[This is the old program from SS 2006. The current program and contact information can be found here.]

28 April 2006, 16:00

Dorothea Busse (Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Spatio-temporal dynamics of cell signalling [Abstract]

19 May 2006, 16:00

Karsten Reuter (Abteilung Theorie, Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG, Berlin)
First-principles statistical mechanics approaches to heterogeneous catalysis

Abstract:
First-principles electronic structure theory calculations have become an increasingly important tool for the predictive modeling of materials properties at the atomistic level. In order to reach technically relevant length and time scales a link with concepts from statistical mechanics and thermodynamics has now to be found. I will sketch corresponding multi-scale modeling attempts for the field of heterogeneous catalysis, concentrating particularly on the relevance of treating the surrounding gas phase, as well as the statistical interplay of the manifold of elementary processes at a catalyst surface.

02 June 2006, 16:00

Blas Echebarría (Departament de Física Aplicada, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain)
Instabilities of scroll waves in excitable media [Abstract]

23 June 2006, 16:00

Hermann Riecke (Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA)
Spatio-temporal chaos in convection: defects, bursts, and spirals [Abstract]

14 July 2006, 16:00

Martin Baurmann (Institut für Chemie und Biologie des Meeres, Carl-von-Ossietzky-Universität Oldenburg)
Pattern formation in microbiogeochemical models [Abstract]