The Third International TRANSIT workshop on Cross-disciplinary Research (TWCR 2020) takes place online, from 25 March 2020. It is hosted by the York Cross-disciplinary Centre for Systems Analysis and the University of York.
Networks are models that are used across disciplines; examples include metabolic networks, neural networks, food webs, wireless communication networks, transport networks, animal and human social networks, and many more. These networks support dynamics, behaviours and change. Dynamics on networks describes how the state of a network changes over time, such as following traffic flow in a road network, or learning weights in an artificial neural network. Dynamics of networks, their meta-dynamics, studies how the structure of a network changes over time, for example, through evolution, through learning causing rewiring in a neural network, or through addition of a species to a food web causing other species to die off. From physics to philosophy, from biology to art, from engineering to science, networks and their dynamics abound, and each discipline can learn theories, tools, techniques, and applications from the others.
TWCR 2020 explores the cross-disciplinary theme of Dynamics on and of Networks, seeking to bring together ideas, approaches, concepts, and perspectives from natural biological systems and other physical systems, from engineered physical and virtual systems, and from human social systems.
The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers from all these connected fields, to engage across the disciplines, to inform of latest findings, to transfer discoveries and concepts from one field to another, and to inspire new ideas and new collaborations across the theme.
Due to Covid-19, TWCR 2020 is being run in an experimental online format, inspired by the Nearly Carbon-Neutral Conference model. For instructions on how to contribute to the conversation, please see the Participating page.
