Embracing Complexity: Principled and Practical Approaches to Emergence

We are pleased to invite you to the Workshop titled "Embracing Complexity: Principled and Practical Approaches to Emergence". The workshop is scheduled for June 23-27 2025 at the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (IFISC in Spanish) in Palma de Mallorca, Spain (https://ifisc.uib-csic.es/). 

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

This workshop will offer a comprehensive and interdisciplinary perspective on the applications of emergence in examining various real-world systems, including its use in understanding high-order interactions and complexity across diverse biological and ecological scales. With an emphasis on the micro-to-macro relations between cells, humans, and ecology, we aim to present emergence both as a practical tool and a principled approach.

The mornings will be devoted to theory-driven presentations that draw from recent operational advances in capturing emergent phenomena, while the afternoons will feature hands-on sessions tailored for practical implementation of these topics. Something we are most thrilled about will be a coordinated outdoor excursion during the week to unwind and visit the island. This is not all, we also plan to have an immersive installation centred on exploring a collective experience of emergence with the voluntary participation of all the attendees. We hope you will also be pleased to join! 

REGISTRATION

All applications should submit an abstract, which will be the key element for selection. There are 35 available spots for external participants, and a waiting list will be established. The selection will be based on the evaluation of the poster/abstract proposal. After selection, participants will be asked to pay a fee of 400€, which will cover 5 nights (from the 22nd to the 26th of June) at the residency of the Universidad de las Islas Baleares, breakfast, lunch, coffee breaks and the excursion. 

SUBMISSION DEADLINE

14 of March of 2025.
Selection will be informed by the end of April of 2025.

Abstract submission here.

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

• Fernando Rosas, University of Sussex, UK
• Lauren Ross, University of California, Irvine, USA
• Antonella Tramacere, Università Roma Tre, Italy
• Ivana Konvalinka, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
• Carmen Miguell, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
• Leonardo Gollo, IFISC, Spain
• David Sanchez, IFISC, Spain
• Lucas Lacassa, IFISC, Spain
• Borjan Milinkovic, NeuroPSI, France
• Pedro Mediano, Imperial College London, UK
• Julia Mindlin, University of Leipzig, Germany

ORGANIZERS

• Mar Estarellas, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University marestarellas@gmail.com 
• Ivan Mindlin, Paris Brain Institute, ivan.mindlin@icm-institute.org 
• Ruben Herzog, IFISC, rherzoga@gmail.com
• Samy Castro, University of Strasbourg, castro.novoa.samy@gmail.com 
• Borjan Milinkovic, NeuroPSI, borjan.milinkovic@icm-institute.org  
• Scientific Chairman: Claudio R. Mirasso, IFISC, claudio@ifisc.uib-csic.es