If everything goes well, my PhD will be about SYNC. Well, not Sync in the the general sense, but applied to communication networks. I'm now just starting to gather stuff to read and to finally understand the problem I'm going to be buried under for the next couple of years. And for starters... why not Mr. Sync himself:
Steven Strogatz! For anyone that doesn't know...
Steven Strogatz is a BIG name in Complex Systems Studies... BIG NAME!