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News & events
Selected activities, news and events.
Upcoming events
UBICS Day
Upcoming event · 9 September 2026 · UBICS
UBICS Day will take place on 9 September 2026 at the Aula Magna of the Historic Building of the Universitat de Barcelona.
Workshop on Interdisciplinary Complex Systems
Upcoming event · 5 October 2026 · University of Buenos Aires
The Workshop on Interdisciplinary Complex Systems will take place on 5–6 October 2026 at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, University of Buenos Aires.
XXVI Congreso de Física Estadística (FisEs'26)
Upcoming event · 14 October 2026 · FisEs'26 · Official website · CEPS research group
The XXVI Statistical Physics Conference (FisEs'26) will take place in Tarragona from 14 to 16 October 2026. Several members of our CEPS research group will participate in this event.
News & past events
Half a Century of the Kuramoto Model: Explaining Emergent Order in Time and Space
Past event · 28 June 2026 · Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation · Official website
The 860th WE-Heraeus Seminar took place from 28 June to 3 July 2026 at the Physikzentrum Bad Honnef. The meeting marked half a century of the Kuramoto model and brought together current research on synchronization, coupled oscillators and emergent collective order in nonlinear and networked systems. Conference information
The Barcelona Past Networks Summer School 2026
Past event · 16 June 2026 · BPNSS · Official website
The annual four-day Barcelona Past Networks Summer School took place from 16 to 19 June 2026. It introduced the theory and practice of network research to historians, archaeologists, classicists and other researchers studying the human past, combining lectures, discussions and hands-on practicals. Programme and further information
Dynamics Days Kagoshima 2025
Past event · 26 November 2025
Thursday , 4 December , 202 5 10:00-12:00 Registration / discussion / poster setting (lunch) 13:40-13:50 Opening 13:50-14:40 Albert Diaz-Guilera (Universitat de Barcelona), TBA 14:45-15:10 Riccardo Muolo (RIKEN & Institute of Science Tokyo), Higher-order phase reduction through parametrization 15:15-15:30 Mircheski Petar (Institute of Science Tokyo), Control of chimera states (tea) 1 5 : 45 -1 6 : 10 Praful Gagrani…
The Barcelona Past Networks Summer School
Past event · 7 July 2025 · Official website
At a glance Annual 4-day summer school in Barcelona (1-4 July 2025) Teaching the theory and practice of network research For those studying the human past (historians, archaeologists, classicists, …) No prior computational skills required, but willingness to learn Details Network approaches are commonly used in diverse studies of the human past. For example, analyzing letter correspondence in 16th century England, m…
School on Synchronization: from collective motion to brain dynamics
Past event · 12 February 2025
Synchronization is one of the fundamental phenomena in complex systems and nonlinear dynamics. There are a large number of systems where synchronization is an important effect and we shall focus on two of them: a) Mobile systems: the emergence of coordinated movement in space and time without an apparent controller. b) The Janus-faced nature of synchronization in brain dynamics, or how synchronization impairs and dr…
3RD LATIN AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON COMPLEX NETWORKS
Past event · 21 August 2023 · Official website
The aim of LANET is to provide with a forum to join all scientists who are somehow related to the research on Network Science in Ibero America. The rapid growth of the field of Network Science in the last two decades has manifested in the form of schools, workshops and conferences in Ibero America. However, the creation of LANET as a stable and periodic forum devoted to Network Science will further spur the formatio…
Bibliometrics application
News · 9 January 2023 · Official website
Wish to see your network of coauthors in scientific publications? Want to have your bibliometrics data at hand? Interested in unveiling collaboration patterns? CLabB (part of @UBICS & @datascienceUB) developed a free an interactive app http://complemetrix.net Short tutorial available in the web clicking at “About” and here . Two types of queries are available: - File with ORCID codes - Query about Affiliation names…
International Conference on Control of Self-Organizing Nonlinear Systems
Past event · 12 December 2022
The conference addresses fundamental developments in the theoretical understanding of control of complex and self-organizing systems, as well as state-of-the-art applications in various scientific disciplines. In particular, it focuses on nonlinear dynamical systems and networks with time delay and noise, and on applications of control to quantum systems and lasers, soft and active matter, cardiac dynamics and neuro…
MultiNet Webinar Series
Past event · 20 September 2022 · Official website
Dynamics on Multiplex Networks Albert Diaz-Guilera University of Barcelona In this talk I will review some of the contributions of our group on the topic. I will start with the most basic diffusion processes, and finish with the more complex combination of different processes on different layers. Special emphasis will be placed on the spectral aspects of the mathematical description. Examples are taken from Physcis,…
Tutorial at Collaborative Research Center 910.
Past event · 20 July 2022 · Official website
Part 1: Introduction to Complex Networks Part 2: Dynamics on Complex Networks
From Networks to Neural Networks in Finance
Past event · 13 December 2020 · Official website
The School aims to present the state of the art on methodologies and applications of Neural Networks and Nets to finance. The expected audience of the school is provided by PhD student and young researchers interested in applications of Neural Networks and Nets to finance. Program The school is organized through three different initiatives: Four minicourses Lectures Workshops with students and participants to the sc…
Complexity Science and Past Complex Systems
Past event · 18 November 2019 · Official website
How can complexity science help us better understand past and present complex social systems as diverse as the Roman economy and online social networks? This one-day workshop will explore the role complexity science, and in particular its use of network approaches, can play for the study of the human past, and how it enables comparisons between past and present-day complex social systems. Complexity science is now a…
Annual naXys Research Day 2019
Past event · 22 October 2019
Invited talk about the specificities of the Universitat de Barcelona Institute of Complex Systems (UBICS)
PhysPlex 2019
Past event · 3 October 2019 · Official website
The scope of the satellite meeting is to review the recent advances in the field of multilayer and interconnected networks, focusing in particular on the interplay between structure and dynamics. We will pay special attention to novel applications in which the multilayer formulation is crucial. The list of topics that we aim to cover at the conference is the following: 1. Mathematical properties of multilayer and in…
Mediterranean School of Complex Networks 2019
Past event · 31 August 2019 · Official website
In the last decade, network theory has been revealed to be a perfect instrument to model the structure of complex systems and the dynamical process they are involved into. The wide variety of applications to social sciences, technological networks, biology, transportation and economic, to cite just only some of them, showed that network theory is suitable to provide new insights into many problems. Given the success…
Nonlinear dynamics in multiplex networks. Talk at the Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Universität Oldenburg
Past event · 4 July 2019 · Official website
More info
Dynamics Days Latin America and the Caribbean, 2018
Past event · 26 November 2018 · Official website
Since its beginnings, a key goal of the Dynamics Days LAC has been to promote cross-fertilization of ideas from different areas. In particular, the meeting is deliberately structured to encourage active participation from young scientists, through invited and contributed oral presentations or posters. On this occasion, there will be also thematic mini-symposia, ranging from brain networks, power grids and informatio…
Complex networks: from socio-economic systems to biology and brain
Past event · 10 July 2018 · Official website
The aim of this workshop is to gather the community of scientists working in the different branches of network theory applied to social and natural sciences in order to create new synergies and potential scientific advancements. More info
Pint Of Science 2018
Past event · 15 May 2018
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Las 'fake news' ganan por goleada
News · 26 March 2018 · Público
Las 'fake news' ganan por goleada 'Público' habla con los expertos en estudios de sistemas complejos Albert Díaz-Guilera, Luce Prignano y Emanuele Cozzi para conocer en mayor profundidad el mundo de las noticias falsas
AMCOS conference
Past event · 21 March 2018 · Official website
The AMCOS conference aims at bringing together renowned experts and young researchers who work on the modeling of complex systems and the emergence of collective phenomena, as well as on the analysis of complex data sets in order to infer structure and functionality of networks. Particular focus lies also on oscillatory dynamics in neuroscience and physiology. Accompanying tutorials by leading experts will interacti…
Network Frontier Workshop 2017
Past event · 11 December 2017 · Official website
The Network Frontier Workshop 2017 is a two-day virtual conference highlighting current research on network dynamics. Presentations will emphasize physical principles underlying synchronization and symmetry in network dynamics, as well as network problems in biological, ecological, social, and physical systems. More info: http://netfrontier.northwestern.edu/ Online presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX0Vk…
Ibersinc Winter School
Past event · 24 November 2017 · Official website
Lecture: Albert Diaz-Guilera: "Complex networks and synchronization" ( PDF slides )
LANET 2017 1ST LATIN AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON COMPLEX NETWORKS
Past event · 25 September 2017
The aim of LANET is to provide with a forum to join all scientists who are somehow related to the research on Network Science in Latin America. The rapid growth of the field of Network Science in the last two decades has manifested in the form of schools, workshops and conferences in Latin America. However, the creation of LANET as a stable and periodic forum devoted to Network Science will further spur the formatio…
Topical problems of nonlinear wave physics
Past event · 22 July 2017 · Official website
This meeting is a continuation of the previous symposia "Topical Problems of Nonlinear Wave Physics-2003, 2005, 2008, 2014" that attracted leading experts from around the world. More info . The upcoming Symposium will be devoted to recent progress in the interrelated fields of the physics of nonlinear waves with applications to systems of different origin. The Symposium will include three parallel Topical Conference…
ESCUELA INTERNACIONAL DE VERANO: Tendencias en Analytics: Ciencia de Redes. Bogota, Colombia
Past event · 27 June 2017 · Official website
Este curso está diseñado para entender cómo el estudio de las interacciones entre los individuos permite explicar comportamientos colectivos e incluso a veces predecirlos. Utilizaremos el análisis de redes como herramienta para estudiar sociedades en distintos contextos. More info . Tendencias, epidemias, noticias, rumores, son evidencia de que vivimos en una sociedad que está conectada. Día a día interactuamos con…
Crossroads in Complex Systems
Past event · 5 June 2017 · Official website
The conference Crossroads in Complex Systems, will take place at IFISC , Mallorca (Spain), 5-8 June 2017, on occasion of the 10th anniversary of IFISC (Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems, UIB - CSIC ) . Thematic keynote, invited and contributed talks, a poster session, round-table discussions and a public event will contribute to a rich program. The conference aims to represent a broad spec…
Critical and collective effects in graphs and networks
Past event · 15 May 2017 · Official website
Second Workshop "Critical and collective effects in graphs and networks" - See more at: http://new.poncelet.ru/conference/second-workshop-critical-and-collective-effects-graphs-and-networks#sthash.0dYkso3E.dpuf
COMPLENET'17 - 8TH CONFERENCE ON COMPLEX NETWORKS
Past event · 21 March 2017
The 8th International Conference on Complex Networks (CompleNet 2017) aims at bringing together researchers working on areas related to complex networks. In the past two decades scientific research has witnessed a remarkable increase on studies in this field. Applied to problems that span from biology to computer sciences, from economics to social sciences, complex networks are becoming increasingly pervasive in man…
Conference on Complex Systems 2016. Amsterdam
Past event · 19 September 2016
The Conference on Complex Systems (CCS) has become a major venue for the Complex Systems community since 2003. After last year success in USA, we are now back in Europe. AMSTERDAM CCS 2016, will be the major international conference and event for complex systems and interdisciplinary science.
International Conference on Control of Complex Systems and Networks
Past event · 4 September 2016 · Official website
International Conference on Control of Complex Systems and Networks
Mediterranean School of Complex Networks
Past event · 29 August 2016 · Official website
Mediterranean School of Complex Networks http://mediterraneanschoolcomplex.net/ PDF of the slides
PERSPECTIVES IN NONLINEAR DYNAMICS 2016
Past event · 25 July 2016
We invite you to join us at Perspectives in Nonlinear Dynamics 2016 (PNLD 2016), a major international conference with a long-standing tradition in nonlinear dynamics. This event will be co-hosted by the Humboldt-University Berlin, in Berlin Germany. The Conference will start in the evening of Sunday 24th July and will end in the afternoon of Friday 29th July 2016. The meeting highlights nonlinear science research a…
NetSci 2016 Seoul, Korea
Past event · 30 May 2016 · Official website
International School and Conference on Network Science Dynamics in multiplex networks
Course and talks in Pamplona (Colombia)
Past event · 28 November 2015 · Official website
Course "Redes complejas" and talk "Big Data & Big Networks" at the Universidad de Pamplona (Colombia) WEB
Conference on Complex Systems
Past event · 30 September 2015 · Official website
Conference on Complex Systems, Phoenix (AZ), 28 September - 2 October, 2015. http://www.ccs2015.org/
LASAGNE final meeting
Past event · 17 September 2015 · Official website
http://complex.ffn.ub.es/~lameet/
COMSOTEC 2015
Past event · 11 September 2015 · Official website
https://indico.ifca.es/indico/event/88/