Complex systems

What Makes the Behavior of a System Predictable?
Fourth International Workshop on Seizure Prediction (ISPW4) in Kansas City, June 4-7, 2009 a hosted by the Alliance for Epilepsy Research (http://www.iwsp4.org/)

Seismic versus Seizure predictions
Fourth International Workshop on Seizure Prediction (ISPW4) in Kansas City, June 4-7, 2009 a hosted by the Alliance for Epilepsy Research (http://www.iwsp4.org/)

Theory of Zipf's Law (PDF 2.5 MB)
presented at the common PhD and Postdoc Seminar "Modeling Socio Economic Systems and Crises" of the CCSS, Tuesday, March 31, 2009, ETH Zurich (http://www.ccss.ethz.ch/education/ColloquiumSS09/)

RIETI 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.

Parallels between earthquake prediction, financial crash prediction and epileptic seizures predictions (PDF 5.7 MB)
Keynote speaker at the workshop EMERGENCE IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS, BICS, University of Bath, UK, 10 September 2008

Financial Crashes-, Epileptic Seizures-, Earthquake-Prediction / The Parallels (PDF 4.99 MB)
Lecture to the ETH Alumni (Engineering and Management), Thursday 3rd July 2008, 19:15 - 20:15, ETH Zurich, Hauptgebaeude, Raum HG E 42
(http://www.eaem.ethz.ch/events)
(http://www.eaem.ethz.ch/events/pastevent/2008/sornette)

Parallels 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 26-28 March 2008, Organized by Pascal Yiou and Michael Ghil (http://e2c2.ipsl.jussieu.fr/)

Mechanism for power laws and scaling in Nature (PDF 4.99 MB)
Summer School in Complexity Science: "Emergent phenomena via separation of scales in time and space", 8-17 July 2007, Wye College, Kent, United Kingdom, Organized by Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen, Kim Christensen, Adrian Sutton and Martin Howard (Imperial College London) (http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/complexityscience/taughtcourse/coursecontent/)

Nurturing breakthroughs and the future of society: lessons from complexity theory (PDF 118KB)
Invited talk at the workshop Trans-disciplinary Research Agenda for Societal Dynamics (http://www.uni-lj.si/trasd in Ljubljana), organized by Professor J. Rogers Hollingsworth, Dr. Karl H. Mueller, Professor Ivan Svetlik, vice rector of the University of Ljublana, 24 - 25 May 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Managing complexity? Lessons from complexity theory (PDF, 5 MB),
presented at the 6th ETH - Industry - Dialogue on the Future on Managing Complexity, Friday, April 7th, 15.00 h, to Saturday April 8th, 11.30 h, 2006, at the Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue, Rüschlikon, Zurich