Scientific Programme
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2007-07-16
- Registration - Adriatico Lower Level 1
- Inauguration & Welcome by Directors
- Structural and functional clusters of complex brain networks-a network of networks (J. Kurths)
- A Unified Approach to Attractor Reconstruction (L. Pecora)
- Lunch
- Nonlinear flow behaviour of wormlike micellar gels: Route to Chaos (Ajayi Sood)
- The Physical Modelling of Cardiac Arrhythmias (R. Pandit)
- Collective properties of active polar and nematic particles (H. Chaté)
- Tea Break
- The Dynamics of Volume-Preserving Maps (J. Meiss)
- Self-Organized Quasiperiodicity in Oscillator Ensembles with Global Nonlinear Coupling (M. Rosenblum)
- & Mini-Reception
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2007-07-17
- Nonlinearly Induced Diffraction - a New Model Equation (Dimitar Pushkarov)
- Short-Term Alert for Medium- and Large-Size Earthquakes Based On Markov Analysis of Seismic Data (M. R. Rahimi-Tabar)
- TEA BREAK
- Markov Analysis of, and Kramers-Moyal Expansion for, Stationary and Non-stationary Stochastic Processes (Muhammad Sahimi)
- The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam paradox: problems, q-breathers, and going beyond (S. Flach)
- Prediction of extreme events in complex dynamics (H. Kantz)
- Lunch
- Contributed Talks (15' each )
- TEA BREAK
- Topological Glasses (J. P. Eckmann)
- Estimating the State of Large Spatiotemporally Chaotic Systems: Weather Forecasting, etc. (E. Ott)
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2007-07-18
- Simulations of Granular Matter (G. Perez)
- The classification of nonequilibrium phase transitions in the presence of absorbing states (I. Dornic )
- TEA BREAK
- Glassy state in coupled dynamical systems (R. E. Amritkar)
- Complete phase syncronization of coupled chaotic oscillators: exact results (H. Cerdeira)
- A spontaneous symmetry breaking model for all patterns of dual sound source in songbirds (G. B. Mindlin)
- LUNCH
- Ensemble of scale-free networks: replica method (B. Kahng)
- Low frequency rhythms in human DNA sequences: from genome- wide sequence analysis to the modelling of replication in higher eukaryotes (A. Arneodo)
- Identifying a transmitter by its output (T. Carroll)
- TEA BREAK
- "Regulatory networks - from biophysics to evolution" (M. Lässig)
- Poster Session 2
- Contributed Talks (15' each )
- Reception
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2007-07-19
- Strange non-chaotic attractors: A manifestation of genaralised synchronisation? (R. Ramaswamy)
- The Scaling Laws of Human Travel - New Approaches to the Forecast of Epidemics in a Globalized World (T. Geisel)
- TEA BREAK
- Contributed Talks (15' each)
- Lunch
- Characterizing dynamics through covariant Lyapunov vectors (F. Ginelli)
- Understanding the subcritical transition to turbulence in wall flow (P. Manneville)
- Collective behaviour of transport processes on networks (B. Tadic)
- TEA BREAK
- Finite thermostats in nonequilibrium (classical and quantum) (G. Gallavotti)
- Failure of Amorphous Material under High Stress: the Role of Plasticity (I. Procaccia)
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2007-07-20
- Synchronization of oscillators in semi-random networks (L. Pecora)
- Similarities and differences between volume preserving and symplectic maps (J. Meiss)
- Coffee Break
- Nonlinear phenomena in Neuroscience: Synchronization, Unstable attractors and Self-organized Criticality (T. Geisel)
- FREE AFTERNOON
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2007-07-23
- Synchronisation transition in spatially extended systems (F. Ginelli)
- More on Langevin equations with multiplicative noise and absorbing states (H. Chate')
- Coffee Break
- Birdsong I: the biomechanism of the vocal system (G. Mindlin)
- Lunch
- Dynamics of Extended systems
- Coffee Break
- Remarks on Numerical Simulation (K.R. Sreenivasan)
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2007-07-24
- Nonlinear dynamics of financial markets: An overview (M. Marsili)
- Coffee Break
- Modelling financial markets with heterogenous agents-I (M. Anufriev)
- Modelling financial markets with heterogenous agents-II (G. Bottazzi)
- Lunch
- Short Talks
- Coffee Break
- Short Talks
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2007-07-25
- Spatiotemporal intermittency in the sine circle coupled map lattice: The dynamical origins of statistical behaviour (N. Gupte)
- Birdsong II: The neural cortex (G. Mindilin)
- Coffee Break
- Estimating the quality of stochastic oscillations (G. Abramson)
- Lunch
- Biological Systems
- Coffee Break
- Power-law dynamics and hysterisis in a nonlinear network (A. Sen)
- Symbolic dynamics and the stadium billiard (Zheng Wei-Mou)
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2007-07-26
- Off equilibrium dynamics of defect formation in simple model systems (T. Galla)
- Recent results in the decomposition and randomization of complex networks (G. Bianconi)
- Coffee Break
- Multicluster formation in networks (R.E. Amritkar)
- Stabilizing the intensity of a wave amplified by a beam of particles : an example of control of chaos (R. Bachelard)
- Lunch
- Networks
- Coffee Break & Poster Session
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2007-07-27
- FREE AFTERNOON
- Shaking (virtual) beads in a square container: packing and crystallisation (G. Perez)
- Holomorphic dynamics in loop spaces and numerical invariants of knots (G. Khimshiashvili)
- Coffee Break
- The local structure of complex networks (G. Bianconi)
Organizers
Directors: R. Ramaswamy, N. Gupte, M. Marsili