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PIPS'09 videos

PIPS '09 Trailer

A short sequence introducing Paris Interdisciplinary PhD Symposium '09… its aims, the science and the spirit!

Single molecules manipulation studies

by Carlos Bustamante

Recent results on the packaging of DNA by the connector motor at the base of the head of bacteriophage f29.

Crowded links: the significance of optimal overlaps of network modules

by Peter Csermely

An overview of the general properties of networks helping the understanding of complex system behavior and translating our knowledge of social or technological networks to cellular networks and vice versa aiding cross-disciplinary research and breaking conceptual barriers of thinking.

Cooperation, Norms, and Conflict: Towards Simulating the Foundations of Society

by Dirk Helbing

A study of the role of social mechanisms such as repeated interactions, group selection, network formation, costly punishment and group pressure, and how they allow to transform social dilemmas into interactive situations that promote the social system