Description

El concepte de visual search engloba dues àres de recerca ben diferenciades: per una banda l'estudi de com l'aparell visual cognitiu respon i pren decisions davant de determinats entorns amb l'objectiu de trobar un objecte concret, i per una altra l'estudi de com desenvolupar algoritmes/mecanismes que permetin a un individu (persona, animal, microorganisme...) desplaçar-se per l'espai per tal de detectar un cert objecte de la forma més eficient possible.

Organizers
Vicenç Mendez i Daniel Campos

Speaker
Jörn Davidsen

Description Abstract: Extreme events are an important theme in various areas of science because of their typically devastating effects on society and their scientific complexities. The latter is particularly true if the underlying dynamics does not lead to independent extreme events as often observed in natural systems. In this talk, I will focus on this case and discuss specific examples from the fields of space weather and seismicity. In particular, I will give an overview of recent advances in characterizing and understanding extreme events in these systems.

Speaker
Luis A. N. Amaral

Description The concept of a (free) energy landscape has been extremely useful to help gain insight into the equilibrium and dynamical properties of disordered physical systems. Two cases in particular, extremely rough and extremely smooth energy landscapes, are particularly helpful in providing insight into the dynamics of phenomena such such as glass formation or protein folding. Interestingly, the idea of a "cost" landscape, such as an energy landscape or a fitness landscape, has emerged in other context outside of physics including evolutionary biology, economics, or operations research. I will present some examples of complex systems where "cost" landscapes appear, and show how physical intuition and thinking can help gain insight into the equilibrium and dynamical properties of those complex systems. Sponsored by Barcelona Knowledge Campus

Speaker
Ling MIao

Description The Physical Review family journals of the American Physical Society (APS) are the bedrock journals that the international physics community relies on. But, they need the community's support and contributions to maintain their strengths. My talk will address the question of why, and how, the journals and the physics community should work together more actively and effectively. I will first briefly discuss the journals' status and their multifaceted contribution to physics and to the international physics community. I will provide some representative statistics on publications, citations and impact measures as well as some geographic and institutional comparisons. Then I will give you an insider's view of the APS editorial system: On what basis do the editors evaluate new papers, choose referees, and accept and reject papers? How can authors navigate the review process productively? You may have heard about PRX (http://prx.aps.org/), the new member in the Physical Review family; you may have even seen in it some papers that are of interest to you. But, what is really PRX? What can it offer you? I'll answer these questions and others that you may have. Last but not least, I want to get YOUR view of the Physical Review journals and YOUR feedback on our editorial work. Such "outside" input will help the journals become stronger and work better for you.

Speaker
Nico Stollenwerk