9.00 Opening
Workshop on Complex Systems, 15 January 2015 Sala Consiglio, Department of Physics, Università degli Studi di Milano Session 1: Statistical Physics. Chair: Stefano Zapperi 9:10 Lasse Laurson (Aalto University Helsinki): Crackling noise in driven systems: from domain walls to plastic deformation. (Invited) 9:40 Luca Cipelletti (Univ. Montpellier) Off-­‐equilibrium surface tension between miscible fluids. (Invited) 10:10 Marco Gherardi, Measuring complexity in biological, technological, and logical systems. 10:30 Coffee break 11:00 Gianluca Bertaina, Dynamical correlations in one-­‐dimensional liquid 4He beyond Luttinger liquid theory. 11:20 Shi Chen, Electron-­‐Plasma turbulent evolution and the role of initial conditions: a multiresolution analysis Session 2: Instant talks. Chair: Marina Carpineti 11:4012:40
Riccardo Capelli, The Role of Surface Energetics in the Formation of Protein-­‐
Antibody Interactions.
Giulio Costantini, Protein accumulation in the endoplasmic reticulum as a non-­‐equilibrium phase transition.
Roberta Leone, Is non mutated neuroserpin involved in neurodegenerative desease?
Costanza Giampietro, Signaling Pathways in Flow-­‐Mediated Endothelial Mechanotransduction.
Roberta Lanfranco, Micro-­‐porous materials iso-­‐refractive to water as novel optical sensors.
Mario Motta, Dynamical Structure Factors from Auxiliary Fields Quantum Monte Carlo.
Giovanni Nava, Phase behavior of low-­‐valence DNA colloids
Davide Pini, A study of isostructural transitions in cluster crystals
Valeria Rondelli, Across a biomimetic membrane by Neutron Reflectometry.
Pietro Rotondo, Does disordered light –matter interaction make a quantum brain?
Marco Saltini, The dependency network of mathematics.
Alessandro L. Sellerio, Fracture size-­‐effects of defected graphene.
12:40 Lunch Session 3: Biocomplexity. Chair: Caterina La Porta 14:00 14:30 14:50 15:10 Andrea Soranno (ETH Zurigo) Single-­‐molecule spectroscopy of disordered proteins in crowded environments. (Invited) Umut Salman, Volume Fluctuation during active cell deformations. Mario Milani, The activator of apoptosis Smac-­‐DIOABLO acts as a tetramer in solution. Guido Tiana, Localization of frustration in proteins studied by coevolutionary data. E. Del Favero, Abeta oligomers, beyond loop, sheet and strand. 15:30 16:00 Coffee break Session 4: Complex Matter . Chair: Tommaso Bellini 16:30
Francesco Mantegazza (Univ. Milano Bicocca) Magnetic tweezers measurements of the nanomechanical properties of DNA. (Invited)
17:00
Fabio Ferri (Univ. dell’Insubria) Early stages of fibrin network formation from coupled time-­‐resolved SAXS and wide-­‐angle, multi-­‐angle light scattering (WA-­‐MALS). (Invited)
17:20
Tommaso Fraccia, Liquid crystal autocatalysis of DNA: when self-­‐assembly favors polymerization.
17:50
Carlotta Negri, Plasticity and fracture of curved colloidal crystal shells.
18:10
Fabio Giavazzi, The strange path of a gas bubble: intermittency, dynamical heterogeneity and scaling in a coarsening foam.
18:30 End of meeting