SHANNAN DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR AND PAST PRESIDENT OF THE SANTA FE INSTITUTE
GEOFFREY WEST
The search for simplicity and unity in the complexity of life.
Dr. Geoffrey West is a theoretical physicist whose primary interests have been in fundamental questions in physics, especially those concerning the elementary particles, their interactions and cosmological implications.
His long-term fascination in general scaling phenomena evolved into a highly productive collaboration on the origin of universal scaling laws that pervade biology from the molecular genomic scale up through mitochondria and cells to whole organisms and ecosystems. His book, ‘Scale, The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies’, involves the extension of these ideas to understand quantitatively the structure and dynamics of social organizations, such as cities and corporations, including the relationships between economies of scale, growth, innovation and wealth creation and their implications for long-term survivability and sustainability.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN THE DEPARTMENT D'ENGINEYRIA QUÍMICA AT UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI
MARTA SALES PARDO
Using inference to obtaining models from data.
Dr. Marta Sales Pardo is a faculty in SEESLAB: Science and Engineering of Emerging Systems.
She is notable for her contributions to complex networks, where she has studied both social and biochemical systems, especially the contribution of each node or individual to the overall network. SEESLAB research addresses fundamental problems in all areas of science including natural, social and economic sciences. They have expertise in a broad set of tools from statistical physics, network science, statistics and computer science.
PROFESSOR AT HELMHOLTZ INSTITUTE FOR FUNCTIONAL MARINE BIODIVERSITY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG (HIFMB)
THILO GROSS
One ring to rule them all? - Small steps towards a theory of complexity
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Dr. Thilo Gross makes complexity simple using nonlinear dynamics, statistical physics, complex networks and data science. In his work he applies a wild combination of nonlinear dynamics, statistical physics, complex networks and data science to almost everything. His focus is on understanding complex systems in biology, business, social interactions, and particulary in ecology. He is particularly well known for developing new approaches to complex systems, such as generalized models and adaptive networks.
