[This is the old program from SS 2007. The current program and contact information can be found here.]

04 May 2007, 16:00

Igor A. Goychuk (Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Physik I, Universität Augsburg)
Signaling with Poisson-like processes: Theory and applications [Abstract]

11 May 2007, 16:00

Michael Bestehorn (Lehrstuhl Theoretische Physik II, BTU Cottbus)
Pattern formation in fluid layers with a free upper surface
– The influence of evaporation – [Abstract]

25 May 2007, 16:00

Niels Wessel (Arbeitsgruppe Nichtlineare Dynamik, Universität Potsdam)
Methods of cardiovascular physics and their clinical applicability

Abstract:
In this talk I present recently developed nonlinear methods of cardiovascular physics and show their potentials to clinically relevant problems in cardiology. The first part describes methods of cardiovascular physics, especially data analysis and modeling of non-invasively measured biosignals, with the aim to improve clinical diagnostics and to improve the understanding of cardiovascular regulation. The main advantage of our methods is their potential to replace or compliment invasive diagnostic procedures by improved and cost saving non-invasive diagnostic tools. Applications of nonlinear data analysis and modeling tools are various and outlined in the second part of this talk: monitoring-, diagnosis-, course and mortality prognoses as well as early detection of heart diseases. I show, that these data analyses and modeling methods lead to significant improvements in different medical fields.

08 June 2007, 16:00

Karin John (Laboratoire de Spectrométrie Physique UJF, Grenoble, France)
A nonlinear study of symmetry-breaking in actin gels – Implications for cellular motility [Abstract]

15 June 2007, 16:00

Vladimir Vanag (Brandeis University, Waltham, USA)
Localized patterns in the BZ-AOT system [Abstract]

22 June 2006, 16:00

Holger Stark (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin)
Driven systems in non-equilibrium in soft matter and biology [Abstract]