[institut] SCL Seminar: Matteo Marsili, Monday, 13 February, 14:00

[Marija Mitrovic Dankulov]

Dear colleagues,

You are cordially invited to the SCL seminar of the Center for the Study 
of Complex Systems, which will be held on Monday, 13 February 2017 at 
14:00 in the library reading room “Dr. Dragan Popović" of the Institute 
of Physics Belgrade. The talk entitled

Statistical Mechanics of Economies

will be given by Dr. Matteo Marsili (The Abdus Salam International 
Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy). Abstract of the talk:

"I can calculate the motion of erratic bodies, but not the madness of a 
multitude". Three centuries after Sir Isaac Newton (reportedly) 
expressed with these words his bafflement for the working of economies, 
we still have nothing like Newton's law in economics. In spite of this, 
statistical mechanics allows us to study simple models of economies 
where "multitudes" exhibit a robust and predictable typical behaviour, 
which reproduces empirical data and provides hints on measures to 
mitigate systemic crises. The aim of the colloquium is to present 
 examples of this approach, ranging from shadow banking, to industrial 
development, inequality and growth.


Best regards,
Marija Mitrović Dankulov

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Marija Mitrovic Dankulov
E-mail: mitrovic at ipb.ac.rs

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