Events

PATRES - PATtern RESilience project second group meeting

PATRES Workshop, The University of Surrey

Ca’ Minich, 24-26 October 2007

Organizers: N. Gilbert

PURPOSE

ECLT hosts the 2nd project group meeting of PATRES on Oct. 24-26, 2007.

PATRES is a project supported by the New and Emerging Science and Technology PROGRAM of the sixth Framework PROGRAM of the European Commission. It started on 1st February 2007 and continues for three years.

The aims of PATRES can be summarized as follows: The sight of new growth following a devastating forest fire shows nature’s inherent ability to withstand major disturbances and rebuild itself when necessary. Understanding how such complex systems demonstrate resilience by absorbing or recovering from major external perturbations allows scientists to learn valuable lessons. The multidisciplinary PATRES team will develop new methods defining the actions favouring the recovery from perturbations, applicable from ecology to cognitive sciences and sociology, in a project that will bridge the divide between the physical and social sciences.

For more information, see PATRES web page: http://www.patres-project.eu/index.php/Main_Page

PROGRAM

Wednesday 24th October

10:00 - 12:00: Informal discussions for those teams that have 

arrived 

12:00 - 14:00: Lunch 

14:00 - 14:10: Opening of the meeting by Nigel and Camille 

14:10 - 15:00: Each partner describes his main progress, concerns, 

organisation changes (in 10 min each) 

15:00 - 15:30: Reminder of project workplan and objectives of the 

meeting (Guillaume) 

15:30 - 16:00: Break 

16:00 - 17:00: Savanah case study - Dynamics in ODD framework 

17:00 - 17:30: Language case study - Progress on the models 

17:30 - 18:00: Viability and resilence - reminders (Sophie) 

18:00 - 18:30: Viability and resilience applied to the simplified 

models of language dynamics (Laetitia) 

20:00: Project dinner (location to be announced) 

 Thursday 25th October

09:00 - 10:00: Bacteria case study (Nabil) 

10:00 - 11:00 : SKIN model and Wikipedia case study (Nigel and 

Camille) 

11:00 - 11:15: Break 

11:15 - 12:15: CREA case study 

12:15 - 13:30: Lunch 

13:30 - 17:30: Work in groups on case studies. Objective: express 

the case studies in the common ODD framework 

and express a viability/resilience problem. + Break 

at some point. 

18:00 - 19:00: Management meeting (1st report, cost statements…)

Friday 26th October

09:00 - 11:00: Report from group work (about 20 min per case 

study)