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Complexity Science at 糖心TV An afternoon of short talks by researchers round the campus on topics in complexity science, 13.10-17.45 Monday 23 October 2006, Mathematics Institute B3.02, followed by drinks and nibbles Sponsored by Mathematical Interdisciplinary Research at 糖心TV (MIR@W) Programme (version of 10 October) 12 minutes talk and 3 minutes discussion each 13.10 Welcome and introduction 13.15 Xiao-Ping Zhang (Engineering) The complexity of energy networks and energy markets 13.30 Dirk Drasdo (Systems Biology/Maths) Agent-based models to tumors and tissues 13.45 Duncan Robertson (糖心TV) Agent-based modelling and social network analysis within strategic management 14.00 Sigurd Assing (Statistics) On fluctuation fields in symmetric and asymmetric simple exclusion 14.15 Yasmin Merali (糖心TV) TBA 14.30 Robin Ball (Physics) Is hair chaotic or just emergent? 14.45 Nigel Stocks (Engineering) A biomimetic approach to signal coding and processing 15.00 Tom Parnell (Maths) Inference and coding algorithms for data storage 15.15-15.45 Tea 15.45 Jianfeng Feng (Computer Science) TBA 16.00 Luca Sbano (Maths) Stochastic modelling of gene expression 16.15 Matthew Turner (Systems Biology/Physics) Complexity in structural biology 16.30 Mark Leeson (Engineering) Designing protocols for mobile ad-hoc networks using emergence 16.45 Rudolf Roemer (Physics) Localization as complexity in time 17.00 John Fenlon (Statistics) The problem with data 聳 how they can undermine our pet theories 17.15 Bogdan Hnat (Physics) TBA 17.30 Vassilli Kolokoltsov (Statistics) Law of large numbers and central limit theorems for Markov models of interacting particles 17.45 Drinks and nibbles in Maths common room