2012 Shanghai School

Hands-On Research in Complex Systems School at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China 17-29 June 2012

Directors

David Cai (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Rajarshi Roy (University of Maryland), Kenneth Showalter (West Virginia University), Michael Schatz (Georgia Tech), Mark Shattuck (City Collge of New York), Harry L. Swinney (University of Texas), Hepeng Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Participants

75 total participants from Bangladesh, China, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Netherlands, Pakistan, Palestinian Territories, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam.

Sponsors

International Centre of Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and the U.S. National Science Foundation.

General information

Photos

Hands-on Sessions

Talks

  • Table top science (Swinney, 18 June Morning) download
  • Science education (Shatz, 18 June Afternoon) download
  • Image analysis (Shattuck, 19 June Morning) download
  • Bio-physics (Schoetz, 19 June Afternoon) download
  • Optical networks (Roy, 20 June Morning) download
  • Nonlinearity in fluid networks (Storey, 20 June Afternoon) download
  • International collaboration (Niemela, 21 June Morning) download
  • The scientific method (Lathrop, 21 June Afternoon) download
  • Optical illusions / Seeing the light (Roy, 21 June Evening) download
  • Soft matter (Weeks, 22 June Morning) download
  • Collective motion (Zhang, 22 June Afternoon) download
  • Neural networks (Cai, 23 June Morning) download
  • Chemical oscillators (Showalter, 23 June Afternoon) download
  • Cell migration (Rericha, 25 June Morning) download
  • Non-linear dynamics in biology (Ouyang, 26 June Morning) download
  • Science 2.0 (Xu, 26 June Afternoon) download
  • Locomotion (Goldman, 27 June Morning) download
  • Bacterial competition (Swinney, 27 June Afternoon) download

Posters

Lists (sessions I, II, and III) and
Snapshots (sessions I, II, and III)

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Tutorials

  • Career Development (led by Weeks, Rericha, and Lathrop) download
  • Proposal Development (led by Niemela and Lathrop) download
  • On being a scientist (U.S. National Academy of Sciences) download
  • Scientific Writing Booklet download