[This is the old program from SS 2008. The current program and contact information can be found here.]

18 April 2008, 16:00

Alessandro Torcini (Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi, CNR, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy)
Stability of the splay state in pulse-coupled networks [Abstract]

09 May 2008, 16:00

Andreas Bausch (Biophysik (E22), Technische Universität München)
Physics of complex actin networks: from molecules to networks [Abstract]

30 May 2008, 16:00

Otto E. Rössler (Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Universität Tübingen)
New statistical mechanics - Clausisus and Chandrasekhar

Abstract:
Landau and Penrose found attractive and repulsive potentials to form a natural dual. Several scientists have already tried to exploit this duality. A new proposal will be made with quite unexpected implications.

06 June 2008, 16:00

Hiroya Nakao (Abteilung Physikalische Chemie, Fritz-Haber-Institut, Berlin)
Diffusion-induced instabilities on random networks [Abstract]