First Week:

• A complex systems approach to cancer, by Profs. Stefano Zapperi and Caterina A.M. La Porta, Center for Complexity & Biosystems (CC&B), University of Milan, Italy. 

• Introduction to network geometry, by Prof. M. Àngels Serrano, ICREA Research Professor, Department of Condensed Matter Physics & Institute of Complex Systems (UBICS), Universitat de Barcelona. 

  • Lectures

• Movement ecology: analysis and modelization from statistical physics, by Profs. Frederic Bartumeus, ICREA Research Professor, Department of Continental  Ecology, CEAB-CSIC, Blanes, Daniel Campos and Vicenç Mendez, Department of Physics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). 

  • V. Mendez lecture 1-2 (Mon 17th)

  • F. Bartumeus lecture (Fri 21st)

  • D. Campos hands-on (Fri 21st)

Second Week: 

• Citizen science for the study of complex social phenomena, by Prof. Josep Perelló, Department of Condensed Matter Physics & Institute of Complex Systems (UBICS), Universitat de Barcelona (UB). 

  • Lectures

• Collective intelligence: from natural to artificial systems, by Prof. Vito Trianni, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie della Cognizione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) Rome, Italy.

• Topological soft matter: from liquid crystals to active materials, by Prof. Teresa López-León, Gulliver Lab, The French National Centre for Scientific Research  (CNRS) & École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de Paris (ESPCI Paris, France).
  Hands-on session by Prof. López-León and Prof. Jordi Ignés-Mullol (University of Barcelona)