Complex systems

DownloadDynamical Diagnosis of Crisis and solutions for Resilient Natural and Social Systems (PDF, 4 MB). PopTech Iceland 2012 (Accelerating the positive impact of world-changing people, projects and ideas), Reykjavik, Iceland, 27-29 June 2012, Session II - Risk and Change, external pageThe PopTech Institute, P.O. Box 1405, Damden, Maine 04843, USA, June 28, 2012

DownloadWhat Makes the Behavior of a System Predictable? (PDF, 8.1 MB)
external pageFourth International Workshop on Seizure Prediction (ISPW4) in Kansas City, hosted by the Alliance for Epilepsy Research, June 4-7, 2009

DownloadTheory of Zipf's Law (PDF, 2.4 MB)
presented at the common PhD and Postdoc Seminar "Modeling Socio Economic Systems and Crises" of the CCSS, ETH Zurich, March 31, 2009

external pageRIETI Policy Symposium: What Can Be Learned from Large-Scale Business Data: An Approach Integrating Economics and Physics
Video of the symposium, held on March 5, 2009 in Tokyo, Japan. Includes a presentation by Prof. Didier Sornette.

DownloadParallels between earthquake prediction, financial crash prediction and epileptic seizures predictions (PDF, 5.6 MB)
Keynote speaker at the workshop EMERGENCE IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS, BICS, University of Bath, UK, September 10, 2008

DownloadFinancial Crashes-, Epileptic Seizures-, Earthquake-Prediction / The Parallels (PDF, 4.9 MB)
Lecture to the ETH Alumni (Engineering and Management), ETH Zurich, (http://www.eaem.ethz.ch/events), July 3, 2008

DownloadParallels between earthquake prediction, financial crash prediction and epileptic seizures (PDF, 4.1 MB)
Invited speaker at the conference "Extreme events: causes and consequences" (E2-C2), ENS Ulm, Paris, organized by Pascal Yiou and Michael Ghil, March 26-28, 2008

DownloadMechanism for power laws and scaling in Nature (PDF, 4.9 MB)
Summer School in Complexity Science: "Emergent phenomena via separation of scales in time and space", Wye College, Kent, United Kingdom, Organized by Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen, Kim Christensen, Adrian Sutton and Martin Howard (Imperial College London), July 8-17, 2007

DownloadNurturing breakthroughs and the future of society: lessons from complexity theory (PDF, 119 KB)
Invited talk at the workshop Trans-disciplinary Research Agenda for Societal Dynamics, organized by Professor J. Rogers Hollingsworth, Dr. Karl H. Mueller, Professor Ivan Svetlik, vice rector of the University of Ljublana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, May 24 - 25, 2007

DownloadManaging complexity? Lessons from complexity theory (PDF, 4.5 MB)
presented at the 6th ETH - Industry - Dialogue on the Future on Managing Complexity, at the Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue, Rüschlikon, Zurich, April 7th and April 8th, 2006