CSI-Piemonte - Convention 2007

Registration of participants

Welcoming remarks of the authorities
Francesco Brizio, President of CSI-Piemonte
Francesco Profumo, Chancellor of the Polytechnic Institute of Turin

Opening address
Agata Spaziante, Polytechnic Institute of Turin – Technical-Scientific Committee of CSI-Piemonte

Complexity: method, paradigms, prospects
Mario Rasetti, Polytechnic Institute of Turin – ISI Foundation

Would-be worlds: toward a theory of complex systems
John L. Casti, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis of Laxenburg

1^st Session: “Natural systems”

Coordinator Piero Bianucci, scientific journalist

From molecular biology to system biology: a necessity to understand the mechanisms of life
Federico Bussolino, University of Turin

Understanding and protecting biodiversity and ecosystems
Marino Gatto, Polytechnic Institute of Milan

Cities and complexity: from conception to modelling
Denise Pumain, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne – Institut Universitaire de France

Complexity and predictability of the spread of epidemics
Alessandro Vespignani, Indiana University of Bloomington – ISI Foundation

2^nd Session: “Technological systems”

Coordinator Gianfranco Balbo, University of Turin – Technical-Scientific Committee of
CSI-Piemonte

Information dynamics in on line social communities
Vittorio Loreto, University of Rome “La Sapienza” – ISI Foundation

The emergence of phase transitions in learning
Lorenza Saitta, University of Eastern Piedmont “A. Avogadro”

Robots evolution among biology and engineering
Dario Floreano, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Closing remarks