The Institute of Physics Belgrade, in collaboration with the Ilija M. Kolarac Foundation, is hosting a lecture series on complex systems, running from 14 October to 25 November 2024.
The cooperation between the two institutions through new lecture series year to year, season to season, brings various fields of physical science to a broader audience, offering insight into contemporary topics that physicists explore today.
This autumn, the public will get the opportunity to familiarize themselves with complexity, which basically means that they will get the chance to listen to lectures in various fields of physics since systems exhibiting complexity are found across all disciplines, including astrophysics and cosmology, social physics and condensed matter physics.
The lecture series which will run on Mondays at 6 p.m. at the Kolarac Small Hall will be delivered by experts from the Center for the Study of Complex Systems Institute of Physics Belgrade, which is a separate centre where physicists solve a wide range of problems using numerical simulations and advanced super-computer infrastructure.
The lecture by Dr Marija Mitrović Dankulov on the physics of complexities behind social media life will launch the series at Kolarac on Monday, 14 October. A week later, Dr Nenad Vukmirović will explore how complexity within atoms can lead to free electricity. The following lecture on complex remote worlds, planets and asteroids will be given by Dr Marija Janković on 28 October.
The head of the Centre and deputy director of the Institute Dr Antun Balaž will talk about complex landscapes of ultra-cold atoms on Monday, 4 November. On 18 November, ERC grant recipient Dr Jakša Vučičević will discuss the challenges of complexity in high-temperature superconductors. Finally, the series will conclude on 25 November with a lecture by the director of the Institute of Physics, Dr Aleksandar Bogojević, who will explore emerging from complexities.
Lecture programme
October 14 – Dr Marija Mitrović Dankulov ‘Physics of Complexity and Hidden Forces in our Social Lives’
October 21 – Dr Nenad Vukmirović ‘From Atoms through Complexity to Free Electricity’
October 28 – Dr Marija Janković ‘Remote Complex Worlds: Extrasolar Planets and Asteroids’
November 4 – Dr Antun Balaž ‘Complex Landscapes of Ultra Cold Atoms’
November 18 – Dr Jakša Vučičević ‘Sruggle against Complexity in Physics of High-Temperature Superconductors’
November 25 – Dr Aleksandar Bogojević ‘Emerging from Complexity: Cooperation out of Conflict’
