FISICOS: FI sica Interdisciplinar de SI stemas CO mplejo S

1. FISICOS (FIS2007-60327) FISICOS:FIsica Interdisciplinar de SIstemas COmplejoS Consolider-C, Physics National Program, Spanish Ministry for Science and Education 1 Oct 2007- 30 Sep 2012 (5 years). Budget: 1,318,900 € (390,000 for personnel) + 4 PhD fellowships + 1 technician (5 ys) External associates: J. J. Cerdá (FIAS Frankfurt) E. Manjarrez (Puebla) G. Pipa (FIAS Frankfurt) M. Sorel (Univ. of Glasgow) D. Centola (Harvard) TEAM EPO: MIK SIMPPLE Mandarina Fraunhoffer I N PI: Co-PI: Raúl Toral Maxi San Miguel Permanent Researchers Pere Colet V.M. Eguíluz E. Hdez-García C. López M. Matías C. Mirasso T. Sintes R. Zambrini FISICOS postdoc Feb 08 Senior Postdocs (1-X-09) 8 PhD fellows Miguel Pineda Damià Gomila Alessandro Scirè

2. FISICOS (FIS2007-60327) Statement:Building upon previously funded projects (PB94-1167 for 5 years, BFM2000-1108: CONOCE and FIS2004-00953: CONOCE2) we aim to develop interdisciplinary and strategic research from a common background of studies in Nonlinear Physics and Complex Systems, with methodologies taken from Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems Theory and Computational Methods. • The research is organized • in a unifying transverse line of exploration and fundamental nature • · Transversal line :Complex systems: Statistical and Nonlinear Physics • and 4 targeted research lines which focus on more specific fields: • · Line 1: Nonlinear Optics, Quantum Optics and Dynamics of Optoelectronic Devices • · Line 2: Fluid dynamics, Biofluids and Geophysical Fluids • · Line 3: Biophysics and Nonlinear Phenomena in Ecology and Physiology • · Line 4: Dynamics and collective phenomena in social systems General scientific objectives : a) Exploring: contribute to the development of concepts and methods for the understanding of generic non-linear phenomena in complex systems. b) Transferring interdisciplinary transfer of this body of knowledge to the strategic targeted research sub-lines 1-4.

3. FISICOS (FIS2007-60327) COMMITMENT: • The qualitative improvement we propose here is to advance in a more risky research, avoiding endogenous incremental research and putting emphasis on interdisciplinary transfer. Quantitative commitment: 3 years 5 years Total number of SCI publications 99 165 Aggregated impact index 282 470 Invited conferences in high level conferences 30 50 Aggregated impact index in publications implying strong interdisciplinary transfer 21 35

4. FISICOS (FIS2007-60327) Some specific objectives: • · Develop and test new methodologies to derive macroscopic descriptions of interacting particle systems. • · Characterize dynamics and new cooperative phenomena on complex networks, including weighted and directed networks. • · Develop self-consistent methods in the treatment of excitable systems, in particular in synchronization problems. • · Light beam control with photonic crystals and metamaterials. • · Characterize quantum states and entanglement in beams carrying orbital angular momentum. • · Security aspects in optical communication based on chaos. • · Applications of novel semiconductors laser configurations including microcavities and arrays. • · Obtain a global classification of different scenarios arising in chemically or biologically reacting fluids stirred by chaotic flows. • · Identify mechanisms by which fluid turbulence influences biological plankton dynamics at different scales. • · Non-linear dynamics study of environmental variability effects on coastal ecological systems. • · To apply complex network techniques to organize genetic data from ecological and evolutionary contexts. • · Understand the role of delayed interactions and fluctuations in the information transmission in neural systems. • · Bring stochastic processes and methods into the context of drug design and modelling. • · Develop methods and tools to manage pattern resilience in physical, ecological and social complex systems. • · Impact the social sciences literature and community in consensus formation and co-evolution of social structure and agent dynamics.