August 8 - 12, 2004
ORGANIZED BY:
CONSORTIUM OF THE AMERICAS FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE - UNIV. OF NEW MEXICO
INSTITUTO DE FISICA - UNIVERSIDADE DE BRASILIA
INSTITUTO DE FISICA - UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL
The Workshop on Transport and Self-organization in Complex Systems (TSOCS 2004) ( http://cref.if.ufrgs.br/~jas/workshop ) whose e-proceedings make up this volume, was organized by the Consortium of the Americas for Interdisciplinary Science ( http://consortium.unm.edu ) of the University of New Mexico (UNM), USA, jointly with two Brazilian institutes: the Instituto de Física of the Universidade de Brasília ( http://www.fis.unb.br ), and the Instituto de Física of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul ( http://www.if.ufrgs.br ) and with the support of Brazilian agencies Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) and CAPES/Ministério da Educação, as well as of the National Science Foundation (NSF) of the USA (INT-0336343). The mission of the Consortium, recognized and supported by the NSF and other institutions, is to foster international collaborations in interdisciplinary science between Latin American scientists and scientists in the USA. The goal of the workshop was to organize a gathering of a small group of interdisciplinary researchers in areas on the interface between physics, biology, social sciences and economics. The workshop dealt with:
1. Physics of biological systems including mathematical ecology.
2. Interface between physics and social sciences,
3. Anomalous transport and transport on complex networks.
Seventy scientists from up to 40 institutions participated in this exciting workshop. A dozen countries were represented. All who attended considered the event to be highly successful.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Rita de Almeida (UFRGS)
Leonardo Brunet (UFRGS)
José Roberto Iglesias (UFRGS)
V.M. (Nitant) Kenkre (CAIS-UNM)
Fernando Albuquerque Oliveira (UNB)
Tarcísio Marciano da Rocha Filho (UNB)
Invited Speakers and title of talks:
Guillermo Abramson - Bariloche, Argentina: "Hanta-bearing mice: is their movement diffusive?"
Igor Aronson - Argonne, USA: "Self-organization of microtubules and molecular motors".
Alexandre Baraviera - Porto Alegre, Brazil: "Models of statistical mechanics and cooperative game theory".
Raul Donangelo - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: "Need, greed and noise: competing strategies in a trading model".
Robert Duncan - Albuquerque - USA: "New phenomena on the SOC state near the superfluid transition in 4He".
Hugo Fort - Montevideo, Uruguay: Demographies generetated by different fuzzy measures of success in games people play".
James A. Glazier - Bloomington, USA: "Modeling biological development".
Alex Hansen - Trondheim, Norway: "Phase Diagram of Optimal Paths".
Jose Roberto Iglesias - Porto Alegre, Brazil: "Wealth exchanges in a dynamical social network".
V. M. Kenkre - Albuquerque - USA: "Theory of the spread of epidemics".
Gerardo Martinez - Porto Alegre, Brazil: "Disorder and correlation in 1D complex systems".
K. I. Mazzitello - Mar del Plata, Argentina: "Interaction effects on transport in a 1d array of silicon nanoclusters".
Oscar Mesquita - Belo Horizonte, Brazil: "Single molecule and single cell biophysics studied with optical tweezers and defocusing microscopy". 2 3
Gabriel Mindlin - Buenos Aires, Argentina: "Subharmonic behavior in birdsong".
Octavio Miramontes - Mexico City, Mexico: "Deterministic walks for animal foraging".
Pierre Molho - Granoble, France: "Magnetism and pattern formation".
Paul Parris - Rolla, USA: "Diffusive processes on small-world networks".
Salete Pianegonda - Porto Alegre, Brazil: "Overcharging in colloids with multivalent ions".
Carmen Prado - Sao Paulo, Brazil: "Scale-free networks and the dynamic of earthquakes". 2
Miguel Rubi - Barcelona, Spain: "On the origin of plankton patchiness".
Roberto da Silva - Porto Alegre, Brazil: "Global Persistence in a cooperative game model".
Daniel Stariolo - Porto Alegre, Brazil: "Out of equilibrium dynamics in systems with modulated patterns".