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BP: Fachverband Biologische Physik

BP 19: Focus Session: Dynamics of Adaptive Networks (joint with SOE and DY)

BP 19.9: Topical Talk

Wednesday, March 13, 2013, 12:00–12:30, H37

Adaptive networks and critical dynamics — •Stefan Bornholdt — Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Bremen

Dynamical networks have been studied from the perspective of statistical physics, motivated by questions of information processing in neural networks and genetic networks. In both applications, hypotheses have been discussed that relate optimality of information processing to dynamical criticality in the networks. Consequently, toy models for adaptive networks have been constructed that robustly establish criticality in the network. Here I review a particularly simple model class based on models from physics and discuss its application to the phenomenon of criticality in biological neural networks.

[1] M. Rybarsch and S. Bornholdt, Self-organized criticality in neural network models, in: "Criticality in Neural Systems", Niebur E, Plenz D, Schuster HG (eds.) 2013 (in press); arXiv:1212.3106.

[2] M. Rybarsch and S. Bornholdt, Binary threshold networks as a natural null model for biological networks, Phys. Rev. E 86 (2012) 026114.

[3] M. Rybarsch and S. Bornholdt, Self-organization to criticality in neural networks: A minimal model with binary threshold nodes, arXiv:1206.0166.