C3 symposia
Bringing together complex systems experts from around the world
Every two years, we host a symposium which brings together leading international scholars to discuss the latest in complex systems research.
About the symposia
The Complexity, Criticality and Computation (C3) symposia bring to light emerging research and ideas about complex systems. In particular, we explore the relationship between three key concepts:
1. Complexity
A system can be thought of as complex if its dynamics cannot be easily predicted, or explained, as a linear summation of the individual dynamics of its components.
2. Criticality
There is a growing awareness that complexity is strongly related to criticality, which is the behaviour of dynamical spatiotemporal systems at an order/disorder phase transition where scale invariance prevails.
3. Computation
Complex systems can also be viewed as distributed information-processing systems. Global systems behaviour (eg cell behaviour resultant from gene regulatory networks) emerges as the result of the local interaction of individuals - can these interactions be seen as a generic computational process?
The symposia take place every two years. Last held in 2017, the next symposium will take place in December 2019 and will be followed by a C3 camp. Details will be announced soon.
2019 symposium
At this symposium, we focus on two broad themes: Sociophysics and Biocomplexity, across a diverse range of topics studied in Complex Systems:
- collective behaviour (opinion dynamics, swarm intelligence, active matter)
- nonlinear dynamics and critical phenomena
- anthropocene transitions (urban science, systemic risks, supply chains, economics)
- information theory and thermodynamics
- artificial intelligence and pattern discovery
- computational neuroscience and complex networks
For a full list of topics, see the Program.
Keynote speakers:
- Prof. Dr. Stefan Bornholdt, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Bremen, Germany
- Prof Roland Fletcher, The University of Sydney, Australia
- Prof Sheri Markose, University of Essex, UK
- A/Prof Tiago de Paula Peixoto, Central European University, Hungary
Regular speakers:
- Dr Arunima Malik, The University of Sydney, Australia
- A/Prof Eduardo Altmann, The University of Sydney, Australia
- Dr Debora Correa, The University of Western Australia, Australia
- A/Prof Markus Brede, University of Southampton, UK
- Dr Michael Harre, The University of Sydney,
- A/Prof Richard Morris, UNSW, Australia
- Dr Emanuele Crosato, UNSW, Australia
- Prof Maia Angelova Turkedjieva, Deakin University, Australia
The Centre for Complex Systems "Emerging Aspirations" award speakers:
- Dr Svetlana Postnova, The University of Sydney, Australia
- Dr Mac Shine, The University of Sydney, Australia
- Dr Richard Spinney, The University of Sydney, Australia
- Prof Mikhail Prokopenko (co-chair)
- Dr Michael Harre (co-chair)
- Dr Kirill Glavatskiy
- A/Prof Pulin Gong
- Madeleine Roberts (administrative contact)
The C3 symposium is co-sponsored by the Centre for Complex Systems, and the postgraduate program in Complex Systems.
Entropy is a media partner of the symposium, sponsoring the best presentation award at the event, which will be determined by the C3-2019 Program Committee. Read the special issue of Entropy which follows the symposium.
2017 symposium
At this symposium, we considered a diverse range of systems, applications, theoretical and practical approaches to computational modelling of modern complex systems. These included:
- information theory
- agent-based simulation
- network theory
- nonlinear dynamics
- swarm intelligence
- evolutionary methods
- computational neuroscience
- econophysics.
For a full list of topics, download a copy of the program (pdf, 98.4KB).
Invited speakers
- Associate Professor Eduardo Altmann: download presentation (pdf, 12.5MB)
- Dr Francesco Caravelli: view presentation (Prezi)
- Dr Dominique Chu: download presentation (pdf, 820KB)
- Associate Professor Manoj Gambhir: download presentation (pdf, 7.1MB)
- Dr Tim Germann
- Professor Paul Ormerod: download presentation (pdf, 981KB)
- Professor David Wolpert: download presentation (pdf, 1.7MB)
Regular speakers
- Dr Kirill Glavatskiy: download presentation (pdf, 2.8MB)
- Dr Ramil Nigmatullin: download presentation (pdf, 1.7MB)
- Dr Somwrita Sarkar: download presentation (pdf, 1.6MB)
- Dr Michael Harre: download presentation (pdf, 2.3MB)
- Dr Erik Aslaksen: download presentation (pdf, 275KB)
- Dr Alex Kalloniatis: download presentation (pdf, 4.6MB)
- Dr Joseph Lizier: download presentation (pdf, 6.4MB)
- Dr Ben Fulcher: download presentation (pdf, 15.9MB)
- Oliver Cliff: download presentation (pdf, 11.8MB)
Closing address - 'The complexity of the Universe'
- Professor Paul Davies, Arizona State University, Regents' Professor and Director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science, Co-Director ASU Cosmology Initiative, Principal Investigator Center for the Convergence of Physical Science and Cancer Biology.
- Professor Mikhail Prokopenko (chair)
- Dr Demi Gao
- Dr Kirill Glavatskiy
- Dr Joseph Lizier
- Madeleine Roberts (administrative contact)
The C3 symposium was co-sponsored by the Centre for Complex Systems, the CRISIS project, and the postgraduate program in Complex Systems.
Entropy was a media partner of the symposium. Read the special issue of Entropy which followed the symposium.
