I was in the conference ‘Statistical Mechanics of Distributed Information Systems‘ in Finland last week, which (for my surprise) was sunny and warm, very different from Birmingham. Slides of the talks as well as references and papers can be found in the conference’s site.
A lot of famous people in the area were there. For [...]
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Back from Finland
Posted in Biology, Distributed Information Systems, Finland, Information, Statistical Physics on July 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Statphys 23
Posted in Statistical Physics, Statphys 23 on June 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From 9th to 13th July it is going to be another Statphys conference, the most important meeting in the Statistical Physics area. This year’s venue is Genova, Italy. The program can be downloaded from the conference site. Giovanni Gallavotti and Kurt Binder are receiving the Boltzmann Medal this year.
There are a lot of talks about [...]
SOC and Gravity
Posted in Quantum Gravity, SOC, Statistical Physics on June 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Sometime ago, I found these interesting papers about self-organised criticality and quantum gravity:
Cosmology as a problem in critical phenomena – L. Smolin
Causal evolution of spin networks – F. Markopoulou, L. Smolin
Propagating spin modes in canonical quantum gravity – R. Borissov, S. Gupta
Self-organized criticality in quantum gravity – M.H. Ansari, L. Smolin
In the first two, self-organised [...]
