[This is the old program from WS 2009/10. The current program and contact information can be found here.]

25 September 2009, 16:00

Arik Yochelis (Department of Chemical Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel)
Towards Biochemical Control of Physiological Self-Organization [Abstract]

23 October 2009, 16:00

Takao Ohta (Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Japan)
Dynamics of deformable self-propelled particles [Abstract]

30 October 2009, 16:00

Fred Wolf (Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation, Göttingen)
Universality and self-organization in the evolution of the visual cortex [Abstract]

06 November 2009, 16:00

Yasuaki Kobayashi (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)
Design of multi-cluster and desynchronized states in oscillatory media by nonlinear global feedback

Abstract:
A theoretical framework is developed for the precise control of spatial patterns in oscillatory media using nonlinear global feedback, where a proper form of the feedback function corresponding to a specific pattern is predicted through the analysis of a phase diffusion equation with global coupling. In particular, feedback functions that generate the following spatial patterns are analytically given: (i) 2-cluster states with an arbitrary population ratio, (ii) equally populated multi-cluster states and (iii) a desynchronized state. Our method is demonstrated numerically by using the Brusselator model in the oscillatory regime. Experimental realization is also discussed.
Y. Kobayashi and H. Kori, New Journal of Physics 11 (2009) 033018

08 January 2010, 16:00

Rudolf Friedrich (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
Ratchet effect and the inverse cascade of turbulence [Abstract] CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS!

12 February 2010, 16:00

Ulrich Parlitz (Drittes Physikalisches Institut, Universität Göttingen)
Nonlinear modeling and data analysis [Abstract]