Description
1st hour – Complexity
The systematic study of emergent phenomena.
What is emergence and how to study it. Micro to macro: Characterisation of interdependence and identification of robust macro-structures.
Vortices as an example of emergent macroscopic entities.
2nd hour – Self Organised Criticality (SOC)
Burst, or avalanche, activity.
SOC as stationary intermittency: the nature of the self-generated “critical” state.
Record dynamics: non-stationary intermittency.
Forecasting in high dimensional systems.
