1. Team Coordinator: Markus J. Aschwanden
Self-Organized Criticality and Turbulence 1st ISSI Team Meeting Conclusions and Outlook
Team Coordinator: Markus J. Aschwanden
2012 October 15-19
International Space Science Institute (ISSI)
Hallerstrasse 6, Bern, Switzerland

2. Conclusions:
What did we learn at this meeting
Where do we go from here
Goals and plans for 2nd ISSI Team meeting (2013)
Publications

4. Solar Physics Social Sciences Astrophysics Criticality Systems
Interdisciplinary aspect
Solar Physics
Social
Sciences
Astrophysics
Self-Organized
Criticality Systems
Magnetospheric
Physics
Biophysics
Geophysics

5. Interdisciplinary aspects:
SOC occurs in many different physical systems !
What properties of SOC are common in all physical systems?
Are there statistical aspects that are universal in all systems?
Are there universal parameters (fractal dimensions, powerlaw slopes) ?
Where does the physics play a role (scaling laws of physical parameters)?
Can we come up with a SOC theory that includes both universal
statistical aspects and the physical scaling laws of a particular system?

7. Goals identified in our ISSI proposal :
Data analysis of statistical datasets of SOC phenomena,
using new and comprehensive data sets:
Can we expect new observational results at 2nd ISSI Team meeting in 2013?

8. Goals and problems identified in our ISSI proposal :
Data analysis of statistical datasets of SOC phenomena,
using new and comprehensive data sets
(2) Improve diagnostics of powerlaw-like distributions:
How to identify scaling and universality in experimental
and computational data? (Finite-size effects, variable drivers?)
(3) How to identify and characterize between SOC and
non-SOC mechanisms? (turbulence? network theory?)
(4) What part of SOC phenomena is captured by lattice models
and is there a route to basic theories and first-principle equations?

10. Metrics of Observables, Statistical Distributions
and Physical Processes that need to be defined
in order to discriminate SOC from non-SOC processes

11. Metrics of Physical Processes
vs. Observational Properties
Can we refine the metrics ?

12. Metrics of Physical Processes
vs. Observational Properties
Can we refine the metrics ?