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From DONLL we want to congratulate Cristina Masoller, awarded as a new OSA Fellow Member for her contributions in the area of nonlinear dynamics of optical systems.

J. M. Aparicio-Reinoso, M. C. Torrent and C. Masoller paper on "Emergence of spike correlations in periodically forced excitable systems" published in Physical Review E. http://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.94.032218

Abstract: Network theory is a powerful tool to investigate complex systems, which are systems composed by a large number of interacting sub-components. Being this a very general concept, it is not surprising that network theory has been successfully applied in very different fields such as sociology, biology, epidemics, geophysics, etc. In particular, this thesis focuses in the construction climate networks, i. e. networks in which the nodes are geographical locations on Earth and the links indicate inter-relations among them. The links were computed from various statistical similarity measures of a climatological variable (such as the surface air temperature) at different geographical locations. The approach is very general and, depending on the statistical similarity measure employed, allows investigating different aspects of the Earth climate dynamics. The thesis was developed within the EU funded LINC project (climatelinc.eu)

"Flat focussing mirrors"

"Climate networks constructed by using information-theoretic measures and ordinal time-series analysis"