January 3-6, 2007, Boston, MA.
Hilton Boston Back Bay Hotel
Wednesday . Thursday . Friday . Saturday
noon-1 pm Registration 1-1:10 pm Welcome Session 1: Cardiac Dynamics 1:10-1:50 pm Leon Glass Predicting and Preventing Sudden Cardiac Death 1:50-2:10 pm Carolyn Berger Evidence for an unfolded border-collision bifurcation in paced cardiac tissue 2:10-2:30 pm Yue-Kin Tsang Multifractality in detrended human heart beat increment 2:30-3:10 pm Wanda Krassowska The Restitution Portrait: A Tool for Developing Models of Heart Rhythm Dynamics 3:10-3:40 pm Break Session 2: Animal Locomotion and Behavior - Ecology 3:40-4:20 pm Iain Couzin Collective Animal Behaviour 4:20-4:40 pm Silas Alben Fin ray design and use in fish swimming 4:40-5 pm Timothy Halpin-Healy The Dynamics of Conformity & Dissent 5-5:20 pm Linda Moniz Mapping the Information Landscape: Peaks and Valleys for Ecological Monitoring 5:20-6 pm Anette (Peko) Hosoi Thursday, January 4 Session 3: Hydrodynamics 8:30-9:10 am George Haller Where do particles go in fluid flows? 9:10-9:30 am Woodrow Shew Smart particles: Lagrangian measurements of scalars in turbulent flow 9:30-9:50 am David Roberts When superfluids are a drag 9:50-10:30 am Anne Juel The influence of viscosity on the frozen wave instability 10:30-11 am Break 11-11:40 am L. Mahadevan Extreme elastohydrodynamics: of flags, flying carpets and flytraps Session 4: Epidemiology 11:40 am-noon Romulus Breban Inductive Reasoning Games as Influenza Vaccination Models: Mean Field Analysis Yields Border-Collision Bifurcations noon-12:20 pm James Yorke HIV - Can we save thousands of lives? 12:20-1:50 pm Lunch Session 5: Chaos and Noise 1:50-2:30 pm Bernard Derrida Noisy traveling waves in models of evolution 2:30-2:50 pm Thomas Carroll Using a Phase Space Statistic to Identify Resonant Objects 2:50-3:30 pm Edward Ott Estimating the state of large spatio-temporally chaotic systems: weather forecasting, etc. 3:30-3:50 pm Elana Fertig Using satellite data to improve forecasts for chaotic physical processes 3:50-4:20 pm Break 4:20-5 pm Irving Epstein Spatiotemporal Pattern Formation in Reactive Microemulsions 5:00-7:00 pm Posters and Reception Friday, January 5 Session 6: Neuron Models and Neural Networks 8:30-9:10 am Anna Lin Are neural network dynamics deterministic? 9:10-9:30 am Kresimir Josic How do correlations propagate in a neuronal network? 9:30-9:50 am Andrey Shilnikov Complex homoclinic bifurcations of periodic orbits for onset on bursting in a neuron model 9:50-10:30 am Armen Stepanyants Designing artificial neural networks with biologically inspired dynamic properties 10:30-11 am Break Session 7: Non-Newtonian Fluids and Granular Media 11-11:40 am Jerry Gollub Stretching and Patterns in Non-Newtonian Flow 11:40-noon am Anita Mehta Sand in a jam - some very nonlinear dynamics noon-12:20 Ashish Orpe Investigation of structure and dynamics of gravity driven dense granular flows with internal imaging 12:20-1:50 pm Lunch Session 8: Cell Dynamics 1:50-2:30 pm Herbert Levine Eukaryotic Chemotaxis: How cells use nonlinear pde's to decide where to go 2:30-2:50 pm Wolfgang Losert Bias in the Gradient Sensing Response of Chemotactic Cells 2:50-3:10 pm Troy Shinbrot Simulated Morphogenesis applied to Cerebellar Development and in Ductal Carcinoma 3:10-3:50 pm Raymond Goldstein Physical Aspects of Evolutionary Transitions to Multicellularity 3:50-4:20 pm Break Session 9: Genes 4:20-5 pm Reka Albert Dynamics of biological regulatory networks 5-5:20 pm James Lu Inverse analysis for uncovering roles of network components in gene regulation 5:20-6 pm James Collins Engineering Gene Networks: Integrating Synthetic Biology & Systems Biology Saturday, January 6 Session 10: Bio-dynamics 9-9:40 am Michael Brenner Excitability constraints on voltage gated sodium channels 9:40-10:20 am Nancy Kopell Multiple Rhythms and Switches in the Nervous System 10:20-10:40 am Break Session 11: Cardiac Dynamics 10:40-11:20 am Robert Gilmour Control of local electrical dynamics in the heart 11:20-11:40 am Anton Burykin Cardio-Respiratory Dynamics in Critical Care: Synchronization and Variability Session 12: Statistical and Computational Physics 11:40 am-noon Stephen Wolfram Nonlinear Dynamics and the Computational Universe noon-1 pm Lunch 1-1:40 pm Karin Dahmen Disorder Induced Critical Scaling In and Out of Equilibrium: are they the same ? 1:40-2 pm Derek Moulton Catenoid in an Electric Field 2-2:40 pm Yves Pomeau An equilibrium that is not thermal Banner background from an image by George Haller . Contact: Organizing committee . Webmaster: Jerome Dorignac
Predicting and Preventing Sudden Cardiac Death
Evidence for an unfolded border-collision bifurcation in paced cardiac tissue
Yue-Kin Tsang
Multifractality in detrended human heart beat increment
The Restitution Portrait: A Tool for Developing Models of Heart Rhythm Dynamics
Collective Animal Behaviour
Fin ray design and use in fish swimming
Mapping the Information Landscape: Peaks and Valleys for Ecological Monitoring
Session 3: Hydrodynamics 8:30-9:10 am George Haller Where do particles go in fluid flows? 9:10-9:30 am Woodrow Shew Smart particles: Lagrangian measurements of scalars in turbulent flow 9:30-9:50 am David Roberts When superfluids are a drag 9:50-10:30 am Anne Juel The influence of viscosity on the frozen wave instability 10:30-11 am Break 11-11:40 am L. Mahadevan Extreme elastohydrodynamics: of flags, flying carpets and flytraps Session 4: Epidemiology 11:40 am-noon Romulus Breban Inductive Reasoning Games as Influenza Vaccination Models: Mean Field Analysis Yields Border-Collision Bifurcations noon-12:20 pm James Yorke HIV - Can we save thousands of lives? 12:20-1:50 pm Lunch Session 5: Chaos and Noise 1:50-2:30 pm Bernard Derrida Noisy traveling waves in models of evolution 2:30-2:50 pm Thomas Carroll Using a Phase Space Statistic to Identify Resonant Objects 2:50-3:30 pm Edward Ott Estimating the state of large spatio-temporally chaotic systems: weather forecasting, etc. 3:30-3:50 pm Elana Fertig Using satellite data to improve forecasts for chaotic physical processes 3:50-4:20 pm Break 4:20-5 pm Irving Epstein Spatiotemporal Pattern Formation in Reactive Microemulsions 5:00-7:00 pm Posters and Reception
When superfluids are a drag
The influence of viscosity on the frozen wave instability
Inductive Reasoning Games as Influenza Vaccination Models: Mean Field Analysis Yields Border-Collision Bifurcations
HIV - Can we save thousands of lives?
Using a Phase Space Statistic to Identify Resonant Objects
Estimating the state of large spatio-temporally chaotic systems: weather forecasting, etc.
Using satellite data to improve forecasts for chaotic physical processes
Irving Epstein
Session 6: Neuron Models and Neural Networks 8:30-9:10 am Anna Lin Are neural network dynamics deterministic? 9:10-9:30 am Kresimir Josic How do correlations propagate in a neuronal network? 9:30-9:50 am Andrey Shilnikov Complex homoclinic bifurcations of periodic orbits for onset on bursting in a neuron model 9:50-10:30 am Armen Stepanyants Designing artificial neural networks with biologically inspired dynamic properties 10:30-11 am Break Session 7: Non-Newtonian Fluids and Granular Media 11-11:40 am Jerry Gollub Stretching and Patterns in Non-Newtonian Flow 11:40-noon am Anita Mehta Sand in a jam - some very nonlinear dynamics noon-12:20 Ashish Orpe Investigation of structure and dynamics of gravity driven dense granular flows with internal imaging 12:20-1:50 pm Lunch Session 8: Cell Dynamics 1:50-2:30 pm Herbert Levine Eukaryotic Chemotaxis: How cells use nonlinear pde's to decide where to go 2:30-2:50 pm Wolfgang Losert Bias in the Gradient Sensing Response of Chemotactic Cells 2:50-3:10 pm Troy Shinbrot Simulated Morphogenesis applied to Cerebellar Development and in Ductal Carcinoma 3:10-3:50 pm Raymond Goldstein Physical Aspects of Evolutionary Transitions to Multicellularity 3:50-4:20 pm Break Session 9: Genes 4:20-5 pm Reka Albert Dynamics of biological regulatory networks 5-5:20 pm James Lu Inverse analysis for uncovering roles of network components in gene regulation 5:20-6 pm James Collins Engineering Gene Networks: Integrating Synthetic Biology & Systems Biology Saturday, January 6 Session 10: Bio-dynamics 9-9:40 am Michael Brenner Excitability constraints on voltage gated sodium channels 9:40-10:20 am Nancy Kopell Multiple Rhythms and Switches in the Nervous System 10:20-10:40 am Break Session 11: Cardiac Dynamics 10:40-11:20 am Robert Gilmour Control of local electrical dynamics in the heart 11:20-11:40 am Anton Burykin Cardio-Respiratory Dynamics in Critical Care: Synchronization and Variability Session 12: Statistical and Computational Physics 11:40 am-noon Stephen Wolfram Nonlinear Dynamics and the Computational Universe noon-1 pm Lunch 1-1:40 pm Karin Dahmen Disorder Induced Critical Scaling In and Out of Equilibrium: are they the same ? 1:40-2 pm Derek Moulton Catenoid in an Electric Field 2-2:40 pm Yves Pomeau An equilibrium that is not thermal Banner background from an image by George Haller . Contact: Organizing committee . Webmaster: Jerome Dorignac
Session 6: Neuron Models and Neural Networks 8:30-9:10 am Anna Lin Are neural network dynamics deterministic? 9:10-9:30 am Kresimir Josic How do correlations propagate in a neuronal network? 9:30-9:50 am Andrey Shilnikov Complex homoclinic bifurcations of periodic orbits for onset on bursting in a neuron model 9:50-10:30 am Armen Stepanyants Designing artificial neural networks with biologically inspired dynamic properties 10:30-11 am Break Session 7: Non-Newtonian Fluids and Granular Media 11-11:40 am Jerry Gollub Stretching and Patterns in Non-Newtonian Flow 11:40-noon am Anita Mehta Sand in a jam - some very nonlinear dynamics noon-12:20 Ashish Orpe Investigation of structure and dynamics of gravity driven dense granular flows with internal imaging 12:20-1:50 pm Lunch Session 8: Cell Dynamics 1:50-2:30 pm Herbert Levine Eukaryotic Chemotaxis: How cells use nonlinear pde's to decide where to go 2:30-2:50 pm Wolfgang Losert Bias in the Gradient Sensing Response of Chemotactic Cells 2:50-3:10 pm Troy Shinbrot Simulated Morphogenesis applied to Cerebellar Development and in Ductal Carcinoma 3:10-3:50 pm Raymond Goldstein Physical Aspects of Evolutionary Transitions to Multicellularity 3:50-4:20 pm Break Session 9: Genes 4:20-5 pm Reka Albert Dynamics of biological regulatory networks 5-5:20 pm James Lu Inverse analysis for uncovering roles of network components in gene regulation 5:20-6 pm James Collins Engineering Gene Networks: Integrating Synthetic Biology & Systems Biology
Are neural network dynamics deterministic?
How do correlations propagate in a neuronal network?
Complex homoclinic bifurcations of periodic orbits for onset on bursting in a neuron model
Designing artificial neural networks with biologically inspired dynamic properties
Investigation of structure and dynamics of gravity driven dense granular flows with internal imaging
Eukaryotic Chemotaxis: How cells use nonlinear pde's to decide where to go
Simulated Morphogenesis applied to Cerebellar Development and in Ductal Carcinoma
Physical Aspects of Evolutionary Transitions to Multicellularity
Reka Albert
Session 10: Bio-dynamics 9-9:40 am Michael Brenner Excitability constraints on voltage gated sodium channels 9:40-10:20 am Nancy Kopell Multiple Rhythms and Switches in the Nervous System 10:20-10:40 am Break Session 11: Cardiac Dynamics 10:40-11:20 am Robert Gilmour Control of local electrical dynamics in the heart 11:20-11:40 am Anton Burykin Cardio-Respiratory Dynamics in Critical Care: Synchronization and Variability Session 12: Statistical and Computational Physics 11:40 am-noon Stephen Wolfram Nonlinear Dynamics and the Computational Universe noon-1 pm Lunch 1-1:40 pm Karin Dahmen Disorder Induced Critical Scaling In and Out of Equilibrium: are they the same ? 1:40-2 pm Derek Moulton Catenoid in an Electric Field 2-2:40 pm Yves Pomeau An equilibrium that is not thermal Banner background from an image by George Haller . Contact: Organizing committee . Webmaster: Jerome Dorignac
Session 10: Bio-dynamics 9-9:40 am Michael Brenner Excitability constraints on voltage gated sodium channels 9:40-10:20 am Nancy Kopell Multiple Rhythms and Switches in the Nervous System 10:20-10:40 am Break Session 11: Cardiac Dynamics 10:40-11:20 am Robert Gilmour Control of local electrical dynamics in the heart 11:20-11:40 am Anton Burykin Cardio-Respiratory Dynamics in Critical Care: Synchronization and Variability Session 12: Statistical and Computational Physics 11:40 am-noon Stephen Wolfram Nonlinear Dynamics and the Computational Universe noon-1 pm Lunch 1-1:40 pm Karin Dahmen Disorder Induced Critical Scaling In and Out of Equilibrium: are they the same ? 1:40-2 pm Derek Moulton Catenoid in an Electric Field 2-2:40 pm Yves Pomeau An equilibrium that is not thermal
Control of local electrical dynamics in the heart
Cardio-Respiratory Dynamics in Critical Care: Synchronization and Variability
Banner background from an image by George Haller . Contact: Organizing committee . Webmaster: Jerome Dorignac
