyoti Mohanta (New York State U): From Sequence-Specific Fluorescence Fingerprints to Aging in RNA Condensates: Dynamics of Heteropolymer Systems
Centre for Complex Systems

Heteropolymer systems provide a versatile framework for understanding biomolecular phenomena across scales. In this talk, we bridge two distinct domains: (1) optical DNA mapping (ODM), a technique for generating sequence-specific fluorescence ...
Thu 13 Mar 2025
13:00 - 14:00
Peter Orbanz (UCL): Limit theorems for distributions invariant under a group of transformations
Centre for Complex Systems

Consider a large random structure -- a stochastic process on the line, a random graph, a random field on the grid -- and a function that depends only on a small part of the structure. Now use a family of transformations to 'move' the domain of the...
Thu 6 Mar 2025
13:00 - 14:00
Seminar: Vittorio Loreto (La Sapienza): Exploring the Adjacent Possible: a mathematical lens on Innovation and Evolution
Centre for Complex Systems

New experiences continuously reshape our lives, whether through encounters with novel ideas, social interactions, or technological advancements. While some of these experiences occur randomly, many unfold through intricate chains of correlation and...
Wed 5 Mar 2025One-day ergodic theory meeting
Centre for Complex Systems

February 2025

Wed 26 Feb 2025
15:00 - 16:00
Seminar: Enrico Amico (U Birmingham): Higher-order connectomics of human brain function
Centre for Complex Systems

Traditional models of human brain activity often represent it as a network of pairwise interactions between brain regions. Going beyond this limitation, recent approaches have been proposed to infer higher-order interactions from temporal...
Thu 20 Feb 2025
13:00 - 14:00
Seminar: Carl Dettmann (U Bristol)
Centre for Complex Systems

Thu 13 Feb 2025
13:00 - 14:00
Seminar: Lachlan Burton (QMUL)
Centre for Complex Systems

Wed 5 Feb 2025
12:00 - 13:00
Seminar: Deniz Eroglu (Imperial) - Learning Network Dynamics from Data: Emergent Hypergraphs and Transitions to Synchronization
Centre for Complex Systems

In complex systems, networks of interconnected components often evolve based on intrinsic rhythms. A key challenge is to understand these systems by inferring appropriate models from observational data. In this work, we explore methods for learning...

January 2025

Thu 23 Jan 2025
13:00 - 14:00
Seminar: Venkata Pamulaparthy (UCL) - Towards neural reinforcement learning for large deviations in nonequilibrium systems with memory
Centre for Complex Systems

Machine learning methods have recently been developed for computationally intensive investigations of rare events in nonequilibrium systems. However, present methods have generally been designed for Markov processes, presenting a major limitation due...