Agenda

PDFs of the talks are available below! Some have associated animation files.

Final list of talks in timetable format, with abstracts:

http://ddays2008.org/ddays2008-schedule.pdf

Final list of posters, with abstracts:

http://ddays2008.org/ddays2008-posters.pdf

 

Talks

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Banaszuk - The role of control in design: from fixing problems to the design of dynamics
Contact banasza@utrc.utc.com with questions.

Behringer - Dynamics of dense granular media

Budisic - From trajectories to the ergodic partition of a dynamical system - an algorithm

Bunimovich - Dynamical networks: interplay of topology, interactions and local dynamics

Chen - Intrinsic localized modes in microelectromechanical oscillator arrays: a dynamical approach

Crutchfield - Structure or noise?

del-Castillo-Negrete - A review of some dynamical systems problems in plasma physics
Note: del-Castillo-Negrete filled in for Benkadda, who was unable to attend the meeting.

Ditto - Theory, design and construction of Reconfigurable Chaotic Logic Gates

D'Orsogna - Patterns, stability and collapse for two-dimensional biological swarms

Edwards - Modeling dynamical instability of homogeneous charge compression ignition in combustion engines

Ermentrout - A coupla ducks: Slow currents, canards, and synchrony
Note: Ermentrout was unable to attend the meeting.

Fineberg - A review of fast fracture: Where are we now and where are we going?

Gintautas - Resonant forcing of chaotic dynamics
Contact vgintau2@uiuc.edu with questions.

Gravel - Think locally, act globally: how to search with iterated maps

Grigoriev - The role of resonance phenomena in chaotic mixing

Guo - Smooth sliding of a one-dimensional particle array for friction control

Huang - Finding your center: the role of Min-protein oscillations in bacterial cell division
Contact kchuang@stanford.edu with questions.

Jung - The role of spatial organization for biologic excitable systems

Kogan - Renormalization Group approach to describing frequency clusters in a 1 dimensional chain of nearest-neighbor coupled phase oscillators

Lenhart - Optimal control of discrete time models

Lois - Reliable protein folding on non-funneled energy landscapes: the free energy reaction path

Marts - Twisted scroll rings in three-dimensional excitable media

Motter - Controlling complex systems

Nagy - Control of rare intense events in spatiotemporally chaotic systems

Nelson - The continuous production of bioethanol: analysis of one, two and three tank reactor designs
Contact nelsonm@member.ams.org with questions.

Pethel - Deconstructing spatiotemporal chaos using local symbolic dynamics

Pikovsky - Synchronization of coupled oscillators: from Huygens clocks to chaotic systems and large ensembles
Please view example videos:
Slide 21: http://www.thp.uni-duisburg.de/~sven/_research/sync/sync_01.html

Pojman - Dynamics of thermal frontal polymerization
Please view example videos:
http://pojman.com/FP.html

Robbins - Visual approaches to understanding dynamics and structure in high-dimensional data sets

Rogers - A dynamical view of coherent laser arrays

Springham - The linked-twist map approach to modeling fluid flows having strong mixing properties on domains of full measure
Contact j.springham@bristol.ac.uk with questions.

Tebaldi - Reduction properties and synchronization in logistic networks with adaptive competition

Tél - Leaking dynamical systems: a fresh view on Poincaré recurrences
Please view the example video:
Slide 12: Video-1

Todd - Using evolutionary algorithms to tailor or optimize dynamic systems for applications in structural health monitoring

Toiya - Synchronization of chemical oscillators in a microfluidic assembly

Tracy - Phase space methods in plasma wave theory

Vollmayr-Lee - Self-organized criticality in a glass

Vora - Experimental and computational studies of the in vivo genomic repertoire of DNA-protein interactions in Escherichia coli

Wendell - An experimental model of slurry peristaltic pumping in the human intestine

Zhao - Indefinite patterns of cardiac alternans due to spatiotemporal border-collision bifurcation