All day
Breakfast with SFI
8:00 a.m. Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Talk
The Garden Court Hotel
520 Cowper Street
Palo Alto, CA
Percolation, Cascades, and Control of Interdependent Networks
Raissa D'Souza
External Faculty, Science Steering Committee, Santa Fe Institute; Department of Computer Science, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Complexity Sciences Center, University of California, Davis
Collections of networks lie at the core of modern society, spanning physical, biological, and social systems. These networks interact and depend on one another, sometimes leading to unanticipated consequences, such as cascading failures. Unfortunately, interdependencies between systems are largely unknown, and each individual network is typically a complex system with emergent properties that are shaped by the collective action of individual agents. This talk will explore how techniques from statistical physics and random graph theory are providing rigorous frameworks for modeling interdependence and its consequences, in particular with respect to manipulating the size of cascades and the nature and location of "tipping points" (i.e. phase transitions) in networked systems.
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