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Illés J. Farkas, Senior research associate, Statistical and Biological Physics group
of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Group head: Tamás Vicsek, my mentor.
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| Research: Biological and social control networks |
General description: Anywhere you look you will see that smaller components make up larger entities, systems. For example, you may wonder how the molecules of one of your cells (or a large group of human individuals) can act as one when needed. In these two (and many other) cases the key is control/influence mediated through one-to-one contacts among the participating units. Specialists usually think about these systems in terms of networks (nodes=participants, links=contacts).
For specialists: Biological and social systems have highly complex internal dynamics and are rich in both small- and large-scale collective behaviors. Interestingly, the large number of control structures enabling these behaviors can be mapped to a small number of (universal) control patterns, which are often quantified through networks.
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