Proceedings of the DAE Solid State Physics Symposium (2007) Physics of Complex Networks

The recent discovery of universal principles underlying many complex networks occurring across widely differing domains in the biological, social and technological worlds have spurred the interest of physicists in trying to understand such features using techniques from statistical physics and non-linear dynamics. In this article, we discuss some recent work from our group that looks at how network structure (e.g., its connection topology) dictates the nature of its dynamics, and conversely, how dynamical considerations constrain the network structure. These results are of obvious significance for understanding real-world systems