[hpc-announce] Call for the VII Mediterranean School of Complex Networks - 25 Jun - 02 July 2022

[Giuseppe Mangioni]

*Dear All,* **
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We are glad to announce the call for the seventh editionof the summer 
School that we will organize this year, after a 2 years break due to 
COVID19.

 From 2022 the Mediterranean School of Complex Networks and the 
International School of Informatics and Dynamics in Complex Networks 
have joined their forces into a single event.

The new board of directors include, in alphabetic order: Prof. Alex 
Arenas (URV, Spain), Prof. Vincenza Carchiolo (UniCT, Italy), Prof. 
Manlio De Domenico (UniPD, Italy), Prof. Mattia Frasca (UniCT, Italy) 
and Prof. Giuseppe Mangioni (UniCT, Italy)

 From 2023, the editions of MSCX will alternate between other locations 
in the Mediterranean area and Salina.

Please, feel free to redistribute among potential attendants and accept 
our apologies in advance if you receive this email more than once.

Call for participation

VII Mediterranean School of Complex Networks

https://mediterraneanschoolcomplex.net/ 
<http://mediterraneanschoolcomplex.net/>

Short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR1apC8-HZY 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR1apC8-HZY>

25 Jun - 02 July 2022

Salina, Italy

In the last decade, network theory has been revealed to be a perfect 
instrument to model the structure of complex systems and the dynamical 
process they are involved in. The wide variety of applications to social 
sciences, technological networks, biology, transportation and economics, 
to cite just some of them, showed that network theory is suitable to 
provide new insights into many problems.

Given the success of the past editions (2014-2015-2016-2017-2018-2019) 
of the Mediterranean School of Complex Networks, we call for 
applications to the 7th Edition in 2022.If you are curious about the 
past editions, you can find more information in the new "From the 
School" section of the Journal of Complex Networks: 
https://doi.org/10.1093/comnet/cny035 
<https://doi.org/10.1093/comnet/cny035>

The goal of this school is twofold:

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    Provide a theoretical background to students (Master, PhD) and young
    researchers in the field, with particular attention to current
    trends in Network Science;

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    Promote philosophical and scientific exchange between all
    participants, i.e., lecturers and attendants.

For this reason, the program will involve lectures from experts in 
different fields (social science, game theory, biology, physics, etc) 
for 70% of the duration of the school. The remaining time will be 
dedicated to student activities (including talks, debates, "social 
network games").

Lecturers

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    Nathan Kutz (University of Washington) - Discovering governing
    equations: from network structure to dynamics

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    Fabrizio de Vico Fallani (INRIA) - Network Neuroscience

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    Jesus Gomez-Gardeñez (Universidad de Zaragoza) - Spreading Processes
    on Networks

Focused Seminars

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    Andrea Baronchelli(City University of London and The Alan Turing
    Institute) - Socio-technical systems

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    Clara Granell(Universitat Rovira i Virgili) - A primer on community
    detection

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    Kyriaki Kalimeri(ISI Turin) - Network Data Science for good

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    Margherita Russo(University of Modena) - Mesoscale Organization of
    trade networks

Local Organizing Committee

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    Serafina Agnello

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    Riccardo Gallotti  (FBK)

Board of Directors

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    Alex Arenas  (URV)

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    Vincenza Carchiolo(UniCT) [Organizer for 2022]

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    Manlio De Domenico  (UniPD) [Organizer for 2022]

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    Mattia Frasca(UniCT)

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    Giuseppe Mangioni(UniCT)

How to participate

The school will take place in Salina, a small island in the north of 
Sicily (Italy). Salina, fully covered by green vegetation and surrounded 
by the sea, represents a suitable small and quiet environment to achieve 
the purposes of this school.

Registration is mandatory for participants, visit the webpage.

In-person attendance.

School fee is 650 euros, lectures, transfers from Catania to Salina, and 
accommodation are included. School fee + social events is 750€.

In-person participation is limited to 30 attendants, due to COVID19 
restrictions. Early applications will be appreciated.

Please, note that meals are NOT included (except for social dinner).

COVID19: In response to the current pandemic emergency, the organizers 
will develop an adequate plan for safety, in agreement with current 
laws. Note that in-person mode might require COVID19 testing before and 
during the school, as well as the requirement of valid certifications 
for traveling and accessing public places (e.g., restaurants).

Online attendance.

We plan a hybrid mode to allow for remote attendance. The school fee in 
this case is 150€.

Online participation is limited to 70 attendants. Early applications 
will be appreciated.

This year, we will grant two scholarships, sponsored by the Complex 
Systems Society, that will cover the School fee only. The MDPI journal 
“Condensed Matter” will sponsor the prizes.



Important Dates

15 March 2022    Early registration deadline (no payment needed at this 
stage)

01 April 2022       Notification of Acceptance

01 May 2022       Registration deadline (payment needed)


You can visit the website of the School for further details about the 
program, the location, previous editions, to apply or to contact the 
organizers.

You can follow it on Twitter for real-time information:

@MscxNetworks (hashtag #mscx22)

Please, redistribute among potentially interested peers.

Best regards,

Giuseppe Mangionion behalf of the organizers

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-- 
Eng. Giuseppe Mangioni, PhD
Associate Professor
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica e Informatica (DIEEI)
University of Catania
Address: V.le Andrea Doria, 6 - 95125 (Italy)
phone: +39 095 7382380
fax: +39 095 7382397
home page:http://www.dieei.unict.it/users/gmangioni
e-mail:giuseppe.mangioni at unict.it