Life at the edge
Dante Chialvo (UNSAM - Argentina)
Abstract: Why is life complex and — most importantly — what is the origin of the over abundance of complexity in nature? This is a fundamental scientific question which, paraphrasing the late Per Bak, “is screaming to be answered but seldom is even being asked”. We review recent attempts across several scales to link complexity with scale invariance from the perspective of critical phenomena. This is a nontechnical talk illustrating the approach discussing three cases, namely the large-scale brain dynamics, the characterization of spontaneous fluctuations of proteins, and the physiological complexity of the cell mitochondria network.
geometric topology
Audience: researchers in the topic
Series comments: Web-seminar series on Applications of Geometry and Topology
| Organizers: | Alicia Dickenstein, José-Carlos Gómez-Larrañaga, Kathryn Hess, Neza Mramor-Kosta, Renzo Ricca*, De Witt L. Sumners |
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