Events in MathSys and Complexity Science
This is a calendar page detailing events within the MathSys CDT. It also acts as a booking diary for the Seminar Room D1.07. To book D1.07 please email Sheetal.Sharma@warwick.ac.uk
Please note that your event booking is for D1.07 only. The adjacent common room is a private area for the MathSys Centre that cannot used as part of your booking.
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Complexity Forum - Ralph Kenna
Speaker: Ralph Kenna (Coventry)
Title: Phase Transitions in the Growth of Groups
Abstract:
Groups of interacting nodes (such as research groups of interacting scientists) are considered as many-body, complex systems and their cooperative behaviour is analysed from a statistical-physics, mean-field viewpoint. Contrary to the naive expectation that group success is an accumulation of the strengths of its nodes, it is demonstrated that intra-group interactions play a dominant role. These drive the growth of groups and give rise to phenomena akin to phase transitions, where the relationship between group quality and size reduces. The hitherto intutitive notion of critical mass is quantified and measured for research groups in academia.