DOOCN-XVI: Workshop at CNS*2025

Population activity : the influence of cell-class identity, synaptic dynamics, plasticity and adaptation

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The Dynamics On and Of Complex Networks (DOOCN) workshop series, aims at exploring statistical dynamics on and off complex networks. Dynamics on networks refers to the different types of processes that take place on networks, like spreading, diffusion, and synchronization. Modeling such processes is strongly affected by the topology and temporal variation of the network structure, i.e., by the dynamics of networks.

In recent years tremendous developments have been achieved in the comprehension of neural activity at the population level. This has been possible on one side thanks to the new investigation methods recently developed (e.g. the neuropixels probes and large-scale imaging) that allows for the contemporary registration of the activity of (tens/hundreds of) thousands of neurons in alive and behaving mice as well as established dynamic-clamp protocols. On the other side by the elaboration of extremely refined mean field models able to describe the population activity of spiking neural networks encompassing realistic biological features, from different forms of synaptic dynamics to plastic and adaptive aspects present at the neural level. The aim of this workshop is to gather neuroscientists, mathematicians, engineers, and physicists all working on the characterization of the population activity from different point of views, ranging from data analysis of experimental results to simulations of large ensembles of neurons, from next generation neural mass models to dynamical mean field theories. This workshop will favour the exchanges and the discussion on extremely recent developments in this extremely fluorishing field. This motivates us to focus on "Population activity : the influence of cell-class identity, synaptic dynamics, plasticity and adaptation" as the topic of interest in the 2025 edition.

The 16th edition of the DOOCN workshop, “DOOCN-XVI: Population activity : the influence of cell-class identity, synaptic dynamics, plasticity and adaptation; will be held on July 8-9, 2025 in conjunction with the upcoming CNS*25 Florence -34th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting which will take place during 5– 9 July 2025, in Florence, Italy.

Organizers

Simona Olmi
Institute for Complex Systems, National Research Council, Florence, Italy
Michele Giugliano
Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia - Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Metaboliche e Neuroscienze sede ex-Sc. Biomediche, Italy
Alessandro Torcini
Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modélisation - CY Cergy Paris Université- Cergy-Pontoise, France

Invited Speakers

Anna Levina
University of Tübingen, Germany
Giacomo Barzon
Padova Neuroscience Center, University of Padova, Italy
Eleonora Russo
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, The BioRobotics Institute, Italy
Tobias Kühn
University of Bern, Switzerland
Gianluigi Mongillo
Sorbonne Université, INSERM, CNRS, Institut de la Vision, F-75012 Paris, France
Magnus J. E. Richardson
Warwick Mathematics Institute, UK
Gianni Valerio Vinci
Istituto Superiore di Sanita’, Rome, Italy
Simona Olmi
Institute for Complex Systems - National Research Council - Italy
Ferdinand Tixidre
CY Cergy Paris University, France
Letizia Allegra Mascaro
Neuroscience Institute, National Research Council, Italy
Alessandro Torcini
CY Cergy Paris University, France
Rainer Engelken
Columbia University, NY, United States
Tilo Schwalger
Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Mathematik, Germany
Giancarlo La Camera
Stony Brook University, NY, United States
Gorka Zamora-López
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Sacha van Albada
Research Center Juelich and University of Cologne, Germany

Program

Organizers of The Dynamics On and Of Complex Networks (DOOCN) workshop series

Simona Olmi
Institute for Complex Systems, Florence, Italy
Mehrnaz Anvari,
Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing SCAI, Germany
Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad
Ghanbarnejad, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK),Germany

History

The first Dynamics On and Of Complex Networks (DOOCN I) took place in Dresden, Germany, on 4th October 2007, as a satellite workshop of the European Conference on Complex Systems 07. The workshop received a large number of quality submissions from authors pursuing research in multiple disciplines, thus making the forum truly inter-disciplinary. There were around 20 speakers who spoke about the dynamics on and of different systems exhibiting a complex network structure, from biological systems, linguistic systems, and social systems to various technological systems like the Internet, WWW, and peer-to-peer systems. The organizing committee has published some of the very high quality original submissions as an edited volume from Birkhauser, Boston describing contemporary research position in complex networks.

After the success of DOOCN I, the organizers launched Dynamics On and Of Complex Networks – II (DOOCN II), a two days satellite workshop of the European Conference of Complex Systems 08. DOOCN II was held in Jerusalem, Israel, on the 18th and 19th September 2008.

DOOCN III was held as a satellite of ECCS 2009 in the University of Warwick, UK on 23rd and 24th of September. In continuation, DOOCN IV was held again as a satellite of ECCS 2010 in the University Institute Lisbon, Portugal on 16th September.

DOOCN V was held as a satellite of ECCS 2011 in the University of Vienna on 14th – 15th September 2011.

DOOCN VI took place in Barcelona, as a satellite to ECCS 2013, and focused on Semiotic Dynamics in time-varying social media. As DOOCN I, the other five DOOCN workshops counted with a large number participants and attracted prominent scientist in the field.

DOOCN VII, held in Lucca as a satellite to ECCS 2014, focused on Big Data aspects. DOOCN VIII was held in Zaragoza with focus also on BigData aspects.

The 9th edition of DOOCN was held in Amsterdam at Conference on Complex Systems (CCS) with the theme “Mining and learning for complex networks”.

The 2017 edition of DOOCN was held in Indianapolis USA in conjunction with NetSci 2017.

The 2018 edition of DOOCN XI was held in Thessaloniki, Greece at Conference on Complex Systems (CCS) with the theme “Machine learning for complex networks”.

The 2019 edition of DOOCN XII was held in Burlington, Vermont, USA in conjunction with NetSci 2019 with the theme “Network Representation Learning”.

The 2020 edition of DOOCN XIII was held online in conjunction with NetSci 2020 with the theme “Network Learning”.

The 2023 edition of DOOCN XIV was held online in conjunction with Statphys28 with the theme “Cascading Failures in Complex Networks”.

The 2024 edition of DOOCN XV was held in conjunction with Compeng 2024 with the theme “Dynamical Multiscale Engineering of Network Architecture”.

DOOCN Book Series

The organizing committees of the DOOCN workshop series have published three Birkhäuser book volumes, from selected talks from the series.