7.6.11

4pm 10th June: John Realpe on "Resilience of Complex Systems"

John Realpe on "Resilience of Complex Systems"

After a short presentation of the concept of resilience, I will discuss a recent attempt to quantify it, based on "viability theory", which is, in a sense, genuinely non-equilibrium, non-asymptotic and non-linear.

Reference:
Viability and Resilience of Complex Systems, Deff uant, G. and Gilbert, N. (Eds.), Springer, 2011 (in press), chapters 1-2. A draft is available online at http://www.patres-project.eu/images/5/51/Patres-V1.pdf

4pm, Neils Bohr room, Schuster Building.

All welcome