Application domains

1. Systems biology and neurobiology

• Dynamics of protein interaction networks (Sollich)
• Metabolic and gene regulatory networks (Leuzzi, Marinari, Martin, Zecchina)
• Evolutionary dynamics (Martin)
• Statistical inference and graph identification (Roudi)
• Neural networks (Roudi)

2. Information technology and communication networks

• Statistical Physics approaches to ICT problems (Aurell, Franz)
• Decentralized network control (Franz)
• Methods for network exploration (Dall’Asta)

3. Finance and socio-economic systems

• Credit contagion  (Kuehn)
• Inference of networks  of financial exposures from incomplete data (Marsili)
• Modelling dynamics of illiquid markets (Marsili)
• Dynamics of infection, optimal vaccination strategies, viral marketing  (Semerjian, Franz, Dall’Asta)

4. Laser physics

• Theory of Random Lasing Materials (Leuzzi)