Place: Humboldt University, Berlin, Department of Physics
Lectures: weekly, Thursday 13-15 (ct), room NEW 15 3'101 (Dr. Reik Donner / Prof. Jürgen Kurths); starting: 16 October
Tutorials: bi-weekly, Thursday 9-11 (ct), room NEW 15 1'427 (Bedartha Goswami), starting: 23 October
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
Topics (further topics may be added upon suggestions from the audience):
- Motivation and examples
- Structural characteristics of networks
- Generic properties of real-world networks, elementary network models
- 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: 14 October 2014
