Workshops

The information about the Workshops held before 2009 can be found in the following list:

• 2008: held at Universidad Pontificia de Comillas. The program can be found here.
• 2007: held at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. The program can be found here.
• 2006: held at the Parador de Alcalá de Henares. The program can be found here.
• 2004: held at the Parador de Chinchón. The program can be found here.
• 2003: held at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. The program can be found here.

On 20th of February 2009, the VI Workshop of the GISC was held in the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid. In the workshop more than 20 researchers participated and nine talks were given. Here you will find some information about that meeting, photographs and a copy of the talks that were exposed.

• Program: a detailed program of the Workshop, its participants and the abstracts of the presentations can be found here.
• Fotos: The different versions of the group foto for this year are 1 and 2.
• Support material for some presentations:
  • Directional plasmonic nano-antennas in the visible range of the spectrum, by A. Malyshev.
  • Models of classical heat and particle pumps, by R. Marathe.
  • Slowing down of genetic oscillationsin vertebrate segmentation, by S. Ares.
  • Aggregation of chemotatic organisms in an advected enviroment, by J. Muñoz.
  • Polaron dynamics in double-stranded DNA under electric fields, by E. Díaz.
  • Evolution of the intention to vote in random networks, by C. Fosco.
  • Connection between human activity and social connectivity in complex networks, by G. Miritello.

On 19th of February 2010, the VII Workshop of the GISC was held in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. In the workshop, more than 30 researchers participated and twelve talks were given. Here you will find some information about that meeting, photographs and a copy of the talks that were exposed. 

• Program: a detailed program of the Workshop, its participants and the abstracts of the presentations can be found here.
• Fotos: The different versions of the group foto for this year are 1, 2, 3 and 4.
• Support material for some presentations:
  • Dissipation and information in stochastic processes, by E. Roldán.
  • The peace mediators effect in small groups, by D. Vilone.
  • Plateau-Insulator transition in graphene, by M. Amado.
  • The transitions to chaos in the physics of condensed matter and complexes systems, by A. Robledo.
  • Casimir forces in classical and quantum systems, by P. Rodríguez.
  • Prisoner's dilemma experiment, by J. Grujić.

On 18th of February 2011, the VIII Workshop of the GISC was held at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. In this occasion, 26 members of the group assisted, and 10 talks were given. Here you will find some information about that meeting and a copy of the talks that were exposed. 

• Program: a detailed program of the Workshop, its participants and the abstracts of the presentations can be found here.
• Presentations:
  • Twitter y política: Información, opinión y ¿Predicción?, by Esteban Moro
  • The role of topology in the evolution of cooperation, by Daniele Vilone
  • Replicator dynamics for the iterated prisoner’s dilemma with three types of players, by Jelena Grujic
  • Continuum theory of coupled oscillators with delayed coupling, by Saúl Ares
  • Directional Plasmonic Nano-Antennae, by Javier Munárriz
  • Scale invariant probabilistic model having two dimensional q−Gaussians, by Antonio Rodríguez
  • Bogoliubov excitation of disordered Bose-Einstein condesates, by Christopher Gaul
  • Integrating multiple signals into cellular decisions, by Javier Muñoz
  • Formalismo de Multiscattering del Efecto Casimir, by Pablo Rodríguez
  • Simple rules govern finite-size effects in scale-free networks, by Sara Cuenda

On 3rd of February 2012, the IX Workshop of the GISC was held at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. In this occasion, 35 members of the group assisted, and 8 talks were given. Here you will find some information about that meeting and a copy of the talks that were exposed. 

• Program: a detailed program of the Workshop, its participants and the abstracts of the presentations can be found here.
• Fotos: a foto of the participants was taken, and can be seen here.
• Presentations:
  • There is no such thing as network reciprocity when human subjects play a Prisoner’s Dilemma, by Anxo Sánchez.
  • Fluctuation-dissipation for a noisy active oscillator: the hair-bundle of inner ear, by Luis Dinis.
  • The universal force of critical fluctuations: Casimir, wetting, colloids and all that, by Andrea Gambassi (invited talk).
  • Spin filtering with graphene-based heterostructures, by Javier Munárriz.
  • Ecosystem assembly for responsive strategies, by Luis Alberto Martínez.
  • Effects of mixed dynamics in spin systems with conserved magnetization, by Daniele Vilone.
  • Excitonic Aharonov-Bohm effect in a two-dimensional quantum ring, by Clara González-Santander.
  • Stability of (super) Bloch oscillations in the presence of time-dependent nonlinearities, by Christopher Gaul.

On February 8th, 2013, the X GISC Workshop was held at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. In this occasion, 31 members of the group attended the workshop, and 9 talks were given. Here you will find some information about that meeting and a copy of the talks that were exposed. 

• Program: a detailed program of the Workshop, its participants and the abstracts of the presentations can be found here.
• Presentations:
  • Mythbusters: Paradoxes from the dawn of quantum physics, by Francisco Domínguez-Adame.
  • Detecting active processes from spontaneous oscillations of Ear Hair bundles, by Edgar Roldán.
  • Strong anisotropy in surface kinetic roughening: theory and experiments, by Edoardo Vivo.
  • Capillary emptying and short-range wetting, by Carlos Rascón.
  • Temporal effects in the growth of networks, by Luis Alberto Martínez.
  • Formation and maintenance of nitrogen fixing cell patterns in filamentous cyanobacteria, by Saúl Ares.
  • Casimir effect between topological insulators, by Pablo Rodríguez-López.
  • Intrinsic noise on Fisher fronts, by Svetozar Nesic.
  • Ripple dynamics driven by stress induced solid flow, by Ana Moreno.

The XI Workshop of the GISC was held on February 7th, 2014, at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. In this occasion, 37 GISC members assisted to listen to 10 talks during the day. 

• Program: a detailed program of the Workshop, its participants and the abstracts of the presentations can be found here.
• Some pictures of the audience: [1]  [2]  [3]
• Presentations:
  • Early warning signals and hysteresis in epochal evolution induced by environmental stochasticity, by Susanna Manrubia.
  • toyLIFE: a toyUniverse for gaining insight into biological evolution, by Pablo Catalán.
  • Using friends as sensors to detect global-scale contagious outbreaks, by Esteban Moro.
  • Thin Liquid Films vs Stochastic Thin Liquid Films, by Svetozar Nesic.
  • Observation of a tricritical wedge filling transition in the 3D Ising model by Monte Carlo simulations, by Álvaro Rodríguez.
  • Electron pairing in periodic potentials under an external electric field, by Antonio Rodríguez.
  • Repulsive Casimir effect between chern insulators, by Pablo Rodríguez-López.
  • Quantum point contact ballistic Josephson junctions: a building block for the detection of Majorana fermions, by Mario Amado.
  • Thermodynamics of symmetry breaking, by Édgar Roldán.
  • Irreversibility without dissipation in isolated quantum systems, by Armando Relaño.

The XII GISC Workshop was held on February 20th, 2015 at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. In this occasion, 34 members of the group attended the workshop, and 10 talks were given. A detailed program of the Workshop, its participants and the abstracts of the presentations can be found here.

Presentations:

• Casimir effects and heat transfer between 2D materials, by Pablo Rodriguez (Université Paris Sud)
• Brownian Carnot engines, by Luis Dinis (UCM).
• Modeling paradigm shifts in cultural evolution, by Ignacio Pascual (UC3M).
• Fluctuation theorems for quantum maps, by Gonzalo Manzano (UCM).
• A Bayesian approach for T-cell receptor specificity, by Mario Castro (UPCo).
• Neutral evolution and the acceleration of the molecular clock, by Jose Cuesta (UC3M).
• Liquid crystal textures in 3D, by Miguel González (UAM).
• Nonequilibrium free energy and the thermodynamics of information, by Juan M. R. Parrondo (UCM).
• toyLIFE reloaded: dynamics on the multiplex, by Pablo Catalán (UC3M).
• Living clusters and crystals from low density suspensions of active colloids, by Chantal Valeriani (UCM).

The XIII GISC Workshop was held on Jun 23th, 2016 at the Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB), in Madrid. In this occasion, 31 members of the group attended the workshop, and 9 talks were given. A detailed program of the Workshop, its participants and the abstracts of the presentations can be found here.

Presentations:

• Self-organizing cultured neural networks, by Irene Sendiña-Nadal (URJC).
• Nonextensivity in classical inertial XY and Heisenberg models, by Antonio Rodríguez (UCM).
• Cooperation survives and cheating pays in a dynamic network structure with unreliable reputation, by Alberto Antonioni (UC3M).
•  Thermalization in isolated quantum systems: symmetry-breaking and quantum phase transitions, by Armando Relaño (UCM).
• Clustering in monolayers of vibrated granular rods, by Yuri Martínez (UC3M).
• The rhythm of urban social networks, by Esteban Moro (UC3M).
• Bacteria in the UK, by Pablo Catalán (UC3M):
• Nonlinear conduction in a disordered linear chain of quantum dots coupled to phonon baths, by Patrick Thiessen (UCM).
• Fronts of compact bacterial colonies are not in KPZ universality class, by Rodolfo Cuerno (UC3M).

The XIV GISC Workshop will be held on Jan 27th, 2017 at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC) in Madrid. A detailed program of the Workshop, its participants and the abstracts of the presentations can be found here.

The XV GISC Workshop will be held on Feb 2nd, 2018 at the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas in Madrid. A detailed program of the Workshop, its participants and the abstracts of the presentations can be found here.

The XVI GISC Workshop will be held on January 11th, 2019 at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. A detailed program of the Workshop, its participants and the abstracts of the presentations can be found here.