Start time: September 28, 2015

Ends on: October 16, 2015

Location: São Paulo, Brazil

Venue: IFT-UNESP

Organizers/Lecturers:

• Stefano Boccaletti (CNR- Institute of Complex Systems – Florence -Italy, and the Italian Embassy in Israel): The Master Stability Function
• Javier M. Buldú (Center for Biomedical Technology  & U.R.J.C., Madrid, Spain): Applications to Biology: from RNA to Brain Networks
• Hilda Cerdeira (Instituto de Física Teórica, UNESP, São Paulo, Brazil)
• Jesús Gómez Gardeñes (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain): Dynamical processes in networks 
• Claudio Mirasso (IFISC, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain): Synchronization in brain circuit models
• Antonio Roque (Universidade de São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto, Brazil): An overview of single-cell and neural network models  

Invited lecturers:

• Edson Amaro Jr (Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Brazil): Neuroimages techniques and mental illnesses
• Michael Breakspear (QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Australia): Inferring large-scale dynamics from brain models
• Mauro Copelli (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil): Collective neuronal phenomena
• Ernesto Estrada (University of Strathclyde, U.K.): Structure of Complex Networks: From Graphs to Real Networks
• Luciano Fontoura (Universidade de São Paulo at São Carlos, Brazil): TBA
• Sandro Meloni (BIFI, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain): Applications to Social Networks
• Vincenzo Nicosia (Queen Mary University of London, UK): Multilayer Networks 
• Adriano Tort (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil): Detecting and tracking cell assemblies 
• Raúl Vicente (University of Tartu, Estonia): Analysis of neuronal data

Description:
The School on Complex Networks and Applications to Neurosciences will cover theoretical aspects and current trends in the Theory of Complex Networks including their structural properties, dynamical processes, and multiplex networks with applications to social, technological and biological systems. The second half of the school will provide a detailed course on Neurosciences focused on the physiology of the cell and neuronal models, time series analysis and characterization, complex brain networks, collective phenomena and information processing in the brain, and neuroimage techniques and mental diseases. There is no registration fee and limited funds are available for local and travel support of participants.

This school is part of the topics in Nonlinear Science: Fundamentals and Applications.

Application deadline: July 24, 2015