International School and Workshop on Nonlinear Mathematical Physics and Natural Hazards
The International School and Workshop on Nonlinear Mathematical Physics and Natural Hazards is organized within the framework of South East Europe Network in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics (SEENET MTP). The meeting is devoted to current advanced achievements in the field of nonlinear mathematical physics and modeling of critical phenomena that can cause catastrophic events to occur. It is an interdisciplinary meeting for scientists who are developing mathematical and computational methods for study and analysis of nonlinear phenomena and who are working actively to apply these tools and create conditions to mitigate and reduce the negative consequence of natural and socio-economical disaster risk.
Modern quantum field theory and statistical mechanics distinguishes between two types of systems: Type I are massive and their behavior follows the exponential law and Type II are critical or mass-less and their behaviour is subject to power law. Many systems in nature and society have dynamics, whose behaviour exhibits power law. Such are: earthquakes, snow-avalanches, land-slides, superconducting vortices, forest fires, rain fall, stock-market indices, the extinction of species in biology, etc. These events appear in quite diverse areas from atomic to social scale. A power law probability distribution does not decay as a Poisson one and there is a finite chance for a big catastrophic event to occur.
The motivation for this meeting is twofold: (I) to develop collaboration for better understanding and modeling the ‘avalanche’ type phenomena that can cause natural and socio-economical disasters and (II) to contribute to our joint efforts on mitigation of the negative consequence of natural disasters. Disaster Risk Mitigation concerns initiatives and measures, which might enable a society to cope with risks and hazards, minimizing potential for loss of lives and properties as a result of different hazards. Introducing education and the culture of prevention at all levels is a must, called by the occurrence of major disaster, continuously caused by different hazards. The meeting shall be a step forward for capacity building in South East Europe through development of skills, exchange of knowledge and training on mathematical methods for modeling nonlinear phenomena, disaster risk preparedness and natural hazards mitigation.
- The main topics of the Conference are the following:
- Self-Organizing Systems
- Markov Processes and Stochastic Dynamics; Chaotic Dynamics
- Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems
- Soliton Physics
- Seismic hazard and seismic risk
- Seismic monitoring and networking; Earthquake engineering monitoring
- Early warning systems
