Complexity & Physics Talks June 2011
CANDIDATE TALKS FOR THE POST OF
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR in PHYSICS & COMPLEXITY
Schedule of Presentations
Monday 6 June 2011
(D107, Complexity, Zeeman Building)
09:30 ‘Applications of Statistical Physics to Social and Biological Phenomena’
Dr Federico Vazquez, Max Planck Institute, Germany
10:00 'Topology: a Soft Perspective’
Dr Gareth Paul Alexander, University of Pennsylvania, USA
10:30 ‘Self-organisation in Molecular Biology’
Dr Chiu Fan Lee, Max Planck Institute, Germany
11:00 Tea Break
11:15 ‘Reverse Engineering Complex Phenomena at the Interface between Soft Matter Physics and Materials Science’
Dr David Quigley, University of Warwick, UK
11:45 ‘Statistical Mechanics, Game Theory
and Individual-Based Models’
Dr Tobias Galla, University of Manchester, UK