Programme (main lecturers and contributors):

Juan J. Alonso, Departamento de Física, University of Málaga, Spain
PERCOLATION PROPERTIES OF THE 2D HEISENBERG MODEL

Daniel J. Amit, Departmento di Fisica, ‘La Sapienza’ University, Rome, Italy
MODELING ACTIVE MEMORY: EXPERIMENT, THEORY AND SIMULATION (A SET OF LECTURES)

Jeferson Arenzon, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
KINETIC MODELS OF GRANULAR MATTER

Alain Barrat, Laboratoire de Physique Theòrique, Universitá de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
RESPONSE PROPERTIES IN A MODEL FOR GRANULAR MATTER

Christoph Best, J. von Neumann Institute for Computing / DESY, Jülich, Germany
ALGEBRAIC MULTIGRID OPERATORS FOR DISORDERED SYSTEMS AND LATTICE GAUGE THEORIES

Lesser Blum, Department of Physics, Río Piedras, University of Puerto Rico
IONIC SYSTEMS: THE SCALING APPROACH: The connection between analytical solutions and computer simulations will be stressed, and applications to real systems will be discussed in this set of lessons.

Javier Brey, Física Teórica, University of Seville, Spain
SOME ASPECTS OF DYNAMICS FOR GRANULAR MEDIA

Gloria Buendía, Departamento de Física, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela
METASTABLE DECAY MODES OF A MIXED ISING FERRIMAGNET

Guido Caldarelli, Universitïá “La Sapienza”, Roma, Italy
THE FRACTAL PROPERTIES OF INTERNET

Michele Caselle, I.N.F.N., Torino, Italy
BOUND STATES IN THE 3D ISING AND fi MODELS

Francisco De los Santos, Centro de Fisica da Materia Condensada, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
SOME RECENT RESULTS FOR DRIVEN LATTICE GASES

Antonio I. Ferreira, Departamento de Fisica, Universidade Aveiro, Portugal
PREDICTION OF LIQUID C60 FROM AB-INITIO INTERMOLECULAR POTENTIAL

Andrea Gabrielli, Lab. PMC – Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
ETCHING OF RANDOM SOLIDS: HARDENING DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZED FRACTALITY

Ferdinando Gliozzi, Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica dell’ Universitá, Torino, Italy
DISORDER IN Q-STATE POTTS MODEL

Rajan Gupta, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
MC RENORMALIZATION GROUP IN SPIN MODELS AND GAUGE THEORIES

Douglas Henderson, Department of Biochemistry, Brigham Young University, Provo, USA
SIMULATION OF ELECTROLYTES NEAR CHARGED SURFACES

Hidemi Ito, Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan
NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF EARTHQUAKE CYCLES

Plamen Ch. Ivanov, Center for Polimer Studies, Boston University, USA
GENERATING POWER-LAW TAILS IN PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS

Sudhir Jain, Neural Computing research Group, Aston University, Birmingham, UK
BLOCKING, PERSISTENCE AND SCALING IN THE 2D ISING MODEL

Michel Mareschal, CECAM, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon, France
MICROSCOPIC METHODS TO SIMULATE CLASSICAL NON-EQUILIBRIUM SYSTEMS: A set of lessons devoted to Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, Non Hamiltonian flows, Non-equilibrium steady states, Time dependent processes, and Stochastic methods.

Marco Montouri, , INFM, University of Roma I, Roma, Italy
GRAVITATIONAL CLUSTERING IN N-BODY SIMULATIONS

Miguel A. Muñoz, , Instituto Carlos I,  University of Granada
SELF-ORGANISED CRITICALITY AND ABSORBING STATES

Shingo Ohya, Nagoya Bunri University, Khonan, Japan
CORRELATION LENGTH OF THE SC LAYER POTTS MODEL

Alessandro Pelizzola, Dipartimento de Fisica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
ACCURATE RESULTS FOR ISING MODELS FROM LARGE ORDER CLUSTER VARIATION METHOD

Angeles R. de Cara, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales, C.S.I.C., Madrid
COULD PREDATION PRESSURE DRIVE BIRDS TO COLONIALITY?

Maria Shermeneva, Wave Research Center of Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia
NONLINEAR PERIODIC WAVES ON A SLOPE

Nadav M. Shnerb, Judea and Sumaria College, Ariel, Israel
ADAPTATION OF AUTOCATALYTIC FLUCTUATIONS…

Karl Sigmund, Institut fïr Mathematik, University of Vienna, Austria
EVOLUTIONARY GAME THEORY AND POPULATION DYNAMICS: A set of lectures on evolutionary game theory and simulations of population dynamics, including spatial games.

György Szabö, Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science, Budapest, Hungary
SPATIAL EVOLUTIONARY PRISONER’S DILEMMA GAMES WITH EXTERNAL CONSTRAINTS

Attila Szolnoki, MTA-MFA Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary
PHASE TRANSITIONS IN KINETIC ISING MODEL WITH COMPETING DYNAMICS

Bosiljka Tadic, J. Stephan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
QUEUING IN CRITICAL SANDPILE AUTOMATA

Stefan Thurner, Institut für Mathematik, Universitát Wien, Austria
DETERMINISTIC STOCK PRICE DYNAMICS: A NON-LINEAR THERMOSTAT MODEL

Mitsuyoski Tomiya, Department of Applied Physics, Seikei University, Japan
NUMERICAL APPROACH TO SPECTRAL PROPERTIES OF COUPLED QUARTIC OSCILLATORS

Henk van Beijeren, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht, The Netherlands
LONG TIME SURVIVAL AMONG RANDOM FIXED TRAPS; AN EFFICIENT ALGORITHM TO SAMPLE LARGE DEVIATIONS

Emanuela Zaccarelli, Colloid Science and Biomaterials, University College Dublin, Ireland
MODE COUPLING THEORY FROM NEWTON’S EQUATIONS

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