Complex Nonlinear Systems

 

Scientific Programme

International Symposium

Complex Nonlinear Systems:

From Basic Science to Applications

 

October 7 -11, 2013

Samarkand, Uzbekistan 


Day 1, October 7

09:00-10:00

Registration and coffee

10:00-10:20

Opening Ceremony

Morning Session                             General nonlinear dynamics

ChairUzy Smilansky

10:20-11:05  

Giulio Casati. Coupled particle and heat transport: A dynamical system's perspective

11:05-11:50

Mehdi Allaei. Thermal rectifications in carbon-based nanostructures

11:50-12:35

Thomas Gilbert. Kinetics of diffusion in the presence of ballistic motion: A new perspective on Levy walks

Lunch break (13:00-14:00)

Afternoon Session                           Nanoscale systems and quantum chaos

Chair: Larry Abbott

14:00-14:45 

Roland KetzmerickHierarchical Fractal Weyl Laws For Chaotic Resonance States In Open Mixed Systems

14:45-15:15

Katsuhiro Nakamura. Dynamics of the boundary wall and nonequilibrium quantum statistical mechanics

15:15-16:00

Uzy Smilansky. Tournament graphs and their spectra 

Coffee Break (16:00-16:30)

16:30-17:15

Zarif Sobirov. Nonlinear evolution equations on metric graphs

Parallel Session A

17:15-17:45

Thomas Wellens. Quantum Chaotic Design Principles for Photosynthetic Light Harvesting

17:45-18:15

Boris Fine. Absence of exponentials Sensitivity to small perturbations in nonintegrable systems of spins 1/2

18:15-18:45

Benno Liebchen. Interaction-induced current-reversals in driven lattices

18:45-19:15

Yasuhiro Utsumi. The nonequlibrium fluctuation theorem in quantum transport

Parallel Session B

17:15-17:45

Olav Stetter.  Reconstruction of neuronal connectivity from calcium imaging signals

17:45-18:15

Demian Battaglia. Oscillations in multi-scale neural-circuits: from collective chaos to information routing

18:15-18:45

Anna Levina. Neuronal avalanches: optimality, plasticity and learning

18:45-19:15

Felix Polyakov. Geometric invariance as a basis for compact representation of complex planar hand movements

Dinner (20:00-22:00)

 

 

 

 


Day 2, October 8

Morning Session                             Self-organized criticality, Time series, extreme events and

                                                          risks; Earthquake dynamics, modeling and forecast

Chair:  Giulio Casati

09:00-09:45

Alvaro Corral. Statistical similarities between earthquakes and fracture experiments

09:45-10:30 

Nicholas Sarlis. Recent advances on the Natural Time Analysis of seismicity

10:30-11:15  

Klaus Pawelzik. Critical information absorption in complex adaptive systems

Coffee Break (11:15-11:45)

Parallel Session A

11:45-12:15

Aldo Brunetti. Anomalous supercurrents in nanoscaled systems

12:15-12:45

Takeo Kato. Kondo signature in heat transport via a local two-state system

12:45:13:15

Doniyor Babajanov.   Vortex dynamics in trapped single-component Bose-Einstein condensates beyond Thomas-Fermi regime

13:15-13:45

Iqbal Shahid.  Spatio-temporal dynamics of generalized coherent state wave packets

Parallel Session B

11:45-12:15

Jan Nagler. News and views in discontinuous phase transitions

12:15-12:45

Annette Witt.      Quantification of long-range persistence in geophysical time series: Conventional and bayesian techniques

12:45:13:15

Sarah Hallerberg. Predictability of extreme events and critical transitions

13:15-13:45

Patrick Milan. Stochastic methods in wind energy applications

Lunch break (13:45-15:00)

Group discussions and visit in Ulugbek Observatory (15:30 -18:00)

Dinner (19:30-22:00)

 

 

 

 


Day 3, October 9

Morning Session                             Complex dynamics in neuroscience          

Chair:  Klaus  Pawelzik

09:00-09:45

Larry Abbott . Harnessing the dynamics of neural networks

09:45-10:30

Elisha Moses. Dynamics in living neuronal networks

10:30-11:15

Fred Wolf. The dynamics of neuronal circuits

Coffee Break (11:15-11:45)

11:45-12:30 

Ruedi Stoop. Why the brain wiring’s might use more than one decay scale

Lunch break (13:00-14:00)

Afternoon Session    

Chair:  Itamar Procaccia         

14:00-14:45   

Karsten Kruse.   Min-protein waves in vivo and in vitr: An example of cellular self-organization

14:45-15:30    

Ragnar Fleischmann. Branched flows and extreme waves in random media

15:30-16:15

George Tsironis. Nonlinear modes in Pt-symmetric metamaterials

Coffee Break (16:15-16:45)

16:45-17:30

Tobias Schneider. Emergence of chaos and localized patterns in transitional turbulence

Parallel Session A

17:30-18:00

Hussian Erjaee. Complexity and its Applications

18:00-18:30

Tomoshige Miyaguchi. Distributional ergodicity in anomalous diffusion

Parallel Session B

17:30-18:00

Stephan Eule. Quantifying the random fixation of deleterious mutations in asexual populations

18:00-18:30

Jakob Metzger. The distribution of extreme waves in random media

Special Event:

18:30-19:15

Peter Lu. Modern mathematics in medieval Islamic architecture

Dinner (19:30-21:30)

 

 

 

 


Day 4October 10

Morning Session                             Complex dynamics in neuroscience

Chair:  Elisha Moses

09:00:-09:45

Siegrid Loewel. The dynamic architecture of the adult visual cortex or how can I keep my brain young?

09:45:-10: 30

Mathias Kaschube. Neural response properties in the visual cortex shaped by recurrent networks

Coffee Break (10:30-11:00)

11:00-11:45

Eckehard Schoell. Chimera states: spontaneous symmetry-breaking in dynamical networks

11:45-12:30

Andreas Herz. Towards understanding the neural basis of spatial Navigation

12:30-13:15

Michael Hermann. Criticality in robots, swarms and neural systems

Lunch break (13:15-14:30)

Tour in Samarkand city (14:30-18:30)

Dinner (18:30-20:30)

 

 

 

 

Day 5, October 11

Morning Session                             Network Dynamics. Quantum Chaos. Statistical Mechanics.

Chair:  George Tsironis

09:00-09:45

Itamar Procaccia.  Shear localization in amorphous solids

09:45-10:30  

Bruno Eckhardt. Reversible and irreversible dynamics in a sheared Wigner crystal

10:30-11:15 

Gunter Radons. Extreme events and the dynamics of hysteretic systems

Coffee  Break (11:15-11:45)

11:45-12:30 

Changbong Hyeon. Hidden complexity in the isomerization dynamics of Holliday Junctions

12:30-13:15

Hasan Shah. Effect of adiabatic trapping on the evolution of solitary structures in classical and quantum plasmas

Lunch break (13:30-14:30)

Afternoon Session

Chair: Katsuhiro Nakamura

14:30-15:00

Valijon Eshniyazov. Kicked Dirac particle dynamics in a box

15:00-15:30

Karim Sabirov. General Solution of nonlinear Schrodinger equation on metric graphs

15:30-16:00

Saparboy Rahmonov. Particle dynamics in kicked quantum billiards

Coffee Break (16:00-16:30)

16:30-17:00

Shumpei Masuda.  Acceleration of quantum dynamics in chain models

17:00-17:30

Farhan Saif. Tracking Microscope by matter wave reflections

Dinner  (18:30-20:30)


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