[This is the old program from WS 2006/07. The current program and contact information can be found here.]

16 October 2006, 17:00

Hsuan-Yi Chen (Department of Physics and Graduate School of Biophysics, National Central University, Taiwan)
Models of nonequilibrium domains in biomembranes [Abstract]

03 November 2006, 16:00

Ichiro Tsuda (Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan)
Modeling episodic brain memory [Abstract]

17 November 2006, 16:00

Marc-Thorsten Hütt (School of Engineering and Science, International University Bremen IUB)
Exploring biological networks with dynamic probes [Abstract]

24 November 2006, 16:00

Yuka Tabe (Department of Applied Physics, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan)
Dissipative structures in molecular thin films [Abstract]

01 December 2006, 16:00, Habervilla, Faradayweg 8

Carsten Beta (Department of Fluid Dynamics, Pattern Formation and Nanobiocomplexity, MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen)
Directional sensing - an experimental approach based on microfluidics [Abstract]

19 January 2007, 16:00

James Sneyd (Dept. of Mathematics, University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Calcium oscillations: Using mathematics to do physiology [Abstract]

02 February 2007, 16:00

Vadim N. Biktashev (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK)
Asymptotic approaches to cardiac excitation models

Abstract:
Detailed models of cardiac excitation are complicated and involve dozens of parameters. Small parameters make the equations stiff and cause considerable difficulties for numerical simulations. Normally, small parameters should be used for asymptotic approaches, however this did not really happen to cardiac excitation equations until recently. A serious reason for that is a non-standard asymptotic structure of cardiac equations, intricately related with the electrophysiology of excitability. I will present a non-standard asymptotic approach to cardiac equations, exploiting rather than ignoring their special features. This approach leads to a specific type of simplified models, alternative to the classical "FitzHugh-Nagumo" type models. I will describe recent results obtained with the new simplified models, related to non-stationary processes of excitation, such as initiation and termination of excitation waves.

16 February 2007, 16:00

Chaiya Luengviriya (Institut für Experimentelle Physik, Universität Magdeburg)
Scroll wave instabilities in a chemical excitable medium [Abstract]