DCP Dynamics and Complexity Pisa 2024
DCP Dynamics and Complexity is an interdisciplinary scientific meeting focused on nonlinear dynamics, statistical mechanics and complexity in multiple areas, from mathematics to philosophy, including biology, physiology, economics and social sciences.
The Sant'Anna School is hosting the 2024 edition, which is spread over four days of work, from Wednesday, June 5 to Saturday, June 8.
The conference is organized by the Centro Interdipartimentale per lo Studio dei Sistemi Complessi (CISSC) of the University of Pisa, with the support and backing of all Pisa research institutions and under the patronage of the City of Pisa. The 2024 edition is hosted by the Sant'Anna School and involves not only CISSC and the University of Pisa but also the Scuola Normale Superiore and the CNR Research Area. Over the four days, the more than 110 participants from eight different countries discuss complexity in all meanings, from the mathematics of nonlinear systems, to the emergent properties of living organisms and neuroscience, to climatology and modeling of financial and social systems. Over the several editions, this conference has grown, so much so that the staging of DCP24 required the addition of an additional day to the usual three in previous editions.
Also notable is the appeal among students (particularly doctoral and postdoctoral students), who make up about 40 percent of the participants, demonstrating that the interdisciplinary issues inherent in complexity are very much felt by young female researchers. Two DCP24 initiatives are dedicated to them: the first is the prize for the best poster, established by “Chaos, Solitons and Fractals,” one of the most prestigious scientific journals in the field of complexity.
The other is the master thesis prize “Marcello Buiatti - The Living State of Matter,” established by the Buiatti Family in concert with the University of Pisa, to commemorate the figure of Marcello Buiatti, the distinguished geneticist and theoretical biologist. The prize is aimed at interdisciplinary theses that seek to characterize living systems by making use of (or specially developing) theoretical modeling leading to an understanding of phenomena and properties not previously understood. The prize is in its second year and has seen the participation of many excellent scientific theses. Usually the Buiatti Prize is introduced by a Keynote Lecture by a relevant personality from the world of complexity: for 2024, Angelo Vulpiani, full professor at Sapienza University of Rome, a physicist famous both for his achievements in the field of complex systems and for his appreciated activities as a popularizer, will speak.
Full details of the conference here: https://www.cissc.unipi.it/DCP/DCP24/.