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Complex Systems Winter School 2015-Tutorials

2015-12-14T11:56:03Z

Sagarc: /* Single-cell gene expression analysis and stem cell differentiation */

{{India Complex Systems Winter School 2015}}

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CSWS participants come from a wide range of disciplines. Participants are encouraged to share their knowledge by organizing their own tutorials.

You can schedule your own tutorial here, they will be held informally during the evening. Please do not schedule during other CSWS Lectures.

Tutorials can be given in the Visitors Hostel Conference Room on level 2. 

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==Bare minimum of Fractals==
'''Speaker: Sagar Chakraborty''' 
'''Date & Time & Place:' Friday, 11 Dec at 9:30pm in 1st floor conference room. ''' 
'''Content: Improvising on Chapter-11 of Strogatz's book on non-linear dynamics.''' . 
'''Motivation: Fractals are mathematical objects with precise definition. Plan is to motivate the need of introducing fractals using not-so-rigorous mathematics.''' 
'''Prerequisite: Love for maths for maths' sake.''' 
'''Slides: Chalk/Pen and Board only.''' 
'''Interested Participants:''' Katrina, Chakresh, Srashti Goyal, Bhumika Thakur, Promit, Cory, Prateek, Aaron 

==Turning Concepts Into Networks==
'''Facilitator: Cory Cox''' 
'''Date & Time & Place:' THURSDAY, 17 Dec at 9:30pm in 2nd or 1st floor conference room - wherever internet is best. ''' 
''Content: I will demonstrate what we do - at my startup - to help firms improve collaboration and communication. The goal is to show how you can build graphs/networks from purposively collected sociometric data (surveys for example) to measure concepts of interest. Goal is to give you a real world example and then talk about your own work to see how different approaches to data collection / graph construction can be used in your research. I am not the expert, just a facilitator... but together we can share ideas and generate some creative avenues for you to get started.' I also have a cloud solution for data collection and simple analysis that I would be happy to contribute to any collaborations anyone would like to do together.'' . 
'''Motivation: Defining the network(s) and boundaries is difficult. And specifying exactly what a link between two nodes encodes about interactions or relations is not always intuitive.''' 
'''Prerequisite: You are here... that's enough :) ''' 
'''Slides: I will post soon or after.''' 
'''Interested Participants:''' Sagar, Chakresh, Bhumika, Rajesh, Aditya, Snehal,Srashti, Ben

==Social Networks: Understanding aid work through relational ontologies ==
'''Speaker: Emily Lynch''' 
'''Date & Time & Place:' Tuesday, December 15, 20h45 - 21h30 ; 2nd floor conference room. ''' 
'''Content:
It is an open question for me how to understand humanitarian aid in terms of complex systems. I've just finished a paper proposing that the network position of the aid worker increases their capacity to influence information exchange between clustering communities. In the paper, I argue that there has been a recent shift of aid workers' network position in a way that is reducing humanitarian space - e.g. making aid work more dangerous. ''' . 
'''Motivation:
I'd like to present some of the work I've done, and use this case study/example to brainstorm how what we have learned so far about complex systems could apply to questions in social science, particularly those about power, agency, knowledge production, etc. ''' 
'''Prerequisite: curiosity! ''' 
'''Slides:
Chalk/Pen and Board only.''' 
'''Interested:
Isabel, Katrina, Chakresh ''' 

==Single-cell gene expression analysis and stem cell differentiation==
'''Speaker: ''' Rhishikesh Bargaje 
'''Date & Time & Place: Wednesday, 16 December, 9:30pm, 2nd floor conference room. ''' 
'''Content:''' I will talk about recent advances in single-cell gene expression analysis. Currently, it's one of the hottest areas of research in biology. There are newer and newer methods/techniques being developed to generate and analyze such datasets. However, we still need advanced methods to derive meaningful, physiologically relevant information from such datasets. I will briefly introduce some of the different types of tools and techniques used in single-cell gene expression analysis. I also see that there is lot of interest in Stem cell research; in case there is enough motivation I can go through some of the basics of stem cell research. 
'''Motivation: ''' Majority of the tools that are being utilized for single-cell gene expression analysis are based on linear models. However, we know that most biological systems are not linear and you all are unique set of people that can bring newer insights this field. So, I would like to sensitize you all to this new area. 
'''Prerequisite: ''' Beer!! (kidding of course). None. 
'''Slides: ''' I can share it on request. 
'''Interested Participants:''' Rajesh, Sagar

Complex Systems Winter School 2015-Tutorials

2015-12-11T05:22:33Z

Sagarc: /* Turning Concepts Into Networks */

Complex Systems winter School 2015-Projects

2015-12-11T05:00:06Z

Sagarc: /* Non Linear Time Series Analysis of Agricultural Data */

{{India Complex Systems Winter School 2015}}

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'''Please put your potential projects here''' 

==Project Title==

'''Description of project''': Earth System Governance as a problem in complexity science

'''Questions''': How can we view the issue of earth system governance (think climate negotiations) from the lens of 'complex systems'?

'''References''':

'''Contact for Group''': kapiln@igidr.ac.in

'''Meeting times:''' Any time

'''Interested''':

==Non Linear Time Series Analysis of Agricultural Data==

'''Description of project''': The prices of agricultural items fluctuate seasonally, as well as for reasons not immediately obvious. Linear methods of analysis like regression, etc. obviously don't do very well In prediction. Maybe we can try out non linear time series analysis to see if we get something.

'''References''': One possible data source for daily dal prices in different cities from 2009-15 is here:
https://data.gov.in/catalog/dailyweekly-wholesale-prices-turarhar-dal

'''Contact for Group''': Aditya; 9005467716

'''Meeting times:''' Any time

'''Interested''': Sagar

==Journalism on Social Media==

'''Description of project''': It will be interesting to reconstruct political discourse networks from Twitter to see where journalists lie on it. The reason I think this is important is that for a country as big as India the media cannot rely on traditional means to get hold of newsworthy stories. As the media runs out of funds, they will increasingly rely on social media to get hold of stories. Of course, the kind of stories you encounter on twitter depends a lot on who you follow and where in particular you lie in the network.

'''Questions''':

'''Contact for Group''': Aditya; 9005467716

'''Meeting times:''' Any time

'''Interested''':

Complex Systems Winter School 2015-Tutorials

2015-12-11T04:59:24Z

Sagarc: /* TEST Tutorial: Bare minimum of Fractals */

Complex Systems Winter School 2015-Tutorials

2015-12-10T11:17:28Z

Sagarc: /* TEST Tutorial: Bare minimum of Fractals */

Complex Systems Winter School 2015-Tutorials

2015-12-10T11:16:53Z

Sagarc:

Complex Systems Winter School 2015-Tutorials

2015-12-10T11:14:19Z

Sagarc: /* TEST Tutorial: Title of Tutorial */

Sagar Chakraborty

2015-10-13T05:25:31Z

Sagarc:

{{India Complex Systems Winter School 2015}}
I am a theoretical physicist at Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur, India). My current research works are on the broad topics of non-linear dynamics and fluid dynamics. I intend to explore the overlap between game theory and chaos theory in near future. I hope CSWS15 will help me with this.

Sagar Chakraborty

2015-10-13T05:24:56Z

Sagarc:

Sagar Chakraborty

2015-09-15T18:15:43Z

Sagarc:

Sagar Chakraborty

2015-09-15T18:14:00Z

Sagarc:

{{India Complex Systems Winter School 2015}}
I am a theoretical physicist at Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur, India). My current research works are in the broad topics of non-linear dynamics and fluid dynamics. I intend to explore the overlap between game theory and chaos theory in near future. Also, on my radar is neurophysics. I hope CSWS15 will help me with these.

Sagar Chakraborty

2015-09-15T18:13:36Z

Sagarc:

{{India Complex Systems Winter School 2015}}
I am a theoretical physicist at Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur). My current research works are in the broad topics of non-linear dynamics and fluid dynamics. I intend to explore the overlap between game theory and chaos theory in near future. Also, on my radar is neurophysics. I hope CSWS15 will help me with these.