Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Redux: The Physics of Global Catastrophes and Global Countermeasures

Presentations

• Failure and robustness in networks

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 15, 2010, 2:15 PM – March 15, 2010, 2:51 PM

  Authors

  • Mark Newman

    University of Michigan

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• Forecasting techno-social systems: how physics and computing help to fight off global pandemics

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 15, 2010, 2:51 PM – March 15, 2010, 3:27 PM

  Authors

  • Alessandro Vespignani

    Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47408, USA, Indiana University

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• Network Science for Deterrence: Sheathing the Sword of the Terrorism/Nuclear Horseman

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 15, 2010, 3:27 PM – March 15, 2010, 4:03 PM

  Authors

  • Kathleen Carley

    Carnegie Mellon University

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• Global Response to Global Warming: Geoengineering with Stratospheric Aerosols

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 15, 2010, 4:03 PM – March 15, 2010, 4:39 PM

  Authors

  • Jonathan Katz

    Washington University

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• Economic Fluctuations and Statistical Physics: Quantifying Extremely Rare Events with Applications to the Present Worldwide Crisis

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 15, 2010, 4:39 PM – March 15, 2010, 5:15 PM

  Authors

  • H. Eugene Stanley

    Boston University

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