Goals

The Program goals have been articulated according to three major guidelines, focused on modeling and simulation techniques, namely:

 
  • Condensed matter and Complex Materials, where we will study the static and dynamical properties at different scales (microscopic, mesoscopic and macrocospic) of complex materials such as suspensions of objects (colloid or polymeric), granular media, selfassembly constituents, amphiphylic molecules and fluids confined in geometries of different complexity (from slits to porous means) .
  • Biological systems and Processes, where on one hand we will analyze phenomena related with the vesicle adsorption on surfaces and the vesicle flow in capillaries, which are of vital importance in great variety of biological and physical-chemical contexts. On the other hand, we will analyze the evolutionary and organizational characteristics of molecular and viral quasispecies at three levels of description: genomic diversity, diversity in the secondary structure and phenotypic diversity. Finally, we will study the formation and the evolution of ecosystems, as well as their adaptation to environmental changes or introduction/extinction of species.
  • Complex networks and Social Behaviors, where we will define new techniques of analysis of complex networks, which will be applied to real cases such as recommendation networks, ferromagnetic networks, networks of cerebral connectivity and networks of interaction between species. At the same time, we will study the phenomenon of the cooperation in social networks, their complex evolution and their relation with game theory and complex networks.