Form and Function of Complex Systems
Event details
| Date | 13.09.2023 › 15.09.2023 |
| Speaker | Gabriele Manoli (EPFL) Sara Bonetti (EPFL) Lida Kanari (EPFL) Jeffrey Huang (EPFL) Marc Barthélémy (IPhT) Kaare Jensen (DTU) Mario Putti (UNIPD) Diego Rynski (PIK) Caterina De Bacco (Max Planck) Daniel Rothman (MIT) |
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| Category | Convention |
| Event Language | English |
Workshop on transport, metabolism, and design in Nature and Society
Roads and railways across the world exhibit striking similarities with other transport networks found in nature, from rivers, to leaf venation, tree branching, mammalian circulatory systems, and cancer vascularization. All these systems have been designed, or have evolved, to distribute resources (e.g., people, water, blood, nutrients) in an efficient manner. This has generated distinctive scaling properties (e.g. between size and metabolic rate) that hold across a variety of organisms and systems, hinting to the existence of a unifying theory linking the form and function of complex systems in the natural, social, and technological domains.
This workshop aims at exploring such similarities to investigate how natural and urban systems have coevolved with their surrounding environment, how they grow and respond to external perturbations, and how we can learn from the natural world to design more resilient and sustainable infrastructures. The goal is to boost and encourage the exchange of ideas, cooperation, and the crossing of disciplinary boundaries.
Roads and railways across the world exhibit striking similarities with other transport networks found in nature, from rivers, to leaf venation, tree branching, mammalian circulatory systems, and cancer vascularization. All these systems have been designed, or have evolved, to distribute resources (e.g., people, water, blood, nutrients) in an efficient manner. This has generated distinctive scaling properties (e.g. between size and metabolic rate) that hold across a variety of organisms and systems, hinting to the existence of a unifying theory linking the form and function of complex systems in the natural, social, and technological domains.
This workshop aims at exploring such similarities to investigate how natural and urban systems have coevolved with their surrounding environment, how they grow and respond to external perturbations, and how we can learn from the natural world to design more resilient and sustainable infrastructures. The goal is to boost and encourage the exchange of ideas, cooperation, and the crossing of disciplinary boundaries.
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Organizer
- Gabriele Manoli (URBES), Sara Bonetti (CHANGE)