Networks: A language for understanding complex systems

To this workshop the organizers Andreas Engel, Claus Hilgetag, Marc-Thorsten Hütt invited guests from biology and social sciences to neuroscience and psychology to explore networks, a formal language (and set of computational tools) to analyze, interpret and understand complex systems.

This relatively new field of interdisciplinary research brings together formalisms from graph theory and computational data analysis with mechanistic modeling approaches often used in statistical physics. The workshop is a forum for discussing recent trends in this field and seeing which questions network approaches help to solve. The audience is interdisciplinary with networks as a unifying common topic.

Participants

  • Bastian Cheng, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
  • Andreas K. Engel, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
  • Kayson Fakhar, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
  • Johannes Falk, Constructor University, Bremen
  • Johannes Hertel, Universitätsmedizin Greifswald
  • Claus C. Hilgetag, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
  • Marc-Thorsten Hütt, Constructor University, Bremen
  • Annick Lesne, Sorbonne Université and CNRS, Paris, France
  • Tania Lincoln, Universität Hamburg
  • Khalique Newaz, Universität Hamburg
  • Bettina C. Schwab, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Program

09:00 Introduction
Marc-Thorsten Hütt, Claus Hilgetag

09:15  Contact networks, a pervasive paradigm for complex systems
Annick Lesne

10:00  Using networks to understand protein functions
Khalique Newaz

10:45   Coffee break

11:15     Disentangling causation and confounding in metabolic networks: Insights from systems modelling of large cohort data
Johannes Hertel

12:00  How networks help physicists to model social systems
Johannes Falk

12:45   Lunch break

13:45  Network stimulation in the human brain
Bettina C. Schwab

14:30  A game-theoretical account for communication dynamics in the human brain network
Kayson Fakhar

15:15   Coffee break

15:45  Understanding cerebrovascular diseases: A network perspective
Bastian Cheng

16:30  What can we learn about mental disorders from studying symptom networks?
Tania Lincoln

17:15     Closing
Marc-Thorsten Hütt, Claus Hilgetag

17:30   Open discussion with food and drinks

19:30   End of the workshop

Location

Warburg-Haus
Heilwigstrasse 116
20249 Hamburg

The event will take place in English and will be additionally streamed via Zoom.
If you are interested to participate, please register by sending an email to event@hias-hamburg.de and indicate whether you would like to participate in person or via Zoom. In this case you will receive the login data a few days before the workshop.

This workshop is organised in cooperation with the Working Group Network Science of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg.