[Leonardo/ISAST Network] Albert-Lazslo Barabasi to speak at MutaMorphosis conference

[Leonardo/ISAST]

To: Leonardo Network
From: Roger Malina

We are pleased to announce that Albert-Lazslo Barabasi will be one of 
the Plenary speakers at the MutaMorphosis conference in Prague in November.

Barabasi is a leading researcher in network theory as applied to fields 
as diverse as the internet, genetic and chemical networks. He will 
address how network theory informs our views of how social networks 
develop in new territories.

He has an excellent book called "Linked" that describes some of his 
ideas. For further information on his work visit: 
http://www.nd.edu/~alb/ <http://www.nd.edu/%7Ealb/>

Here is his abstract:

The architecture of complexity

Systems as diverse as  the world wide web, Internet or the cell are 
described by highly interconnected networks with amazingly complex 
topology. Recent studies indicate that these complex networks are the 
result of self-organizing processes governed by simple but generic laws, 
resulting in architectural features that are much more similar to each 
other than one would have expected by exploring them one by one. Indeed, 
how is it possible that the the Internet, the cell, or the social 
network have the same underlying architecture? How could the router know 
what a gene does in our cells? My goal is to discuss this amazing and 
beautiful order characterizing our interconnected work, and its 
implications to how we perceive the impact of links and connections  on 
our life.

Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
Emil T. Hofman Professor of Physics
Department of Physics
University of Notre Dame

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