Date:  13:30 Jan. 17th 2024

Venue: 516 Beidou meeting room

Professor Itamar Procaccia is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, Member of the German National Academy of Natural Sciences Leopoldina, Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Science, Member of the Acadmiae Eurpaeae, and Fellow of the Institute of Physics, UK. At the Weizmann Institute, he is the incumbent of the Barbara and Morris L. Levinson Professorial Chair in Chemical Physics and the Head of the new Braginsky Center for the Interface between Science and Humanities. His specific interests include nonequilibrium thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, nonlinear systems, chaotic motions, turbulence, and the physics of friction and fracture. He was awarded many prizes and honors, including the 2009 Israel Prize in Physics, the Statistical and Nonlinear Prize of the European Physical Society in 2017. He serves as an Editor-in-Chief of Physics Reports, and has published over 500 papers with more than 46,000 times citations.

Professor Stefano Boccaletti is a Member of the Academia Europaea and an honorary Member of the Italian Society for Chaos and Complexity. He is currently Director of Research at the Institute of Complex Systems of the Italian CNR, in Florence. His major scientific interests are pattern formation and competition in extended media, control and synchronization of chaos, and the structure and dynamics of complex networks. He is an Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Chaos, Solitons and Fractals and of Chaos Solitons and Fractals X. He has published over 400 papers in peer-reviewed international Journals with more than 37,000 citations. With more than 12,000 citations, the monograph “Complex Networks: Structure and Dynamics”, published in Physics Reports on 2006 converted into the most quoted paper ever appeared in the Annals of that Journal.