Place: Humboldt University, Berlin, Department of Physics
Lectures: Thursday, 13:15-14:45, NEW 15 2.102 (Dr. Reik Donner / Prof. Jürgen Kurths)
Tutorials: Thursday, 12:00-13:00, NEW 15 2.101 (Peter Menck)
Note: There will be no lectures/tutorials on 11 April !
Audience: open for all students of natural sciences and related areas with particular interest in networks (advanced BSc, MSc or PhD student level)
Certificate: regular participation in lectures and tutorials, 50% of points from exercise sheets; for graded certificate: additional oral examination at the end of the lecture series
Tentative schedule:
11 April: no lecture
18 April: Motivation, examples of complex networks, structural characteristics of networks (J. Kurths)
25 April: Structural characteristics of networks (R. Donner)
2 May: Generic properties of real-world networks, elementary network models (R. Donner)
9 May: no lecture (public holiday)
Further topics (additional topics can be suggested by the students):
- Statistical mechanics of complex networks, phase transitions/percolation
- Adaptive/co-evolutionary networks
- Boolean dynamics on networks (spin models), opinion formation
- Dynamical systems on networks: Kuramoto model, networks of coupled oscillators, synchronization
- Control of network dynamics: master stability formalism, pinning control
- Interdependent networks: structure and dynamics
- Characteristics of spatially embedded networks, properties and models of transportation and supply networks
- Network reconstruction from data: functional networks, time series networks
- Temporal networks
Last update: 27 April 2013
