https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/19/the-secret-mesmerizing-math-of-taffy-pulling/?postshare=2491471645146181&tid=ss_tw-bottom

Inside the epic quest for a more perfect taffy - A story of topology, dynamical systems & hypnotic machines

#سلسله_سمینارهای_هفتگی گروه سیستم های پیچیده شهید بهشتی
«بررسی مدل ASEP در شار ترافیکی»
ساسان ابراهیم آبادی، دانشجوی ارشد سیستم های پیچیده، دانشگاه شهیدبهشتی
یکشنبه 31 مرداد، ساعت 10:30 کلاس 1 دانشکده فیزیک

حضور در این جلسات برای همه ی فعالان و علاقمندان آزاد است.
ضمنا علاقه مندان می توانند برای ارائه موضوعات خود به ادمین پیام داده و یا در جلسه بصورت حضوری مطرح نمایند.

http://braineng.ipm.ac.ir/job.jsp گذراندن پایان نامه دانشجوی دکتری در مرکز مهندسی عصبی پژوهشگاه دانشهای بنیادی

Job description: Brain engineering research center is providing an excellent opportunity for PhD students who are interested in systems/cognitive neuroscience for performing his/her research dissertations at IPM. The lab is broadly interested in vision and neural engineering with a specific focus on electrophysiological studies on primate vision, computational neuroscience, and visual prosthesis. The candidates should be a PhD student in electronic and computer engineering or basic science such as mathematics and neuroscience.

on the Wonderful World of #Random_Walks

http://faculty.washington.edu/hqian/amath572/Montroll.pdf

Postdoctoral Research Positions: Brain engineering research center at IPM/Tehran is accepting applications for 3-year postdoctoral research fellows starting September 2016. The lab is broadly interested in vision and neural engineering with a specific focus on electrophysiological studies on primate vision, computational neuroscience and visual prosthesis. The candidates should have a Ph.D. degree in neuroscience, electronic engineering, biomedical engineering, computer engineering or related field and will be involved in a collaboration with the State University of New York, College of Optometry. http://braineng.ipm.ac.ir/job_postDoc.jsp

WHY CITIES KEEP GROWING, CORPORATIONS AND PEOPLE ALWAYS DIE, AND LIFE GETS FASTER, by Geoffrey West

https://www.edge.org/conversation/geoffrey_west-why-cities-keep-growing-corporations-and-people-always-die-and-life-gets

Postdoctoral positions available

http://xn.unamur.be/

Simon's fundamental rich-gets-richer model entails a dominant first-mover advantage



https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.06313

Brian #Josephson (2016)

Lecture and Discussion: #Emergent #Self-Organising Activity as the true #foundation of #Reality

http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/videos/36145/lecture-emergent-self-organising-activity

Abstract

The presumptions underlying quantum mechanics make it relevant to a limited range of situations only1; furthermore, its statistical character means that it provides no answers to the question ‘what is really going on?’. In line with Barad’s discussions of the way quantum measurements introduce definiteness into previously indefinite situations, it is hypothesised that the underlying mechanics has parallels with human activities. We are led to consider a subtle type of order, different from those commonly encountered in the discipline of physics, and yet comprehensible in terms of concepts considered by Barad and Yardley such as oppositional dynamics or ‘intra-actions’2. The emergent organisation implies that nature is no longer fundamentally meaningless.

We are led to consider a subtle type of order, different from those commonly encountered in the discipline of physics, and yet comprehensible in terms of concepts considered by Barad and Yardley such as oppositional dynamics or ‘intra-actions’. The emergent organisation implies that nature is no longer fundamentally meaningless.

NB: the slides for this lecture are available separately at
http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bdj10/Documents/Lindau2016-slides.pdf.

Clarifications added after lecture: agencies can be viewed as dynamical systems, so we are dealing with models involving interacting dynamical systems. The 'congealing of agencies' to whch Barad refers can equated to the presence of regulatory mechanisms restricting the range of possibilities open to the agencies concerned.

Lecture Notes on Finite Element Methods for Partial Differential Equations

Endre Suli

Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford

http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/suli/fem.pdf

School and Conference on Conformal Field Theory and its Applications
Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences(IPM)
October 24-27, 2016 (3-6 Aban 1395)

http://particles.ipm.ir/conferences/2016/CFT/index.jsp