Extended Abstracts Spring 2013

Part I: Joint CRM-Imperial College Workshop in Complex Systems.- Foreword.- Mesoscopic models for the overstretching transition of DNA.- Criticality on rainfall: statistical observational constraints for the onset of strong convection modelling.- Testing universality and goodness-of-fit test of power-law distributions.- Stability of strength and weight distributions for time-evolving word co-occurrence networks.- Single infection epidemic spreading model.- Niche dimension as an emergent property of food-web structure.- Modelling the population dynamics in a cell culture at two different scales.- Assessing the significance and predicting the effects of knockout cascades in metabolic networks.- Stochastic amplification in neural networks.- Evolutionary dynamics of the genotype-phenotype map.- Spatio-temporal patterns in a large-scale discrete-time neuron network.- A cavity method approach to DNA stretching.- Idiosyncrasy as an explanation for power laws in nature.- Symmetric division model of cell differentiation systems.- Free energy landscape analysis of mesoscopic model for finding DNA-protein binding sites.- Are first order phase transitions possible in disordered low-dimensional non-equilibrium systems?- Labquakes: acoustic emission during the compression of porous materials.- Part II: Emergence, Spread and Control of Infectious Diseases.- Foreword.- Global properties of a core group model for sexually transmitted infections.- Incorporating landscape heterogeneities in the spread of an epidemic in wildlife.- The phenomenon of apparent disappearance in the marine bacteriophage dynamics.- Viral RNA replication modes: evolutionary and dynamical implications.- System order reduction methods with application to a bacteriophages dynamics model.- Viruses and their role in the ocean: bacteriophages and bacteria interactions.

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