Can physics predict the Tour de France winners?
Is it possible to predict how individuals will perform before the teamwork begins? Research by former cyclist Hugh Trenchard and others suggests that the mathematics of pelotons– the groups and bunches...
View Article2nd Conference on Physics of Biological and Complex Systems
*2nd Third Infinity conference, 14th - 16th of October 2015, Goettingen, Germany - Call for Abstracts - deadline 14th August 2015*read more...
View Article7th Annual Complexity in Business Conference
The Annual Complexity in Business Conference endeavors to be the premier meeting for the intersection of Complex Systems and Business. The 7th annual conference will be a one and a half day event and...
View ArticleCode@MIT
The Conference on Digital Experimentation @ MITOctober 16th-17th, 2015read more...
View ArticleProfessor of Sociology @ETH Zurich
The Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (www.gess.ethz.ch) at ETH Zurich invites applications for the above-mentioned professorship. We are looking for an internationally...
View ArticleThe butterfly plant arms-race escalated by gene and genome duplications
Coevolutionary interactions are thought to have spurred the evolution of key innovations and driven the diversification of much of life on Earth. However, the genetic and evolutionary basis of the...
View ArticleThe truth about the Turing Test
When bots can pass for human in conversation, it may not be the significant moment sci-fi would have us believe. Phillip Ball explores the strengths and limitations of the Turing Test.read more...
View ArticleWhat Can Interaction Webs Tell Us About Species Roles?
Ecological interactions are highly diverse even when considering a single species: the species might feed on a first, disperse the seeds of a second, and pollinate a third. Here we extend the group...
View ArticleNeutral Models of Microbiome Evolution
Microbial communities associated with animals and plants (i.e., microbiomes) are implicated in the day-to-day functioning of their hosts. However, we do not yet know how these host-microbiome...
View ArticleThe dynamic of information-driven coordination phenomena: a transfer entropy...
Data from social media are providing unprecedented opportunities to investigate the processes that rule the dynamics of collective social phenomena. Here, we consider an information theoretical...
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