Self-organized criticality elucidates the conditions under which physical and biological systems tune themselves to the edge of a second-order phase transition, with scale invariance. Motivated by the empirical observation of bimodal distributions of activity in neuroscience and other fields, we propose and analyze a theory for the self-organization to the point of phase-coexistence in systems exhibiting a first-order phase transition. It explains the emergence of regular avalanches with attributes of scale-invariance which coexist with huge anomalous ones, with realizations in many fields.
Conferenciante: Serena di Santo, Departamento de Electromagnetismo y Física de la Materia, Universidad de Granada.
Fecha/Hora: Miércoles 1 de Junio de 2016, a las 12:30.
Lugar: Aula de Física Computacional del Departamento de Electromagnetismo y Física de la Materia, Facultad de Ciencias.
