29 August 2013
Paguirigan passes PhD comprehensive exams with flying colors
Antonino Paguirigan Jr., one of the PhD Physics students of the Complex Systems Group, recently passed the Comprehensive Examination for PhD students of the National Institute of Physics (NIP).
27 August 2013
New Complex Systems publication:
Pang, Bantang, Monterola, Physica A (2013)
Filed under Publication Announcements
We are pleased to announce the acceptance of the following paper:
James Christopher Pang, Johnrob Bantang, and Christopher Monterola, Noise induced synchronization in a lattice Hodgkin-Huxley neural network, accepted for publication in Physica A.
From the Complex Systems Group, Congratulations!
We are pleased to announce the acceptance of the following paper:
James Christopher Pang, Johnrob Bantang, and Christopher Monterola, Noise induced synchronization in a lattice Hodgkin-Huxley neural network, accepted for publication in Physica A.
From the Complex Systems Group, Congratulations!
19 August 2013
Complex Systems welcomes new members for AY 2013-2014
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The Complex Systems Group of the Instrumentation Physics Laboratory (IPL) welcomed two new undergraduate students and one returning graduate member during the IPL Workshop held 17-18 August 2013 at the Malolos Resort Club Royale in Malolos City, Bulacan.
The Complex Systems Group of the Instrumentation Physics Laboratory (IPL) welcomed two new undergraduate students and one returning graduate member during the IPL Workshop held 17-18 August 2013 at the Malolos Resort Club Royale in Malolos City, Bulacan.
01 August 2013
Dr. Legara talks complexity in ADMU lecture
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Dr. Erika Fille T. Legara, scientist under the Complex Systems Programme of the Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR, Singapore, and long-time member and affiliate of the Complex Systems Group of the Instrumentation Physics Laboratory, will give a talk titled The role of big data and complexity in society on 8 August 2013 at the Ateneo de Manila University.
Dr. Erika Fille T. Legara, scientist under the Complex Systems Programme of the Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR, Singapore, and long-time member and affiliate of the Complex Systems Group of the Instrumentation Physics Laboratory, will give a talk titled The role of big data and complexity in society on 8 August 2013 at the Ateneo de Manila University.
28 July 2013
IPL Progress Report Schedules for 1Sem AY2013-2014
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From the IPL Coordinator:
IPL
In the coming weeks we will begin our progress report marathon. Just like last semester this is the only time the rest of the staff and instru members can learn about your work. You will also benefit from the suggestions of staff and senior IPL members. Consider this as preparation for your SPP or Thesis Defense. Please prepare very well.
Updated (19 August 2012): Because of holidays and class cancellation the IPL staff decided to change the progress reports as follows:
1. All PhDs will suspend parallel sessions. The progress reports will now be from 2 to 4 with a break in between. Merienda will be assigned.
2. Again, the progress reports will still be in R109.
From the IPL Coordinator:
IPL
In the coming weeks we will begin our progress report marathon. Just like last semester this is the only time the rest of the staff and instru members can learn about your work. You will also benefit from the suggestions of staff and senior IPL members. Consider this as preparation for your SPP or Thesis Defense. Please prepare very well.
Updated (19 August 2012): Because of holidays and class cancellation the IPL staff decided to change the progress reports as follows:
1. All PhDs will suspend parallel sessions. The progress reports will now be from 2 to 4 with a break in between. Merienda will be assigned.
2. Again, the progress reports will still be in R109.
01 July 2013
06 May 2013
Dr. Valenzuela joins Singapore research group
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Dr. Jesus Felix Valenzuela, a long-time member of the Complex Systems Group of the Instrumentation Physics Laboratory (IPL) now works for the Distributed Computing team of the Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore for his postdoc.
Dr. Jesus Felix Valenzuela, a long-time member of the Complex Systems Group of the Instrumentation Physics Laboratory (IPL) now works for the Distributed Computing team of the Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore for his postdoc.
25 April 2013
Announcement of SPP 2013 Physics Congress
and First Call for Papers
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You are cordially invited to participate in the 31st Physics Congress of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas (SPP, Physics Society of the Philippines) to be held on 23 – 25 October 2013 at the University of San Carlos, Cebu City, Philippines. This year’s Congress will have the theme:
Physics Linkfest: Spanning Science & Technology
The Congress will include plenary, parallel and poster sessions, and workshops.
SPP2013 has a new manuscript template that can be downloaded from the SPP2013 website:
paperview.spp-online.org/spp2013
All submissions will undergo a peer-review process prior to acceptance.
Please kindly forward this email to your colleagues or students who may be interested.
You are cordially invited to participate in the 31st Physics Congress of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas (SPP, Physics Society of the Philippines) to be held on 23 – 25 October 2013 at the University of San Carlos, Cebu City, Philippines. This year’s Congress will have the theme:
Physics Linkfest: Spanning Science & Technology
The Congress will include plenary, parallel and poster sessions, and workshops.
SPP2013 has a new manuscript template that can be downloaded from the SPP2013 website:
paperview.spp-online.org/spp2013
All submissions will undergo a peer-review process prior to acceptance.
Please kindly forward this email to your colleagues or students who may be interested.
07 April 2013
IPL Complexity Science congratulates 2013 graduating members
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'Tis graduation season once more, and the Complex Systems Group of the Instrumentation Physics Laboratory congratulates its two members who have successfully defended their theses and completed their requirements for graduation.
'Tis graduation season once more, and the Complex Systems Group of the Instrumentation Physics Laboratory congratulates its two members who have successfully defended their theses and completed their requirements for graduation.
07 February 2013
Thinking through pyramid-like business schemes
Erika Fille Legara, Ph.D.
Filed under General Interest
Erika Legara obtained her undergraduate and graduate degrees in Physics from UP Diliman, garnering the Most Outstanding Graduate Student Award and the Edgardo Gomez Excellence in Dissertation Award when she was conferred her Ph.D. degree in 2011. She specializes in the areas of complex networks and computational social science. She has been a member of the Complexity Science group of the UP National Institute of Physics since 2004 and is now doing post-doctoral work at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research in Singapore. She can be reached at etlegara (at) gmail.com.
Exploitative pyramiding scams masquerading as legitimate multilevel marketing (MLM) schemes have once again evoked the attention of our government regulators and lawmakers, especially with the recent investment racket involving Aman Futures Group that allegedly conned some 15,000 individuals across the Visayas and Mindanao regions out of P12-15 billion. This is not the first time that massive fraudulence through investment scams has plagued our society. In 2003, the New York Times reported a case involving about a million Filipino investors, mostly OFWs and their families, who lost over $2 billion in a pyramid scheme backed by a company called Multinational Telecom Investors Corp. (Multitel). Four years later, another investment scam disguised as a high-yield investment program was exposed. FrancSwiss was a Ponzi scheme that swindled Filipino investors out of P1 billion in valuations. The list goes on, and one would actually think that we would have already learned from these frauds. Unfortunately, such is not the case. Last December, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued yet another warning to the public about an investment scam operating in Cagayan province, Ilocos Norte, and Camiguin that particularly targeted domestic helpers — promising them a P900 profit every month for every P100 investment made.
Filed under General Interest
Erika Legara obtained her undergraduate and graduate degrees in Physics from UP Diliman, garnering the Most Outstanding Graduate Student Award and the Edgardo Gomez Excellence in Dissertation Award when she was conferred her Ph.D. degree in 2011. She specializes in the areas of complex networks and computational social science. She has been a member of the Complexity Science group of the UP National Institute of Physics since 2004 and is now doing post-doctoral work at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research in Singapore. She can be reached at etlegara (at) gmail.com.
Exploitative pyramiding scams masquerading as legitimate multilevel marketing (MLM) schemes have once again evoked the attention of our government regulators and lawmakers, especially with the recent investment racket involving Aman Futures Group that allegedly conned some 15,000 individuals across the Visayas and Mindanao regions out of P12-15 billion. This is not the first time that massive fraudulence through investment scams has plagued our society. In 2003, the New York Times reported a case involving about a million Filipino investors, mostly OFWs and their families, who lost over $2 billion in a pyramid scheme backed by a company called Multinational Telecom Investors Corp. (Multitel). Four years later, another investment scam disguised as a high-yield investment program was exposed. FrancSwiss was a Ponzi scheme that swindled Filipino investors out of P1 billion in valuations. The list goes on, and one would actually think that we would have already learned from these frauds. Unfortunately, such is not the case. Last December, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued yet another warning to the public about an investment scam operating in Cagayan province, Ilocos Norte, and Camiguin that particularly targeted domestic helpers — promising them a P900 profit every month for every P100 investment made.
28 January 2013
25 January 2013
Of resonance, synchrony, signal analysis, and love
Filed under: General Interest
The author is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany. He is also an Associate Professor of Physics at the National Institute of Physics in UP Diliman. He recently married his girlfriend of six years.
Physicists know resonance by heart, and can even name (and solve) at least two representative systems that exhibit such behavior.
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