School on Synchronization: from collective motion to brain dynamics

School: February 3 – 14, 2025

Workshop: February 8 – 9, 2025

ICTP-SAIFR, São Paulo, Brazil

IFT-UNESP Auditorium

 

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Synchronization is one of the fundamental phenomena in complex systems and nonlinear dynamics. There are a large number of systems where synchronization is an important effect and we shall focus on two of them:

a) Mobile systems: the emergence of coordinated movement in space and time without an apparent controller.

b) The Janus-faced nature of synchronization in brain dynamics, or how synchronization impairs and drives the brain, and the importance of physics for the prediction of epileptic seizures.

The school will cover:

– A general introduction to synchronization phenomena;
– Systems where spatial and temporal synchronization occur simultaneously, as observed in sperm cells, starfish embryos and swarmalators in general;
– Introduction to epilepsy and seizure dynamics;
– Seizure prediction methods: Modern nonlinear models for the detection and forecasting of dynamical transitions from time series; challenges and opportunities for more efficient data analysis.

The event will also include a workshop on the weekend of February 8-9 covering current research in the field.

This school is part of the Topics in Nonlinear Science: Fundamentals and Applications.

There is no registration fee and limited funds are available for travel and local expenses.

Organizers:

  • Marcus Aguiar (UNICAMP, Brazil)
  • Hilda A. Cerdeira (IFT-UNESP, Brazil)
  • Mario Chavez (Sorbonne University, France)
  • Albert Diaz Guilera (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)
  • Klaus Lehnertz (University of Bonn, Germany)

List of participants: Updated on January 02, 2025.

 

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Application deadline: closed

Lectures

Lecturers

 

Registration

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Application deadline: closed

Program


The schedule might be changed.

Workshop

Invited Speakers:

  • Mario Chavez (Sorbonne, France): The latent geometry of brain networks as a biomarker in epilepsy
  • Pablo de Castro (IFT – UNESP, Brazil): Epidemic percolation among motility-induced clusters of active particles
  • Jean Faber (UNIFESP, Brazil): Nonlinear dynamics of epileptiform-like activities and complex networks of in vitro neuronal cultures
  • Everton Medeiros (UNESP, Brazil): Local control for the collective dynamics of self-propelled particles
  • Albert Diaz Guilera (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain): Unexpected properties of synchronization in complex networks of Kuramoto oscillators
  • Jesus Gómez Gardeñes (University of Zaragoza, Spain): Explosive Syncrhonization: some recent advances 
  • Klaus Lehnertz (University of Bonn, Germany): What have we learned about the mechanistic underpinnings of the pre-ictal state?
  • João Lizarraga (UNICAMP, Brazil): Swarmalator models in one- and two-dimensional spaces
  • Elbert Macau (UNIFESP, Brazil): The effect of time delay for synchronization suppression in neuronal networks
  • Ricardo Martinez-Garcia (CASUS / HZDR, Germany & ICTP-SAIFR/IFT-UNESP, Brazil): Imperfect coordination in collective behaviors across scales: from microbial aggregates to ungulate migration
  • Christian Meisel (Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany): Critical dynamics as the setpoint of optimal brain function
  • Thierry Njougouo (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy): Collective Dynamics in Pairwise and Higher-Order Networks
  • I. Pagonabarraga (University of Cataluña, Spain): TBA
  • Arkady Pikovsky (University of Potsdam, Germany) Cancelled
  • Clarissa Yasuda (Unicamp, Brazil):  Neuroimaging and epilepsy: beyond lesion identification
  • Hitten Zaveri (Yale University, USA): Development of medical devices to monitor and modulate the human brain.

 

Short Talks:

  • Guilherme Costa ( ICTP-SAIFR / IFT-UNESP, Brazil): Bifurcations in the Kuramoto model with external forcing and higher-order interactions
  • Fernando da Silva Borges (State University of New York (SUNY), USA): Mechanisms responsible for the generation of cortical high frequency oscillations
  • Michael Luchtan (Open University of Catalonia, Spain): Fractal Associations, Synchronization Events, and Circulating Pacemakers: How musicians learn Bluegrass in Barcelona          
  • David Ortiz del Campo (Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos, Universitat de les Illes Balears-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain): Anticipated synchronization in systems with distributed delay
  • Leonardo Rodrigues da Costa (Unicamp, Brazil): Unveiling Epileptic Networks: Motif Synchronization for Interictal Spike and Foci Localization
  • Marie Sellier-Prono (École Normale Supérieure (Université Paris Sciences et Lettres), France): Models of coupled oscillators to study the parcellation of the brain pial arterial network 

Abstracts: Here

Poster sessions

Session 1

  1. Lucas Eduardo Bentivoglio (State University of Ponta Grossa, Brazil): Spiral Wave Patterns in Neural Network Model.
  2. Fernando da Silva Borges (State University of New York (SUNY), Brazil): Mechanisms responsible for the generation of cortical high frequency oscillations.
  3. Enrique Chipicoski Gabrick (State University of Ponta Grossa, Brazil): Intermittency properties and control in an epilepsy model.
  4. Hellen Cristina da Costa (Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil): Study of social behavior in mice through calcium imaging of neurons.
  5. Janne Cristine De Melo Santana (Université Cergy-Paris (CYU), LPTM laboratory, France): One-dimensional Collective Motion.
  6. Martín Giuliano (IFIMAR, Argentina): Noise-induced internal resonance in nonlinearly coupled oscillators.
  7. Martin Guillemaud (Paris Brain Institute – Sorbonne University, France): Hyperbolic Brain Network Embeddings: A Novel Tool for Forecasting Epileptic Seizures.
  8. Malena Lucia Hidalgo (Centro de Estudios Multidisciplinarios en Sistemas Complejos y Ciencias del Cerebro, Instituto de Ciencias Fisicas, Universidad Nacional de San Martin, Argentina): Parametric Study of the Dynamics of Simple Models of Large-Scale Brain Activity.
  9. Jieru Liao (Centre for Complex Systems, the University of Sydney, Australia): Synchronizability and Stability of Brain Networks in Epilepsy.
  10. Michael Luchtan (Open University of Catalonia, Spain): Fractal Associations, Synchronization Events, and Circulating Pacemakers: How musicians learn Bluegrass in Barcelona.
  11. Jorge Vinicius Malosti da Silveira (Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil): TBA
  12. Diogo Leonai Marques de Souza (State University of Ponta Grossa, Brazil): Influence of Ion Channels on Synchronous Bistability.
  13. Vinícius Oliveira Martins (IMECC – UNICAMP, Brazil): Optimization of Synchronization in Multilayer Networks.
  14. Elsa Susana Ochoa (Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias Básicas y Aplicadas – UAEM, Mexico): Sleep phase analysis – Values ​​and eigenvectors of the multiband correlation matrix.
  15. Paola Vanesa Olguin Rodriguez (Centro de Investigación en Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Mexico): Stable Correlation Patterns and Dynamic Features of Functional Networks Are Modulated with Age During Attentional Processing of Faces in Children.

Session 2

  1. David Ortiz del Campo (Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos, Universitat de les Illes Balears-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain): Anticipated synchronization in systems with distributed delay.
  2. Ramiro Plüss (Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires, Argentina): Phase Transition in an Adaptive Network with Chaotics Units.
  3. Yago Emanoel Ramos Silva (Federal University of Bahia, Brazil): Handedness and Brain Lateralization: a non linear approach.
  4. Steven Fernando Rico Aparicio (Industrial University of Santander, Colombia): Brain Connectivity and Seizure Prediction through Euclidean Embedding.
  5. Leonardo Rodrigues da Costa (Unicamp, Brazil): Unveiling Epileptic Networks: Motif Synchronization for Interictal Spike and Foci Localization.
  6. Suman Saha (Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India, India): Neuromolecular interactions guiding homeostatic mechanisms underlying healthy ageing: A computational framework.
  7. Marie Sellier-Prono (École Normale Supérieure (Université Paris Sciences et Lettres), France): Modelling the parcellation of the pial vascular network with coupled oscillators.
  8. Pedro Masotti Moretti da Silveira (São Carlos Institute of Physics/ University of São Paulo, Brazil): Modeling ant activity cycles with delay differential equations.
  9. Marcelo Tisoc (Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin (IFGW) – Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil): Evaluation of functional networks of people under the influence of Ayahuasca tea.
  10. Mário Lucas Vicchietti (Insitute of Biosciences / Department of Biodiversity and Biostatistics / UNESP, Brazil): EEG-based detection of Alzheimer’s disease stages using complex networks features.
  11. Alvaro Zabaleta-Ortega (UPIITA-IPN, Mexico): Syncrhonization transitions in networks via persistent homology.
  12. Amália Buchweitz Garcez (UFRGS, Brazil): Analysis and tracking of the motion of self propelled particles.

Abstracts: Here

Videos and Files

Ulrike Feudel Files   Hitten Zaveri Files

2025-02-03 2025-02-04 2025-02-05 2025-02-06 2025-02-07 2025-02-12
  • 09:30 - Christian Meisel (Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin): Long-range correlations in the brain and their implications for seizure forecasting
  • 11:30 - Fernando Peruani (Cergy Paris University): Emergence of order in active matter: From synchronization of moving oscillators to collective motion
  • 14:00 - Klaus Lehnertz (University of Bonn, Germany): Statistical approaches to detection and prediction of critical transitions into epileptic seizures
2025-02-13
  • 09:30 - Hitten Zaveri (Yale University): Monitoring the brain in epilepsy and Controlling seizures
  • 11:30 - Fernando Peruani (Cergy Paris University): Emergence of order in active matter: From synchronization of moving oscillators to collective motion
2025-02-14
  • 09:30 - Klaus Lehnertz (University of Bonn): Statistical approaches to detection and prediction of critical transitions into epileptic seizures
  • 11:30 - Hitten Zaveri (Yale University): Monitoring the brain in epilepsy and Controlling seizures
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Workshop

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  • 10:00 - Mario Chavez (Sorbonne, France): The latent geometry of brain networks as a biomarker in epilepsy
  • 10:30 - Christian Meisel (Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany): Critical dynamics as the setpoint of optimal brain function
  • 11:40 - Guilherme Costa (ICTP-SAIFR / IFT-UNESP, Brazil): Bifurcations in the Kuramoto model with external forcing and higher-order interactions
  • 11:55 - Fernando da Silva Borges (State University of New York (SUNY), USA): Mechanisms responsible for the generation of cortical high frequency oscillations
  • 12:10 - Ricardo Martinez-Garcia (CASUS / HZDR, Germany & ICTP-SAIFR/IFT-UNESP, Brazil): Imperfect coordination in collective behaviors across scales: from microbial aggregates to ungulate migration
  • 14:30 - João Lizarraga (UNICAMP, Brazil): Swarmalator models in one- and two-dimensional spaces
  • 15:00 - Pablo de Castro (IFT – UNESP, Brazil): Epidemic percolation among motility-induced clusters of active particles
  • 15:30 - David Ortiz del Campo (Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos, Universitat de les Illes Balears-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain): Anticipated synchronization in systems with distributed delay
  • 15:45 - Leonardo Rodrigues da Costa (Unicamp, Brazil): Unveiling Epileptic Networks: Motif Synchronization for Interictal Spike and Foci Localization
  • 16:30 - Thierry Njougouo (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy): Collective Dynamics in Pairwise and Higher-Order Networks
  • 17:00 - Michael Luchtan (Open University of Catalonia, Spain): Fractal Associations, Synchronization Events, and Circulating Pacemakers: How musicians learn Bluegrass in Barcelona
  • 17:15 - Jesus Gómez Gardeñes (University of Zaragoza, Spain): Explosive Syncrhonization: some recent advances
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Additional Information

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BOARDING PASS: All participants, whose travel has been provided or will be reimbursed by ICTP-SAIFR, should bring the boarding pass  upon registration. The return boarding pass (PDF, if online check-in, scan or picture, if physical) should be sent to secretary@ictp-saifr.org by e-mail.

COVID-19: Brazilians and foreigners no longer have to present proof of vaccination before entering the country.

Visa information: Nationals from several countries in Latin America and Europe are exempt from tourist visa. Nationals from Australia, Canada and USA are exempt from tourist visa until April 10, 2025, but it is unclear if the exemption will be extended after this date.

Accommodation: Participants, whose accommodation will be provided by the institute, will stay at The Universe Flat. Hotel recommendations are available here.

How to reach the Institute: The school will be held at ICTP South American Institute, located at IFT-UNESP, which is across the street from a major bus and subway terminal (Terminal Barra Funda). The address which is closer to the entrance of the IFT-UNESP building is R. Jornalista Aloysio Biondi, 120 – Barra Funda, São Paulo. The easiest way to reach us is by subway or bus, please find instructions here.

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