This workshop contains submissions that either the author or the editor believes that they do not fall in any of the other workshops. Upon finalizing the program, accepted uncategorized submissions will be assigned to workshops. This decision will be taken by the Steering Committee.

Analogue gravity was originally developed in order to test certain quantum effects on curved backgrounds, in particular Hawking radiation by reproducing the main characterizing conditions (horizons) in water. Successively, several different analogue systems where proposed for example, in Bose-Einstein condensates or optical systems and some interesting experimental results have appeared in recent years. However, analogue systems appear also beyond the realm of gravity so that one can try to simulate the Aharonov-Bohm effect in optical systems, or quantum wave functions using bouncing water droplets, study quantum spacetime models by using macroscopic quantum systems and so on. In any case, the main idea is to note that completely different physical scenarios may have at least partially, common a mathematical modellization governing certain particular subsystems and/or configurations. The advantage may be that one of the two systems is inaccessible (for example, the black hole), whereas the analogue system may be reproduced in a lab (say the analogue water system). The ability to discover analogies, i.e. common mathematical models, may help in filling a double gap: the gap between the theory and the comprehension of a phenomenon and the gap between theory and experiment. In this spirit, the workshop will be devoted to general analogies.

The problems of Dark Matter and Dark Energy are among the most important challenges faced by theoretical physics today. Many scenarios have been proposed, from exotic particles to alternatives to general relativity. In this workshop we shall discuss recent approaches to tackle the mysteries of the Dark Universe, from a theoretical point of view.

The AdS/CFT duality and its extensions create links between strongly coupled quantum field theories and weakly coupled gravity theories -and viceversa-, that have lead to new conceptual developments both in Physics and in Mathematics. It provides, at the same time, new methods for solving a variety of strongly coupled systems that appear in Physics, which are hard to study using more traditional approaches. Within the proposed workshop, we plan to discuss both the fundamental and the applied aspects of gauge/strings duality. The fundamental issues include a further study of the string-theoretical origin of the duality, profiting from the enhanced understanding of the working mechanisms of the AdS/CFT conjecture. On the applied side, we will discuss strongly coupled systems of relevance to particle, nuclear and condensed matter physics. Applications to Cosmology will also be considered. The workshop will start on Monday, September 2, 2013.

Expectations from modern medicine are very high and this makes this field very demanding as far as the questions posed and the needed solutions are concerned, related to early diagnosis, effective therapy, accurate intervention, real time monitoring, procedures/systems/instruments optimization, error reduction and knowledge extraction. In parallel, following the explosive production of biological data concerning DNA, RNA and protein biomolecules, a plethora of questions has been raised regarding their structure, their function, the interactions between them, their relationships and their dependencies, their regulation and expression, their location and their thermodynamic characteristics. Furthermore, the interplay between medicine and biology leads to fields like molecular medicine and systems biology which are further interconnected with physics, mathematics, informatics and engineering creating new islands in the ocean of scientific interconnections like medical physics and biophysics, medical informatics, bioinformatics and computational biology, nanobiotechnology and astrobiology. We hope that this workshop will host exciting questions and intelligent algorithmic solutions in these interdisciplinary fields of medicine and biology bringing together scientists from different research fields into a creative and fertile scientific knowledge interchange.

Recent advances in loop quantum gravity will be discussed. These may include advances in black hole entropy calculations, spinfoams, canonical loop quantum gravity and loop quantum cosmology.

This workshop will cover topics like tests of (i) Hawking/Unruh via Sokolov-Ternov effect, analog systems (superfluid dumb holes); (ii) Casimir and Dynamical Casimir effects; (iii) Aharonov-Bohm effect; (iv) LHC black holes; (v) tests for non-commtative space-time; (vi) Exotic test of cosmological models

The numerical solution of Einstein's field equation is one of the most important tools for understanding the physics of strong, dynamical gravitational fields. The numerical results obtained during the last decade for phenomena such as mergers of binary black holes and neutron stars have led to a significant improvement of our understanding of strong field gravity. The aim of the workshop is not only to give researchers in relativity the opportunity to discuss current issues of numerical relativity, but also to benefit from a variety of other topics in mathematical and numerical modeling in the framework of the IC-MSQUARE conference.

The workshop will explore various approaches to predicting signatures of quantum gravity theories, and the detection of these signatures.

Computational nanoscience is a rapidly developing field providing computer simulational and theoretical background for understanding of nanoscale phenomena and nanotechnology research. Computational nanoscience overarches the whole spectrum of science including biology, physics, engineering, material science and chemistry, describing the behaviour of matter at the scale of individual atoms and molecules. This session will concentrate on novel computational approaches used in nanoscale research, including: Quantum Monte Carlo Molecular Dynamics Density Functional Theory Time-Dependent Quantum Dynamics Simulation of Interaction of Nanoscale Materials and Laser Fields Quantum Transport in Nanoscale Materials Multiscale Modeling Attoscale Dynamics

Optoelectronics and photonics are playing an essential role in many aspects of daily life, including information technologies, environmental and green technologies, consumer electronics, and biomedicine. This session will focus on topics of modeling, simulation, and analysis of photonic and optoelectronic devices. A wide range of topics will be covered as follow: Novel devices, materials, and simulation tools, electron photon interaction, physics and theory of nanostructures, photonic crystals, plasmonics, metamaterials, coupling of electronic, optic and thermal simulation, design and optimization of optoelectronic devices, analysis of device performance.

In the field of activity measurement by means of gamma-ray spectrometry using semiconductor or scintillation detectors, one usually needs to know the detection efficiency for any specific source–detector configuration of concern. Because the experimental determination of the detection efficiency is tedious and even difficult for extended circular disc and volumetric sources, there are, in principle, three approaches to this issue: • Analytical direct calculation. • Monte Carlo simulation. • Semiempirical method. In addition, we can use commercial software or code to calculate the Semiconductor and Scintillation Detectors Efficiency.

Owing to masses of digital real-world data it is now possible to create and validate models of human behaviour. Of special interest are human activities connected to use of Internet - their habits, movements or likings. Simple models, basing on fundamental physical laws and phenomena can be of instant use in this case. The Workshop is also open to new techniques connected to data mining and statistics that can facilitate the process of models' input preparation as well as help to discover new non-trivial phenomena.

The workshop concentrates on recent developments in the growing field of Entanglement Entropy. A tentative list of topics includes: - Entanglement in condensed matter systems - Entanglement entropy and renormalization group flow - Entanglement entropy in QFT’s in different dimensions - Holographic entanglement entropy - Entanglement entropy in quantum gravity are from field theoretic as well as holographic viewpoints. Implications in quantum gravity are of special interest.

The goal of this Workshop is to bring together researchers who study the random walk, quantum random walk, and the open quantum random walk in the sense of applied computational mathematics. The organizer strongly encourages the young researchers as well as the leading figures in these areas to actively join this workshop and make a presentation. We strongly encourage submissions that allow the interaction between the random walk, quantum random walk, and the open quantum random walk, or showcase the interdisciplinary nature of stochastic processes.

This workshop focuses on evolution, optimization and dynamics of complex networks, including the evolution models, optimization algorithms, the dynamics on/of complex networks and so on.

This workshop will include original contributions on new aspects of the foundations of quantum theory, nonlocality, special relativity, and their implications for general relativity and novel spacetime geometries. Submissions related to individual issues in these subjects will also be entertained.

It is well known that Einstein gravity suffers from the problem that the theory is nonrenormalizable in four and higher dimensions. Adding higher derivative terms such as Ricci and scalar curvature squared terms makes the theory renormalizable at the cost of the loss of unitarity. A few years ego a new theory of massive gravity (NMG) in three dimensions has been proposed. This theory is equivalent to the three-dimensional Fierz-Pauli action for a massive spin-2 field at the linearized level. Moreover NMG in contrast with the Topologically Massive Gravity (TMG) is parity invariant. With the only Einstein- Hilbert term in the action there are no propagating degrees of freedom, but by adding the higher curvature terms in the action the situation becomes different. Usually the theories including the terms given by the square of the curvatures have the massive spin 2 mode and the massive scalar mode in addition to the massless graviton. Also the theory has ghosts due to negative energy excitations of the massive tensor.\\ The aim of this workshop is to discuss on various issues in this field.

Information inequalities are the one of the moin tools of information theory. Clasical information inequalities (Shannon inequalities) are not enough top deal with the many applications of entropy. New information inequalities began to appear in the last few yers. Those new inequlities are called Non-.Sahonnon inequalities. We know that they define a family of higher dimensional convex cones, called entropic regions, and whose structure is far from being understood. In the workshop we would like to discuss the recent advances in the study of the entropic regions as well as the applications of information inequalities in different areas (such as Economy, Physics, Communications, Cryptography...)

The electrocardiogram (ECG) signal is the electrical interpretation of the heart activity; it consists of a set of, well defined, successive waves namely P and T waves and QRS complex. The ECG provides to the cardiologist useful information about the heart functioning state; it indicates whether the heart activity is normal or shows anomalies such as the cardiac arrhythmia, myocardial infarct, angina, and ischemia. A great intention has been paid to the adequate and accurate analysis of the ECG signal that would lead to cardiac anomalies diagnosis. Signal processing technics, based of advanced numerical methods, have the goal of correctly analyzing and treating ECG signal aimed to aid-diagnosis for cardiologists and technicians. Besides this off-line treatment of ECG signal, the need for remote cardiac pathological patients care, exploiting the huge advances in telecommunications systems, arise the telecardiology technology. The main challenge of the telecardiology is preserving the higher hearth information fidelity of the transmitted ECG signal. Various signal processing techniques have been introduced in this context namely: compression, coding, modulation, shaping filters… In sum, signal processing as well as numerical methods play a considerable role in electrocardiology. Topics of interest of the symposium include, but not limited to: • ECG waves delineation algorithms; • Time-frequency analysis of ECG signal; • ECG filtering and denoising; • Cardiac anomalies diagnostics technics; • ECG compression; • Telecardiology: shaping filers, modulation, coding…

The general scope is mathematical modeling of molecular systems subject to external fields and perturbations of various kinds. By this we include electronic correlations, inelastic scattering effects, time-dependent phenomena, co-operative effects, spin-dependent conditions and effects, et c for systems under equilibrium and non-equilibrium conditions. The mathematical challenges for those types of theoretical investigations have proven to be huge. Time-dependent and non-equilibrium phenomena are often very challenging by themselves, however, the dynamical aspects of physical phenomena are often more descriptive and provide deeper insight to the inner properties of the system.

Many differential equations, which are of interest in the physical sciences and engineering, exhibit geometric properties that are preserved by the dynamics. Discrete Lagrangian integrators, as a special type of geometric integration, has been recent interest in developing numerical schemes that preserve as many of these geometric invariants as possible. Such methods are of particular interest for problems that can be described by geometric mechanics, wherein the preservation of physical invariants such as the energy, momentum, and symplectic form can be important when simulating long-time dynamics of such systems. The aim of the session is to bring together researchers in mathematics, computer science, physical sciences, and engineering, who are interested in the broad area of numerical methods (for ordinary differential equations to partial differential equations) that preserve the underlying structure of the governing differential equations. Some of the main topics (but not only) are: - construction of high order techniques - time symmetry problems - constrained dynamical systems - Multi-symplectic and high order integrators - Lie Group Integration Schemes - Hamilton-Pontryagin integrators - Asynchronous Variational Integrators - Discrete Mechanics, Multibody Systems - stiff problems - and applications in real problems

DNA denaturation has been since long a focus for the statistical physicists and biophysicists communities. Besides being a template for fundamental biological functions such as replication and transcription, the thermally (or mechanically) driven separation of the complementary strands are currently under investigation also for their potential in designing nanodevices and molecules with technological applications. While fully atomistic descriptions of the double helix are computationally intractable due to the myriad of degrees of freedom even in short sequences, theoretical investigations usually start from mesoscopic Hamiltonians incorporating nonlinear effects and interactions at the level of the nucleotide units. This workshop discusses the state of the art models for DNA molecules with emphasis on its dynamical and equilibrium properties.

The finite element method is presently consolidated as very reliable technique used to solve partial differential equations in several areas in science and engineering, like electrical engineering, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Biomedical Modeling, and others. More recently, methods based on domains of influence, instead of finite elements meshes are also developed, like Element Free Galerkin and Smoothed-Particle Hydrodynamics. In this workshop, works related to the mathematical aspects of these methods, as well as, applications several branches of the physical sciences will be presented.

This workshop will focus on current theoretical challenges and paradigms in quantum information processing. Contributions are welcome from any aspect of research in quantum information science which includes, amongst others, quantum coding and cryptography, quantum computation and entanglement theory. Contributions that demonstrate novel links to other areas of research in mathematics, physics or computer science are particularly welcome. Keywords: Quantum information; quantum cryptography, entanglement, quantum key distribution

Half-metallic materials are characterized by two types of band structures, while one of them (usually the majority-spin band) shows a metallic behavior, the minority band exhibits a semiconducting behavior, which leads to a 100% polarization at the Fermi level. Therefore, they are promising for spintronic applications, which depend on the movement of spin as well as the charge to carry information among devices. This workshop will cover topic of electronic structure calculations of transition-metal oxides, dilute magnetic III-V compounds and Heusler alloys.

This workshop will be devoted to the discussion of the recent results of theoretical description of superconductivity at nanoscale and in multiband superconductors. This subject started to attract attention in the last years due to experimental advances in the fabrication of superconducting nanosamples and the investigation of their vortex structure. In the field of multiband superconductivity, the type 1.5 superconductivity was predicted, which is an intermediate state between type I and type II superconductors.

The purpose of this workshop is to facilitate interactions between scientists working in mathematics and gravitational physics. Topics include, but are not limited to, studies of the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs group, causal set theory, Euclidean quantum gravity, field theory on curved and multiply connected spaces, Finsler geometry, fractal space-time. The organizers encourage fundamental contributions in mathematics that pertain to gravitational physics, e.g., algebraic topology and quantum geometry.

This parallel session aims to bring together experimental particle physicists interested in the development and application of numerical techniques for event reconstruction with an emphasis on their impact on physics analysis. The goal is to stimulate discussion and share results on approaches of common interest, ideally across experiment boundaries. Participants will have the opportunity to submit an original contribution for publication in a special issue of the "International Journal of Modeling, Simulation, and Scientific Computing", in addition to the Conference Proceedings that will appear in "Journal of Physics: Conference Series", which is part of "IOP Conference Series".

The knowledge of the Universe as a whole, its origin, size and shape, its evolution and future, has always intrigued the human mind. Galileo wrote: "Nature's great book is written in mathematical language." In this Workshp we aim at collecting some contributions to enforce this statement. All issues which touch upon these ideas will be considered, questions such as: Is our universe finite or infinite? Is the cosmological constant at all there? What drives the acceleration of the Universe expansion? Dark energy, but what is it? What are the different uses of zeta functions and other special functions of mathematical analysis in present day physics? Beautiful mathematics are key in dealing with those questions and in providing the bridge which is crucial to understand (or just describe, modellize) the Universe we live in.

Recently, important developments have occurred in the Dark Matter (DM) field. A significative revision of the currently accepted content of non-baryonic DM of the Universe has been offered by the latest Planck data; now, it would amount to about 26% with respect to 23% from WMAP. The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope spacecraft recently discovered a gamma-ray excess at the Galactic center which may be due to DM annihilation phenomena. There is a lingering debate concerning the amount of DM in our Solar System. Low upper bounds, of the order of 0.04 GeV cm^-3, for its energy density have been recently inferred. Nonetheless, they have been criticized pointing towards a higher level of 0.3 GeV cm^-3, in agreement with previous estimates. Hints of DM might have been detected by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) on the International Space Station, which has recently measured an anomalous high-energy positron excess in Earth-bound cosmic rays. An accurate knowledge of the DM distribution in the neighbourhood of the Solar System is relevant for the attempts aimed to directly detect DM par-ticles in laboratory-based experiments such as, e.g., CDMSI, CDMSII, DAMA/NaI and its successor DAMA/LIBRA, XENON10 and ZEPLIN III. Thus, it has become even more important to devise independent means to effectively gain information on the constitution and the distribution of such a hypothesized, elusive ingredient of the natural world.

The general theory of relativity is one of the fundamental pillars of our knowledge of the natural world, being, to date, the best theory of the grav-itational interaction at our disposal. Thus, it is important to put it on the test in as much ways as possible to increase our confidence in it, especially in view of the extrapolations of its validity to extreme scenarios. In these cases, empirical checks are difficult and/or the interpretation of existing observations heavily rely upon more or less speculative assumptions concerning the history of the systems considered and the physics governing them in such regimes.

In this workshop, recent advances in the stochastic modeling and analysis of random phenomena in Reliability, Survival Analysis and Life Sciences are discussed. The main interest is basically to model and analyze the lifetime of items, more generally, the time to occurrence of a random event. Discussions on specific applications (such as optimal maintenance, stochastic comparison, operations research in reliability and survival analysis, life testing and analysis, network reliability, point process modeling and analysis of random recurrent events, etc.) are also welcomed.

During the recent years, there has been a great interest on the developments and applications of Stochastic Loewner evolution (SLE) in physics. In this Workshop, we will review the latest advances in this field and gather many scientists both in mathematics and physics to discuss about it.