Sunday 24 September 2006

From

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18:00

20:00

Registration

Monday 25 September 2006

From

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Speaker

Title

8:00

8:50

Registration

8:50

9:00

Welcome

9:00

9:45

 Ed Ott

P

Estimating the State of Large, Complex, Spatio-Temporally Chaotic Systems: Weather Forecasting, Etc. 

9:45

10:30

 Ray Goldstein

P

Physical Aspects of Evolutionary 
Transitions to Multicellularity

10:30

11:00

Coffee Break

Room I

11:00

11:40

 Arkady Pikovsky

I

 Phase Compactons in Oscillator Lattices

11:40

12:20

 Serge  Aubry

I

 A Dynamical Model for Ultrafast Catalytic Electron Transfer

12:20

12:40

 Zoran Ivic

C

IR absorbtion spectra of molecular crystals: Signature of small--polaron formation?

12:40

13:00

 N. Lazarides

C

Discrete breathers in nonlinear magnetic metamaterials

13:00

13:20

 A. Sukhorukov

C

Polychromatic discrete solitons in nonlinear photonic lattices 

13:20

13:40

H. Fogedby

C

 Growth and Pattern Formation in the KPZ equation

Room II

 11:00

11:40

 Xenophon Zotos

I

11:40

12:00

 E.G.Altmann

C

Chaotic hypothesis and anomalous diffusion in coupled symplectic  maps

12:00

12:20

 G. Cristadoro

C

On the role of fluctuations in the scaling parameters of self-similar models for Hamiltonian transport

12:20

12:40

 A. de Wijn

C

Vertical chaos and horizontal diffusion in the bouncing-ball billiard 

12:40

13:00

 R. Straube

C

About the Capture Rate of Small Diffusing Molecules on a Cylindrical Membrane 

13:00

13:20

P. Bodega

C

High frequency periodic forcing of oscillatory catalytic CO oxidation on Pt (110)

13:20

13:40

C. Punkt

C

Suppression of chemical turbulence in thecatalytic oxidation of CO by laser light

13:40

17:00

Afternoon break

Room I

17:00

17:40

 Klaus Richter

I

Spin Dynamics and Relaxation in Electron Transport Through Regular and Chaotic Cavities

17:40

18:20

 Sergej  Flach

I

18:20

19:00

 Angelo Vulpiani

I

Properties making a chaotic system a good Pseudo Random Number Generator 

Room II

17:00

17:40

 Alain Pumir

I

Nonlinead Dynamics of Single Photon Response in Invertebrate Photoreceptors

17:40

18:20

 Kim Rasmussen

I

Dynamics of Double-Stranded DNA 

18:20

19:00

 Dirk Hennig

I

 Nonlinear charge transport in DNA

19:00

20:30

   Welcoming Reception

Tuesday 26 September 2006

From

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Speaker

Title

9:00

9:45

Uri Alon

P

 Simplicity in Biology

9:45

10:30

 Dirk Brockmann

P

Feel sick? Follow the money! 

10:30

11:00

 Coffee Break

Room I

11:00

11:40

 Elisha Moses

I

Percolation and propagation in living neural networks: why cultured neurons are limited 

11:40

12:20

 David Hansel

I

A "generic'' mechanism for synchronous chaos in neuronal networks ? 

12:20

13:00

 Fred Wolf

I

 Universal pattern selection in the visual cortex

13:00

13:20

 P. Y. Lai

C

Bursting of neurons induced by inhibitory mechanism

13:20

13:40

 B. Schelter

C

Direct or indirect: Partial phase synchronization for multivariate synchronizing systems

Room II

11:00

11:40

 J. Cartwright

I

The Dynamics of Nacre Self Assembly 

11:40

12:00

 Y. Togashi

C

Large-Scale Relaxation Motion of Complex Elastic Networks: as Prototypes of Molecular Machines 

12:00

12:20

F. Muller

C

Collapse dynamics of catenoid-shaped liquid crystal film 

12:20

12:40

 V. Afenchenko

C

Generation and interaction of defects of different kinds in square lattice of parametrically excited Faraday ripples 

12:40

13:00

 T. Epstein

C

Grid States and Nonlinear Selection in Parametrically Excited Surface Waves

13:00

13:40

 Pascal Martin

I

Active hair-bundle motility in hair cells from the vertebrate ear

13:20

15:30

Afternoon break

15:30

17:00

Poster placement

17:00

20:00

Poster session with Coffee

Wednesday 27 September 2006

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Speaker

Title

9:00

9:45

 David Campbell

Intrinsic Localized Modes:  Localizing Energy through Nonlinearity and Discreteness  

9:45

10:30

 Mitchell Feigenbaum

 Some Mathematical Reflections on Vision

10:30

11:00

Coffee Break

Room I

11:00

11:40

 Marc Timme

I

 Designing the Dynamics of Networks

11:40

12:20

 Yuri Maistrenko

I

Multistability in the Kuramoto model with synaptic plasticity 

12:20

12:40

G. Orosz

C

Reliable switching between partially synchronized cluster states of globally coupled phase oscillators 

12:40

13:00

 D. Goldobin

C

Intermittent synchronization of noise-induced bursts 

13:00

13:20

P.  Oikonomou

C

Topology governs network evolution 

13:20

13:40

V. Casagrande

C

 Molecular synchronization in metabolic pathways

Room II

11:00

11:40

 Oreste Piro

I

The role of fluid dynamics in the development of left-right asymmetry in vertebrates and in chiral crystallization 

11:40

12:00

S. Alonso

C

Negative filemant tension in Luo-Rudy model of cardiac tissue

12:00

12:20

 F. Marino

C

Chaotically Spiking Canards in excitable systems with inertial fast manifolds

12:20

12:40

J. Schlesner

C

Limits of spiral wave drift induced by using a line-detector feedback 

12:40

13:00

A. Nemes

C

Liquid chords: Mechanical properties of free standing liquid crystal filament

13:00

13:40

 Guiliano Benenti

I

13:20

15:30

Afternoon break

15:30

17:00

Poster placement

17:00

20:00

Poster session with Coffee

9:00

9:40

 Celso Grebogi

I

Are the fractal skeletons the explanation for the plankton paradox and the in-stent restenosis? 

9:40

10:20

 Fabrizio Lillo

I

Hierarchically nested time series models from dendrograms 

10:20

10:40

 S. Jain

C

 Persistence and financial markets

10:40

11:00

M. Mera

C

Geometric noise reduction for multivariate time series

Room II

9:00

9:40

Massimo Vergassola

I

  Infotaxis: searching without gradients 

9:40

10:20

Udo  Erdmann

I

Pattern Formation and Moving Structures in Bacterial Colonies

10:20

10:40

 M. Aono

C

Spontaneous Memory Transition on Amoeba Neurocomputer composed  of Unicellular Organism with Optical Feedback

10:40

11:00

 C. Becco

C

School fish behaviour 

Excursion to Malia, Spinalonga, Elunda

Conference  Dinner in Elunda

Friday 29 September 2006

From

To

Speaker

Title

9:00

9:45

 Leonid Bunimovich

P

Open Systems with Many Holes and Riemann Hypotheses 

9:45

10:30

 Uzy Smilansky

P

Can one count the shape of a drum?

10:30

11:00

Coffee Break

Room I

11:00

11:40

 Miguel  Rubi

I

11:40

12:20

 Tassos Bountis

I

Stability and Chaos in Multi - Degree of Freedom Hamiltonian Systems 

12:20

12:40

 A. Karlis

 C

Hyper-acceleration in a stochastic Fermi-Ulam model

12:40

13:00

        R. Vicencio

C

Surface discrete breathers in semi-infinite photonic lattices

13:00

13:20

      M. Eleftheriou

C

Streched-exponential relaxation in arrays of coupled rotators

Room II

11:00

11:40

 Italo Guarneri

I

 Decay of Quantum Accelerator Modes

11:40

12:00

H. Hennig

 Fractal Classical Conductance Fluctuations

12:00

12:20

 J. Vollmer

C

Convective and Diffusive Instabilities in Phase Separation Subjected to a Temperature Ramp

12:20

13:00

 A.  Saito

C

13:20

17:00

Afternoon break

Room I

17:00

17:40

 Nico Stollenwerk

I

The reinfection threshold exists 
... and is the mean field version of the transition between annular and compact growth in spatial models 

17:40

18:00

K.  Blyuss

C

Synchronization and chaos in a multi-strain age-structured epidemic  model 

18:00

18:20

 G. Radons

C

Dynamical Systems with Complex Hysteretic Nonlinearity

18:20

18:40

A. Loskutov

C

Acceleration and deceleration of particles in billiards
with time--dependent boundaries 

18:40

19:00

 R.Plykin

C

 On hyperbolic attractors and arithmetic

Room II

17:00

17:40

E. Schoell

I

Time-delayed feedback control of coherence resonance

17:40

18:00

 D. Kugiumtzis

C

Statistical analysis of time series using oscillation-related features

18:00

18:20

 A. Feigin

C

Global reconstruction of dynamical systems by weekly nonstationary noisy chaotic time series 

18:20

18:40

 R. Goncalvez

C

Nonlinear Prediction of Riverflow. The Paiva river case 

18:40

19:00

S. Hallerberg

C

Are extreme increments the better predictable the more extreme they  are?

Conference Conclusion