Complex Networks:
Analysis, Control and Applications

University of Bristol, 3rd - 7th July 2006

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Welcome to the home page of the taught course on the analysis, control and applications of complex networks. The main objectives of this course were to:

• introduce novel mathematical tools for characterising the topological features of complex networks,
• explain methodologies for investigating the dynamics of networked systems,
• understand and characterise the effects of the underlying network topology on the dynamics of networked systems,
• discuss two timely applications: communication and biological networks.

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The themes of the course were the structure and function of complex networks, control of networks, emerging properties of networks, synchronization and synchronizability of complex networks, and applications in communication networks & biological networks.

All interested PhD students, young and experienced scientists coming from areas ranging from biology and life sciences to engineering and physics were encouraged to attend, as well as Industrialists (on a self-funded basis).

Organisers

• John Hogan
• Mario di Bernardo

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Invited speakers

• Mark Newman (University of Michigan, USA)
• Martin Hasler (EPFL, Lausanne)
• Tim Gardner (Boston University, USA)
• David Arrowsmith (QMUL, UK)
• Hidde de Jong (INRIA - Grenoble, France)
• Guanrong Chen (City University Hong Kong, China)
• Diego di Bernardo (TIGEM, Italy)
• Mauricio Barahona (Imperial College London, UK)
• Stefano Boccaletti (INOA, Italy)

The Bristol Centre for Applied Nonlinear Mathematics is a £1.1 million EPSRC critical mass research centre and one of the largest mathematics projects ever funded in the UK. It has five scientific themes which provide the mathematical technologies for dynamic substructuring of engineering systems.

Related Summer School

• BICS Summer School: Modelling Across the Scales , University of Bath, 26-30 June 2006